Steve Krausz

Vontu, Inc. provides data loss prevention solutions that combine endpoint and network-based technology to accurately detect and automatically protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. It helps organizations ensure public confidence, demonstrate compliance, and maintain competitive advantage. The company was founded by Joseph Ansanelli, Kevin Rowney, and Michael J. Wolfe on December 31, 2001 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

MegaPath Networks, Inc. provides internet services. The company supplies high-speed access to the Internet and private networks as well as network security, remote access, email, eCommerce and web site solutions. It serves small, mid-sized and home-based businesses as well as enterprise telecommuter markets and distributed enterprises. MegaPath Networks was founded in 1999 and is located in Costa Mesa, CA.

Sierra Monolithics, Inc. manufactures microwave modules and integrated circuits. It offers RFICs and Modules for wireless, wire line, and military applications. The firm serves the aerospace and telecommunication industries. The company was founded by Charles E. Harper, David A. Rowe and Binneg Y. Lao in 1988 and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Electric Cloud, Inc. delivers solutions that automate and accelerate the software delivery process. Its products include ElectricAccelerator, ElectricCommander and ElectricDeploy. The company was founded by John K. Ousterhout and John Graham-Cumming on April 29, 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Kasenna, Inc. develops video delivery platform software solutions. It clients include CenturyTel, SureWest, PrimeTel, Hutchinson, Clear Lake, and NTS Communications. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Asempra Technologies, Inc. provides recovery solutions for windows applications and data. The company's Business Continuity Server supports microsoft exchange, SQL server, and windows file servers. It solves the business needs of continuous availability, business continuity, disaster recovery, data protection, and recovery management. The company was founded in 2003 by Dan Fraisl and Siew Sim-Tang and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA

MontaVista Software LLC provides embedded system software solutions and services. Its products include Carrier Guide Edition 7(CEG), Carrier Grade Express (CGX) and DevRocket. The firm offers ecosystem, board support, training and professional services for military and aerospace, telecom and networking, Internet of Things (IoT) and general embedded markets. The company was founded by James F. Ready in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Velogix, Inc. develops programmable fabrics and designs software solutions. The company also manufactures programmable integrated circuits, high-capacity FPGA devices, and software platforms. It was founded by Ashok Vittal and Hare Verma in October 2002 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

X1 Technologies, Inc. develops and markets products for enterprise search. Its products include X1 search, X1 search virtual edition, X1 rapid discovery and X1 social discovery. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Xirrus LLC designs and sells wireless networking equipment. The firm offers hardware platforms and software applications. . The company was founded by Patrick Parker, Dirk I. Gates and Steven F. Degennaro, in 2004nd is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Trusteer, Inc. provides secure browsing services. It enables online businesses to secure communications with their customers and employees over the Internet and protect data against malware and fraudulent websites. The company was founded by Shmulik Regev on April 26, 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

National Banana, Inc. provides entertainment services. It operates as a studio and online comedy network. The firm also provides consulting services in the areas of enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, information technology infrastructure, business intelligence, and testing solutions on a single strand of fiber optic cable. The company was founded by Jerry Zucker and Patrick Panzarella in November 2006 and is headquartered in Solvang, CA.

Epic Design Technology, Inc. develops simulation analysis software. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Photon Dynamics, Inc. manufactures test inspection and repair systems for the flat panel display industry. The company was founded on May 12, 1986 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Palladium Interactive, Inc. develops and publishes home productivity software. The company was founded by Edward L. Bernstein and is headquartered in San Rafael, CA.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., CenterView Software, Inc. provides software that enables database application development. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Agility Communications, Inc. manufactures laser components and other optoelectronic products. It focuses on offering tunable transponder and tunable laser solutions for carriers and system providers. It offers tunable transmitter and transponder products. The company was founded by Ronald Nelson, Gregory A. Fish and Larry A. Coldren in Oct 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Pathfire, Inc. provides digital content distribution and management solutions for the broadcast, media, and entertainment industries. Its services include robust distribution network, flexible hardware solutions, and software applications. The company was founded by Thomas L. Engdahl in 1996 and is headquartered in Roswell, GA.

ThreatMetrix, Inc. provides fraud detection solutions. It offers digital identity network and intelligence, dynamic decision platform, and smart authentication products. It serves banking and brokerage, ecommerce, gaming, government, healthcare, insurance, lending, media, payment processing, travel, and workforce authentication industries. The company was founded by Alisdair Faulkner, Scott Thomas, and David George Jones in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

USVP Management Co. LLC (US Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Bill Bowes. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Occam Networks Inc. develops and markets innovative Broadband Loop Carrier networking equipment that enable telephone companies to deliver voice, data and video services. Based on Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies, Occam's equipment allows telecommunications service providers to profitably deliver traditional phone services, as well as advanced voice-over-IP, residential and business broadband, and digital television services through a single, all-packet access network. The company was founded by Mark Rumer in October 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Notiva Corp. provider of web-based software for collaboratively managing cash transactions between retailers and manufacturers.

