Mark Kraynak

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Mente LLC, Teledesic LLC is a company that provides worldwide fiber access to telecommunications services. The company is based in Kirkland, WA. The company was founded by Gary E. Sutton.

Jama Software, Inc. provides web-based management tools. It offers management software solutions that feature test and change management, diagramming, reports and dashboard development, and workflow monitoring solutions. The firm serves to the aerospace, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial technology and medical device industries. The company was founded by Eric Winquist, Sean Tong and Derwyn Harris in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Bookingsuite (USA), Inc. develops cloud based digital marketing system for independent hotels. Its digital marketing system includes a content management system, multi-channel digital marketing, content publishing, online reservations, and integrated business intelligence. The company was founded by Forest Key, Brian Saab and Adam Brownstein in January 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Jobalign Com, Inc. develops mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs. It engages in the development and design of recruitment software platforms for web and mobile devices. The firm’s features include candidate pre-screening, social media publishing, search engine discoverability, text message job application. It creates print ads and flyers for job fairs and classified ads. The company was founded by Brian Hilgendorf, Luis Salazar, Miki Mullor, and William Davidheiser in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Highspot, Inc. provides sales engagement software. The firm helps organizations close the loop across marketing, sales, and the customer. Its sales enablement platform connects sales teams to relevant content for each situation, provides ways to present content to customers, and delivers real-time visibility into whether customers find the content engaging. The company was founded by Robert Wahbe, Oliver Sharp, David Wortendyke, and Scot Gellock in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Union Bay Networks, Inc. provides delivering solutions that enable the next generation of networking for cloud computing and software-defined datacenters. Union Bay Networks was acquired by Apple, Inc. on November 03, 2014.

Shippable, Inc. develops a cloud platform for developers to add continuous integration and deployment. It helps developers ship quality code faster by automating the software development workflow from the time it is developed to the time it is deployed. The company was founded by Avi Cavale and Manisha Sahasrabudhe in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Algorithmia, Inc. designs and develops software solutions. It provides a marketplace that enables algorithm developer to explore, create, and share algorithms as a web services. The firm’s marketplace allows users to upload their code and make it available as a rest API for the world to use. The company was founded by Diego M. Oppenheimer and Kenneth F. Daniel in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Technology Alliance supports and promotes technology-based businesses and research institutions. It organizes programs, events, data analysis, and policy activities for education, research, and entrepreneurship technology advancement. The company was founded by William H. Gates Sr. in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

The Alliance of Angels (Alliance of Angels) is a venture capital firm, subsidiary of the Seattle-based Technology Alliance, founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Founded by Craig McCaw, Eagle River Investments LLC is a venture capital firm located in Kirkland, Washington.

Z2Live, Inc. develops social gaming platform software and mobile games. The company develops games such as Battle Nations which is a combat strategy game and MetalStorm for iOS which is a jet fighting game. It also offers a full set of services to implement subscription-based multiplayer and social game experiences for a wide variety of games, including turn-based casual games, racing games, role-playing games, and eventually the first-person shooters. The company was founded by Damon Danieli and David B. Bluhm in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of Imperva, Inc., Incapsula, Inc. develops web security and protection solutions. The company is based in Redwood Shores, CA. The company was founded by Marc Gaffan.

SNUPI Technologies, Inc. provides sensor networks and home health monitoring services. It is a sensor and services company for the connected home. Its patented technology provides homeowners unsurpassed coverage and sensor longevity for environmental hazard protection. The firm offers Wally rapid response services. The company was founded by Jeremy A. Jaech, Shwetak Naren Patel, Gabe A. Cohn and Matthew S. Reynolds in May 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Amplify Management LLC (Amplify Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Sunil Dhaliwal. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Entelo, Inc. engages in the operation of a recruiting automation platform. It offers Entelo platform, diversity, envoy, partner integrations, and security. The company was founded by Jon Bischke and John Mcgrath in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aspect Management LLC(Aspect Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Integrity marketing group LLC founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Echodyne Corp. develops metamaterials-based radar technology. It provides scanning, tracking, and imaging technology that is applicable to environmental conditions. The firm offers EchoGuard, EchoFlight and Metamaterial Electronically Scanning Array (MESA) redars and subsystems. The company was founded by Tom Driscoll and Eben Whitfield Frankenberg in 2014 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Pixvana, Inc. builds video delivery software. It offers virtual reality and augmented reality video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. The firm’s products include SPIN Studio, XR PDK and pricing. The company was founded by Forest Key, Scott Squires, Bill Hensler and Sean Safreed in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Saykara, Inc. engages in the provision of artificial intelligence in healthcare that helps users take data-driven decisions. The company was founded by Harjinder Sandhu in November 20, 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Evident ID, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for managing and sharing personal data. The company was founded by David W. Thomas in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Minerva Labs Ltd. provides computer and network security services. It offers Ransomware prevention, tampering protection, APT and targeted attacks interruption, and take over prevention. The company was founded by Omri Moyal, Erez Breiman, and Eddy Bobritsky and is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel.

Global Partnerships (Private Equity)(Global Partnerships) is a private equity subsidiary of Global Partnerships firm founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Silverfort Ltd. is engaged in protecting enterprises from data breaches, cyber attacks and insider threats, by preventing credential compromise and misuse across the entire corporate network and cloud infrastructure. The company was founded by Hed Kovetz, Matan Fattal, and Yaron Kassner in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

At-Bay, Inc. operates as a cyber insurance firm for the digital age. It specializes in cyber liability, insurance and IT security. The company was founded by Rotem Iram, Etai Hochman and Roman Itskovich in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Acrew Capital Management Corp.(Acrew Capital) is a venture capital firm is founded in 2019 by Asad Khaliq and Vishal Lugani. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Madrona Venture Labs Inc (Madrona Venture Labs) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Madrona Venture Group LLC founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Sima Technologies, Inc. operates as a machine learning platform. The company was founded by Rangasayee Krishnamurthy and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Protect AI, Inc. provides organizations with the ability to manage their machine learning environments end-to-end. The company is based in Seattle, WA, with offices in San Francisco and Raleigh. The company's Radar platform creates a machine learning bill of materials (MLBOM), remediates security vulnerabilities, and detects threats to prevent data and secrets leakages. The company is defining and leading a new market segment within security called MLsecOps. Protect AI is privately held and funded by Acrew Capital, Avisio Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and experienced cybersecurity leaders Shlomo Kramer, Nir Polak, and Dimitri Sirota. Protect AI was founded by AI leaders from Amazon and Oracle, including Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Radiant Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Milpitas, CA. Radiant Security offers an AI-powered security co-pilot for Security Operations Centers (SOCs) that enables them to detect more real attacks, boost analyst productivity, and reduce incident response times from days or weeks to minutes. The company's solution can be deployed in minutes via API, providing rapid time to value and reducing analyst workloads by up to 95%. The company was founded by Barry Shteiman and Shahar Ben Hador, with Shahar Ben Hador serving as CEO since incorporation.

Nokod Security Ltd. is an application security platform that specializes in low-code and no-code applications as well as robotic process automation. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli company was founded in 2023 by Amichai Shulman and Yair Finzi. Yair Finzi has been the CEO since 2023.