EVOLVING EDGE

AI FOR MISSION-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS

WHY

A long time ago, to move faster and to help relieve themselves from heavy jobs, Humans invented the wheel.

In the last decade, we have developed AI to complement our brains, to go further, and open new horizons.

And yet, to conquer the most complex and challenging opportunities, AI must be reliable and able to deliver in mission-critical applications. 

Today, Mentium brings the most dependable AI at the Edge, providing co-processors capable of Cloud-quality inference at ultra-low power to tackle the most complex and critical AI applications.

AIM TECHNOLOGY

  • Hybrid in-memory and digital computation
  • 100x the speed and 50x efficiency of current state-of-the-art solutions, without compressing DNN models
  • Not just faster or more efficient, but best AI quality and dependability at the EDGE
  • No external memory needs to be added
  • Bolt-on solution for existing systems

MarketS

AIM Technology redefines the limits

Smart Security Cameras

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Space Edge

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Robotics

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Team

DR. MIRKO PREZIOSO

CEO

Mirko co-founded and led Mentium in the first three years during technology development and de-risking.
He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Parma University, Italy. He worked at National Research Council in Bologna on the spintronic-memristive effects in organic materials and then moved to the University of California in Santa Barbara where he joined the Prof. Strukov’s group to pursue his interests in memristive systems.

Mirko’s background is in theoretical condensed matter physics, he has a long experience in experimental semiconductor physics, device fabrication and their simulation.
With an extensive experience in neuromorphic computation and Neural Networks, he was the lead scientist for the first demonstration of neuromorphic hardware based on integrated memristors.

DR². FARNOOD MERRIKH BAYAT

CTO

Farnood is the leading technologist behind Mentium’s products and certainly one of the maximum expert today in neuromorphic computational architectures.
He received his M.Sc. and first Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He then joined the Computer Engineering Department of University of California Santa Barbara to earn his second Ph.D. where he later served as a Postdoc for two years. Farnood worked in the fields of signal processing, fuzzy logic, approximate computing, analog circuit design, nanoelectronics and neuro-fuzzy computing systems but his current research interests are in the design and hardware implementation of high-performance deep neural networks and neuromorphic systems based on nanoelectronics memory devices such as memristor and floating-gate (flash) transistor. Notably, he was the lead scientist for the first successful demonstration of large-scale neural network hardware based on integrated floating-gate transistors.

Paul Daniel

CFO

Mr. Paul Daniel, Chief Financial Officer, Paul Daniel has over 30 years of experience as a CFO.  He started his career as an auditor with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG). After earning his CPA, he moved into private industry and has held management positions in finance and operations since 1981.  He has been CFO of several companies in a range of industries, including scientific test instrumentation, telecommunications, power conversion, computer resales, and cut flowers.  Paul also co-founded a high technology startup that was successfully sold to an industry leader. As VP of Operations of an internet communications company, he branched out of finance and grew the operations team during a 5-year period of substantial growth. This company was successfully sold to a multi-national telecommunications company. For the past ten years, he has been President of Gibraltar CFO Services LLC, which provides outsource CFO services to small business that do not need a full time CFO.  He currently serves clients in a variety of industries, including in high technology, information services, software development, SaaS, and communications.  He brings a passion for business that leads to a better understanding of a business’s finances, and to better decision making.

MARK ROSS

VPoE

Mark has been at the center of the Silicon Valley business and technology world for years working for companies like Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), NeXT, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Cypress Semiconductor and Dell. Mark was directly responsible for shipping five systems for the communications and computation markets that contributed over $1 billion in revenue each. 
  
At Cisco, he pioneered the development and use of ternary content-addressable memories (TCAMs) in communications systems, and developed the world’s first Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network interface controller (NIC) and first multichannel GbE switch. At Cypress as an EVP and CTO, Mark led technology development across lines of business and two Cypress acquisitions in the image sensor space. 
  
Mark designed full custom chips, ASICs, system level products, and ran the foundry and tooling interface group for a fabless semiconductor company. He has worked in six startups, two as a founder and two as a principal leader, and saw five of the six go public or be acquired. He is on the board of Agiga Tech, and is and has served as an advisor to a number of startups. 
  
Mark holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. 

