James Shih

Natron Energy, Inc. develops batteries. It is developing a radical new battery technology for stationary applications including renewables support, smart grids/microgrids, and UPS. The company was founded by Robert Huggins and Colin Wessells in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

SRI International provides contract research and development services. It is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Applied Research Associates, Inc. engages in the provision of science and engineering research to solve problems of national importance. The firm delivers products and solutions for national defense, homeland security, aerospace, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. It also offers technical expertise in defense technologies, civil engineering, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, biomedical engineering, environmental technologies, and blast testing and measurement. The company was founded by Neil Higgins, Harry Auld and Jimmie Bratton in 1979 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. manufactures and sells motor vehicles and operates a manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The firm sells different brands of cars including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Volkswagen, as well as VW Credit. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Khosla Ventures LLC (Khosla Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

GE Energy Financial Services Inc (GE Energy Financial Svcs) is a private equity subsidiary of GE Energy Services, Inc founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Intelsat US LLC engages in the provision of satellite telecommunication services. It offers commercial aircraft, business jet, and aeronautical connectivity; land mobile; maritime; satellite, fiber, and teleport; consulting; and enterprise networking services. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

MDV Management Co. LLC (MDV Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Research is a corporate research lab with over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations across six continents. The company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY and was founded by Thomas Boudalier. The company invests in breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain technology. IBM Research is dedicated to applying AI and science to industry challenges, from healthcare to environmentalism to retail.

Miselu, Inc. develops music interfaces and instruments to enrich the experience of creating music with the iPad. It provides voice sharing and archiving application services that allow the customers to create comments, leave thoughts, comment on photos, and more. The company was founded by Yoshinari Yoshikawa on June 13, 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ThoughtSpot, Inc. provides search and data analysis software. Its data search appliance enables on-the-fly access and analysis of data at enterprise scale. The firm has developed a relational search engine and in-memory database designed for mid-to-large enterprises with natural language query so that enterprises have a way to search across all numerical data. The company was founded by Ajeet Singh, Amit Prakash, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan, Sanjay Agrawal, Abhishek Rai and Priyendra Deshwal on May 21, 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

MetaMind, Inc. provides artificial intelligence services through deep learning. Its deep learning involves training systems on lots of information derived from audio, images, and other inputs, and then presenting the systems with new information and receiving inferences about it in response. The company was founded by Richard Socher and Sven Strohband in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Playground Global (Playground Global) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Velo3D US, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers sapphire printer, flow software, and assure system. The company was founded by Benyamin Buller and Erel Milshtein in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Relativity Space, Inc. manufactures orbital rockets. The company was founded by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone in 2015 and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA.

Bisn Technologies Ltd. provides consulting and support services to the oil and gas industry. It offers oil tools and laboratory solutions such as biocide performance, microbial corrosion, molecular methods and sourcing prediction. The company was founded on May 5, 2010 and is headquartered in Cheshire, the United Kingdom.

Opentrons Labworks, Inc. provides laboratory robots for biologists. The company?s products include robots, modules, OT application and protocol library. Opentrons Labworks was founded by Chiu Chiu, Will Canine and Nicholas Wagner and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Zendar, Inc. develops high-definition radar for autonomous vehicles. Its radars provide self cars with high-resolution imagining in bad weather. The company was founded by Vinayak Nagpal and Chien-Ming Wang in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Berkshire Grey Operating Co., Inc. develops robotic systems. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

BiSN Holdings Ltd. manufactures oil field equipment. The company was founded by Paul Carragher in 2010 and is headquartered in Warrington, the United Kingdom.

Strand Therapeutics, Inc. develops genetically programming mRNA therapeutics. The company was founded by Tasuku Kitada, Darrell J. Irvine, Ron Weiss, and Jacob Becraft and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Piva Inc. (Piva Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Ricardo Angel & Adzmel Adznan. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

1910 Genetics Operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded by Jennifer Nwankwo and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ultima Genomics, Inc. is a company that aims to drive the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. Ultima Genomics is based in Newark, CA. The company has built a revolutionary new sequencing architecture designed to scale far beyond conventional technologies and overcome the cost-driven tradeoffs scientists and clinicians are forced to make between the breadth, depth, and frequency with which they use genomic information. The company was founded by Gilad Almogy, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Manifold Biotechnologies, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company was founded by Gleb Kuznetsov, Pierce Ogden, Shane Lofgren and George Church and is headquartered in Allston, MA.

Mangata Networks, Inc. is a technology company that provides satellite and terrestrial network solutions for various industries such as terrestrial backhaul, aeromobility, maritime, oil and gas, and IoT. The company was founded in 2020 by Juliette Neu and is based in Gold Canyon, AZ. The company's proprietary technology includes a network of satellite and terrestrial solutions that offer high-capacity and reliable service across the globe. The CEO is Brian Holz.

Amber Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in an undisclosed location. The American company is focused on developing a first-of-its-kind RNA editing platform that can correct genetic mutations in a safe and reversible way. Amber Bio is pioneering new gene editing modalities using multi-kilobase RNA writing to reach previously undruggable diseases. Co-founders Jacob Borrajo and Basem Al-Shayeb received their Ph.D. at leading institutions for gene editing research: Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard and University of California. Jacob Borrajo has been the CEO since incorporation.

Atomic AI Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in using artificial intelligence and structural biology to discover and design RNA-based medicines. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and is backed by an interdisciplinary team of machine learning researchers, medicinal chemists, engineers, and experimental biologists, as well as strategic scientific advisers and world-class investors. The company's proprietary R&D platform integrates deep learning foundation models with purpose-designed, in-house wet-lab assays to treat undruggable diseases. The CEO of the company is Raphael Townshend.