Ankit Kumar

Linden Research, Inc. engages in the development and operation of virtual world platform Second Life. It also involves in registered money services business under the Tilia platform. The company was founded by Philip Rosedale in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Project:TF is a non-profit organization called code2040 that aims to close the achievement, skills, and wealth gaps in the technology industry. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's goal is to ensure that by the year 2040, blacks and latino/as are proportionally represented in America's innovation economy as technologists, investors, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs. The company activates, connect, and mobilize the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent black and latinx technologists from fully participating in the tech industry. The company offers events, a fellows program, and student programs. The company was founded by Tristan Walker.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Discord, Inc. develops video games for tablets and smartphones. It provides card and console games and web services to its customers. The company was founded by Jason Citron in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Optimizely, Inc. operates as a web optimization platform. Its solutions include marketing, engineering, retail, travel, and finance. The company was founded by Peter Koomen and Dan Siroker in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Elasticsearch, Inc. provides open source search and analytics engine services. The firm’s products include Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, X-Pack, and Elastic cloud. Its services include support, consulting, and training services. The company was founded by Shay Banon, Uri Boness, Steven Schuurman, and Simon Willnauer in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Starburst Data, Inc. provides distribution and support of Presto. The company was founded by Phillips David, Wojciech Biela, Martin Traverso, Matt Fuller, Dain Sundstrom, Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski and Piotr Findeisen in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Clumio, Inc. develops authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. It is a secure, backup as a service for the enterprise that eliminates the complexity of infrastructure management with authentic SaaS. The company was founded by Poojan Kumar, Kaustubah Patil and Woon Jung in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Aurora Innovation, Inc. manufactures self driven cars. The firm develops a full package of software, hardware, and data to sell to automakers who want to build their own autonomous cars. The company was founded by Christopher Urmson, Sterling Anderson and James Andrew Bagnell in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Wealthfront Corp. provides investment advisory services. The company was founded by Andrew Samuel Rachleff and Daniel Joseph Carroll in 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Ericsson, Inc. develops and markets wireless infrastructure equipment. Its products include antennas, transmitters, switching systems and other gears used to build wireless networks. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Covariant, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software that makes it easy to teach robots. The company was founded by Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan and Tianhao Zhang on September 8, 2017 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

GroupSpaces Ltd. provides platform for managing membership groups. It helps group leaders and committees to organize member records, send email newsletters, host forum, email discussions, organize events, sell tickets and collect membership fees. The company was founded by Andrew Young, Ajmal Asver and David Langer in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Scuba Analytics, Inc. operates as a continuous intelligence platform to unify customer experience management. The firm?s solutions include customer experience, product intelligence, operational analytics and marketing. It allows users to analyze and explore the key business metrics that matter in a data-driven world such as growth, retention, conversion and engagement. The company was founded by Lior Abraham, Ann Stimmler Johnson and Bobby Johnson in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cloud.com, Inc. develops open source software solutions for enterprises and service providers. The company was founded by Sheng Liang and is headquartered in DE.

Big Switch Networks, Inc. engages in provision of public cloud-style and hybrid cloud networking services. It offers data center switching, visibility and analytics solutions for on-premises clouds, public clouds, and multi-cloud environments. The company founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster in March 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Founded in 2011, Index Venture Management (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Index Venture Management SA

Blue Bottle Coffee, Inc. owns and operates a chain of specialty coffee shops. It operates coffee shops in San Francisco and New York. The firm also sells coffee products online. The company was founded by W. James Freeman and Bryan Meehan in August 2002 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Skyport Systems, Inc. develops hyper-secured infrastructure that ensures the security of mission-critical IT and corporate assets with integration of compute, security, virtualization and policy management. Its products include SkySecure Compartments, SkySecure Systems, and SkySecure Center. The company was founded by Michael Beesley, William N. Eatherton and Rob Rodgers in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lookout, Inc. provides mobile security software solutions for individuals and enterprises. It delivers protection from physical threats like phone loss and theft, malicious software, and backs up highly personal data. The firm provides people the ability to locate, lock, and wipe a missing phone. Lookout mobile threat network scans applications worldwide that allows users to find and stop threats. The company was founded by John Hering, James Burgess, and Kevin Mahaffey in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Soundcloud Global Ltd. & Co. KG operates an online audio content upload and sharing platform. It specializes in the design and management of a social platform that lets anyone instantly create, record, and upload sounds and music content. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss and is headquartered Berlin, Germany.

Foodily, Inc. operates as a social recipe network. It provides shared, online source of facts, and information about food recipe. The company was founded by Andrea Cutright, Venu Javarappa, and Hillary Mickell on December 23, 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cockroach Labs, Inc. provides data base services. The firm combines the functionality of SQL with the horizontal scalability common to NoSQL offerings and provides enterprise-grade disaster recovery. Its products include CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Enterprise. The company was founded by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and Benjamin Darnell in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Scale AI, Inc. develops software to help customers. The firm focuses on human microtasks such as image annotation, transcription, categorization, comparison, phone calls or data collection. Its products include image recognition, audio transcription, categorization, comparison, phone calls, and data collection. The company was founded by Alexander Wang and Lucy Guo in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gremlin, Inc. develops and provides a suite of tools for chaos engineering. It offers Gremlin which provides the framework to simulate real outages with an ever-growing library of attacks. The company was founded by Kolton Andrus and Matthew Fornaciari and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Tekion Corp. engages in the development of business applications. Its product is as dSE, an end-to-end digital technology for both consumers and dealership personnel that connects the entire service experience from appointment scheduling to payment and everything in-between. The company was founded by Jayaprakash Vijayan and Guru Sankararaman in 2016 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.