Jerry Thompson

IKOS Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets logic simulation software and compatible hardware. It sells its products and services to telecommunications, semiconductor, multimedia, computer, and electronic companies. The company was founded by Daniel R. Hafeman in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

TVL Management Corporation (Trinity Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gerald Casilli and Noel Fenton. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

YesVideo, Inc. provides video and photographic services. Its patented technology allows them to efficiently transfer personal videos at scale. The company was founded by Sai-Wai Fu in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Astoria Software, Inc. develops software solutions. The firm's solutions include Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), customer engagement, and content management. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Siderean Software, Inc. develops and provides search and navigation software. It offers software for business and finance, design and editing, IT and management, security and other miscellaneous software. The company was founded by Bradley P. Allen in 2001 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

ThinkEngine Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells voice processing systems, consisting of media servers and application servers, for use in telephone networks, audio call conferencing networks, and cable and non-cable VoIP networks. Its products are utilized in order to implement network announcements, interactive voice response, intelligent peripherals, audio conferencing, intelligent call routing, pre and post-paid calling cards and automatic speech recognition. The company was founded in January 1962 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Damballa, Inc. develops software and techniques related to botnets detection. Its products include Damballa Failsafe, Damballa CSP and BYOD Security. It offers the advanced threat protection solutions for identifying criminal actors in enterprise networks and malware-infected subscribers in carrier networks. The company was founded by David Dagon, Merrick L Furst, Wenke Lee and Richard J Lipton in April 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

RatePoint was created to promote online and offline business quality while enhancing the relationship between businesses and consumers. Launched in 2006, RatePoint champions the needs of businesses worldwide by providing them with an easy and affordable way to build successful, lasting customer relationships, manage their online reputation, grow their business and increase consumer confidence. For consumers, the company provides an easy way to reach out to businesses and improve communications.

Truaxis, Inc. provides loyalty rewards and personalized statement solutions for financial institutions, merchants, and consumers. It offers StatementRewards, a loyalty platform for U.S. credit and debit cardholders. The company was founded by Samir Kothari and Schwark Satyavolu in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Bulletproof 360, Inc. provides food and beverage services. It offers the Bulletproof Diet that allows consumers to determine the amount of food and the type of food to eat and when to eat it and how to cook it. The company was founded by Dave Asprey in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Digital Shadows, Inc. provides digital risk management and monitoring services for organizations. It offers data analytics with human data analysis to management and mitigate risks of an organization’s brand exposure, cyber threat, data exposure, infrastructure exposure, physical threat, and third party risks. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Prism Venture Management LLC (Prism Venture Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Bob C. Fleming and John L. Brooks. The firm is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.

Horizon Ventures LLC (Horizon Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jack C, Carsten and John E. The firm is headquartered in Palo Altos, California.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Stratim Systems, Inc. provides valet parking services. It offers gas fill-ups, electric charging, and car wash services. The firm has developed a mobile application which allows users to outsource the parking in crowded cities. The company was founded by Sean Behr, Boris Zamoruev, Shmulik Fishman, and Boris Perlov in April 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Digital Shadows Ltd. provides cyber situational awareness solutions that helps organizations protect against cyber attacks, loss of intellectual property, and loss of brand and reputational integrity. It offers Digital Shadows SearchLight, a flagship solution analysis platform that provides a view of an organization’s digital footprint and the profile of its attackers. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Branch International, Inc. provides financial services through its mobile application. The company was founded by Matthew Flannery, Daniel Jung and Random Bares in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Squire Technologies, Inc. provides Squire, a web and mobile application that allows the client to book and pay for a haircut or shave in three clicks. Its application are used to discover barbers based on style, budget, location, and others; and check availability and book a timeslot that fits the client schedule; and pay for service and tip. The firm's platform also gives the tools the barber needed to connect with existing clients-and gain new ones. The company was founded by Songe LaRon, Dave Salvant, and Yas Tabasam in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Baton Systems LLC designs and develops a blockchain-inspired, bank-to-bank payments infrastructure solution. The firm offers Baton platform. The company was founded by Arjun Jayaram in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. provides banking platform that enables companies to provide finance products. The company was founded by Sankaet Pathak and Bryan Keltner and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MetaSepia, Inc. is an optical proximity transactions technology company for mobile devices. The firm's software-only products reside at the front-end of Peer-to-Peer, Machine-to-machine, mPOS, m@POS, and business-to-consumer mobile transactions, and are non-custodial for proprietary wallet, payments app, or file-transfer utility. The company was founded by Kerry Brown and Peter Landrock and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Harmonize, Inc. develops biomedical systems and software. It offers remote patient monitoring, alert triaging on a population health, digital therapeutics and interventions. The company was founded by Kevin Zhao in 2018 and is headquartered in Torrance, CA.