Language

Computer & electronics hardware

Simeon Simeonov

Left software engineering to engineer startups.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Principal, Polaris Venture Partners
Region
Global

"The venture capitalist advises Archivas, which uses distributed computing to manage digital archives, and Service Integrity, a Web services firm."

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Created a thermodynamic simulation that showed the feasibility of gasoline direct injection, which lowers auto fuel consumption and emissions and eliminates the electric starter.

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Vance Bjorn

Partnered with fellow TR100 honoree Serge Belongie (see above) to found a Redwood City, CA, biometrics company that specializes in fingerprint recog-nition for computer access.
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