Eric Ries

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Emerald Cloud Lab, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers Emerald Cloud Laboratory, a life sciences laboratory that scientists can remotely access via the internet where automated robotics conduct experiments exactly as specified by the user. The company was founded by Daniel Jerome Kleinbaum and Brian M. Frezza in 2010 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Optoro, Inc. operates as a technology company. It offers end-to-end reverse logistics solutions that helps retailers process, disposition, and sell excess and returned inventory. The firm also offers reverse logistics software, direct-to-consumer remarketing, and business-to-business remarketing solutions. he company was founded by Justin Lesher, Tobin Moore, and Adam Vitarello in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

HYLA, Inc. engages in the provision of smartphone software, trade-in and upgrade services. It offers analytics, omni-channel device collection, device trade-in solutions, device processing and liquidation, and device insurance solutions. The company was founded by Ronald J. LeMay, David J. Edmondson, Gary Stone and Scott Wagner in 2009 and is headquartered in Farmers Branch, TX.

Misfit Wearables Corp. manufactures and invents wearable computing products. Its product shine, an elegant personal activity tracker that you can instantly sync with customers smart phone by placing the device on the screen. The firm offers products and services in the consumer health and fitness space to develop healthy habits. The company was founded by Sridhar G. Iyengar, Sonny X. Vu and John Sculley III in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP engages in the provision of legal services. Its practices include: antitrust and competition; banking and finance; capital markets; copyright, trademark and false advertising; cyber, privacy and data innovation; employment law and litigation; energy; financial services litigation; global compliance and regulatory, infrastructure; intellectual property; patents; public finance; real estate; securities litigation; supreme court and appellate; tax advocacy; technology transactions; trials; and white collar, investigations, securities litigation and compliance. The company was founded by John R. Garboe in 1863 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ocean Conservancy, Inc. engages in the provision of wildlife services. The firm protects the ocean from global challenges. It creates science based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

uShip, Inc. provides online shipping services. It caters commercial freight, vehicles and household goods markets. The firm serves freight brokers, business shippers and consumers and transportation service providers that engage in online fixed price, spot market and auction-based transactions. The company was founded by Matthew Chasen, Mickey Millsap and Jay Manickam in 2004 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

CDH Investments Management (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CDH Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ChargePoint, Inc. engages in the development of cloud subscription platform and software-defined charging hardware. Its products include commercial chargers, residential chargers, Cloud Plans, and ChargePoint Enterprise Charging Optimization (ECO). The company was founded by Dave Baxter, Harjinder S. Bhade, Richard Lowenthal, Praveen K. Mandal, and Milton T. Tormey in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Quid, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company, which engages in the development of data and information capturing software. Its solutions include agencies, enterprise, consulting, and healthcare. The company was founded by Robert Goodson, Sean William Joseph Gourley, and Charles Cholsoo Lho in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Azumio, Inc. develops health and fitness applications on mobile devices. Its mobile applications include fitness trainer, cardio buddy, sleep time, fitness buddy, instant heart rate, stress doctor, stress check and glucose buddy. The company was founded by Peter Kuhar, Tom Xu and Bojan Bernard Bostjancic in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Verizon Connect New Zealand Ltd. operates as a mobile enterprise management software company. It offers fleet, mobile, integration, response, route, and geobase solutions. The company was founded by Ralph Mason, A. Newth Morris IV, and Jason Koch in 2001 and is headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand.

OPS Solutions LLC develops and manufactures visual workflow systems. The company was founded in 2005 by Paul Ryznar and is headquartered in Novi, MI.

Postmates LLC operates logistics platform that offers delivery from restaurants and stores previously only available offline. It specializes in transportation, logistics, and local commerce. The company was founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice, and Bastian Lehmann in March 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kilowatt Financial LLC provides financing for home power improvements. It offers consumers with financing choices for solar electricity and energy-efficient home improvements. The firm also provides financing to residential consumers for purchasing solar electricity and leasing and owning home solar systems. The company was founded by Daniel J. Pillemer and Michael Niver in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Affirm, Inc. provides online payment services. It offers reimagining financial services, from credit cards to deposit banking. The firm helps to improve sales conversions and boost basket sizes. It allows online shoppers to pay for purchases in multiple monthly installments with financing costs lower than credit card interest rates. The company was founded by Max R. Levchin, Jeffrey Kaditz, Alastair Rampell, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Solar Service Experts LLC owns and operates distributed generation solar and residential energy assets. It offers a suite of residential solar finance products, includes solar leases, loans, power purchase agreements and PACE products, as well as financing for complementary and stand-alone water-saving and energy efficiency home improvements that helps customers reduce their utility bill spend on power, water and heating and cooling. The company was founded in December 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Linse Capital LLC (Linse Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Michael Linse. The firm is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Redaptive, Inc. engages in the provision of energy conservation services. It offers Utilities-as-a-Service program to customize organization needs. The company was founded by Ryan Martineau and John Rhow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cloud9 Esports, Inc. operates e eSports team organization. It is a multi-gaming organization with teams in League of Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Sm4sh, H1Z1, Vainglory, Dota2, and Overwatch. The company was founded by Jacques M. Etienne and Paullie K. Etienne in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Turvo, Inc. operates and develops a collaborative logistics platform. Its technology unifies data set for all operations and analytics, while eliminating redundant manual tasks and automating workflows. The firm offers solutions to the shippers, logistics providers and carriers. The company was founded by Jeff Dangelo, Eric Gilmore, and Sai Rajkiran Nagboth and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Levitate Capital (Levitate Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Michael Linse and Simon Hobart Charles Morrish. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Solugen, Inc. is a venture-backed biotech startup, which focuses in replacing petroleum based products with plant-derived substitutes. The company was founded by Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt in 2016 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Nobl9, Inc. is a service level objective platform that helps organizations set and understand reliability goals by tracking the performance of their systems. The company is based in Waltham, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform allows users to integrate with their existing technologies and manage service levels by defining and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs), tracking latency, and managing SLAs. Nobl9 makes SLOs powerful and easy to use by providing information on platform pricing and options. The company was founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singerman, with Marcin Kurc serving as the CEO since incorporation.

The Founders Fund Growth Principals Fund LP engages in the investment of pooled investment fund and venture capital fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Waste Repurposing International, Inc. provides recycling solutions for household hazardous waste. It serves the retail and municipality sector. The company was founded by Chris Ripley and Charlie Vallely and is headquartered in Austin, TX.