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Neoteris, Inc. used to provide virtual extranet products and remote access solutions. Its products include virtual extranet appliances that provide access to network resources to employees, partners and their corporate firewall. The company was headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Likewise Software, Inc. provides systems management software solutions. The firm specializes in information technology, unstructured data, data storage, Linux, security and Unix. The company was founded by Brian K. Moran, Manny Vellon, David Feinleib and Charles W. Mount in 2004 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

GumGum, Inc. engages in the design, development, and operation of an in-image advertising platform. The firm provides in-image and in-screen products. Its product is grown to include several displays, mobile, and video solutions to help brands tell their stories and publishers unlock new sources of revenue. It offers GumGum Visual Intelligence, a real-time visual listening platform that helps brands identify and activate online pictures relevant to them, as well as engage their top influencers on social media. The company was founded by Ari Mir and Ophir Tanz in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

OpsClarity, Inc. provides information technology services. It specializes in operational data services and cloud environments. The firm transforming modern software operations with data-science-driven monitoring solutions that help today’s teams continuously visualize, understand, and troubleshoot performance of their rapidly changing web-scale application environments. The company was founded by Amit Sasturkar, Alan Ngai and Dhruv Jain on August 7, 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SVB Capital Management LLC (SVB Capital Management) is a venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group founded in 2000 by Aaron Gershenberg and Gregory Becker. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Pagemill Partners serves the global technology market, with as many as 1/3 of their transactions in a given year occurring on a cross-border basis. The company's strategic relationships built through years of active dialog have resulted in more than 160 closed transactions since 2005. Pagemill Partners is among the most active investment banks in the market. Pagemill Partners is a premier investment bank located in the heart of Silicon Valley, with a solid track record of completing successful transactions for technology and media companies. Specializing in merger and acquisition advisory, they have closed more than 160 transactions since 2005. The Pagemill Partners team works in close partnership with its clients to consistently achieve extraordinary outcomes through a combination of transaction experience, domain expertise, and personal commitment to the success and objectives of their clients and their shareholders. The company's bankers are highly experienced in Enterprise, infrastructure and application software, Semiconductors, Internet and media, Communications, Storage, Security, Technology-enabled services And many other technology sub-segments. The Pagemill Partners team is composed of a distinguished set of individuals and deal makers who have demonstrated excellence and leadership throughout their professional careers. The number and quality of their completed transactions speaks volumes about our experience, excellence and expertise.

Saints Ventures LLC (Saints Ventures) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Ken Sawyer and David Quinlivan. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Northgate Capital LP (Northgate Capital) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Arthur Vardell and Brent Michael Jones. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TechForward, Inc. provides consumer electronics buyback solutions. It provides guaranteed buyback plans for consumer electronics. The company was founded by Jade Van Doren and Marc Lebovitz in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

One Block Off the Grid, Inc. promoted renewable energy and sustainable solutions through group purchasing programs. The firm educated its members by providing information, ongoing communication, and news updates on systems, and state and federal incentives, provides online forum and support for local ground organization, negotiates discount pricing with installers and manufacturers. The company was founded in 2008 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Console Connect, Inc. provides interconnection solutions. It offers global private network, software automation, and community and ecosystem services. Its products include PeeringCloud, IX Reach, and cloud interconnection. The company was founded by Al Burgio in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Huddler, Inc. provides digital media platform. It enables communities to grow with tools including social groups, buy/sell/trade systems, integrated photo galleries, product reviews, social media, WordPress integration, hosted software solution, custom sponsorship pages, tagging and community edited articles. The firm offers solutions for advertisers to create sites for brands. The company was founded by Daniel Gill and Ted Gill in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aerospike, Inc. offers real-time NoSQL database solutions. It offers advertising technology, ecommerce and retail, financial services, telecommunications, online gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded by Brian Bulkowski and Srini V. Srinivasan in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Metromile Operating Co. engages in the development of software-based per-mile car insurance products and services. It offers mileage-based pricing by calculating user's insurance costs each month based upon the actual miles they drive. The company was founded by Stephen T. Pretre and David Friedberg in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NetCitadel, Inc. develops software-defined security for cloud computing services. It offers patented security technologies to build automation tools for the datacenters. The company was founded by Michael Horn, Theron Tock, Vadim Kurland and Surya Koneru in August 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cohere Technologies, Inc. develops a wireless technology for wireless bandwidth applications. It offers orthogonal time frequency and space, a new wireless multi-dimensional modulation scheme that overcomes issues with current TDMA and OFDM modulation schemes used in wireless to increase bandwidth and throughput. The company was founded by Salim Shlomo Rakib and Ronny Hadani in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Workpop, Inc. provides employee hire services. The firm offers tools to enable businesses to create job listings by filling out requirements, job descriptions, and information about the workplace. It operates as a community marketplace for workers and employers in the service economy. The company was founded by Benjamin Berman, Christopher Ovitz, Reed Shaffner and Henry Jay Yu in 2014 and is headquartered in Venice, CA.