Smartling, Inc. provides enterprise translation management platform. It delivers localized websites and mobile applications through a cloud-based software platform that help clients to reach new customers. The company was founded by John L. Welde Jr. and Andrey Akselrod in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Appthority, Inc. develops enterprise mobile threat protection solutions. Its solutions include threat detection, threat management, threat intelligence, and general data protection regulation compliance. The company was founded by Anthony Bettini, Domingo Guerra, and Kevin Watkins in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Quixey, Inc. provides app discovery solutions. It allow customers to search within all apps and unlock the full power of the app ecosystem and the same way search engines help clients to the most relevant content within websites, going to help find the most relevant content within apps. The company was founded by Tomer Kagan and Liron Shapira in October 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Strevus, Inc. provides compliance lifecycle management solutions for financial services and digital currency firms. It provides lifecycle management solution helps financial institutions facilitate communication, validation and reporting of regulatory compliance information between clients, counterparties and regulators. Strevus was founded by Ken Hoang, Greg Danforth and John Betts in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Exablox Corp. provides data storage solutions. It offers OneBlox is a reimagined scale-out storage solution. The company cloud managed, scale-out, object-based storage appliance solves businesses common storage pain points such as complicated installation, cumbersome storage management, limited capacity and forklift upgrades. It offers disk based backup target, home directories and file server consolidation, data management for litigation support and digital asset management solutions. Exablox was founded by Matthew Catino, Frank Barrus and Tad Hunt in 2010 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Blekko, Inc. was provided online information services. It was offered a consumer facing search engine that delivers relevant and spam free search results. The company was founded by Bryn Dole, Michael Markson, Gregory B. Lindahl, Richard J. Skrenta, Bob Truel and Tom Annau in 2007 and was headquartered in Redwood, CA.

KAIAM Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures optical communications products. The firm offers 40G-LR4 CWDM4, 100G CWDM4+, 80Ch 50GHz Athermal AWG, and 40Ch 100 GHz Athermal AWG. The company was founded by Bardia Pezeshki in 2009 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

BTI Computers, Inc. sells sensors, cameras, and networked systems through an online platform. The private company is based in Doral, FL.

Direct, Inc. provides documentation, research and incorporation services. The firm offers incorporation, business name search, DBA filing, foreign entity, member change amendment, business compliance program, copyright, websites and domain registration, trademark protection monitor and logo design services. The company was founded by Shannon Stahlin in 2003 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

NASA Ames Research Center develops scientific research and applications for space technology. The company performs research on supercomputing, networking, intelligent systems, nanotechnology, fundamental space biology, biotechnology, aerospace, thermal protection systems, and human factors. NASA Ames Research Center was founded on December 20, 1939 and is located in Moffet Field, CA.

Object Reservoir, Inc. develops and provides reservoir analysis and well modeling and forecasting tools for the oil and gas industry. It offers saige for unconventional and shale gas reservoir modeling, orpheus for conventional reservoir modeling, analytic forecasting, modeling tool for shale wells and reservoir modeling engine. The company was founded by John O. Mouton in 1995 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Quantifind, Inc. provides business intelligence solutions. Its business intelligence platform automatically identifies relevant signals in structured and unstructured content, contextualizes them based on what matters to the customer and derives meaning using data centric analytics. The firm operates as a technology company whose analytics platform forecasts consumer actions in the real world. It also provides brands a view into the messaging, TV media placements and product strategy that tie directly to movement in the brand?s revenue. The company was founded by Ari Keith Tuchman and John Stockton in 2009 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Cato Networks Ltd. provides network security for the distributed, mobile and Cloud-enabled enterprises. Its products include Cato Cloud, Cloud Network, Security Services and Editions. The firm offers secure, global SD-WAN as a service, next generation firewall, secure web gateway, and firewall as a service and advanced threat protection solutions. The company was founded by Gur Shatz and Shlomo Kramer in 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Kryptowire Inc. is a market leader in cloud-based mobile security and privacy solutions. The company is based in Mclean, VA. Kryptowire was founded in 2011 by Angelos Stavrou. The company enables organizations to scan mobile devices and applications for security, compliance, and other vulnerabilities without accessing source code, saving time and preserving privacy. Kryptowire builds solutions for developers and enterprises to take full advantage of mobile technologies without putting their businesses and employees personal privacy at risk. The CEO is Dana Waldman.

AirEye Ltd. provides the aireye network airspace protection (NAP) solution that offers complete protection against any airborne attacks on the organizational network. AirEye is based in Tel Aviv, IL. The platform monitors all wireless communications in real-time, detects violations of corporate security policies, and blocks attacks automatically. The solution is a SaaS platform that seamlessly complements existing corporate network security infrastructure, without the need for architectural changes or messy integrations. The platform is deployed in various industries, including finance, banking, telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and aerospace. The Israeli company was founded by Roi Keren, Amichai Shulman, Shlomo Touboul, Ohad Plotnik. Shlomo Touboul has been the CEO since incorporation.

Informed, Inc. develops and operates a platform that connects the buyers and sellers of pre owned cars. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Human Interest, Inc. helps small businesses to setup retirement savings plans for employees. The company was founded by Roger Lee and Paul Sawaya in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ZEFR, Inc. provides targeted video ad placement services. Its platform offers content and contextual advertising to the audience through YouTube. The company was founded by Zacharias James and Richard H. Raddon in December 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Micro Linear Corp. provided integrated circuit solutions. The company was founded in 1983 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of PTC, Inc., Rasna Corp. is a prepackaged software company. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Dave W. Pidwell. Rasna was acquired by PTC, Inc. on August 02, 1995 for $231.30 million.

Part of Boxer Parent Co., Inc., Optimal Networks Corp is a company that provides software solutions that profile, predict, measure, and diagnose e-business application performance. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. Optimal Networks was acquired by Compuware Corp. on July 25, 2000.

Savings.com, Inc. provides online information on coupons and deals. The firm offers shopping site featuring discounts, coupons, and deals on consumer products. It also provides shopping site features for clothes and baby gear to screen TVs and gourmet food category services. The company was founded in March 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Gluon Networks, Inc. manufacturer of the CLX, a next generation Class 5 switch. The CLX is designed for the tier ¾ Independent Telco market. It provides the bridge from legacy switching to advanced next generation services

Prevoty, Inc. operates as a cloud-based security company. It provides web application security. The firm products offers performance optimization, multi-source content protection, flexibility, in-application security development, scalability and compliance. The company was founded in 2013 by Julien Bellanger and Kunal Anand and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.