John F. Shoch

Alloy Ventures, Inc. is an independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1984 by Craig C. Taylor, John F. Shoch and Tony Di Bona. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Xangati, Inc. provides hybrid cloud and virtualization performance management solutions. It offers service assurance analytics and performance control platform that optimizes virtual app workloads and cost efficiencies, with minimal administrator intervention or agents, leveraging an in-memory platform architected for automation based on machine-learned heuristics. The firm's ESP platform provides granular metrics and end-to-end visibility for virtualized data centers and hybrid-cloud environments. The company was founded by Rangaswamy Vasudevan and Jagan Jagannathan in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, and transaction management infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. The company's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States. The company's products are in use at movie theaters, fast food restaurants (QSR), casual dining establishments, convenience stores, gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores, buses, taxicabs and vending machine locations, enabling a wide variety of businesses to accept contactless/NFC payments. Founded in 2001, it is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Other offices are located in Asia and in Europe. Investors include strategic partners Citigroup, First Data Corporation, Motorola, NCR and Nokia as well as the venture capital companies Draper Fisher Juvertson and Alloy Ventures.

Alladvantage.com, Inc. operates a web site www.alladvantage.com. It has built a Internet communications system that connects their business customers to their members. This system features their Viewbar software -- an interactive user interface that resides on their member's computer screens and delivers advertisements to them for their business customers while collecting information about their Internet behavior. Their business customers pay them for delivering advertising through the Viewbar, which can be highly-targeted to their members based on the information they collect. They provide cash compensation to their members for time, on a per hour basis, that they and the members whom they have referred spend browsing the Internet while their Viewbars display advertising. It is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

LightPole, Inc. offers server infrastructure and applications. It offers carrier-grade server infrastructure and applications that enable publishers to distribute geo-specific content to mobile devices. The company was founded by Douglas H. Klein, Haobo Yu Marcus V. Colombano in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Knowledge Networks, Inc. provided online research for consumer products and services. The company was founded by Norman H. Nie and Richard Douglas Rivers in December 9, 1998 and was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.