Sergey Brin, Google's founders, the company had not yet been legally incorporated. Claims that Bechtolsheim coined the name "Google" are untrue. However, he did motivate the founders to officially organize the company under that name. As a result of investments like these, Bechtolsheim was seen as one of the most successful "angel investors", particularly in areas such as electronic design automation (EDA), which refers to the software used by people designing computer chips. He has made a number of successful investments in EDA. In one such EDA company, Magma Design Automation, his stake was valued around $60 million. He was an early investor in another EDA start-up company, Co-Design Automation, which developed SystemVerilog which is used to design almost all digital hardware. Bechtolsheim invested in Tapulous, the maker of music games for the Apple iPhone. Tapulous was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2010. He joined George T. Haber, a former colleague at Sun, to invest in wireless chip company CrestaTech in 2006 and 2008. Bechtolsheim invested in all of Haber's previous startups: CompCore purchased by Zoran, GigaPixel purchased by 3Dfx and Mobilygen purchased by Maxim Integrated Products in 2008, as well as Moovweb, a cloud-based interface for mobile and computer websites in 2009. He was reportedly an early investor in Claria Corporation, which ceased operating in 2008. From 2015 to 2017, Bechtolsheim invested in PerimeterX, an automated attack mitigation SaaS. Awards Bechtolsheim received a Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation in 1999 and a Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to the design of computer workstations and high-performance network switching. Bechtolsheim gave the opening keynote speech at the International Supercomputing Conference in 2009. In 2012, he was voted by IT Pros as the person who contributed most to server innovation in the last 20 years. Personal life Bechtolsheim is a German national. References Further reading External links Andreas von Bechtolsheim: Vom Bodensee nach Silicon Valley, Stern.de 1955 births Living people German billionaires German computer scientists German electrical engineers German investors Businesspeople in software Carnegie Mellon University alumni Electronic design automation people German expatriates in the United States Stanford University School of Engineering alumni Silicon Valley people Studienstiftung alumni Sun Microsystems people Technical University of Munich alumni Businesspeople from Augsburg Engineers from Bavaria 20th-century German businesspeople 21st-century German businesspeople Fulbright alumni