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Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Overture Services, Inc. provides commercial search services on the Internet. It used to provide search-driven targeted advertising services to its customers. It also used to distributes text-based advertising based on keywords that typically appears next to online content. It also used to operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com web sites. It was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003. It was founded in the year 1997. It was headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Virage, Inc. provides media communication and content management software solutions for video production, internet publishing, and web casting. The company was founded by Bradley J. Horowitz in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Autodata Solutions Group LLC provides multi-brand online car buying services. It provides new and pre-owned automobiles and related products through its two automotive websites such as CarsDirect.com and Autos.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

eRoom Technology, Inc. was a provider of Internet-based software and services for collaboration among an organization’s extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers, and other partners. The eRoom digital workplace allows organizations to quickly assemble a project team wherever people are located and manage the collaborative activities that drive the design, development and delivery of their products and services. It was located in Cambridge, MA.

Demandbase, Inc. operates as a platform for business to business marketers. The firm provides business to business marketing cloud services, advertisement, measurement, personalization, conversion, and consulting services. The company was founded by Christopher J. Golec in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

Part of Oracle Corp., NetDynamics, Inc. is a company that makes software that gives Internet users access to information on a corporate database. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Doron Sherman, Zack Rinat. NetDynamics was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. on October 21, 1998.

Part of Idealab Holdings LLC, Spun.com, Inc. operates an online exchange for new and used music CDs. The company is based in Northfield, IL. Spun.com was acquired by Idealab Corp. on May 17, 2000.

Part of ConvergeOne Holdings, Inc., Discern Communications, Inc. develops Natural Language, a technology that enables customer service and support centers to provide accurate responses to customer inquiries through various channels without human intervention. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. Discern Communications was acquired by Spanlink Communications, Inc. on September 08, 2003.

Actiance, Inc. provides information archiving applications and services. It offers cloud archiving, data loss prevention, regulatory compliance, security, and supervision solutions. Its products include Vantage, Socialite, and Alcatraz. Vantage, captures and secures all communications channels. Socialite, gives enterprise the flexibility to customize usage policies for public social channels across devices. Alcatraz, a cloud-based content archive captures and preserves communications channels. The company was founded by Mehdi Maghsoodnia and David W. Hsieh in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

AudioFeast, Inc. provides internet radio services. It also provides a web-based broadcast network of digital audio programming for owners of MP3 players. The company delivers popular radio programs to portable devices and networks. AudioFeast was founded by Murgesh Navar in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, 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.

Ning, Inc. provides web hosting services. It offers a SaaS platform that provides users with the tools to nurture and engage their own community and also offers off-the-shelf community features, such as profiles, photos, forums, liking, sharing and foster engagement. The company was founded by Saul Charles Klein, Ryan Sholin, Gina L. Bianchini and Marc Lowell Andreessen in October 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Stitch Labs, Inc. engages in the provision of software products and services. It provides trainings, 3PL integration service, accelerator consulting service, and migration services. The company was founded by Obrien Willo, Brandon Levey, Jake Gasaway, and Michelle Laham in January 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Directly, Inc. provides customer support services. It integrates with helpdesk & community software including desk, Jive, Lithium, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk. The firm makes on-demand business apps. Directly was founded by Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson and Jean Tessier in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kenna Security, Inc. provides vulnerability threat management platform. The firm’s products include Kenna.VM, Kenna.AppSec and Kenna.VI. It specializes in vulnerability management, vulnerability intelligence, threat management and information security. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Heuer and Edward T. Bellis in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Bugcrowd, Inc. provides crowdsourced security for mobile applications. It offers security testing solutions for Web applications, APIs and Webservices, SaaS applications, various types of Websites, and customer premise products; mobile apps, such as iOS, Android, and more; and charities and not-for-profits. The firm provides security testing solutions through a Crowdcontrol system. The company was founded by Casey Ellis, Sergei Belokamen and Chris Raethke in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Roadster, Inc. is a holding company which operates an online car shopping website. It allows users to search, save, and compare, and purchase brand-new cars. It also offers delivery services to its customers. The company was founded by Andrew Moss, Rudi Thun, Christopher Gross, Mike Lenz, Vincent Lo, Trey Matteson, Elsa Kawai, Mika Kozma, and Kevin Whitley in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Quizlet, Inc. provides educational services. It develops and builds learning tools for students and teachers worldwide. The firm's tools are uses by various students from grade school to graduate school and language learners to vocational students allowing them to improve their performance at any level. It also provides tools for teachers to engage their students with their flashcards, tests, quizzes, and study games. The company was founded by Andrew Sutherland in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kepler Communications, Inc. operates as a satellite communications company. It establishes an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. The firm offers global data services such as augment existing systems, backwards compatible, and pole-to-pole coverage. The company was founded by Mina Mitry, Mark Michael, Wen Cheng Chong, Samer Bishay and Jeffrey R. Osborne in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Focal Systems, Inc. builds computer vision applications for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Francois Chaubard, Adriano Quiroga and Michael Cantalino and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

mobiTeris, Inc. provides a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service payment analytics and customer engagement platform for small- and medium-sized businesses. It offers payment, analytic, social media, and marketing automation solutions for businesses to track trends, automate marketing, and sales; and allows them to switch payment processors, tap into payment data, activate social media conversations, run own automated marketing programs, focus on core marketing programs, and recruit customers. The company was founded by Murgesh Navar and Navar Shashi and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Inflection Risk Solutions LLC delivers screening products to empower companies. Its solutions include goodhire and safedecision application programming interface. It specializes in identity protection, employment screening and identity verification. The company was founded by Brian Monahan in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

StackHawk, Inc. engages in the development of security software for DevOps teams. It focuses on enabling engineers to find and remediate security problems in development and production through scanning, documentation, and remediation. The company was founded by Scott Gerlach, Ryan Severns, and Joni Klippert in July 2019 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Aquabyte, Inc.develops computer vision and machine learning software for fish farming. The company was founded by Bryton Shang in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aserto, Inc. provides cloud-native authorization as a service for developers. The company is based in Redmond, WA and was founded by Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt, with Omri Gazitt serving as CEO since incorporation. The company's service allows for the addition of fine-grained RBAC, ABAC, or ACL to applications in under a day. Aserto enables centralized management of access control logic across microservices and APIs, allowing for control of access to applications based on dynamic user attributes, resource attributes, and environmental attributes.

Highnote Platform, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides a modern card issuer processor and program management platform. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2020 by John MacIlwaine and Kin Kee. The platform streamlines the entire card issuance process, from building integration to operating at scale, and offers a white-label solution to build a unique brand experience. Highnote's GraphQL API and capabilities such as notifications and SDKs enable teams to bring a card product to market quickly. John MacIlwaine has been the CEO since 2020.

SGNL.ai, Inc. is a company that works to modernize enterprise authorization in collaboration with Okta and Salesforce. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company's continuous access management platform provides zero standing access, protecting access to sensitive data and guarding against potential security compromises. The company's solution overview grants engineering and development teams the right access to cloud infrastructure, including AWS and Azure, in real-time. SGNL.ai was founded in 2021 with venture backing from Costanoa Ventures, Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital, and Resolute Ventures. The company was founded in 2021 by Scott Kriz, Gustavson Erik. Scott Kriz has been the CEO since 2021.

Alation, Inc. engages in the development of an enterprise data accessibility platform. It offers collaborative analytics, data search and discovery, and data governance solutions. The company was founded by Satyen Sangani, Venkatesh Ganti, Feng Niu, and Aaron Kalb in 2012 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.