About Retym

We are a semiconductor startup that has brought together a world-class team of ASIC designers, optical communications experts and seasoned investors that excel at identifying and developing disruptive technologies.

Together, we are building a novel semiconductor technology that will transform the datacenter and telecommunications industries.

Founders

Sachin Gandhi

Sachin Gandhi is the Co-founder, CEO and on the Board of Directors of Retym. Sachin is experienced with founding start-ups from concept through initial funding to execution and acquisition and has a track record for bringing first generation products from idea to execution to product launch.

Dr Roni (Aharon)
El-Bahar

Dr Roni (Aharon) El-Bahar is the Co-founder and CTO of Retym. Roni is an experienced senior manager and scientist with over 20 years of relevant experience. Roni has been managing large teams of engineers for Samsung, Intel and Huawei. Prior to founding Retym, he was CTO of Huawei Israel Research Center.

Board of Directors

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Mamoon Hamid

Kleiner Perkins

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Navin Chaddha

Mayfield

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Syed Ali

Alif Semiconductor

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Headquarters (USA)
Retym INC
20380 Town Center Lane, Suite 218
Cupertino, CA 95014, USA

R & D Center (Israel)
Retym Israel Ltd
82 Yigal Alon St.
Tel Aviv, 6789124, Israel

Syed Ali

Alif Semiconductor

Syed Ali co-founded Cavium Networks, where he served as President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Syed’s timely vision and leadership in secure high-performance networking equipment enabled him to take Cavium public in 2007 (NASDAQ: CAVM), grow the company’s revenue to $1B+, and close an acquisition by Marvell Technology for $6B+. Currently he is founder and CEO of Alif Semiconductor and investor in many startups

Mr. Ali was named winner of the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of The Year 2008 award for Northern California, an award recognizing those who build and lead dynamic, growing businesses. Syed continues activities that give back to the engineering community.

Prior to this Syed served as VP of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, where he was a founding management team member, leading to the acquisition by PMC Sierra. Syed also served as Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the flash memory and CPU businesses. Syed received a BSEE from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and an MSEE from the University of Michigan.

Mamoon Hamid

Kleiner Perkins

Mamoon Hamid is Managing Member and General Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Mamoon has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative companies of recent times including Slack, Box, Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Intercom, and Netskope. He was included in the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors for five consecutive years and remains one of its youngest members. In 2017, he ranked No. 76 among the Top 100 VCs by Electronics Weekly[9] and No. 61 among the Top 100 Venture Capitalists named by The New York Times and CB Insights.

Mamoon has been involved in lots of humanitarian work. He serves as a chairman of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) which uses strategic legal advocacy to defend constitutional rights and values.

Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a Co-Founder and General Partner at Social Capital. Prior to Social Capital, he was a Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). Mamoon started his Silicon Valley career at Xilinx where he spent six years in various engineering and business roles. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Navin Chaddha

Mayfield Fund

Navin leads Mayfield. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised eight funds. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors fourteen times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020 and 2022. Navin’s investments have created over $120 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs.

During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and 27 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India.

Navin is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups.

As an entrepreneur, Navin has co-founded or led three startups including VXtreme: a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media; Rivio/CPA.com: a SaaS provider for small businesses, and iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM): a streaming media content delivery network. Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.

Dr Roni (Aharon)
El-Bahar

Founder

Dr Roni (Aharon) El-Bahar is the Co-founder and CTO of Retym and Roni is an experienced senior manager and scientist with over 20 years of relevant experience.

Roni has been managing large teams of engineers for Samsung, Intel and Huawei. Prior to founding Retym, he was CTO of Huawei Israel Research Center. Roni has deep expertise in the fields of optics, electro-optics, cameras, chip design and analog design.

Roni holds a BS, an MS and a PHD from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Roni currently is Adjunct Faculty Members in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion teaching Advanced Analog Course for graduate students. He holds 6 US and international patents.

Sachin Gandhi

Founder

Sachin Gandhi is the Co-founder, CEO and on the Board of Directors of Retym. Sachin is experienced with founding start-ups from concept through initial funding to execution and acquisition and has track record for bringing first generation products from idea to execution to product launch.

Prior to founding Retym, Sachin was Co-founder and COO of dryv.io which got acquired by Synaptics in 2019. Prior to dryv.io, Sachin was Co-founder and COO of Xpliant which got acquired by Cavium in 2014. At Xpliant, Sachin managed finances, investor relationship, expenses, and investment flow. He was responsible for building an A-class team to deliver and execute the product stemming all the way from initial implementation to acquisition and beyond. As director of Marketing at Cavium, Sachin ran all marketing efforts and was able to launch the Xpliant product and secure OEM wins. Sachin also filled multiple roles at Marvell and Cisco, some in engineering and others in marketing.

Sachin has a Master of Engineering degree from the University of South Florida and abachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He holds 2 US and international patents.