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Companies founded by Michael Hochberg:

Michael has been a founder at four companies.  In each case his long-time collaborator Tom Baehr-Jones was one of the co-founders.

Simulant, which the first company to produce a distributed-memory implementation of finite difference time domain electromagnetic simulation tools.[6]  Simulant was acquired as part of the founding of Luxtera.

Luxtera, which was founded later in his undergraduate career, pioneered building silicon integrated optics in a CMOS foundry. Acquired by Cisco.  

Silicon Lightwave Services.  The first stand-alone integrated photonics design services company.  Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners .

Elenion (formerly known as Coriant Advanced Technologies).  A pioneer in building silicon photonic systems-on-chip, including coherent and data-center transceivers at speeds from 100G to 400G. Acquired by Nokia.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hochberg

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