Niara, Inc. provides user and entity behavior analytics platform. Its behavioral analytics platform automates the detection of attacks and risky behaviors inside an organization and dramatically reduces the time and skill needed to investigate and respond to security events. The company was founded by Sriram Ramachandran and Prasad Palkar in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Serverless, Inc. offers developers an open source framework. It provides paid consulting services and paid proprietary features. The company was founded by Austen Collins in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NeoTribe Ventures (NeoTribe Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Swaroop Kittu Kolluri, Aditya Singh and Steven Bragonier. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Fortanix, Inc. provides software and hardware information security services. Its product, self-defensing key management services (SDKMS), allows the user to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as secrets such as passwords, tokens, application programming interface (API) keys, and any blob data. The company was founded by Ambuj Kumar and Anand Kashyap in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

BillionToOne, Inc. develops DNA molecular counting technology. It can detect disorders such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. The company was founded by Oguzhan Atay, Sukrit Silas, and David Tsao and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Correlia Biosystems, Inc. engages in the development of pharmaceutical platforms. It offers streamlined assay platforms to reduce the time and cost for quantifying proteins for proteomic and pharmaceutical applications. The company was founded by Akwasi Apori, Samuel Tia, and Kursad Araz in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Empirico, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It uses biological datasets, human genetics and programmable biology to power novel target discovery and development. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ClimateAI, Inc. engages in the provision of accelerating climate resilience in food, water, and energy. The company was founded by Himanshu Gupta and Max Evans and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Auditoria.AI, Inc. operates as a stealth mode startup. The company was founded by Rohit Gupta, Adina Simu and Gaurav Bhatia. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Vendia, Inc. operates as a serverless platform for sharing distributed data in real time. The company was founded by Shruthi Rao and Timothy Allen Wagner and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aira Technologies, Inc. has developed a software system that uses machine learning to enhance wireless connections. The company is based in Saratoga, CA. The company's technology can improve wireless networks by increasing range, battery life, and reliability. Aira Technologies' software solutions are currently being evaluated by top wireless platform providers. The company was founded in 2019 by Pramod Viswanath, Sreeram Kannan, RaviKiran Gopalan, and Anand Chandrasekher, who has been the CEO since 2019.

ThirdAI Corp. is a company that aims to make advanced AI technologies accessible to everyone. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in building customized, private AI that is trained on commodity hardware with ultra-low latency inference for every organization. The company's technology is the result of 10 years of research and development in finding fundamental ways to make deep learning more efficient. ThirdAI's AI solutions do not require GPUs, TPUs, or custom ASIC. The company's technology has applications in search, recommendations, chatbots, virtual assistants, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and more. The company was founded by Tharun Medini, Paul Holzhauer, Anshumali Shrivastava. Anshumali Shrivastava has been the CEO since incorporation.

Metrika, Inc. is a blockchain monitoring and analytics platform based in Cambridge, MA. The Metrika platform provides communities with end-to-end visibility and actionable insights into the health of blockchain networks. The platform isolates problems, takes action, and resolves issues faster with the industry's only monitoring and analytics platform built for decentralized networks. Users can explore community dashboards serving the blockchain ecosystem, including Ethereum network monitoring and analytics. Joining Metrika on Discord is also an option for those interested in making blockchain reliable. The company was founded in 2013 and Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos has been the CEO of the company since 2019.