Greg Avis

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Part of International Game Technology PLC, Powerhouse Technologies, Inc. is a company that designs and develops lottery systems for the online lottery, video lottery, and casino gaming industry. The company is based in Bozeman, MT. Powerhouse Technologies was acquired by Anchor Gaming on June 29, 1999 for $210.97 million.

RightNow Technologies, Inc. provides customer relationship management software and services. The company offers RightNow CX, a customer experience suite for consumer-centric organizations to enable interactions across Web, social, and contact center touch points. Its RightNow CX suite includes RightNow Web Experience, which integrates into an existing Web infrastructure to provide an online customer experience providing customer access to Web self-service; RightNow Social Experience that enables organizations to listen and respond to conversations with their consumers on the social Web and to build branded communities to cultivate their own conversations; RightNow Contact Center Experience, which enables organizations to deliver consistent customer experiences across multi-channel interactions; RightNow Engage, which provides horizontal service, sales, and marketing business processes that support, span, and inter-connect the Web, social, and contact center experiences; RightNow CX Cloud Platform that provides a platform for scalability, performance, flexibility, and security; RightNow Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery platform; and RightNow CX Commitment, which describes the way to deliver a customer experience. The company also provides professional services, including project management and consulting services. It serves various industries, such as technology, public sector, retail/consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in September 1997 by Greg R. Gianforte and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

Workfront, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. The firm’s solutions include marketing, IT, agencies, professional service and product development. It offers workfront, workfront fusion, workfront DAM and integrations products. The company was founded by Scott C. Johnson, Nate Bowler, Abraham Knell and Jason Fletcher in 2001 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

CradlePoint, Inc. engages in the provision of secure cloud-managed networking solutions. It offers a cloud-based platform combines software-defined networking and radio technologies with virtualized services and CPE to deliver 4G long-term evolution networks. The company was founded by Gary Oliverio, Ryan Adamson, and Patrick M. Sewall in June 2006 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Boomi, Inc. provides integrated technology solutions. It serves the marketing, financial, human resources, content management, and service desk management departments of companies in various industries worldwide. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered Chesterbrook, PA.

Intent Global, Inc. provides advertising solutions. It operates Voyat, a provider of website personalization solutions that increase direct bookings for hoteliers. The company was founded by Josh Feuerstein, Richard Harris, Damon Tassone, and Arun Rajan on January 21, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BuyWithMe, Inc. operates a community-buying website. The firm's website connects shoppers with the deals and offers from local businesses in their cities. It also enables community-buyers and shoppers to access deals on spas, salons, travel, fitness, and restaurants activities. The company was founded by James J. Crowley, Andrew Moss and Josh Elwell and is headquartered in New York, NY.

StartDate Labs, Inc. engages in the provision of web-based job search services. Its services include online professional networking, application tracking, and career transition and management. The company was founded by Christian K. Forman, Avromi Oratz, Guy Tamir, and Timothy McKegney in 2010 and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

Codefied, Inc. provides contextual software for smart phones. It offers HouseCall, a mobile operations software platform for home service companies. The company platform connects back-end business operations to the homeowner experience, eliminating the paperwork of providing estimates, scheduling appointments, dispatching service techs, managing jobs, invoicing, processing credit cards, and re-marketing, while connecting to the consumer experience. Codefied was founded by Ian Randall Heidt, Adam Perry-Pelletier, Chris Zwickilton, Roland Ligtenberg, and Reza Olfat on July 31, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Matrix Management Corp. (Matrix Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in China and India.

Kyriba Corp. engages in the provision of cash and treasury management software solutions. The firm specializes in the design of automated online systems to control clients cash management tasks. Its solution areas encompass cash and liquidity, payments, bank relationships, financial transactions, risk management, and supply chain finance. The company was founded by Jean-Luc Robert and Nathaniel Fraiberger in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Trane Energy Services LLC provides natural gas and electricity consulting and management services. Its services include data management, risk management, energy sourcing, power control center, global energy management and value added services. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

eDial, Inc. develops communications server technology software for call centers. It offers conferencing and collaboration solutions for enterprises and service providers. The company also provides service providers, enterprise system integrators and OEMs a flexible platform for the development and deployment of customized scaleable and real-time media service. eDial was founded by Scott Petrack on July 22, 1998 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

