John Gardner

BlueRun Ventures, formerly Nokia Venture Partners, is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by W. Pete Buhl, John Gardner and John A. Malloy. The headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Rocket Fuel, Inc. is a predictive marketing software company. It uses artificial intelligence to provide managed services, as well as SaaS-based data management platform (DMP) and demand side platform (DSP). The company's integrated DMP and DSP platforms are designed to deliver and optimize media spend to engage, up-sell and retarget consumers across addressable channels, such as display, mobile, video, social, and television. Rocket Fuel was founded by Richard A. Frankel, Abhinav Gupta and George H. John on March 25, 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Sequoia Communications Corp. manufactures fabless RF semiconductors for the wireless handset markets. It develops FullSpectra common architecture, which enables communications in various wireless applications such as WCDMA, EDGE, GSM/GPRS, GPS, WiFi, and WiMAX. The company's clients include QUALCOMM, Nokia, Maxim, Skyworks, Texas Instruments, and Mitsubishi. Sequoia Communications was founded by John Groe in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

@hand provides field mobility software solutions for commercial enterprises and government organizations. It offers mobility software architecture and mobile solutions for field service, asset management, and supply chain environments. The firm solutions include equipment maintenance, facilities management, asset tracking, field sales inventory and supply management. The company was founded in 1998 by Michael T. Loos and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

NGP Capital (NGP Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Nokia Oyj founded in 2005 by John Gardner and Paul Asel. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Zvents, Inc. creates and operates local entertainment guides online. Its publications promote a range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities. The company was founded by Tyler Kovacs and Ethan Stock in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Cerebra, Inc. develops content integration solutions. It provides enterprise-ready, semantic technologies through its offices in Menlo Park, Boston, Washington DC and Manchester, UK. Its products provide an enterprise integration and business application environment on an SOA-ready platform based on the W3C's OWL, RDF, XML, SOAP and WSDL standards. Cerebra was founded in January, 2001 by Michael Lees & Ian Horrocks and is located in Carlsbad, CA

N.G. Partners II LLC provides investment management services. The company was founded on April 12, 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.