Jeff Karras

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Levensohn Venture Partners LLC (Levensohn Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Pascal Levensohn. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Sim Ops Studios-the creator of Wild Pockets-is a spin off from Carnegie Melon University. Founder and CEO Shanna Tellerman with co-founder Jesse Schell created the Wild Pockets platform to simplify the delivery of 3D content through the web browser. The vision is to create a community that uses a single source solution to create compelling 3D content, distribute it on almost any website and manage the monetization and infrastructure. Offices are located in Pittsburgh, PA and San Francisco, CA.

Bubbly, Inc. develops voice messaging and social communication solutions for mobile phones. Its product include Bubbly, which is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers and is like Twitter with a voice and brings social networking to mobile phones. The company was founded in 2003 by Sunil Coushik and Venu Sriperumal and is headquartered in Panchkula, India.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 27 patents issued and over 30 pending. The company has been funded by leading ventures funds including Formative Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, Lucas Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

Sentilla Corp. provides data center performance management solutions. It offers alerting/ monitoring, multi data center availability, data center infrastructure integration and cloud and virtualization management platforms. The firm also provides asset management, capcity planning and power availability solutions. The company was founded by Cory Sharp, Joseph Polastre and Robert Szewczyk in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

DataTorrent, Inc. provides Hadoop based real time big data streaming platform. It offers Data Torrents RTS, Apache Apex and data Ingest products. The firm’s solutions include data ingestion, dimensional compute, OLTP data streaming and complex data replication. It serves to the oil and gass, retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and utilities. The company was founded by Phu Hoang and Amol Kekre and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.