Ajay K. Arora

Carrier Access Corp. engages in the development of broadband equipment solutions for communications service providers. Its products enable customers to consolidate and upgrade access capacity for the implementation of converged voice, video, and data services at lower costs. The company was founded By Roger L. Koenig and Nancy G. Pierce in 1992 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Akros Silicon, Inc. provides power management integrated circuits. The company was founded by J. Francois Crepin, Sajol C. Ghoshal and John R. Camagna in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, 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.

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.

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.

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.

DevX.com, Inc. provides technical information, tools and services for information technology professionals. It offers resources designed to help professionals conquer development challenges, apply new technologies and techniques to their work. The company provides network services using windows and web development, .NET, Java, XML, C & C++, Visual Basic, database, wireless and open source. DevX.com was founded by James Fawcette in 1995 and is located in San Francisco, CA.

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.

VxTel, Inc. engages in the development of voice over packet (VoP) products that delivers voice and data communications over next-generation networks. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy and Anurag Bist in 1999 and is headquartered in DE.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Linux Foundation operates as a non-profit organization which provides support for open source communities. It offers financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, events, and training. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Clustrix, Inc. develops a scale-out SQL database. It is used in advertising technology, e-Commerce, gaming, and large web and mobile businesses. The company was founded by Sergei Tsarev, Paul A. Mikesell and Eric Hoffman in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Evolv, Inc. operates as a predictive analytics software company. The firm specializes in big data predictive analytics and machine learning to optimize the performance of global hourly workforces. Its SaaS-based analytics platform delivers actionable decision support throughout the employee lifecycle. The company was founded in 2006 by Jim Meyerle and Max Simkoff and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Freedom Financial Network LLC provides comprehensive consumer credit and financial advocacy services. It provides comprehensive financial solutions, including debt resolution, debt consolidation, and tax resolution services for financially challenged consumers. The company was founded by Andrew D. Housser and Bradford G. Stroh in 2002 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

DataStax, Inc. designs and develops database management software. Its products include DataStax enterprise, built on Cassandra which provides the massive scalability, continuous availability and enhanced data security big data applications demand, DataStax opscenter is a simplified management for DataStax enterprise and Apache Cassandra database clusters and DataStax sandbox is a packaged and personal virtual machine image that contains everything customer need to get started with DataStax software. The firm also offers training, consulting and support services. The company was founded by Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Cloudbees, Inc. engages in the provision of a continuous delivery platform for the development and deployment of web and mobile applications. It offers an open source automation server that includes code quality analysis, distributed builds, maven integration, notifications, security, source code control and test results analysis. The firm also offers CloudBees core, codeship, DevOptics, starter kit, jenkins distribution, jenkins support, jenkins x support, and services, training and support. The company was founded by Sacha Labourey, Michael Neale, Ryan Campbell, Vivek Pandey and Francois Dechery in April 2010 and is headquartered in Lewes, DE.

Click Security, Inc. provides network security analytics services. It provides services to enterprises, higher education, critical infrastructure and government agencies. The firm’s solutions include unknown threat detection, embedded malware identification, threat prioritization, early warning indicators, attack visibility-application and network perspectives, and broad context data leakage monitoring. The company was founded by Marc Willebeek-LeMair and Brian C. Smith in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

GoEuro Corp. engages in the development of booking platform for travel by train, bus, or flight. The company was founded by Naren Shaam in 2013 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Zerto, Inc. provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software. It offers automated failover testing, offsite backup and data protection, data center migrations, and cross-hypervisor replication. The company was founded by Ziv Kedem and Oded Kedem in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. engages in the development of a security operations platform. Its Arctic Wolf platform provide security operations as a concierge service. It offers managed detection and response (MDR); managed risk; and managed cloud monitoring solutions. The company was founded by Brian M. NeSmith and Kim Tremblay in April 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Swift Navigation, Inc. develops centimeter-accurate GPS technology. It services include hardware and software support, custom hardware development based on modular design, custom software and on-site testing and integration. The company was founded by Fergus Noble, Colin Beighley and Timothy J. R. Harris in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kespry, Inc. designs and builds drone systems for commercial applications. The firms drone system allows a business to capture, view and analyze aerial imagery and survey data. It serves construction, surveying and mining industries. The company was founded in 2013 by Benjamin Stabler and Paul Doersch and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Datos IO, Inc. develops time management software for enterprise. Its products include scale-out software, scalable versioning, reliable recovery and semantic deduplication. The firm offers backup and recovery, cloud data protection and big data solutions. The company was founded by Tarun Thakur and Prasenjit Sarka in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Clear Venture Management LLC (Clear Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Rajeev Madhavan and Christopher J.Rust. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

SnapRoute, Inc. operates as a networking company and develops open source network for enterprises. The company was founded by Jason Forrester, Adam Casella, and Glenn Sullivan and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Espresa, Inc. engages in the provision of web portal and mobile application. Its platform enables employers to select which services they want to offer from a pre-selected service catalog. The firms products include employee resource groups; wellbeing and fitness; challenges and achievements; and rewards and recognition. The company was founded by Alexander Shubat and Raghavan Menon in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Citadel Defense Co. develops drone management solutions. It offers an automated UAV and UGV surveillance system that monitors airspace, detects threats, and tracks and intercepts unauthorized drones that enter restricted airspace. The company was founded by Daniel Magy and Joseph Makol in 2016 and is headquartered in National City, CA.

Integrity Venture Partners LLC (Integrity Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company that designs ultra-low power wireless solutions. Its products include M2 Series and M3 Series. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

London Technology Club Ltd (London Technology Club) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Konstantin Sidorov. The firm is headquartered in London.

Arrcus, Inc. provides software-powered network transformation services. It offers ArcOS, a fully programmable, modular, extensible software that enables organizations to cost-effectively build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments while delivering security and deployment flexibility. The company was founded by Devesh Garg Nandan, Keyur Patel and Derek Yeung in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Styra, Inc. operates as a cloud management company. It focuses on authorization for cloud native stacks. The company was founded by Tim Hinrichs and Teemu Koponen in 2016 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Comcores ApS delivers packaged IPs and stand-alone IP cores for ASIC & FPGA with a focus on wireless, Ethernet & chip to chip solutions. The private company is based in Lyngby, Denmark. and has subsidiaries in Denmark. The Danish company was founded in 2014 by Thomas Gerner Nørgaard. Thomas Gerner Nørgaard has been the CEO since 2014.

Concentric, Inc. provides computer software services. The company was founded by Karthik Krishnan and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

AvicenaTech Corp. engages in the provision of optical chip connectivity solutions. It offers Multi-Chip Photonic Interconnect technology, which develops commercial ecosystems for silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other optical and packaging technologies. The company was founded by Robert Kalman and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Relyance, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by Leila R. Golchehreh and Abhi Sharma. The American company provides machine learning-powered privacy, data governance, and compliance solutions to help developers identify pre-existing privacy issues down to the source code level and spot legal privacy issues before code is pushed live. Relyance AI's platform manages privacy and data governance in real-time within the context of a larger devops workflow. The company has successfully completed the system and organization controls (SOC 2) type II audit for its platform. Relyance AI has raised $25 million in a series A funding round and has been named one of 10 finalists for the RSA Conference™ 2023 Innovation Sandbox contest for its innovative, code scanning, and machine learning technology. The company will showcase its groundbreaking platform at RSA 2022.