Neal Fachan

TopTier Software, Inc. engages in developing eBusiness portals and products. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Madrona Venture Group LLC (Madrona Venture Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Tom A. Alberg, Paul B. Goodrich and Jerry Grinstein. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Skytap, Inc. provides cloud-based environments-as-a-service for development and testing teams to deliver better software. It offers development and testing, hybrid cloud or information technology, virtual training, software demos, and professional solutions. The company also provides cloud stack and security services. The company was founded by Henry M. Levy, Brian Bershad, Steven D. Gribble, and David Richardson in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

BlackRock Private Equity Partners (BlackRock PEP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of BlackRock Alternative Investors founded in 1999 by Russell Steenberg. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Clustrix, Inc. develops a scale-out SQL database. It is used in advertising technology, e-Commerce, gaming, and large web and mobile businesses. The company was founded by Sergei Tsarev, Paul A. Mikesell and Eric Hoffman in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

World Wide Packets, Inc. provides Ethernet broadband services. Its services include telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data and internet access services. World Wide Packets was founded in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, NJ.

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.

The Washington Technology Industry Association, founded by Lawrence I. Lerner, is a platform for security experts to network, practice thought leadership, and work together to overcome common challenges. The non-profit company is based in Issaquah, WA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company hosts fullcontech, a non-typical conference with speakers and leaders to hear from, to be inspired by, and to learn from. Additionally, the company offers the WTIA CISO Peer Group, which is committed to serving the needs of security executives. The company also provides benefits programs for companies to build their benefits program. The CEO is Michael T. Schutzler.

ExtraHop Networks, Inc. designs and develops cloud-native network detection and response platform for the hybrid enterprise. The firm offers ExtraHop Reveal(x), Reveal(x) Cloud, ExtraHop for application and network performance, threat detection and response, customer experience monitoring, and SDN and virtualization. The company was founded by Raja Mukerji and Jesse Rothstein in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Amperity, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It develops enterprise-marketing software. The firm offers customer data strategy, advanced analytics, enablement and data architecture services. The company was founded by Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani in January 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Nautilus Biotechnology, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded by Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick in 2016 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Cofense, Inc. provides anti-phishing threat management software solutions. Its intelligence-driven platform enables employees to identify, report, and mitigate spear phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. The firm serves defense industrial base, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Aaron Higbee and Rohyt Belani in 2008 and is headquartered in Leesburg, VA.

Highland Capital Partners LLC (Highland Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm is founded in 1987 by Paul A. Maeder and Bob F. Higgins. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Tidal Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state drive controllers. It also offers Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) technology. The company was founded by Mike Lee and Cody Wu and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Alta Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures mobile power technology solutions. The firm specializes in the development of a technology that extends the energy source of a system, with focus on cell and module single junction conversion efficiency. It offers single and dual junction solar cells, bringing flexible and portable power that can be embedded into any other material. The company was founded by Eli Yablonovitch, Nasreen Chopra and Harry A. Atwater in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Movella, Inc. engages in the provision of micro-electromechanical sensors. It offers accelerometer, magnetometer, and iGyro hardware and software solutions. The firm provides single-chip motion sensors that are utilized by consumer electronics companies to improve user interactivity and enable new motion-based applications. The company was founded by Charles Yang in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Ambiq Micro, Inc. provides semiconductor technology services. It develops ultra-low power integrated circuits for power-sensitive applications. The firm develops a patented subthreshold power optimized technology platform that dramatically reduces the amount of power consumed by semiconductors. The company was founded by Scott Hanson, Dennis Sylvester, and David Blaauw in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

relayr, Inc. provides Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. It offers IoT middleware platform, edge device management, IoT analytics and insights, industrial IoT starter kit, and IoT acceleration starter kit. The company was founded 2014 and is headquartered Boston, MA.

Ripcord, Inc. operates robotic digitization company. Its solutions include compliance, finance, healthcare, legal, and infrastructure. The company was founded by Alex Fielding, Kevin Hall, and Kim Lembo and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

AEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. It specializes in computer vision, autonomous driving, robotic vision, autonomous vehicles, lidar, sensor fusion, and three dimensional mapping. The company was founded by Luis Dussan, Ranson Wuller, Barry Behnken, and Jordan Greene in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

Desktop Metal Operating, Inc. engages in the provision of three dimensional printing services. It offers studio, production, and software solutions. The firm serves to automotive, heavy industrial, manufacturing tooling and machine design industries. The company was founded by Ric Fulop, Jonah Meyerberg, Emanuel Sachs, Rick Chin, A. John Hart, Christopher A. Schuh, and Yet Ming Chiang, in October 2015 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Amprius Technologies, Inc. manufactures and develops high energy and high capacity lithium-ion batteries. Its silicon anode technology was originally developed at Stanford University and enables dramatic improvements in the energy density and specific energy of lithium-ion batteries. The company was founded by Mark C. Platshon and Yi Cui in May 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Flyp Technologies, Inc. Operates as an online platform that aggregates user's content. The firm specializes in content marketing, content curation, lead generation, digital publishing and marketing software. Its solutions include demand generation, account-based marketing, sales enablement and content marketing. The company was founded by Yoav Schwartz and Randy Frisch in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Pantheon Systems, Inc. develops professional website platform. The firm builds, launches, and runs Drupal and WordPress sites. The company was founded by Zack Rosen, Joshua Koenig, Matthew Cheney, and David Strauss in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Conversica, Inc. provides sales conversion management software for marketing and sales organizations. Its online persona, the application automatically contacts, engages, nurtures, qualifies and follows up with leads via natural, two-way email conversations until the lead converts into an opportunity or opts out. The firm serves the automotive, education, finance and mortgage, insurance, real estate and technology industries. The company was founded by Benjamin P. Brigham in 2007 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.