Robert Esker

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Escapia, Inc. provides vacation rental management software and online marketing solutions. It offers web-based management and marketing solutions for vacation rental industry. The company was founded by Chris C. Kemp and Michael Cline in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Casetext, Inc. operates a public legal research tool and online community, which enables clients to discover and share legal knowledge. It offers cases and statutes, annotated with insights contributed by the legal community. The company was founded by Jake Heller and Joanna Huey in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Affinity Internet, Inc. provides web hosting services. The company was founded by John Zdanowski in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Sapien Capital Partners Ltd. Is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Roger Allen and Roger G. Buckeridge. It is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Mirantis, Inc. engages in the provision of software, services, training and support needed for running OpenStack. It offers cloud and application platform. The company was founded by Alex Freedland, Adrian Ionel and Boris Renski in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

CSDC Systems, Inc. provides permit tracking, code enforcement, planning activities, land management and development, and license management solutions. It offers solutions for the government, public sector agencies, and large organizations. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Micro Focus, Inc. provides business & professional software publishing services. The company is headquartered in Wayne, PA

The Linux Foundation operates as a non-profit organization which provides support for open source communities. It offers financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, events, and training. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Atanaskovic Hartnell is an Australian company that provides legal services. The private company is based in Sydney, Australia. The company was founded by Anthony Geoffrey Hartnell.

New Dream Network LLC provides web hosting services. Its services include shared web hosting for bloggers, website designers, e-commerce stores, and small businesses as well as virtual private server hosting for scalability, dedicated server hosting for intensive applications and complex databases. The company was founded by Michael Rodriguez and Dallas Kashuba in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

AGroup SIA engages in the provision of payroll solutions. It offers HRB portal which includes payroll, core HR, time and attendance, performance evaluation, fleet management, social networking, and recruitment. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

Fiix, Inc. provides cloud-based maintenance and asset management software solutions. It offers maintenance strategies, industry solutions, and integrations. The firm products are computerized maintenance management system, features, mobiles, cloud and services as a system, demo, and reviews. The company was founded by Daryl Sedgman and Marc Castel in 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Selectosa Systems, Inc. provides information technology consulting services. The private company is based in Foster City, CA. The company was founded by Boris Renski.

Scalr, Inc. provides cloud management platform services. It offers cost optimization, security and compliance, customized self service, and cloud policy engine solutions. The company was founded by Sebastian Stadil in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aptira Pty Ltd. is a leading cloud services provider that offers a wide range of open-source and enterprise technologies. The private company is based in Surry Hills, Australia, and its CEO is Tristan Goode. The Australian company provides independent advice, consulting, delivery, and managed services to enterprises, ISPs, and telcos worldwide. Aptira's approach to technology is to teach its customers how to fish, and it has a strong preference for open-source solutions.

Instaclustr Pty Ltd. provides managed and hosted Cassandra and DataStax enterprise solutions. The firm offers cassandra on AWS, cassandra on azure, developer nodes and pricing. Its services include proof of concept, data migration, and architecture. The company was founded by Adam Zegelin and Ben Bromhead in 2013 and is headquartered in Bruce, Australia.

Cybrary, Inc. engages in provision of cyber security services. It offers open source cyber security learning platform which offers courses such as cryptography, end user security, health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA) training, virtualization management, penetration testing and ethical hacking, computer and hacking forensics, web application penetration testing, and web content management. The company was founded by Ralph P. Sita, Jr. and Ryan J. Corey in 2015 and is headquartered in College Park, MD.

Instaclustr, Inc. provides managed and cloud solutions. It offers apache cassandra and datastax enterprise solutions. It allows distribution of cluster servers across cloud provider failure zones. Cassandra’s rack concept is designed to group servers within a cluster where the likelihood of a failure is correlated and to provide ongoing availability despite the failure of a group of servers. The solution also allows nodes to be replaced within a cluster with no interruption to the service provided by the cluster. The company was founded by Ben Bromhead, Doug Stuart, Peter Lilley and Adam Zegelin in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Redaptive, Inc. engages in the provision of energy conservation services. It offers Utilities-as-a-Service program to customize organization needs. The company was founded by Ryan Martineau and John Rhow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Open Connectivity Foundation, Inc. creates a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunities in the IoT market, accelerate industry innovation and help developers and companies to create solutions that map to a single open specification. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

RackN, Inc. develops software platform and provides governance for how hybrid information technology and develops tools work together in production. It offers open source software, converged infrastructure, DevOps and data center operations. The firm helps CIOs, CTOs, data center staff and software developers better collaborate and align on business, operational and technical priorities, frameworks and choices. The company was founded by Greg Althaus, Dan Choquette and Rob Hirschfeld in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Mission Cloud Services, Inc., Mission, Inc. is a company that provides IT and cloud management services. The company is based in El Segundo, CA. The company was founded by Simon Anderson. Simon Anderson has been the CEO since incorporation.

Astra Space, Inc. is a technology company that provides space services, including satellite launch services and other space services, based on a proprietary, vertically-integrated technology platform. The company was founded by Chris Kemp and Adam London in September 2016 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Torpago, Inc. engages in leveraging diversity and inclusion services. It specializes in inclusion virtual coach app, unconscious bias training and inclusion action plan. The company was founded by Denise Hummel in 2016 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

LF Edge is engaged in establishing an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. It includes industrial manufacturing, cities and government, energy, transportation, retail, home and building automation, automotive, logistics, and health care. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Nova Labs SRL, FreedomFi, Inc. develops cellular networks using open source software and commodity hardware. The company is based in Los Gatos, CA. The company was founded in 2020 by Boris Renski, Joey Padden. Boris Renski has been the CEO since 2020. FreedomFi was acquired by Helium Systems, Inc. on August 18, 2022.