D. A. Davidson Cos. provides investment banking services. Its services include integrated brokerage, capital markets and money, and trust and wealth management services. The company operates through D.A. Davidson and Co., Investment Advisors, Trust Co., Fixed Income Management, and Davidson Travel. D. A. Davidson was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Great Falls, MT.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting services. The company was founded on April 6, 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Endeavor Global, Inc. is an Venture Capital firm founded in 1997 by Linda Rottenberg, Casares wenceslao and Peter B.Kellner. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Chicago Children's Museum operates a museum for children. It offers exhibits and activities that provide sensory attraction and educational content on science, math, visual and performing arts, and health. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Arroweye Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of digital on-demand card marketing and production solutions for the credit, debit, gift and prepaid card industries. Its solutions include consulting services and support, card design and campaign marketing, credit and debit programs, CustomerConnect, hybrid payment, and merchant services on-demand. The company was founded by Doron Friedman, Ajay Singhvi and Brian Huse in October 1999 and is headquartered in Henderson, NV.

Illinois Venture Capital Association engages in providing services such as education, networking, industry events, roundtable discussions and government lobbying. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GHBC Groupe, Inc. operates a shopping website which provides merchandise, clothing, home decor, food and travelling services. It offers furniture, sports sedans, bedding, rugs, lighting, décor, kitchen and dining products. The firm also provides redeem points to its customers. The company was founded in November 2007 by Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Michael Bryzek, Alexis Maybank, Dwight A. Merriman, Phong Nguyen and Kevin P. Ryan and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dataminr, Inc. provides social media analytics services. It offers a solution that transforms the public twitter stream into actionable alerts, identifying the most relevant information in real-time for clients in finance, news and the public sector. The company was founded by Edward J. Bailey, Jeffrey Kinsey and Samuel Lifton Hendel in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Snag Holdings, Inc. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Arrive Mobility Inc. provides online parking reservation services. It offers an application that enables users to find and book a guaranteed parking space before reaching destination. The company was founded by Aashish Dalal and Jon Thornton in September 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

FullContact, Inc. operates as an international provider of identity resolution including data enrichment and audience insights. The company was founded by Bart Lorang, Dan Lynn, and Travis Todd in 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Coalfire Systems, Inc. provides audit, security and compliance management solutions. The firm offers coalfire labs, compliance, cyber engineering, cyber risk and secure cloud solutions. It serves cloud service providers, federal government, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, restaurants, retail, state and local government and technology industries. The company was founded by Alan Ferguson, Kennet Westby and Richard Dakin in 2001 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

AEGIS Hedging Solutions LLC provides cloud-based dashboard built to provide oil and gas executive?s visual insights. It specializes in market analytics, hedge strategy and execution and back office operations. The company was founded by Justin McCrann, Chris Croom and Bryan Christopher Sansbury in 2013 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, TX.

WordStream, Inc. develops online marketing software. Its products include WordStream advisor, a pay-per-click (PPC) software that allows to create, optimize, manage, and measure high-performing PPC and social advertising campaigns. It offers free keyword tool, online marketing tools, and search marketing fundamentals. The company was founded by Larry E. Kim and Gerard Escalante in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cogito Corp. provides software services for phone professionals. It offers technology, computer software and engineering services. The firm engages in the conversation and analyses human behavior through the smart phone. The company was founded by Vikram Sheel Kumar, Joshua Feast, Ali Azarbayejani and Alex Paul Pentland and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Socrata, Inc. provides cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. Its products include capital projects explorer, citizen connect, insights dashboard, open finance, performance, perspectives and publica open data. The firm also offers financial insights, open data and citizen management, performance improvement and accountability solutions, blueprint and socrata support site services. The company was founded by Kevin Merritt in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Sittercity, Inc. operates as an online marketplace for families and caregivers. It offers finding child care, babysitters, nannies, special needs care, and pet sitters. The company was founded by Genevieve Thiers in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Radius (USA), Inc. provides administrative services. It offers managed services, advisory services and software services through integrated cloud-based software platform. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Brightwire, Inc. publishes exclusive financial news for buy-side professionals. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2008 by Stefan M. Lehmann-Karp, Mark Lee Gerson, John C. Cooper. John C. Cooper has been the CEO since 2008.