Nancy R. Heinen

Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund operates as a vibrant giving network to support promising social ventures throughout Silicon Valley and the world. It focuses on rotating issue areas including education, environment, at-risk youth, health, and international development. The company was founded by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

First Place for Youth provides housing for foster youth. It offers housing program, an employment and academic enrichment program, counselling, youth community center, collaboration with other community agencies and community education. The company was founded by Deanne Pearn and Amy Lemley in 1998 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Teen Success, Inc. operates an organization that focuses on educating teen mothers. The non-profit company is based in Milpitas, CA.

Illuminate Management LLC (Illuminate Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Cindy B. Padnos. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

The Business Software Alliance, Inc. operates as an association of global software industry players. The firm pioneer’s compliance programs that promote legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.T he company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

NeXT Software, Inc. develops software. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company was founded by Steven Jobs. NeXT Software was acquired by Apple, Inc. on February 07, 1997.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.