Christos Tryfonas

Kazeon Systems, Inc. provides information management and eDiscovery solutions. The firm specializes in data privacy and security, legal eDiscovery readiness, storage optimization and consolidation. Kazeon Systems was founded by Alex Kushnir, Muddu Sudhakar and Christos Tryfonas in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

oDesk Corp. develops and manages an online job marketplace. It offers recruitment and job placement services for website developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service representatives, and virtual assistants. The firm offers enterprise solutions, payroll services, and health benefits. The company was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis in 2002 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Plaxo, Inc. operates as a cloud-based online address book that synchronizes, updates and unifies the user's contacts across multiple sources. The company was founded by Cameron T. Ring, Sean N. Parker and Todd J. Masonis in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Splunk, Inc., Caspida, Inc. develops cyber security and threat detection software. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2014 by Sudhakar Muddu, Christos Tryfonas, Karthik Kannan. Caspida was acquired by Splunk, Inc. on July 09, 2015 for $187.20 million.

Unravel Data Systems, Inc. develops software and data operations. Its solutions include APM for Big Data, resource and cost optimization, and cloud migration. The company was founded by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nominum, Inc. provides web hosting services. It provides network-based solutions and applications powered by DNS and DHCP core engines. The company was founded by Paul Vixie, David R. Conrad and Paul V. Mockapetris in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Globespan Capital Management LLC (Globespan Cap Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Barry J. Schiffman and Andy P. Goldfarb. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ignition Venture Partners (Ignition Venture) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Ignition Partners Group founded in 2000 by Cameron Myhrvold, Jonathan D Roberts, Jon Anderson, and John Ludwig. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Icon Ventures LLC (Icon Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of JAFCO Group Co Ltd founded in 2003 by Joseph Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, 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

Opus Capital Ventures LLC (Opus Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Ken Elefant and Carl Showalter. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

Amobee, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It provides data driven cross channel digital advertising solutions for agencies, brands, and publishers. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Juniper Networks is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Juniper Networks Inc founded in 2010 by Pradeep S. Sindhu. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Breather Products, Inc. provides on-demand space for relaxation and other purposes in a network of rooms opened by phone. Its rooms can be used for activities such as brainstorming, strategy sessions, and product sprints. The company was founded by Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi in August 2013 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

AppDome, Inc. provides mobile application protection platform. It secures enterprise and consumer-facing apps from cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. The firm?s security solutions used by the financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance and security for consumers and employees. The company was founded by Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Dedrone Holdings, Inc. develops identifier of unmanned flying objects. It offers a multi sensor drone detection system, drone tracker, drone software, and applications for drones. The company was founded by Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Ingo Seebach in February 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The/Studio Technologies, Inc. operates as an on-demand manufacturing platform that makes manufacturing accessible to anyone. Its products include patches, labels, apparels, accessories, and collectibles. The firm also offers design, digitizing and vector art services. The company was founded by Joseph Heller in 2006 and is headquartered in Carson City, NV.

MealPal, Inc. develops an application for a subscription meal services. It allows users to browse meals available at nearby restaurants, filter meals by cuisine and portion size, and preorder the night before or in the morning, choosing a time to pick up their lunch. The company was founded by Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Dedrone Holdings, Inc, Dedrone GmbH is a German company that develops and manufactures multi-sensor systems for the detection of modern civilian drones. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. The company was founded in 2014 by Ingo Seebach, Jörg Lamprecht, René Seeber. The CEO is Aaditya Devarakonda.

At-Bay, Inc. operates as a cyber insurance firm for the digital age. It specializes in cyber liability, insurance and IT security. The company was founded by Rotem Iram, Etai Hochman and Roman Itskovich in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Yellcast, Inc. engages in developing internet connection engine. The company was founded by Venkat Ganesan, Bill Foster & Richard Wright and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Sonrai Security, Inc. operates as a cloud based security company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Confluera, Inc. develops an attack interception and defense platform. It tracks movement, rank intent, and eradicate threat. The company was founded by Abhijit Ghosh, Niloy Mukherjee, and Bipul Sinha in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Strata Identity, Inc engages in the provision of distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its products include identity fabric, discovery, and orchestrator and connector catalog. The company was founded by Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, and Carl Eric Leach and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Abnormal Security Corp. engages in the development of a cloud email security platform. Its product and solutions include Microsoft Office365 and G Suite integration. The company was founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar and Evan Reiser in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.

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.