Michael Farmwald

Michael Farmwald serves as Angel Investor at Mike Farmwald. Farmwald Founded and served as General Partner at Skymoon Ventures. He also serves as Executive at Sekhmet Ventures. He is the Advisor at Aquifi. He is a serial entrepreneur with one of the most successful track records in Silicon Valley. Known for his unique combination of computer engineering skill and market vision, Mike has founded six companies to date, five of which were financed in part by Benchmark Capital, where he is a Venture Partner. He is best known for co-founding Rambus, a developer of high-bandwidth interfaces for memories and other chips. Mike co-founded Chromatic Research, a privately held developer of media processors for the PC industry. In 1996, he co-founded Epigram, creator of advanced semiconductor home networking technology. Epigram was acquired by Broadcom in April 1999. In late 1997, Mike cofounded Matrix Semiconductor, a pre-IPO start-up backed by Skymoon, Benchmark and Microsoft, among others. Prior to his success at Rambus, Mike founded FTL in 1986. At MIPS, Mike served as Chief Scientist for High End Syste Following his experience at MIPS, Mike was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. Mike holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He currently sits on the boards of Rambus (Nasdaq: RMBS), Matrix Semiconductor and Circumnav Networks. He serves as Chairman at Shasta Crystals. He also serves as a Board Member at Numenta. Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur. He has founded many companies with breakthrough technologies including FTL, a super computing company that merged with MIPs, Epigram, which was acquired by Broadcom, Rambus and Matrix Semiconductor, a creator of 3D integrated circuits. Mike currently sits on the board of Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS). He is participating on the Numenta board as an individual, rather than as a representative of Skymoon Ventures. Mike holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.