Mary Ellen Biggins

oDesk Corp. develops and manages an online job marketplace. It offers recruitment and job placement services for website developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service representatives, and virtual assistants. The firm offers enterprise solutions, payroll services, and health benefits. The company was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis in 2002 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Plaxo, Inc. operates as a cloud-based online address book that synchronizes, updates and unifies the user's contacts across multiple sources. The company was founded by Cameron T. Ring, Sean N. Parker and Todd J. Masonis in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

ZocDoc, Inc. provides online services for patients to find and schedule doctor appointments. It helps patients find in-network neighborhood doctors, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, get reminders for upcoming appointments and preventive checkups, fill out their paperwork online, and more. The firm's services are free for patients and available across the United States via Zocdoc.com or the Zocdoc app for iPhone and Android. ZocDoc was founded by Cyrus Massoumi, Oliver Kharraz and Nikhil Ganju in April 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Unravel Data Systems, Inc. develops software and data operations. Its solutions include APM for Big Data, resource and cost optimization, and cloud migration. The company was founded by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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.

Nominum, Inc. provides web hosting services. It provides network-based solutions and applications powered by DNS and DHCP core engines. The company was founded by Paul Vixie, David R. Conrad and Paul V. Mockapetris in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Globespan Capital Management LLC (Globespan Cap Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Barry J. Schiffman and Andy P. Goldfarb. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Icon Ventures LLC (Icon Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of JAFCO Group Co Ltd founded in 2003 by Joseph Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Amobee, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It provides data driven cross channel digital advertising solutions for agencies, brands, and publishers. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Plymouth Management Co. (Plymouth Growth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Machine Zone, Inc. develops games and applications for mobile and social-networking platforms. It focuses on creating free-to-play mobile social games. The company was founded by Michael Sherril, Halbert Nakagawa, and Gabriel Leydon in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Gild, Inc. provides technology that bringing meritocracy to HR with its innovative recruiting solutions. Its platform is used for automatic interview scheduling and one-click video interviewing. The company was founded by Luca Bonmassar and Sheeroy Desai in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

UpCounsel, Inc. operates as a holding company, which provides a marketplace of attorneys to help small businesses and startups find legal help without hiring a full-service law firm. It works by matching customers with attorneys based on the type of legal help needed, as well as the specialties of the lawyers available. the firm's practice areas include business formation, commercial contracts, employment and labor, immigrations, lawsuits and siputes, non-profit, real estate, trademark and copyright, business operation, debt and bankruptcy, financing, landlord and tenant, leagl research and writing, patents, and tax. UpCounsel was founded by Matthew Faustman, Mason Blake and Touraj Parang in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Breather Products, Inc. provides on-demand space for relaxation and other purposes in a network of rooms opened by phone. Its rooms can be used for activities such as brainstorming, strategy sessions, and product sprints. The company was founded by Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi in August 2013 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

OverOps, Inc. provides cloud computing services. It offers an online debugging solution that comes in lite, pro, and enterprise plans. The firm also develops scala programming and language scripts. The company was founded by Tal Weiss, Iris Shoor, Chen Harel, Dor Levi, and Niv Steingarten in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AppDome, Inc. provides mobile application protection platform. It secures enterprise and consumer-facing apps from cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. The firm?s security solutions used by the financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance and security for consumers and employees. The company was founded by Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Avi Networks, Inc. provides cloud application delivery platform. It delivers automated application services including load balancing, application analytics, predictive autoscaling, and security for on-premises or public cloud applications. The company was founded by Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah and Ranga Rajagopalan in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Dedrone Holdings, Inc. develops identifier of unmanned flying objects. It offers a multi sensor drone detection system, drone tracker, drone software, and applications for drones. The company was founded by Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Ingo Seebach in February 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Vistara Capital Partners Ltd. (Vistara Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Randy Garg and Fabio M. Banducci. The firm is headquarters located in Vancouver, Canada.

Part of Dedrone Holdings, Inc, Dedrone GmbH is a German company that develops and manufactures multi-sensor systems for the detection of modern civilian drones. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. The company was founded in 2014 by Ingo Seebach, Jörg Lamprecht, René Seeber. The CEO is Aaditya Devarakonda.

Yellcast, Inc. engages in developing internet connection engine. The company was founded by Venkat Ganesan, Bill Foster & Richard Wright and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Sonrai Security, Inc. operates as a cloud based security company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Strata Identity, Inc engages in the provision of distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its products include identity fabric, discovery, and orchestrator and connector catalog. The company was founded by Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, and Carl Eric Leach and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Aisera, Inc. develops artificial intelligence platform which makes businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Abnormal Security Corp. engages in the development of a cloud email security platform. Its product and solutions include Microsoft Office365 and G Suite integration. The company was founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar and Evan Reiser in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.