Lynda Kate Smith

Nuance Communications develops voice interface software that corporations use to make their information and services accessible by phone. Nuance's software incorporates speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and voice authentication technologies that can add voice-based interfaces for stock quotes and trading, flight verification, and other applications. It also provides services such as development, maintenance, and training

Jive Software, Inc. provides communication and collaboration solutions for business. The firm offers intranet, employee engagement, enterprise social network, and industry solutions. It enables productive and effective workforce through enhanced communications and collaboration both inside and outside the enterprise. The company was founded by David J. Hersh, William Matthew Lynch, and Matthew A. Tucker on February 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Genesys Cloud Services, Inc. provides customer service and contact center solutions. It also offers business consulting, professional services, Genesys support and care, Genesys Guru managed services and Genesys customer advocacy program. The firm?s solutions include contact center modernization, self service, enterprise workload management, proactive customer communications, cloud, continuous workforce optimization and different solutions by industry. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Daly City, CA.

Jibo, Inc. develops robots that can interact with humans. The firm’s product Jibo acts like a smart assistant, reminding users of tasks and interacting with the household. It enables 3rd party developers to bring the engagement and emotional lift of social robots to their apps and services. It can be connected to multiple devices in its network including mobile devices, personal computers and even other Jibos. The company was founded by Cynthia Breazeal and Jerilyn P. Asher in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Clickatell, Inc. provides mobile messaging services. It offers developers? central, an interface to global short message services (SMS) gateway that allows users to manage various SMS API connections, monitor campaigns, do reporting, make online payments, receive invoices, add sub-users, and more;; provides additional APIs and code scripts for use with various interfaces and support integration with product documents; allows APIs to integrate various systems or applications with global SMS messaging gateway; and adds SMS short codes. The company was founded by Pieter de Villiers, Patrick Lawson, Casper de Villiers and Danie du Toit in June 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Fictiv, Inc. specializes in providing engineering services with rapid prototyping to the manufacuring and hardware industry. It offers 3D printing, urethane casting and injection molding services. The company was founded by Nathan Evans and Dave Evans in March 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Coderpad, Inc. develops software tools to write programs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.