Hitoshi Akimoto

American Airlines, Inc. engages in the provision of airline transportation services. It offers travel insurance, email subscriptions, group and meeting travel and business programs services. The company was founded by C. R. Smith on April 15, 1926 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

C-Ats Software, Inc. develops risk management software solutions and services. It supplies server software products used for financial risk management. The company was founded by Rod A. Beckstrom and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

NetIQ Corp. offers software solutions. It provides identity and access management, security management, IT operation management, disaster recovery, workload migration, and unified communications and VoIP. The company was founded on February 11, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

Karma Automotive LLC designs, produces and distributes electric vehicles with extended range. It offers hybrid electric cars under the Karma brand name. the firm also manufactures automobiles with hybrid electric engines. The company was founded in August 2007 by Bernhard Koehler and Henrik Fisker and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

ATX Innovation, Inc. develops a mobile application for the payment of bills. It is the mobile payment solution that enables consumers to open, view and pay a bar or restaurant tab with their phone. The firm makes mobile payment a simple and secure process that is widely available, so bars and restaurants can spend more time with their customers. The compcny was founded by David G. Lemley III, Jeffrey Kalikstein and Rick N. Orr in June 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Sentons, Inc. operates as a fables semiconductor company and develops multi-touch sensors. It offers zero-deflection force sensing, large multi-touch screens, and sonapen. The company was founded by Shih-Ming Shih and Samuel W. Sheng in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Enigma Technologies, Inc. operates as a database software provider. It offers geo-coding, custom data acquisition, behind the firewall, time series and join analysis, augmented research tools, and entity resolution. The company was founded by Marc DaCosta and Hicham Oudghiri in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ensim Corp. provides software solutions for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. It offers solutions to manage and automate private and public cloud, user entitlement, provisioning, billing, and customer support for applications and services. The firm’s technologies including unified communications (UC), virtual desktops and servers, hosted cloud applications (SaaS), email, instant messaging, VoIP, collaboration, database, and website hosting environments can be subscribed, provisioned, automated, secured, compliant, self-managed, invoiced, and policy controlled with Ensim products. The company was founded was founded by Srikanth Chari, Samir Mathur, Xun Wilson Huang, Srinivasan Keshav, Rosen Sharma and Snorri Gylfason in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

The Brookings Institution provides research and policy solutions. The firm's activities are carried out through four research programs: economic studies, foreign policy studies, governance studies, and metropolitan policy. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Foveon, Inc. engages in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems. The firm offers digital single lens reflex and pro, CMOS, and direct image sensors. The company was founded by Jan-Dieter Spalink, Brian Gullette Richard B. Merrill, K. Michael Munsch and Carver A. Mead in August 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

DreamFactory Software, Inc. develops web applications for cloud platforms. Its DreamFactory Suite that allows to create, update, and manage projects, tasks, and resources, visualize project status, conduct team activities with collaborative calendar, activity alerts, and threaded discussions, as well as visualize resource utilization; organize hierarchical folders and versioned documents; log time and expenses for projects and tasks, and browse offline and archived data sets, as well as share selected data with colleagues, partners and customers. The company was founded by William C. Appleton and Eric Rubin on May 30, 2002 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

FineGround Networks, Inc. designs enterprise application delivery suite. The firm offered products for automated performance optimization, end-to-end monitoring, and application security. It has offices in London, Hong Kong, and Toronto. The company was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Campbell, CA

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

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.

The Four Rivers Group LLC (Four Rivers Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Farouk Ladha. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Playdom, Inc. provides online gaming services. Its products include action and adventure games, simulation games, role playing games and sports games. It offers services to Facebook and MySpace. The company was founded in February 2008 by Chris Wang, ling Xiao and Dan Hue and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

BloomReach, Inc. provides web search services for online retailers and commerce sites. It offers a personalized discovery platform with applications for organic search, site search, and content marketing and merchandising. The firm also offers Compass, a tool that understands products and identifies opportunities to maximize revenue, SNAP for Mobile that personalizes site search, content, and navigation to make each visit personal, and Organic Search that matches consumer intent to the client content. The company was founded by Raj K. De Datta and Ashutosh Garg in February 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Blue Jeans Network, Inc. provides cloud-based video conferencing services. It offers BlueJeans Meeting, BlueJeans Rooms, and BlueJeans Events. The company was founded by Krish Ramakrishnan and Alagu Periyannan in November 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Automation Anywhere, Inc. engages in provision of automation software products and services. Its products include IQ bot, bot insight, bot store, and mobile app. The company was founded by Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta, Rushabh Parmani and Ankur Kothari in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Merge Design & Interactive, Inc. operates as a creative and digital agency which specializes in strategy, design, web development and merchandising. It services clients across a range of business sizes from small startups to fortune 500 companies. The company was founded by Riley Sheehan and Lauren Sheehan in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Branch Metrics, Inc. provides deep linking technology to mobile application developers. It offers organic growth, higher activation rates, paid growth optimization and web to application optimization services. The company was founded by Mada Seghete, Alexander Austin, Mike Molinet and Dmitri Gaskin in May 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood city, CA.

Expanse LLC provides computer programming services. The firm offers edge expander, behavior and expanse link, threat hunt, Internet Protocol (IP) address business mapping, mergers and acquisition diligence, and strategic supplier and divestiture diligence services. The company was founded by Shaun Maguire, Joseph T. Meyerowitz, Tim Junio and Matt Kraning in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Divvy Pay, Inc. develops automated spend management platform. It automates the expense report process, helps companies eliminate fraud and wasteful spending, and manages online subscriptions. The company was founded by Alex Bean and Blake Murray on July 1, 2016 and is headquartered in Draper, UT.

WaterBit, Inc. provides automated irrigation solutions for agriculture. The firm specializes in moisture sensing, smart irrigation, industrial grade wireless, precision agriculture and ag tech. The company was founded by Manu Pillai and Leif Chastaine in May 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Innovation Philadelphia, Inc (Innovation Philadelphia) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Rich A. Bendis. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.