Guido Appenzeller

Based in Menlo Park, California, Earlybird LLC is a subsidiary of venture capital firm Earlybird Venture Capital GmbH & CoKG.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgenthaler Management Corp (Morgenthaler Management) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1968 by David Morgenthaler. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California.

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.

VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security. The company was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Voltage Security, Inc. operates as a data protection provider which delivers data-centric encryption, tokenization, and key management solutions. The company was founded by Matt Pauker, Rishi Kacker, Dan Boneh and Guido Appenzeller in 2002 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

abusix GmbH provides network abuse identification and resolution technologies. The firm specializes in the development of web-based applications that manage internal and external data streams about abusive behavior in users' network and automatically start predefined escalations. It integrates real-time, proprietary network abuse data and algorithmic analysis to develop solutions that solve network abuse problems of enterprise and Internet service provider customers. The company was founded by Tobias Knecht, Simon Pirschel, Dean Ceulic and Thomas Szukala in October 2009 and is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Abusix, Inc. is a network security company. The private company is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in Canada. The company was founded in 2009 by Tobias Knecht. Tobias Knecht has been the CEO since 2009.