Linkner stepped down from the CEO role of ePrize in February 2010 and co-founded DVP in November 2010.

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As the successor to OmniVision's very popular OV5640, the new OV5645 has retained only a MIPI port, eliminating both the bandwidth-limited DVP interface and the costly embedded JPEG compressor.

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The region is under-served from a venture capital standpoint, which is one of the reasons why Detroit Venture Partners (DVP) was formed.

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