Kurt A. F. Kiesow

The Jupiter Research Foundation provides research on whales. The firm operates as a non profit organization which develops and applies new technologies for monitoring and understanding the natural world, and sharing them with the public and the academic community. The company was founded by Joseph D. Rizzi, William Stutz, Kurt Kiesow, Bruce Kamolnick and Tim Richardson in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

AristaSoft Corp. operated as an industry-focused application service provider. The company was headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Liquid Robotics, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of autonomous ocean robots for ocean monitoring and operations. It offers the Wave Glider that capture live ocean data close to where lava is flowing into the ocean. The company was founded by Graham Hine, Joseph D. Rizzi, and Roger Hine in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.