About Piqqual

Piqqual is a fabless semiconductor company in San Jose, California with products in the mixed signal tuner / demodulator fields. Our products cover various digital TV standards that cover many regions across the world. Due to the versatile features and interfaces of our devices, Piqqual can target a wide variety of applications ranging from stationary digital TV to portable LCD TVs to mobile phones, all at a very high performance and low power consumption at the same time.

Our Solo Series™ of products cover the following OFDM standards

All our products are single-die and CMOS based allowing low power consumption, small size and compact module designs.

We also try our utmost to make Piqqual an enjoyable and fun work environment. After all, our employees are the main jewels of the company without whom, none of our achievements would have been possible.

Management

Amrish Patel – President and CEO

Amrish is a seasoned executive with the history of 'growing companies' from start-up to major players, and a track record of successful M&A deals. He was most recently Senior VP and GM at Conexant responsible for the Digital Home Group. Prior to that he was assigned the task of diversifying Globespan from 'Pure Play DSL' to multi-billion dollar revenue communication IC company. Amrish led the merger and acquisition team and successfully integrated Intersil's WLAN group with Globespan.

Mohammad Moradi – VP of Engineering
Prior to co-founding Piqqual, Mohammad served as the Vice President of Engineering at MediaPhy and before that Vice president of Engineering in the Access division of Centillium Communications where he joined during the first round of funding and played a crucial role during its IPO phase.  Prior to Centillium, he held senior level positions at Cirrus Logic, Racal Datacom and AT&T Paradyne.  Mohammad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an Executive MBA from Haas School of business in Berkeley, California.

Investors

Guggenheim Ventures

Guggenheim is based in King of Prussia, Pa. It’s the venture-capital arm of Guggenheim Partners, a financial-services firm started by the Guggenheim family, who have been giants in U.S. business and philanthropy since the late 1800s. .

About Guggenheim Partners

Guggenheim Partners is a global, independent, privately held, diversified financial services firm with more than $100 billion in assets under supervision. We provide services to individual and institutional clients, including foundations and endowments.

We provide investment management products and services, investment advisory services, and investment banking and capital markets services. We also make direct private investments in a merchant banking capacity.

We are headquartered in the United States and have offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.Our 800 professionals are located in 20 cities around the world with principal offices in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Geneva, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai.