Brian Edward Sohmers

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Part of Oracle Corp., Agile Software Corp. is a company that develops and provides product lifecycle management software solutions. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded in 1995 by Tom P. Shanahan, Bryan D. Stolle. Agile Software was acquired by Oracle Corp. on July 16, 2007 for $463.64 million.

Vendavo, Inc. provides margin and profit optimization solutions. It offers Profit Analyzer to analyze transaction data for pinpointing leaking margins; Power and Risk that provides data-driven optimal prices for salespeople to negotiate and grow revenue; Price Manager to manage price lists and set policies for deal negotiations; Deal Manager that provides deal guidance and targets for profitable deal execution to sales teams; and Deal Guide to expedite deal cycle time and equip sales force to negotiate profitable deals. The company was founded by Jamie Rappperport and Joshua W. Sommer in November 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Propel Software Corp. provided Internet acceleration and network optimization solutions. The company was founded by Andrew E. Newton and Steven Todd Kirsch in November 1999 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Centric Software, Inc. provides product lifecycle management software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies. It focuses on the needs of consumer goods companies. The firm's software Centric 8 PLM incorporates line planning, global sourcing, calendar management, materials management, quality management, collection management, and product specification and mobile applications for product lifecycle management in one platform. The company was founded in 1989 by Steve Lakowske and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Hightail, Inc. provides cloud based solutions that enable users to share, send and access files from various devices. It offers active directory, alternative file transfer protocol, cloud storage, enterprise success, and mobile file sharing solutions. The company was founded by Ranjith Kumaran, Amir Shaikh and Khalid Shaikh in 2004 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Demandbase, Inc. operates as a platform for business to business marketers. The firm provides business to business marketing cloud services, advertisement, measurement, personalization, conversion, and consulting services. The company was founded by Christopher J. Golec in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sigma Partners (Sigma Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by J. Burgess Jamieson and C. Bradford C. Jeffries. The firm is headquartered in Danville, California.

Elance, Inc. operates as an online talent marketplace. It helps companies hire and manage professionals online on an hourly or project basis. The firm provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results. The company was founded by Beerud Sheth, Srini Anumolu and Sanjay Noronha in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Cornhill Corp. LLP, ADR Associates, Inc. manufactures digital mapping and geographic information systems technology. The company is based in Pennsauken, NJ. ADR Associates was acquired by GDE Systems, Inc. on November 25, 1996.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

Major League Baseball Blue, Inc. engages in the operations of baseball clubs. It owns and manages sports related activities and events including professional and amateur sports teams, leagues, and associations. It also sells national broadcasting rights and distributes fees to the teams. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Vormetric, Inc. provides solutions for protecting enterprise information. Its products include data security manager, transparent encryption, live data transformation, docker security, tokenization, application encryption, cloud encryption gateway, key management as a service, thales orchestrator, protection for teradata database and security intelligence. The company was founded by Phil Grasso, Tien Nguyen and Duc Pham in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

CrownPeak Technology, Inc. provides website management services. Its services include content authoring and layout, omni-channel deployment, digital asset management, localized marketing, content delivery and management, and multi-site management. The company was founded by Jim C. Howard, Sean Lally, and Carl Sutter in 2001 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Sage Intacct, Inc. provides cloud financial management services. Its systems includes accounting, cash management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation, revenue recognition, subscription billing, contract management, project accounting, fund accounting, inventory management, and financial reporting applications, all delivered through the cloud. The company was founded by David C. Thomas and Odysseas Tsatalos in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Emergence Equity Management, Inc. (Emergence Equity Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Jason Green, Gordon Ritter and Brian Jacobs. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Harvard Business Association of Orange County operates as alumni clubs. The non-profit company is based in Corona del Mar, CA.

Micropolis Corp. manufactures hard drives. The American company was founded by William J. Gervais.

Optimizely, Inc. operates as a web optimization platform. Its solutions include marketing, engineering, retail, travel, and finance. The company was founded by Peter Koomen and Dan Siroker in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Apttus Corp. engages in the provision of platform that allows enterprises to automate and optimize the most critical revenue and commercial relationship management processes. Its solutions include quote-to-cash, configure price quote, contract management, revenue management, e-commerce, artificial intelligence-mas, and x-author. The company was founded by Kirk Krappe and Neehar Giri in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

HBS Alumni Angels Association provides an educational and networking forum for Harvard alumni who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies on an individual basis. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Larkspur, CA.

SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Legion Technologies, Inc. develops intelligent workforce engagement platform. It offers forecasting, scheduling and matching, mobile engagement, workforce analytics, compliance and integrations products. The company was founded by Sanish Mondkar in 2016 and is headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.

Gaia Ventures LLC (Gaia Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Frank Madison and Deepak Krishnamurthy. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Spiff, Inc. develops a commission platform. It specializes in the areas of commissions, finance, sales, spreadsheets, sales performance, software, saas, sales performance management and incentive compensation. The company was founded by Jeron Paul, Travis Ashby, Jean-Philippe Maitre, Tanner Lacey,Casey Crouch, Mike Ries, Matt Stapleton and Albert Candari and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Enable Global, Inc. engages in the provision of SaaS solutions. It offers solution for distributors, manufacturers, building materials, retail, and wholesale. The company was founded by Andrew Butt and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Amberflo Io, Inc. provides a platform that enables rapid deployment and scaling of metering infrastructure, as well as building and managing modern usage-based pricing plans. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA and was founded in 2020 by Puneet Gupta and Lior Mechlovich. The company's billing cloud application allows for the creation, deployment, and management of fully customizable usage-based pricing plans, while the metering cloud is an API-first usage metering data infrastructure that captures system usage and consumption data in real-time. Amberflo empowers teams to uncover actionable insights from real-time usage and invoice data. Puneet Gupta has been the CEO since 2020.

Elevate CDB, Inc. is a company that offers a modern platform for building and customizing benefit plans with configurable attributes. The company is based in Dover, DE. The company's platform aims to make benefits better for employees and easier for employers. The company was founded by James Brian Cosgray, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Oro Labs, Inc. is a company that aims to simplify procurement processes for businesses. The company is based in Redwood City, CO. Oro Labs was founded by Lalitha Rajagopalan, Sudhir Bhojwani, and Yuan Tung, with Sudhir Bhojwani serving as CEO since incorporation. The company's automation platform helps manage enterprise spend and supplier relationships. The company offers a supplier management tool that can adapt to changing business needs, simplifies audits, and mitigates bank fraud. Oro's smart workflow uses AI, data, and human input to streamline supplier bank authentication and fraud prevention processes.

Provus, Inc. provides technology solutions to automate services CPQ processes. Provus is based in Saratoga, CA, and is backed by premium technology investors Norwest Venture Partners, Accel, and Storm Ventures. The company's unique AI-powered technology helps enterprise customers to accelerate turnaround time, grow deal sizes, and increase win probability faster, all while improving gross margins and mitigating compliance risk. The company is an approved Salesforce AppExchange partner and certified Oracle NetSuite partner. The company was founded by Mahesh Baxi, Ganesh Ramachandran, Stawan Kadepurkar, and Mahesh Baxi has been the CEO since incorporation.