A respected Silicon Valley technology consultant and investor, Kevin Graetz seeks out positions in early- and late-stage growth companies with the potential to disrupt. Kevin Graetz has made impactful investments in companies including Raza Microelectronics (now RMI Corporation), which achieved a high-profile 2009 exit through a $184 million acquisition by NetLogic Microsystems.
Established in 2004, RMI Corp. raised more than $150 million in financing over a five-year period through venture capital firms such as Kodiak Venture Partners, Benchmark, and DAG Ventures. Establishing a niche as a fabless semiconductor company, RMI Corp. developed a suite of low-power, high-performance processors that met industry needs for converged IP networks.
Built to function on 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructures, the firm’s multi-threaded, multi-core processors provided advanced “data in flight” capacities that met consumer needs in the enterprise, infrastructure, and consumer media markets. Its high-performance “system on a chip” solutions were augmented by ultra-low-power processors designed to meet high-volume application requirements.
The merger was described as enabling a significant expansion of NetLogic’s product and intellectual property portfolio, as well as bolstering its core OEM customer capacities.
