Sam Fort

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

Viridos, Inc. develops and commercializes genomic-driven solutions and products. The firm's offerings are designed for application in solutions such as human health, food, water production, and environment. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter, Hamilton O. Smith, David C. Kiernan and Juan Enriquez-Cabot in February 2005 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Driptech, Inc. manufactures irrigation systems. Its produces affordable irrigation systems designed for small-plot farmers. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bolinas, CA.

Flywheel Building Intelligence, Inc. provides cloud-based energy management platform for building owners and operators. Its products, SCIenergy cloud, SCItrack, and SCItendant, are designed to control annual energy. The firm solutions, iRCX and MESA, perform the following functions: predicting, detecting, diagnosing and prioritizing system faults. The company was founded by John Pitcher in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Kopo Kopo, Inc. provides web-based software which enable users to o accept, process and manage payments. The company was founded by Thomas Bostelmann, Dylan Higgins, and Benjamin Lyon in August 2010 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Outreach Corp. designs and develops a sales engagement platform. It specializes in sales acceleration, sales efficiency, and sales management analytics. The company was founded by Gordon Leland Hempton, Andrew Kinzer, Manuel Medina and Wesley R. Hather in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

MapBox, Inc. develops data platform for mobile and web applications. It offers maps, search, navigation, studio, store locator, asset tracking, on-demand logistics, and data visualization. The company was founded by Eric Gundersen in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Intellinex LLC provides e-Learning solutions for workers, companies, government and educational institutions. It offers learning solutions to achieve targeted business results such as sales force optimization, accelerating strategy implementation, reducing training costs and improving employee development. The firm serves Cisco Systems, Canon USA, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmacia and Turner Construction Company. The company was founded on October 10, 2000 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Part of Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc., Malleable Technologies, Inc. designs high performance semiconductor systems. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Malleable Technologies was acquired by Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc. on June 27, 2000 for $235.07 million.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Fonality, Inc. provides cloud-based business phone and unified communications solutions for small to medium sized businesses. It offers employee presence, drag and drop calls, voicemail to email or text, mobility, chat, click-to-email, screen share, and HD video collaboration solutions for internal communication; and contact center solutions for automatic call distribution, skills-based routing, real-time metrics, unlimited queues, and on-demand call recording, as well as barge, monitor, and whisper. The firm also provides HD video collaboration and screen sharing solutions for video conferencing and online meetings; VoIP, voicemail to email transcription, and paperless fax services; business phone system equipment, including IP phones and servers; and support services. The company was founded by Samy Kamkar, Adrian Otto, Marc Smookler, and Chris Lyman in 2004 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Lok Capital Pvt Ltd. (Lok Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Lok Advisory Services Pvt Ltd. founded in 2001 by Donald Peck, Venky Natarajan and Vishal Mehta. The firm is headquartered in Chennai, India.

BrightSource Energy, Inc. designs, develops and deploys concentrating solar thermal technology to produce steam for electric power, petroleum and industrial-process markets worldwide. It combines breakthrough technology with solar power plant design capabilities to generate clean energy reliably and responsibly. The company was founded in 2006 by Arnold J. Goldman and Israel Kroizer and is headquartered in Jerusalem, IL.

YapStone Holdings, Inc. provides electronic payment solutions. It processes transactions for the property management and non-profit sectors, including rents, dues, storage fees, and donations. It specializes in online and mobile payments solutions for apartment and vacation rental and marketplace payments. The company was founded by Scott Michael Honour, Thomas J. Villante, Kirk Honour and Matthew Golis in 1999 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

Dorfour Ltd. develops and markets chipsets for cellular devices. The company was founded by Danny Kedar and Amit Lubovsky in September 2007 and is headquartered in Sde Boker, Israel.

Sisense, Inc. provides business intelligence and analytics software services. Its solutions include analytics for business users and embedded and OEM. The firm offers customer service, digital marketing, finance, government, healthcare, human resources, insurance, pharma and transportation services. The company was founded by Adi Azaria, Guy Boyangu, Eldad Farkash, Farkash Eli, Aviad Harell and Elad Israeli in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Faceified, Inc. offers a suite of free tools to enable real estate agents and other service providers who advertise on online. It offers services such as craigslist and backpage etc., to promote their brand, enhance their reputation and ultimately capture more leads. The company was founded by David Cummins in October 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Signifyd, Inc. operates as an eCommerce fraud prevention company. The firm helps online businesses to control fraud and abuse. It offers an investigation tool and API to control fraud and abuse at industrial scale that arise from access, automation and anonymity. The firm also offers training on best practices for reviewing suspicious user behavior, fundamental verification principles and reviewing card-not-present payments and making live accept and decline on eCommerce transactions. It serves eCommerce, collaborative consumption and online gaming businesses. The company was founded by Rajesh Ramanand and Michael Liberty in June 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

NeoGrowth Credit Pvt Ltd. provides financial services. Its products include NeoCash which offers loan services. The company was founded by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Kumar Khaitan on May 17, 1993 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Helix OpCo LLC is a genomics company. It offers consumer genetics, next generation sequencing (ngs), bioinformatics, consumer insights, big data, dna, population health, and genomics. The company was founded by Justin Kao, Scott Burke, Jay T Flatley and James Lu in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Sisense Ltd. provides business intelligence and analytics software services. It offers services to the enterprise, government, healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, and software. The company was founded by Aviad Harell and Guy Boyangu and is headquartered Ramat Gan, Israel.

Cohesity, Inc. provides data solution and services. It offers dataplatform, dataprotect and hyperconverged nodes. The firm?s services include data protection, cloud integration, file services, object storage, HP enterprise, pure storage integration, test/Dev, and analytics. The company was founded by Mohit Aron in June 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Smile Identity, Inc. is an investment company, which engages in the provision of encryption, authentication, and security solutions. Its SmartSelfie, is an image processing technology that provides universal facial recognition solution. The company was founded by William Henry Bares and Mark David Straub on December 28, 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Sysdig, Inc. develops network and application software solutions. It offers application, infrastructure, and container technologies. The company was founded by Loris Degioanni and Massimo Sgrelli in 2013 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.