Founded in 1993. Co-Founders — Prakash Agarwal, Deep Puar, Clement Leung, Ravi Ranganathan. A multimedia semiconductor company which achieved IPO valuation of over $300 million within four years of its founding…

“NeoMagic came after I took a year off to recover from the Momenta experience and get my life back together. During this time I had done a lot of soul searching, and I knew I wanted to develop technologies that would help bring people closer together. NeoMagic was interesting because it involved such technologies. And it was also a safe bet for me. I had worked with the team before and knew they were great guys. I knew they could do what they said they would. But I did not feel I was really pushing myself to the limit. By this time, my thought process had evolved from believing in a ‘one man, one company’ monogamous relationship to what you might call a polygamous one, where I could be involved in multiple companies at the same time.”