Sure, I spent most of my career working for small nimble outfits that ultimately sold product to large crappy companies while moving on to other challenges.
The pipelined SVD reduction mentioned was written while working with a small company with 13 airframes (fixed wing and helicopters) that did full spectrum rad+mag+grav+lidar surveys of small country sized areas (Fiji, Mali, other similar sized regions) and eventually sold to Fugro.
Sometime before that there was something that was aquired and became [1]