Michael Scott Bessler

Ghost Locomotion, Inc. develops core self-driving tech which can be used to retrofit existing cars or enhance new ones. The firm gives life back with autonomy, transforming white-knuckle commutes into extra time to work, relax, or even nap. The company was founded by John M. Hayes and Volkmar Uhlig in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of McLaren Group Ltd., McLaren Racing Ltd. is a motorsport company based in Woking, UK. McLaren Racing competes across five racing series, including FIA Formula 1 World Championship, NTT IndyCar Series, ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, Extreme E Championship, and F1 Esports Pro Championship. The British company is committed to achieving net zero by 2040 and fostering a diverse and inclusive culture in the motorsport industry. The company was founded in 1963 by racing driver Bruce McLaren and has since won 20 Formula 1 World Championships, 183 Formula 1 Grands Prix, the Indianapolis 500 three times, and the Le Mans 24 Hours at its first attempt. The CEO is Zakary Challen Brown.

Observe, Inc. provides a SaaS Observability platform, which brings together discrete technologies for Log Analytics, Metrics Monitoring and Application Performance Management (APM). The company was founded by Jacob Leverich, Jonathan Trevor, Philip Unterbrunner, Jon Watte, Joao Taveria Araujo, Ang Li, and Jonathan Rossi in November 2017 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Sigma Computing, Inc. engages in developing cloud business intelligence and analytics platform. It offers formulas, spreadsheet interface, dashboard, and scheduled reports. The company was founded by Jason Fratz and Rob Woolen in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lacework, Inc. provides cloud computing services. It offers workload security, container security and visibility and devops solutions. The firm also provides polygraph, threat insights, security automation and architecture products. The company was founded by Vikram Kapoor and Sanjay Karla in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Clumio, Inc. develops authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. It is a secure, backup as a service for the enterprise that eliminates the complexity of infrastructure management with authentic SaaS. The company was founded by Poojan Kumar, Kaustubah Patil and Woon Jung in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. is an engineered materials company, which focuses on dramatically improving energy storage. It enables higher energy density batteries for smaller, lighter, longer-lasting wearable & portable electronics, mass adoption of electric vehicles, and practical use of renewable energy. The company was founded by Gene Berdichevsky, Gleb Yushin and Alex Jacobs in 2011 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Transposit Corp. provides an API composition platform that simplifies how applications are built, deployed, and managed, and brings the simplicity of a relational database. The company was founded by Adam H. Leventhal and Tina Huang in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

VERITAS Software Corp. develops software and provides computer services. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Bracket Computing, Inc. provides enterprise computing solutions. It offers Bracket Computing Cell, a cloud virtualization system that brings enterprise-grade security, performance, reliability and control that large enterprises require to run significant workloads on the public cloud. The firm’s Computing Cells harness the public cloud for the enterprise, combining their scale, elasticity and efficiency with the security, performance and control of a dedicated hardware data center. The company was founded by Thomas Gillis and Jason Lango in December 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Platfora, Inc. develops and builds software for cleaning up and analyzing big data. The company was founded by Benjamin M. Werther and SriSatish Ambati in June 2011 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Clover Network, Inc. provides technology services. It offers POS hardware and software solutions, mobile app that tracks sales, and payment processing solutions. The company was founded by Leonard Speiser, John Beatty, Kelvin Zheng, and Mark Schulze on October 28, 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Sutter Hill Ventures LLC (Sutter Hill Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1962 by Paul M Wythes and Bill H Draper. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

PlayFirst, Inc. publishes downloadable games. The firm's game portfolio includes diner dash, featuring the spunky, can-do waitress flo, dream chronicles, a world where reality meets fantasy, and chocolatier. The company was founded by John Welch, Brad Edelman and Jason Rubinstein in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.