Bill Elmore

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Tealeaf provides visibility, insight, and answers for companies doing business online. Tealeaf's powerful customer experience analytics empower companies to optimize ebusiness by eliminating obstacles that block successful conversions or completion of business processes. Its deep insight enables you to answer many of the most compelling, yet difficult questions that plague ebusiness executives: 'Why are my conversion rates down?' 'Why is my business growth not over-achieving against market growth rates?' 'Why can't they resolve more customer issues in its web call centers?' Tealeaf is committed to helping companies make sure that every customer can complete every transaction, every time. To date, its CEM solutions are used by leading companies, including more than 70 Fortune-class companies. Its customers include eight of the ten largest banks worldwide, as well as numerous other financial services institutions, including brokerages, exchanges, investment banks and mutual funds; more than 40 property and casualty insurance companies; more than one third of all online retailers generating more than $100M in annual sales; and many other leading companies in industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals, communication services, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, energy and utilities, high-technology and business-to-business distribution.

Autonomic Networks, Inc. provides network access control software solutions. The company offers endpoint compliance, identity based access control, real time threat protection with IPS, enterprise wide visibility and control solutions. Vernier Networks was founded in March 2001 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Purfresh, Inc. provides food and water clean technology and storage services. It offers real-time monitoring and ozone response solution for cargo requiring ethylene, humidity, oxygen, and carbon dioxide adherence, and post-voyage data; Intellipur, a cloud-based cargo monitoring software that provides real-time visibility into and control over the conditions of fresh food, flowers, and temperature-sensitive cargo shipped in refrigerated marine containers; Total Active Environment, a supply chain management solution that creates, controls, and monitors the optimal environment for transporting the fresh food to consumers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Venafi, Inc. delivers the trust-protection platform to secure the keys and certificates required for secure communications, commerce, computing, and mobility. It offers trustauthority, trustforce, and trustnet products. The firm also provides policy compliance, manage reputational risk, maximize system availability, Secure critical information, and mitigate trust-based attacks solutions. The company was founded by Russell S. Thornton and Benjamin Hodson in 2000 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Guardian Analytics Inc.e ngages in the provision of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions for financial institutions. It offers enterprises banks and brokerage, community banks and credit unions, friction-right digital banking solutions. The company was founded by Tom Miltonberger and Craig Priess in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Zetta, Inc. provides enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving technology services. Its products include Zetta data protection and Zetta disaster recovery. The firm offers archiving, offsite, online, cloud server and remote backup services. The company was founded by Jeffrey Whitehead, Louis J. Montulli, Jeffrey Treuhaft and Jason Harrison in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

PhysIQ, Inc. provides proprietary predictive analytics for human physiology. It designs, develops and commercializes predictive analytics technologies to monitor the health of complex systems. The company was founded by Matt R. Pipke and Gary W. Conkright in 1999 and is headquartered in Naperville, IL.

Part of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., gForce Systems, Inc. provides electronic learning content management and delivery solutions. The private company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Theodore C. Cocheu. gForce Systems was acquired by Docent, Inc. on October 17, 2001 for $4.14 million.

Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. provides wireless and wired technologies for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets. The company was founded in May 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

MarkMonitor, Inc. provides enterprise brand protection solutions. The firm specializes in domain management, anti-piracy, and fraud. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Automated Document Exchange Services, Inc. provides software solutions for secure inter-company access, storage and distribution of business documents between customers and trading partners. The company was founded by Greg Buchholz in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Biz360, Inc. is an information-services company focused on transforming information to help businesses make better decisions. The firm uses technology to aggregate, measure and analyze news media and consumer opinion information from a vast amount of traditional and social media sources (i.e. print, broadcast, websites, blogs and message boards) to yield invaluable insights which enable marketing and media executives to better understand, reach and motivate their target audiences. Biz360 is distinguished by its broad, global network of content sources, superior leading-edge analytical expertise and outstanding service & support which enables them to deliver to their clients the most accurate, relevant and insightful information/metrics in the most flexible, consumable formats. Biz360 helps companies to influence their target audiences, develop better products, make product improvements, launch new products, react faster to marketplace changes, better understand their customer needs, protect their brands, better position/reposition brand offerings, respond to competitive threats, develop more effective advertising communications, increase revenue, reduce costs, invest marketing research dollars more effectively and improve customer retention and loyalty.