PAUL PICKERING

MARKETING AND SALES

Paul Pickering is a passionate advocate for emerging semiconductor and micro-fabrication technologies. He was the Chief Revenue Officer for Micralyne Inc. based in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. In August 2019, Micralyne was acquired by Teledyne Technologies. 
 
Paul served as the Executive VP, Sales and Marketing at Exar Corporation, a public semiconductor company specializing in analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. Paul also served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Xpedion Design Systems, a venture-backed EDA company that was acquired by Agilent in June 2006. He co-founded two start-up companies and has consulted with numerous other small and large technology companies. 
 
Paul is a graduate of West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree and attended Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. He is a recognized speaker at technology conferences and trade events in the semiconductor and MEMS industries.

PROF. JOHN BOWERS

BOARD MEMBER

John E. Bowers holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology, and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Professor in the Departments of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB. He is a cofounder of Aurrion, Aerius Photonics and Calient Networks. Dr. Bowers received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors. He is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Award, OSA Tyndal Award, the OSA Holonyak Prize, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has published eight book chapters, 700 journal papers, 900 conference papers and has received 64 patents. He and coworkers received the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007.

CRAIG ENSLEY

BOARD MEMBER

Craig consistently delivers significant shareholder value.

He built two businesses from pre-revenue to $300-400M sales. Craig served as SVP of a public company (Cirrus Logic) where he helped lead a successful $1 billion turnaround & restructuring. Most recently he has been the CEO or President of three venture-backed companies (Atomica, Displaylink, and pSemi) which he repositioned, drove significant revenue growth, created first profitability, and in each case delivered superior shareholder returns.

Craig has helped lead M&A and integration of 5 acquisitions and has negotiated 5 divestitures. He was the lead executive as plaintiff 5 times on successful intellectual property litigation. At least 10 leaders he hired and mentored have grown to become CEOs.

Craig has raised or helped raise ~$150M venture capital and >$600M on public equity markets. He served as the primary representative to shareholders, both buy-side and sell-side equity analysts, and investment bankers for a large public company. he established device physics laboratories globally. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor equipment automation company.

GEORGE JONES

ADVISOR

George Jones is an investment banker and angel investor. He focuses on hard tech, semiconductors, embedded software, renewable energy, batteries, and energy storage. He is currently Executive Director at Woodside Capital Partners.

Prior to Woodside, he served in general management, sales, and marketing roles at public and private companies including five startups. He is a founding member of Sand Hill Angels, a leading angel investment group in Silicon Valley where he has served as a board member and leader over the years.

Mr. Jones earned an MBA at Wharton and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech.

PROF. DIMITRI STRUKOV

CO-FOUNDER

Dimitri B. Strukov received the M.S. degree in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 2006. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Strukov worked as a postdoctoral associate at Hewlett Packard Laboratories on various aspects of nanoelectronic computing systems. His research broadly concerns different aspects of computation, addressing computation efficiency on various levels of abstraction, and spans across different disciplines including material science, device physics, circuit design, high level computer architecture, and algorithms with the emphasis on the emerging device technologies. In the past several years, his major focus was on metal-oxide memristors and floating-gate circuits for neurocomputing. His group was the first to demonstrate pattern classification task with memristor crossbar circuits and redesigned NOR flash memory. Dr. Strukov has received 14 patents and published more than 100 original research publications, which have won best paper awards on multiple occasions.

PROF. KONSTANTIN LIKHAREV

CO-FOUNDER

Konstantin K. Likharev received the Candidate (Ph.D.) degree in Physics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia in 1969, and the habilitation degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Higher Attestation Committee of the U.S.S.R. in 1979. From 1969 to 1988 Dr. Likharev was a Staff Scientist of Moscow State University, and from 1989 to 1991 the Head of the Laboratory for Cryoelectronics of that university. In 1991 he assumed a Professorship at Stony Brook University (Distinguished Professor since 2002). During his research career, Dr. Likharev worked in the fields of nonlinear classical and dissipative quantum dynamics, and solid-state physics and electronics, notably including superconductor electronics and nanoelectronics. His current research interests are in the architecture and nanoelectronic implementation of high-performance neuromorphic networks. Dr. Likharev is an author of more than 350 original publications, 80+ review papers and book chapters, 2 monographs, an online lecture note series “Essential Graduate Physics”, and several patents. He is a Fellow of the APS and IEEE.

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