Geoffrey A. Owen

Genus LLC designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment and deposition processes for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The firm makes the Lynx and StrataGem families of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, which semiconductor makers use in the production of integrated circuits. Its customers include Samsung Electronics, Infineon, and Seagate Technology. The company was founded by William W.R. Elder in 1981 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

NextPath Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets positioning services known as gimbals. It also designs and markets motion control systems, wireless communication technology, fiber optic switching, alkaline and electrolyte enhanced premium water products, energy and micro economic systems technology and other fiber optic technology through its subsidiaries. The company was founded on March 23, 1984 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

Viking Modular Solutions provides flash and microprocessor modules. The company offers memory and communications modules, which are using DRAM, flash, and microprocessors to the server, telecommunications, and embedded markets. It also supplies products to the channel resellers, distributors, retailers, and OEM customers worldwide. Viking Modular Solutions was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cardinal Venture Capital is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000.The Firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Individuals Venture Fund (IVF) is a private venture capital firm founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in California.

WS Investment Management Co. (WS Investment) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corp. founded in 1978 by Larry W. Sonsini. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc. develops novel, adjuvanted vaccines and immunotherapeutics to treat infectious disease and cancer. The company was founded by Martin D. Cleary, Jeff Fairman and Steven W. Dow in February 2003 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Darwin Ventures LLC (Darwin Ventures) is a venture capital founded in 2002 by Peter Freudenthal and Frank R. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Truviso provides analytics software that gives its customers immediate insight into their businesses through continuous, advanced analysis of live production data. Truviso customers are network-driven businesses whose traditional data warehouse and business intelligence solutions cannot deliver actionable information from production systems quickly enough, or cannot scale efficiently with their rapidly increasing volumes of data. Truviso customers gain the flexibility to combine current and historical data in real time for accurate visibility and action for their marketing, sales, operations teams, as well as their partners and customers. The Internet has changed the fundamentals of business. The social web has created a real-time discussion across devices, geographies, applications and users. The flow of information between businesses and consumers has changed dramatically, but the business intelligence technology being used to understand and take action on these conversations is decades old, and was never meant to be used on live production systems. Marketers, advertisers and content providers need immediate insight to understand, optimize and make the most of their videos, ads, articles, downloads and interactions. Getting information about content use and conversations 24 hours after they happen is simply too late for network-driven companies. The conventional store-first, batch-update relational database approach used by business intelligence tools and data warehouses is poorly suited to today’s “need it now” analytics and reporting requirements, and the enormous volume of data these interactions produce. Network-driven companies have had no option but to apply old constructs and technologies to solve a problem that has fundamentally changed. Truviso’s Continuous Analytics software isn’t a faster way to use dated methodologies, but a revolutionary way to process and analyze data—while still adhering to established data management principals. This continuous query technology enables companies to get detailed information about what’s going on across their network instantly, and also enables the system to handle massive amounts of data that previously required very expensive, dedicated infrastructure and complexity. Truviso has multiple patents pending on its continuous query technology, which was originally conceived in 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley, and makes immediate data processing and results across massive amounts of data possible. Truviso, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is lead by Internet and software veterans along with a team of experts in enterprise data management and analytics. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Truviso is funded by ONSET Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures, and the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund.

SanBio, Inc. develops regenerative therapies for neurological disorders. The firm is focused on cell therapies for neurological disorders such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, eye disease, and Parkinson's disease. Its product pipeline includes SB623 and SB618. The company was founded by Keita Mori and Toru Kawanishi in 2001 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

AfterCollege, Inc. provides online services for job and internship seekers. It operates a network platform that connects college students, alumni, and employers through faculty and career networks at colleges and universities. The company was founded by Roberto Angulo, Ana Bertran Ortiz, Karen Chungok Heifferon, and Brian Heifferon in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Peaxy, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers data storage and management software. The company was founded by Federico Faggin and Manuel Terranova in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.