CloudShield Technologies, Inc. developed cyber security solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

uXComm, Inc. provides application software services. The company provides businesses and infrastructure vendors with utility management software products. It provides device management, utility computing, workflow and patent-pending autonomic computing technology. The software company based in Beaverton, OR

Shoreline Communications, Inc. is a private company based in Campbellsville, KY and has subsidiaries in United States. The company operates radio stations.

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.

Purdue Research Foundation manages and licenses intellectual property, administers trusts, acquires property, negotiates research contracts and performs other services. The organization was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in West Lafayette, IN.

Quartics designs, develops and markets proprietary integrated circuits based on its patented Qvu™ architecture, which has established a new category of video processors, the system on a chip (SoC) video processing unit (VPU), designed specifically to deliver advanced digital video solutions, including superior video playback quality and advanced functionality enabling installation of custom software applications such as 2d to 3D video conversion, HD video chat, gesture recognition and video search. Qvu™-enabled video processing solutions are available to OEM and ODM companies worldwide and have been adopted by some of the world's largest consumer electronics companies. Quartics' revolutionary Qvu™ architecture allows consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver an unsurpassed HD quality video experience previously not possible with existing video solutions. Quartics' Qvu™ technology is poised to become the industry standard for next-generation video processing for personal computers, HDTVs, set-top boxes and other video-enabled consumer electronic devices. Quartics is a fabless semiconductor company located in Irvine, CA, with offices in India, China and Taiwan. Quartics was formed in 2003 to focus on a programmable semiconductor architecture for high-performance video processing, with the aim of overcoming the significant challenges of modern digital video processing.

XMOS Ltd. develops voice and music processing and control integrated circuits. Its products include voice controller solutions, audio connectivity, xCORE microcontrollers, and xTIMEcomposer tools. The company was founded by Hitesh Kumar Mehta, Dixon Ali, Noel Hurley, James Foster, and Michael David May on June 29, 2005 and is headquartered in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

MSDSonline, Inc. provides web-based products and services. Its solutions include MSDS/chemical management, OSHA recordkeeping, workplace training and compliance education. The firm serves healthcare, manufacturing, construction, education, oil, gas and mining, utilities, municipalities, retail, transportation, first responder and chemical manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Ronald Deger in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Helpstream is the first company in the world to deliver a truly social customer service and relationship management system. Its products are for companies that need more effective ways to service their customers and build outstanding customer relationships. Helpstream enables companies to stop deflecting and start engaging with their customers like never before. Helpstream is designed and developed by a team of experienced professionals with extensive experience in customer service and relationship management solutions. They set out to build a product that would deliver orders of magnitude improvements in service effectiveness and customer satisfaction. They wound up with a set of products that represent a whole new way of thinking about Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Unlike sales-focused CRM systems, Helpstream is built specifically for Web-driven customer service and support. What's the difference? Most CRM systems in place today are centered on process management, and the only relationships being managed effectively are the relationships between sales representatives and their quotas. They came to the conclusion that companies need to leave behind the illusion of managing customers and instead engage customers on their own terms, as members of a large, vibrant, and self-supporting community. Through the extensive use of social Web technologies deeply integrated with modern customer service and collaboration processes and workflows, Helpstream changes the way companies are able to interact with their customers. Helpstream centers customer interaction not on issue resolution, but on the customer. It connects customers with information, with each other, and it drives effective customer engagement across all business functions. Perhaps most important, Helpstream gives you an opportunity to participate in the conversation, generate positive word of mouth, and extend your brand to include exceptional service. Helpstream's SaaS design makes it fast to deploy, easy to use and affordable. It can be deployed as an integrated complement to existing systems or completely replace what you're using today. Helpstream has over 100 customers in various industries including high tech, government, healthcare, financial- and professional-services. Helpstream is a private, venture capital-backed company headquartered in Mountain View, California.

