William Coughran

Metaswitch Networks Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the development of systems management and networking software solutions. The firm specializes in the design of networking, session border control, infrastructure, management tools, and application development systems. Its solution areas encompass Internet protocol multimedia subsystems, telephony, original equipment manufacturing, and hosted business services. The company was founded by Ian S. Ferguson and Christopher John Mairs in 1981 and is headquartered in Enfield, the United Kingdom.

San Francisco Opera Association owns and operates opera theater. It offers an array of training programs and performance opportunities for young artists under the support of the San Francisco Opera Center and the Merola Opera Program. The company was founded by Gaetano Merola in 1923 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Docker, Inc. engages in the operation and development of a container management platform. It provides developers, architects, development operations, and information technology clients solutions for building, sharing and running modern applications. It offers Docker Enterprise and Docker Hub. The firm serves the government, higher education, financial services, insurance, and healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Solomon Hykes, Benjamin Golub, and Pahl Sebastien in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Orbital Insight, Inc. provides geospatial big data services. Its products and solutions include US retail traffic, world oil storage index, global water reserves, china economic index, poverty mapping and agriculture. The firm serves consumer, energy, financial services, insurance, agriculture, and public sector industries. The company was founded by James Crawford in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Blue Danube Systems, Inc. designs mobile wireless access solutions. It offers BeamCraft, it generates agile beams for unparalleled accuracy in spectrum power placement; and High Definition Active Antenna Systems, a novel radio platform designed for three-dimensional beamforming. The company was founded by Mihai Banu and Mark R. Pinto in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Luminate Wireless, Inc. develops mobile cloud controller software solutions. The firm builds a transformative web-scale distributed computing platform that will enable mobile operators to rapidly densify networks and deploy new services. The company was founded by Murari Srinivasan and Kevin Yu in September 2013 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Metanautix, Inc. provides analytical services on data supply chain. It empowers your organization to make rapid decisions using all your data assets to enhance your business, build new products, and improve compliance. The firm is to integrate the data supply chain and enable organizations to transform information assets into better decisions and new products. The company was founded by Theo Vassilakis and Lerios Apostolos in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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.

Viptela, Inc. provides software-defined wide area network service. It offers secure extensible network solutions. The company was founded by Amir Khan and Khalid Raza in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Barefoot Networks, Inc. designs and develops Ethernet switch chips. It specializes in cloud network architectures, P4-programmable high-speed data paths, switch silicon development, P4 compilers, driver software, network telemetry and computational networking. The company was founded by Martin Izzard, Patrick Bosshart, Daniel E. Lenoski and Nick McKeown in May 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Graphiant, Inc. provides cloud connectivity solutions through their edge network, which simplifies provisioning enterprise connectivity solutions with rock-solid security at a fraction of the cost of SD-WAN. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company's agile, elastic network can be a perfect alternative and SD-WAN replacement, with the performance of and low costs of SD-WAN. The company was founded by Khalid Raza, Stefan Olofsson, and Khalid Raza has been the CEO since incorporation.

LightStep, Inc. designs and develops LightStep [x]PM, a software that provides an accurate and detailed snapshot of the entire software system, enabling organizations to identify bottlenecks and resolve incidents. The company was founded by Benjamin Cronin, Daniel Spoonhower and Ben Sigelman in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Alkira, Inc. provides information technology services. Its services include global on demand, multi-cloud network, on demand network services marketplace, cloud visibility and governance and as-a-service consumption. The company was founded by Amir Khan and Atif Khan in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Neeva, Inc. creates to give a choice in how to search and experience the internet. The company was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Lilt, Inc. provides online platform for translation. It also offers linguistic translation services. The company was founded by John DeNero and Spence Green in March 2015 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Quantum Circuits, Inc. develops, manufactures and wholesales quantum computers, components and devices. Its products include JPC-mini and amplifier & multi-layer shield. The company was founded by Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, Brian W. Pusch and Robert J. Schoelkopf in 2015 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Robust Intelligence, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software for critical decision making. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Wavefront, Inc. operates a cloud-based analytics platform for managing data centers. Its platform enables users to ask new questions; get real-time answers; send data points every day; localize an issue by identifying and addressing the culprit during a crisis; prevent downtime; and get alerts on various situations. The company was founded by Samuel Pullara, Dev Nag, Clement Pang and Durren Shen in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Fireye, Inc. manufactures reliable flame safeguard controls for the industrial market. The company developed a variety of sensor technologies that ultimately found their way into innovative flame safeguard devices. Fireye has introduced the next generation of industrial multiburner flame scanners. The company is a subsidiary of Kidde PLC and is located in Derry, NH.