Today the group remains very active with more than 160 members who invest their time and money into high tech startup companies.

Band members have founded companies such as Cirrus Logic, Symantec, SunPower, National Semiconductor and Logitech, and have been senior executive officers at top Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, 3Com and Intuit.

[4] Numerous articles have been written about the Band, appearing in periodicals such as The New York Times,[5] The Washington Post,[6] The Wall Street Journal, Upside, Red Herring,[7] Der Spiegel,[8] U.S. News & World Report,[9] and Forbes.

[10] The Band has also been featured in two Harvard Business School case studies.

[11] Band members invest in deals directly; there is no pooling of resources or voting.