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Dtex Systems, Inc. provides user analytics based security, visibility and cost saving solutions. It offers endpoint profiling and analytics for enterprises. The firm is configurable for both local and multinational organizations and this mature, hardened technology enables to deliver the visibility, transparency and security needed by global businesses to prevent internal threats without compromising user privacy. The company was founded by Mohan Koo in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Redback Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and builds routers. It offers services like VoIP, IPTV, on-demand video, and online gaming. The firm's products enable carriers & service providers to deploy broadband Internet access. The company was founded is headquartered in Dover, DE.

SlashNext, Inc. provides cyber security services against socially engineered attacks, malware, exploits and data theft. The firm specializes in detecting cyber attacks, malware detection, and cyber security. The company was founded by Atif Mushtaq in 2014 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Shape Security, Inc. engages in the provision of website security solutions. The firm offers Shape Defense, Shape Enterprise Defense, BlackFish, API defense, and manual-attack defense. The company was founded by Derek Smith, Justin Call, and Sumit Agarwal in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

NeoTribe Ventures (NeoTribe Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Swaroop Kittu Kolluri, Aditya Singh and Steven Bragonier. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

BillionToOne, Inc. develops DNA molecular counting technology. It can detect disorders such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. The company was founded by Oguzhan Atay, Sukrit Silas, and David Tsao and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Aerospike, Inc. offers real-time NoSQL database solutions. It offers advertising technology, ecommerce and retail, financial services, telecommunications, online gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded by Brian Bulkowski and Srini V. Srinivasan in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

ThirdAI Corp. is a company that aims to make advanced AI technologies accessible to everyone. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in building customized, private AI that is trained on commodity hardware with ultra-low latency inference for every organization. The company's technology is the result of 10 years of research and development in finding fundamental ways to make deep learning more efficient. ThirdAI's AI solutions do not require GPUs, TPUs, or custom ASIC. The company's technology has applications in search, recommendations, chatbots, virtual assistants, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and more. The company was founded by Tharun Medini, Paul Holzhauer, Anshumali Shrivastava. Anshumali Shrivastava has been the CEO since incorporation.

Correlia Biosystems, Inc. engages in the development of pharmaceutical platforms. It offers streamlined assay platforms to reduce the time and cost for quantifying proteins for proteomic and pharmaceutical applications. The company was founded by Akwasi Apori, Samuel Tia, and Kursad Araz in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Metrika, Inc. is a blockchain monitoring and analytics platform based in Cambridge, MA. The Metrika platform provides communities with end-to-end visibility and actionable insights into the health of blockchain networks. The platform isolates problems, takes action, and resolves issues faster with the industry's only monitoring and analytics platform built for decentralized networks. Users can explore community dashboards serving the blockchain ecosystem, including Ethereum network monitoring and analytics. Joining Metrika on Discord is also an option for those interested in making blockchain reliable. The company was founded in 2013 and Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Vendia, Inc. operates as a serverless platform for sharing distributed data in real time. The company was founded by Shruthi Rao and Timothy Allen Wagner and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aira Technologies, Inc. has developed a software system that uses machine learning to enhance wireless connections. The company is based in Saratoga, CA. The company's technology can improve wireless networks by increasing range, battery life, and reliability. Aira Technologies' software solutions are currently being evaluated by top wireless platform providers. The company was founded in 2019 by Pramod Viswanath, Sreeram Kannan, RaviKiran Gopalan, and Anand Chandrasekher, who has been the CEO since 2019.

The Four Rivers Group LLC (Four Rivers Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Farouk Ladha. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Empirico, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It uses biological datasets, human genetics and programmable biology to power novel target discovery and development. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ClimateAI, Inc. engages in the provision of accelerating climate resilience in food, water, and energy. The company was founded by Himanshu Gupta and Max Evans and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Atrenta, Inc. provides system on chip realization solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company was founded by Ajoy Bose in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

RelayHealth Corp. provides online healthcare communication services. Its network is designed to streamline clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and financial institutions. The firm works to accelerate the delivery of care and improve financial performance through solutions such as online consultation of physicians by patients, electronic prescribing, point-of-service pharmacy claims resolution by payers, pre-visit patient financial clearance by providers, and post-visit provider bill settlement by payers and patients. The company was founded by Assaf Morag, Niall Murphy, Ofir Baharav, Giovanni M. Colella, and Gary Gannot and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Fortanix, Inc. provides software and hardware information security services. Its product, self-defensing key management services (SDKMS), allows the user to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as secrets such as passwords, tokens, application programming interface (API) keys, and any blob data. The company was founded by Ambuj Kumar and Anand Kashyap in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Console Connect, Inc. provides interconnection solutions. It offers global private network, software automation, and community and ecosystem services. Its products include PeeringCloud, IX Reach, and cloud interconnection. The company was founded by Al Burgio in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

OpsClarity, Inc. provides information technology services. It specializes in operational data services and cloud environments. The firm transforming modern software operations with data-science-driven monitoring solutions that help today’s teams continuously visualize, understand, and troubleshoot performance of their rapidly changing web-scale application environments. The company was founded by Amit Sasturkar, Alan Ngai and Dhruv Jain on August 7, 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Metromile Operating Co. engages in the development of software-based per-mile car insurance products and services. It offers mileage-based pricing by calculating user's insurance costs each month based upon the actual miles they drive. The company was founded by Stephen T. Pretre and David Friedberg in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

TechForward, Inc. provides consumer electronics buyback solutions. It provides guaranteed buyback plans for consumer electronics. The company was founded by Jade Van Doren and Marc Lebovitz in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

NetCitadel, Inc. develops software-defined security for cloud computing services. It offers patented security technologies to build automation tools for the datacenters. The company was founded by Michael Horn, Theron Tock, Vadim Kurland and Surya Koneru in August 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Huddler, Inc. provides digital media platform. It enables communities to grow with tools including social groups, buy/sell/trade systems, integrated photo galleries, product reviews, social media, WordPress integration, hosted software solution, custom sponsorship pages, tagging and community edited articles. The firm offers solutions for advertisers to create sites for brands. The company was founded by Daniel Gill and Ted Gill in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

One Block Off the Grid, Inc. promoted renewable energy and sustainable solutions through group purchasing programs. The firm educated its members by providing information, ongoing communication, and news updates on systems, and state and federal incentives, provides online forum and support for local ground organization, negotiates discount pricing with installers and manufacturers. The company was founded in 2008 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cohere Technologies, Inc. develops a wireless technology for wireless bandwidth applications. It offers orthogonal time frequency and space, a new wireless multi-dimensional modulation scheme that overcomes issues with current TDMA and OFDM modulation schemes used in wireless to increase bandwidth and throughput. The company was founded by Salim Shlomo Rakib and Ronny Hadani in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Niara, Inc. provides user and entity behavior analytics platform. Its behavioral analytics platform automates the detection of attacks and risky behaviors inside an organization and dramatically reduces the time and skill needed to investigate and respond to security events. The company was founded by Sriram Ramachandran and Prasad Palkar in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

GumGum, Inc. engages in the design, development, and operation of an in-image advertising platform. The firm provides in-image and in-screen products. Its product is grown to include several displays, mobile, and video solutions to help brands tell their stories and publishers unlock new sources of revenue. It offers GumGum Visual Intelligence, a real-time visual listening platform that helps brands identify and activate online pictures relevant to them, as well as engage their top influencers on social media. The company was founded by Ari Mir and Ophir Tanz in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.