David Chaiken

Altiscale, Inc. provides hadoop as a service for data science. It addresses issues that customers run into in production, such as job failures, resource contention, performance optimization and infrastructure upgrades. The firm eliminates the time-consuming steps of procuring and provisioning hardware, installing and configuring hadoop, and managing hadoop clusters in production. The company was founded by Raymie Stata in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Kate's Club provides social and therapeutic programming services. It offers grief services for youths ages 5-18, holding monthly meetings during the school year for children and teen affected by loss. The company was founded by Kate Atwood and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Aeroprise, Inc. is the world's most-deployed software for mobilizing BMC Remedy IT service management applications. Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses and public institutions use Aeroprise to extend service desk, asset management and change management functionality to BlackBerry and other mobile devices. Aeroprise lowers IT support costs, improves customer satisfaction and reduces critical asset downtime. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with operations in Bangalore, Aeroprise is a privately held company.

Promptu Systems Corp. provides voice recognition and natural language understanding technology. It engages in the provision of recognition base search and navigation services for mobile phones. The firm’s products are developed in collaboration with major automotive manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and Smart TV OEMs to ensure privacy, security, scalability and speed. The company was founded by Jeff Shukis, Paul M. Cook, Robert T. Nendza, Jay R. Macintosh and Alan Chase in 2000 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.