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Sisu Data, Inc. develops and builds software applications. It offers Sisu which is a diagnostic platform for structured data. The firm?s software platform automates the manual, rote work of data exploration and finds interesting, useful, and hard-to-find facts in the complex data sets. The company was founded by Peter Bailis and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Skype Technologies SA provides communications services via the Internet. The company’s Skype software serves individuals and businesses to make free video & voice calls, send instant messages, and share files with others. It also enables them to make calls to landlines and mobiles internationally. The company also provides headsets, webcams, and phones through its online shop. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Matroid, Inc. acts as computer vision company. Its product provides a studio allowing users to monitor streams of video data in the cloud and on edge devices. The company was founded by Reza Zadeh and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Skype SARL provides communication services via the Internet. Its software-based communications platform offers tools for consumers and businesses to communicate and collaborate globally through voice, video and text conversations. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Nefeli Networks, Inc. designs and develops software applications for managing and operating large scale networks. The company was founded by Kevin Fall, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Scott Shenker in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Tanium, Inc. provides security and systems management solutions. It offers threat detection, incident response, vulnerability assessment, configuration compliance, patch management, asset inventory, software distribution, asset utilization, and asset inventory. The firm also offers information technology operations management, asset visibility, detection and response, security hygiene, financial services, healthcare retail, and government. The company was founded in David Hindawi and Orion Hindawi in 2007 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Conviva, Inc. engages in the provision of online video optimization and online video analytics. The firm helps operators and broadcasters to meet audience expectations for video experience, across a multi-screen viewing environment. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is an operator-led consortium that spearheads disruptive network transformation. The non-profit company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company leverages SDN principles and disaggregation, using open source platforms and defined standards to build operator networks. ONF has been at the forefront of creating and evolving the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, which provides network operators with the freedom to build networks that are dynamic, cost-effective, flexible, secure, and able to adapt to the changing landscape. The company was founded in 2011.

Part of Xerox Holdings Corp., Palo Alto Research Center LLC is a research company that focuses on breakthrough innovation and future technology. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company's research includes AI, novel printing, HMI, digital workplace, IoT, and more.

Berkeley Frontier Fund (Berkeley Frontier Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 202. The firm is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Nicira, Inc. engages in the development of software platform for data transition. The company was founded by Martin Casado, Nick Mckeown and Scott Shenker in 2007 and and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Opaque Systems, Inc. is an American privacy technology company that specializes in confidential computing for analytics and AI. Opaque Systems' technology is used by organizations such as Ant Group, IBM, Scotiabank, and Ericsson. The company has recently launched Opaque Prompts as a service and has released the code under an open-source license on GitHub. Opaque Systems enables secure analytics and machine learning on encrypted data, allowing users to analyze encrypted data in the cloud using popular tools while ensuring that the data is never exposed unencrypted to the cloud provider or anyone else. The company was founded by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica, and the CEO is Rishabh Poddar.

Anyscale, Inc. engages in the engages in the development of distributed programming platform. It enables developers of all skill levels to easily build applications that run at any scale, from a laptop to a data center. The company was founded by Robert Nishihara, Philipp Moritz, Ion Stoica and Michael I. Jordan and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Part of Tintri (Ireland) Ltd., Tintri (UK) Ltd. is a British company that engages in the sale of storage equipment for virtual machines. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2011.

Evident ID, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for managing and sharing personal data. The company was founded by David W. Thomas in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

StreamSets, Inc. provides data ingest technology for the next generation of big data applications. It enables companies to build, execute, operate and protect continuous dataflows that unleash pervasive analytics. The company was founded by Girish Panchaa and Arvind Prabhakar in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Instabase, Inc. engages in the provision of platform for business applications. Its platform allows optical character recognition, data classification and extraction, and natural language processing. The company was founded by Anant Bhardwaj in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GuideSpark, Inc. operates as a digital employee communications company. The firm offers mobile, video and interactive solutions, communications solutions, business analytics and communication campaigns. The company was founded by Wolff S. John, Larocque A. Joseph and Keith Kitani in 2008 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

NGINX Software, Inc. provides products, solutions and services for open source software. It offers NGINX Plus, pricing, technical specifications, compare versions, NGINX amplify, plus on Amazon, web services, NGINX plus on Google, cloud platform, Microsoft Azure products. The firm offers Micro services, ADC & load balancing, web & mobile, performance, cloud migration, security and API gateway solutions. The company was founded by Andrew Alexeev, Maxim Konovalov and Igor Sysoev in July 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lattice Engines, Inc. provides predictive marketing and sales applications. It offers salesPRISM, a sales intelligence software; playmaker, a marketing software; and visiDB, a software for data integration and data management. The firm also provides fundPRISM, a software solution that makes ongoing recommendations to wholesalers in asset management companies on which advisors to contact, at what frequency, and with what messaging. The company was founded by Kent McCormick, Michael McCarroll and Shashi Upadhyay in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center provides business development advisory services. It helps clients by providing financing, sales and client development, mentoring, peer-to-peer exchange, grant and new ventures accelerating services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

StackLead provides public sources, including Twitter, LinkedIn, CrunchBase, Facebook, company websites, press releases and job posting. The company was founded by Gordon Wintrob and is headquartered in California.

Asymmetric Capital LLC (Asymmetric Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Robert Duke Biederman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Eudemian Ventures LLC (Eudemian Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Raoul Felix Maier. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras