Christine Austin

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Agilyx Corp. engages in the design and development of systems to convert mixed waste plastics into synthetic crude oil. Its proprietary technology produces synthetic crude oil utilizing a small-scale distributed waste management and energy production approach, while generating a carbon impact that is favorable to traditional forms of crude oil extraction. The firm's systems are available to industrial and municipal waste plastic generators and aggregators. The company was founded by Kevin Clark DeWhitt, Elisabeth Dewhitt and Christopher J. Ulum in 2004 and is headquartered in Tigard, OR.

Xsigo Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells data center solutions. The company was founded by Ariel Cohen, Cheng Tang, Ashok Krishnamurthi and S. K. Vinod in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

Philips Electronics Ltd. manufactures and distributes lighting products. Its products include incandescent and halogen, compact and standard fluorescent, automotive, high intensity gas discharge and special lamps, fixtures, and advance ballasts. The company offers lighting applications such as downlights, spotlights, and wall washing. Philips Electronics was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Siluria Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a direct chemical process for plastics and fuels from natural gas. Its second process technology can convert ethylene to liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. The firm’s revolutionary catalyst technologies uniquely combine nanomaterials, biotechnology and chemical engineering, to convert an abundant, ubiquitous, and inexpensive feedstock into high value, drop-in fuels and chemicals using processes that can be seamlessly integrated into existing industry infrastructure. The company was founded by Clinton Whitewood Bybee and Alexander Tkachenko in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hara Software, Inc. provides cloud-based software platform products. Its platform helps energy and sustainability professionals analyze, track, report, and execute against cost savings opportunities, compliance requirements, efficiency targets, and operational improvements. The company was founded by Amit Chatterjee, Udo Waibel and Volker Enders in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

VoloAgri Group, Inc. offers plant breeding and plant genetics services. The company was founded by Anthony D. Padgett in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Farmer's Business Network, Inc. provides data management solution to the agriculture sector. It enables the farming sector diagnose yields and benchmarking on multiple levels through its platform. The company was founded by Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande in 2014 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Greatpoint Investment Management, LLC (GreatPoint Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Andrew Perlman, Avi Y. Goldberg and Aaron H. Mandell. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Black River Ventures Ltd.(Black River Ventures) is venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Island.

ML Enterprise, Inc. is a business-to-business financial technology company, which engages in the provision of supply-side platform for marketplace lending. Its platform, using a data-driven and market-based approach, facilitates this process by matching borrowers with the right lender and loan product, at the right rate. The company was founded by Ian Rosen, Phillip Rosen and Jarid Maged in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Namogoo Technologies Ltd. engages in the provision of cyber security to online retailers and online shoppers. Its products include cyberknight and digitalknight. The company was founded by Chemi Katz and Ohad Greenshpan in 2014 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Activ Surgical, Inc. provides healthcare services. The firm focuses on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes and accessibility for both endoscopic and robotically-assisted procedures. The company was founded by Peter C. W. Kim in 2014 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Truvian Sciences, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers automated benchtop system which produces lab-accurate results for a full suite of tests from a small sample of blood. Its product features include compact and fully automated, dry reagent technology, and fast accurate results. The company was founded by Dena Marrinucci, Mark Bowles and Kim Puloma Kamdar in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Excision BioTherapeutics, Inc. develops gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life-threatening disease caused by viral infections. The firm focuses on Human Immunodeficiency Virus -1 therapeutics, JC Virus and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Hepatitis B virus therapeutics, and CRISPR vaccinations?. The company was founded by David Rowe, Kamel Khalili, Thomas Malcolm, and Rob Simmons in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Insight RX, Inc. develops cloud based platform for precision medicine & clinical analytics. The company was founded by Srijib Goswami, Ron Keizer and Ranvir Mangat and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ScoreData Corp. is a global data analytics company. Its product ScoreFast consolidates data from diverse internal and external sources into its big data infrastructure and provides visualization report for each source in an intuitive dashboard. The company was founded by Mudit Chandra, Vasudev Bhandarkar, Pankaj Jha, Prasanta Behera, Moidin K. Mohiuddin and Danny Yang in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Klearnow Corp. designs and develops a customs clearance and document management software platform. It is primarily catered for importers, custom brokers, and freight forwarders. The company was founded by Sam Tyagi, Rick Tellez, and Ulf Arne Sandberg and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Altitude Ventures (Altitude Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.