John W. Jarve

Aprius is a venture-backed company developing technology to bring the performance advantage of PCIe Express to the Ethernet network. Aprius technology extends a server's internal PCIe bus out over the Ethernet network, enabling groups of servers to access and share network-attached pools of PCIe Express devices at near-native PCIe performance levels. Aprius technology enables server vendors to build dense slot-less servers with virtual I/O by connecting the servers to needed PCIe devices such as SAN HBAs, Disk Controllers, and PCIe SSDs over the Ethernet fabric. Aprius gives data center managers dedicated PCIe performance but with the economics of sharing, and allows a broad range of applications with varying I/O needs to be virtualized on cost-effective and homogeneous server infrastructure, reducing costs by nearly 50%.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Livingly Media, Inc. owns and operates fashion and beauty, entertainment, and home design websites for women in the United States. It is a digital lifestyle brand that owns and operates three top-ranked sites which include Zimbio, Lonny Magazine and StyleBistro. The company was founded in 2006 by Anthony Charles Mamone and Danny Khatib and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

ParaScale ('Parallel Scalability') was founded in 2004 on the premise that advances in computer hardware over the past ten years make possible better solutions for file storage, management, and distribution. Better means solutions that are more reliable, with more storage capacity, with higher read/write bandwidth, easier-to-manage, and less expensive to buy and operate than ever before. ParaScale recognized the need for a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of digital-content-intensive applications being adopted in the 21st century. These new applications-made possible by declining costs of semiconductors and the growth of the Internet-include video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance management, and medical image remote diagnosis. Adopting the best technologies in software design and leveraging the best tools available, ParaScale has delivered the ParaScale ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system, and the Internet Protocol (IP) networking protocol stack. ParaScale's founders have extensive experience in the development of systems software including operating systems, file systems, and database management systems on which modern applications rely. Members of ParaScale's founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF). Headquartered in Silicon Valley, all of ParaScale's development is conducted in California. Maintaining a disciplined balance between creative design engineers and skeptical quality assurance (QA) engineers, ParaScale is dedicated to delivering hardened system software, expert professional services, and prompt technical support to customers worldwide.

Avere Systems, Inc. develops filed-based storage solutions. It offers vFXT for AWS, FXT 5200, Avere OS, cloud bursting, NAS optimization, cost and data management, and WAN. The company was founded by Ronald Bianchini, Michael L. Kazar and Daniel S. Nydick in 2008 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

DataXu, Inc. engages in the provision of programmatic marketing software. It offers multi-channel demand side platform for online, video, and mobile advertisers. The company was founded by Mike K. Baker, Sandro Catanzaro, Bruce Journey, Willard L. Simmons, and Edward F. Crawley in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

RealtyShares, Inc. operates as platform for crowd funding real-estate development. It offers real estate borrowers and sponsors looking for access to more efficient capital than what banks and other private capital sources are able to provide. The firm’s platform also assists investors in various investing activities that include execution of legal documents and transfer of investor funds. The company was founded by Navjot Athwal and Ray Sturm in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cavium, Inc. was engaged in the provision of integrated semiconductor processors which enables intelligent processing for wired and wireless infrastructure and cloud for networking, communications, storage, and security applications. The company was founded by Syed Basharat Ali and Muhammad Raghib Hussain in November 2000 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Maranti Networks, Inc. provides storage infrastructure solutions and services. It delivers switching equipment and data protection software solutions that optimize storage infrastructure investments while protecting the enterprises assets and data. The company was founded in 2000 by Kuldeep Sandhu and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ParAccel, Inc. provides purpose-built database management system used for data warehousing, business intelligence (BI) and analytic processing. The company caters to financial services, healthcare, retail, government, and telecommunication sectors. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA

DiVitas Networks, Inc. provides mobile unified communication solutions. Its solutions combine corporate voice and messaging applications for business. The company was founded by Dickson Chan and Vivek Khuller in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Newmarkets International LLC provides online payment solutions and services. The firm offers web-based foreign exchange services, multi-currency pricing, and payment services for B2B e-commerce applications. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered Oakland, CA.

Coraid, Inc. is a technology manufacturing company based in the United States. It designs and manufactures a line of computer and data storage products branded under the trade name EtherDrive storage. The firm sells its products through technology channel partners. The company was founded by Brantley Coile in 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

BeyondCore, Inc. provides automated analytics software solutions. The firm provides claims data entry and adjudication, new policy creation and maintenance, and credit card and loan application processing solutions. It serves the healthcare, manufacturing, banking and finance, retail and insurance industries. The company was founded by Arijit Sengupta, Benny Xian, Rahul Pathak and Griffin Chronis in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Soha Systems, Inc. provides instant application security for the cloud-enabled enterprise. Its cloud-based service enables customers to solve secure application access and delivery challenges that traditional or virtualized network solutions cannot solve because they are too expensive, inflexible and operationally complex. The company was founded by Haseeb S. Budhani and Hanumantha Rao Kavuluru in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.