Garrett P. Gruener

Alta Partners Management Co. LP (Alta Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Jean Deleage, Guy Paul Nohra, Marino Polestra and Garrett P. Gruener. The firm is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies.

Nanomix, Inc. provides nano technology solutions. It is a nanotechnology company focused on development of next generation Point of Care diagnostic tests to enable earlier and more accurate testing in hospital and pre-hospital settings. The firm's nanoscale electronic sensors have enabled the development of the next generation of Point of Care testing systems that can be used in any setting. The company's mobile diagnostic platform performs multiple in-vitro diagnostic assays simultaneously from a single whole-blood sample. Nanomix was founded by Alexander Zettl and Marvin L. Cohen in September 2000 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

nCircle Network Security, Inc. sells software that helps large enterprises and government agencies manage information technology security and compliance auditing needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ICE Mortgage Technology, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry. Its services include education and certification, professional consulting, implementation, and business writing. The company was founded by Limin Hu and Sigmund Anderman in August 1997 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Aegis Lightwave, Inc. builds solutions for optical networks that are used for video, data communications, telecommunications and other fast growing markets. Aegis delivers channel-monitoring products to an international customer base of optical networking systems manufacturers that enable service providers to deploy high bandwidth video services such as High Definition TV, IPTV, and Video-on-Demand. The company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Xelerated provides technology solutions for the networking industry. The company helps network equipment vendors build high-speed programmable carrier-class systems for prolonged product life times, streamlined R&D and accelerated time-to-market. Xelerated implements the Dataflow Architecture in network processors and programmable Ethernet switches that are manufactured by world leading fabs. The devices set a new benchmark for packet processing devices. In support to its customers' engineering efforts, the firm provides an array of software products and services to help them customize its technology in order to match the system designs and product innovations they envision.

Kona Blue Water Farms, Inc. engaged in marine fish farming. The company was founded by Neil Anthony Sims in 2001 and was headquartered in Kailua, HI.