The company, founded in 1967 by 5 engineers, has 450 employees, including 100 with Ph.D.'s.

Paid 23 Times Earnings Westmark's first and only purchase was Tracor, which had been founded in 1955 by four engineers from the University of Texas.

Kinetico Incorporated was founded in 1970 by two engineers who pioneered the development of non-electric, fully automatic water treatment systems.

Founded in 1967 by five young engineers with Ph.D.'s from Stanford University, Failure now has some 500 employees.

It was founded by two engineers from Ariba in 2004 as Accelovation, before changing names to NetBase in 2008.

After being founded in 1986 by two engineers, Trilithic incorporated in 1987.

Ransomes & Rapier was founded in 1869 by four engineers to build railway equipment and other heavy works.

It was founded in California in 1980 by two engineers, Dave Murry and Joe Gargiulo.

The company was founded in 1972 by four engineers from Hewlett Packard.

AirHop was founded in 2007 by three engineers in charge of 3G research and development at Texas Instruments.