SpringCM, Inc. provides an enterprise-class document management and workflow solution designed for online collaboration. Its cloud platform manages contracts and all types of documents across desktop, mobile, and partner applications like Salesforce. The company was founded by Christine Mason, Greg T. Buchholz, and Jeffrey Piper in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Azure Power India Pvt Ltd. produces solar energy products. The firm engages in the design, financing, ownership and operation of solar power plants in India. The company was founded by Inderpreet Singh Wadhwa and Preet Sandhu in 2007 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India

HotLink Corp. provides information technology and data center solutions. Its services include HotLink platform and management, cloud management, disaster recovery, NetApp for AWS, videos and screenshots, and white paper. The company was founded by Lynn LeBlanc and Richard Offer in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Myriad Sensors, Inc. develops wireless Internet of Things, sensor devices for science enthusiasts, hobbyists, students and educators. Its product, the PocketLab, is a multi-sensor device with accompanying software platform that enables anyone to engage in open ended science exploration. The company was founded by Clifton Roozeboom in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SkinSpirit Essential LLC provides aesthetic skin and body care solutions. Its services include facial treatment, dermaplaning, power hour treatment, botox, dermal filler, laser hair removal, laser resurfacing, microdermabrasion, micro-penning, resurfx, and ultherapy. It also offers sunblock, snit-aging formulas, skin brighteners, and spa products. The company was founded by Lynn Heublein in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Eastside College Preparatory School, Inc. operates a school. The private company is based in East Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 1996 by Helen Kim, Chris Bischof.

conDati, Inc. provides digital marketing services. It applies big data science and machine learning to Marketing data to improve business results. The company was founded in by Dan Bartow and Kenneth C. Gardner in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Live Momentum Ltd. operates a platform for live stream production, monetization, and audience engagement. The company was founded by Or Perry, Doron Nir, and Gil Hirsch on February 20, 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

EVERYWHERE Communications, Inc. provides dual mode cellular and satellite communications. It also provides safety, security and productivity solutions for enterprise and government organizations with people and assets deployed globally. The company was founded by Patrick A. Shay in 2016 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

Acoustic LP is a marketing platform that offers digital experience and martech solutions to help brands reconnect with customer intent. Acoustic is based in Atlanta, GA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company aims to help brands market brilliantly and achieve higher goals. The company's marketing automation technology and digital analytic tools allow marketers to focus on creating big ideas that build personal connections with customers. The company was founded by Mark James Simpson and Mark Philip Cattini has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Part of ServiceNow, Inc., Hitch Works, Inc. is a skills intelligence and talent mobility platform that matches internal talent and skills to the right work, whether project-based or full-time. The private company is based in Seattle, WA. The company creates a culture of inclusion, mobility, learning, growth, and engagement where people feel valued, and the organization achieves higher productivity and performance while retaining its most valuable talent. The company was founded by Kelley Steven-Waiss. Hitch Works was acquired by ServiceNow, Inc. on June 15, 2022.

Fitted USA Inc. is a company that streamlines connectivity between brands and retailers. The company is based in Eagle, ID. The company's platform optimizes inventory, manages orders, and simplifies payments.

Monospace, Inc. is a technology company based in Stamford, CT. Monospace, Inc. specializes in providing an Open Data Platform called Directus, which allows users to turn any SQL database into an API and create no-code apps. Directus is the first of its kind in the world and provides a unique solution for businesses looking to streamline their data management processes. The company was founded in 2004 by Benjamin Haynes and Rijk van Zanten, with Benjamin Haynes serving as the CEO since then.