Dustin Sallings

NorthScale, Inc. is the elastic data infrastructure software company, provides a new class of data management technology that scales out, enabling customers to dramatically lower data management costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their web applications. Based on the widely used memcached open source technology, the NorthScale server family of elastic data infrastructure software offers substantial cost, performance, and scalability advantages over relational database technology alone, for the vast majority of data associated with web applications. It is designed to enable customers to start where they are, with existing relational database technology and expertise, and incrementally evolve toward a scale-out data architecture for their web applications. Today, NorthScale is in production behind some of the world’s busiest web applications. It powers the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga and provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea’s largest web application operator with over 150 million unique users. Founded in 2009 by leaders of the open source memcached project and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. NorthScale is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.

Nexxt, Inc. operates an online career network to connect job seekers and employers through career channels. It offers candidate search, email marketing and human resources tools and services. The firm also provides international recruitment, agency solutions, strategic alliances, cooperates career site and applicant tracking systems solutions. The was founded by Richard P. Milgram on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.