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E-Tek Dynamics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells fiber optic components and communication devices. Its products include WDM components and modules, isolators, couplers, and micro optic integrated components. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Splashtop, Inc. provides instant-access computing solutions. Its products include Splashtop 2, which is the easiest way to access all of users content from any device from anywhere, and Splashtop for Business, which is a secure, high-performance solution for organizations to provide and manage access for their mobile users, and Splashtop OS, which is a platform that allows users to access e-mail and chat with friends, and Splashtop Remote, which provides access to watch movies, listen to music, access files and applications, and play PC, Mac, and flash games remotely. The company was founded in 2006 by Mark Ming Hsun Lee, Philip Felkal Sheu, Thomas Wel-Lun Deng, Alex Lu and Robert Ha and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

XDN, Inc. provides online enterprise data managing software. The firm’s solutions include global network reach, rule based load-balancing, edge caching, video, security, analytics and extensive API features. The company was founded by Christopher Wallace and Barrett Gibson Lyon in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Appcelerator, Inc. provides enterprise mobile engagement platform. Its cloud based platform enables users to build and test cross-platform applications. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Haynie and Nolan Wright in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SwiftStack, Inc. provides private cloud storage software solutions. The firm offers software defined storage built from the ground-up for web, mobile and as-a-service applications. SwiftStack contains everything customer need to set up, integrate and operate a private storage cloud based on OpenStack Swift. The company was founded by Joe Arnold, Anders Tjernlund, Darrell Bishop and Orion Auld in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GuideSpark, Inc. operates as a digital employee communications company. The firm offers mobile, video and interactive solutions, communications solutions, business analytics and communication campaigns. The company was founded by Wolff S. John, Larocque A. Joseph and Keith Kitani in 2008 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Digital Shadows Ltd. provides cyber situational awareness solutions that helps organizations protect against cyber attacks, loss of intellectual property, and loss of brand and reputational integrity. It offers Digital Shadows SearchLight, a flagship solution analysis platform that provides a view of an organization’s digital footprint and the profile of its attackers. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Digital Shadows, Inc. provides digital risk management and monitoring services for organizations. It offers data analytics with human data analysis to management and mitigate risks of an organization’s brand exposure, cyber threat, data exposure, infrastructure exposure, physical threat, and third party risks. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Petametrics, Inc. provides technology services. It operates a machine learning personalization recommendation and discovery system for publishers, e-commerce companies, websites and application owners. The firm provides content, application, video, and e-commerce personalization services. The company was founded by Indraneel Mukherjee, Mike Murray and Adam Spector in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SignalWire, Inc. develops computer applications. The firm delivers a cloud platform for building advanced communications products, applications or enterprise infrastructure. The company was founded by Anthony Minessale, II and Evan McGee and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Avanoo, Inc. provides corporate training services. The firm specializes in employee engagement, human resources, learning & development, employee performance, values alignment, culture change, culture enablement, storytelling, leadership development, corporate identity & culture, workplace culture and employee stories. The company was founded by Daniel Jacobs, C. Prosper Nwankpa and Ivan Pasev in 2013 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

AtScale, Inc. offers business intelligence solutions. The firm provides a BI platform that allows business users at corporations across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and online industries, to get interactive and multi-dimensional analysis capabilities, directly on Hadoop, using the tools they already know and own. It soecializes in Hadoop, Big Data, OLAP, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Cloudera, Tableau, PowerBI, Hortonworks, MapR, Google BigQuery, MicroStrategy, Amazon Redshift. The company was founded by David P. Mariani, Matthew Baird, Sarah Gerweck and James Lai in 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Lumentum Operations LLC manufactures optical and photonic products. Its commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

OMERS Ventures Management Inc (OMERS Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of OMERS Administration Corp founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in the US and UK.

Storm Ventures LLC (Storm Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Dick Moley, Alex Mendez, Ryan Floyd, Tae Hea Nahm and Sanjay Subhedar. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Serena Software, Inc. provides application lifecycle management software for enterprises. The company designs, develops, and sells application lifecycle management, application release management, and information technology management software and solutions. Its products include Serena Requirements Manager, Serena Development Manager, Serena Release Manager, Dimensions, PVCS, ChangeMan, StarTool and Comparex, Serena Business Manager, Serena Service Manager, Serena Demand Manager, Serena Request Center and Serena Dashboard. The company was founded by Douglas D. Troxel in 1980 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Part of Autodesk, Inc., Buzzsaw.com, Inc. provides construction-related services and content via the Internet. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded by Carl Bass, Anne Bonaparte, William John Bush. Buzzsaw.com was acquired by Autodesk, Inc. on August 28, 2001 for $15 million.

Impact Venture Inc (Impact Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Adam Dell. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

iRise, Inc. develops application software. The company was founded by Emmet B. Keeffe, III and Maurice Martin in 1996 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Moldflow Corp. offers software, hardware, and material characterization solutions which optimize injection molded plastic products in all phases of the product design to manufacture process. Its products and services help to reduce operating cost of the manufacturing process and streamline the product introduction process. The company is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Art Center College of Design offers undergraduate and graduate courses in art and design disciplines. The company also offers public programs on design education to students of all ages and levels of experience. The college was founded in June 2004 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is located in the historic Carnegie Mansion on New York City's Museum Mile. As an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is the steward of one of the world's most diverse and comprehensive design collections, with over 210,000 objects ranging from an ancient Egyptian faience cup to contemporary 3D-printed objects and digital code. The museum welcomes everyone to discover the importance of design and its power to change the world. Cooper-Hewitt knits digital into experiences to enhance ideas, extend reach beyond museum walls, and enable greater access, personalization, experimentation, and connection. The museum is fully accessible and offers dynamic exhibitions, education programs, a master's program, publications, and online resources to inspire, educate, and empower people through design.

Planet Labs, Inc. operates earth-imaging satellites. The firm offers its imaging services for logistics, site development, crop monitoring, urbanization, natural resources, and asset management applications. The company was founded by William S. Marshall, Robert H. Schingler, Jr. and Christopher R. Boshuizen in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zoox, Inc. is a robotic company, which engages in autonomous mobility business. The company was founded by Timothy D. Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson on September 8, 2009 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Ithaca Software develops prepackaged software. The private company is based in Alameda. The American company was founded by Carl Bass.

Bright Machines, Inc. develops software for manufacturing industries. It offers cutting edge technology, computer vision, cloud and edge computing, robotics, and machine learning that enables operations more competitive and customer focused. The company was founded by Amarpreet Hanspal in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Built Robotics, Inc. provides computer integrated systems design services. The firm specializes in robotics, autonomous vehicles, construction, artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomy. The company was founded by Andrew Liang, Juan Sebastian Jurado and Noah Ready-Cambel in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.