Catherine Mekler

Vanguard Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Dr. Jack Gill in 1981. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

L-3 Communications Safeview, Inc. provides security software solutions. It develops security systems that detect weapons, explosives, contrabands, products, and other objects of concern such as plastics, ceramics and metals. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Picarro, Inc. produces real-time, cloud-based gas measurement solutions for the global energy and scientific markets. The company offers isotope analyzers, trace gas analyzers, peripherals, service packages and parts and supplies. The company was founded by Barbara A. Paldus in January 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sonavation, Inc. provides secure authentication and protection for digital and physical environment for consumers and businesses. It designs and manufactures biometric fingerprint sensors utilizing ultrasound. The firm also serves security purposes for ecommerce, financial service, health data, physical protection, online systems and other sensitive applications. The company is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Lumenetix, Inc. develops lighting products and solutions for premium commercial and architectural markets. It provides light-emitting diode (LED) management solutions. The firm designs and offers LED light engines and light engine components to indoor and outdoor lighting fixture manufacturers. Its products include Araya, CTM Zero, the cSeries, the pSeries, the jSeries, the lleSeries, the lleSeries 2 and LED Light Engine Components. The company was founded by Jim Kingman, Matt Weaver and Douglas Herst in 2009 and is headquartered in Scottes Valley, CA.

Shadow Networks, Inc. provides security solutions for enterprise and government networks. The company was founded by Chad O. Hughes, Steve Silva, Dave Camarata, Michael G. Lyons, Bryan McMillan and Eric Winsborrow in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Paladin Capital Group (Paladin Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Penn Ave Investments LLC founded by Mark Maloney and Michael Steed in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London and Luxembourg.

Object Management Group, Inc. produces and maintains computer industry specifications for enterprise applications. The firm develops enterprise integration standards for technologies such as real-time, embedded and specialized systems, analysis and design, architecture-driven modernization and middleware and industries such as business modeling and integration, C4I, finance, government, healthcare, legal compliance, life sciences research, manufacturing technology, robotics, software-based communications and space. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Needham, MA.

Adlink Technology Ltd. provides software solutions for commercial telecom, defense, aerospace and homeland security. The company was founded by Keith Steele in 1992 and is headquartered in Gateshead, the United Kingdom.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

ClickHome, Inc. provides online real estate services. The company was founded by Rick Smith in 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

ARES Corp. provides engineering, information technology architecture, project management, and security services. It offers engineering, quantitative risk management, safety management system implementation, reliability and mission assurance, and systems engineering and security. The company was founded by Richard J. Stuart, Larry E. Shipley, and Amitava Ghose in 1992 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Adlink Technology Corp. provides software solutions for telecom, defense, aerospace and homeland security. The firm offers COTS middleware, productivity tools and professional services for applications such as mission-critical distributed systems to embedded Real-time devices. The company was founded by Keith Raymond Steele in 1992 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

ePlanet Capital Advisors US Inc (ePlanet Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Asad Jamal. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Software Engineering Institute provides non-commercial research and development services. Its products and services include SEI training, SEI partner network, SEI certification, tools and methods, research and consulting services. Software Engineering Institute was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Spot LLC provides satellite global positioning systems and messenger services. It offers SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger, a handheld satellite communication and safety device that sends the user's GPS location coordinates through a satellite network to personal contacts or a rescue coordination centers. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Covington, LA.

IronMill, Inc. develops web3 application software. The American company was founded in 2022. The CEO is Aaron Greenblatt.

Cypherpath, Inc. provides on-demand software defined infrastructure by running any compute, network and storage in secure isolated units. The firm provides software solution using environment virtualization for delivering and managing information technology (IT) infrastructure at Web-Scale on industry standard hardware. The company was founded by Art Payne, Kevin Rogers and Steve Silva and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

NewLine Ventures LLC operates as a tech business advisory firm. The company is based in Los Altos Hills, CA. The CEO of the company is Michael G. Lyons.