Manish Sood

Sapphire Ventures LLC (Sapphire Ventures) is a private equity and venture capital firm, subsidiary of SAP Ventures Investment GmbH founded in 1996 by R. Douglas Higgins and Andreas Markus Weiskam. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

BloomReach, Inc. provides web search services for online retailers and commerce sites. It offers a personalized discovery platform with applications for organic search, site search, and content marketing and merchandising. The firm also offers Compass, a tool that understands products and identifies opportunities to maximize revenue, SNAP for Mobile that personalizes site search, content, and navigation to make each visit personal, and Organic Search that matches consumer intent to the client content. The company was founded by Raj K. De Datta and Ashutosh Garg in February 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Birch Grove Software, Inc. engages in the development of cloud-based employee monitoring software through its application, ActivTrak. It provides user behavior analytics, productivity monitoring, user activity monitoring, and insider threat detection software. The company was founded by Herb Axilrod and Anton Seidler and is headquartered Austin, TX.

Acquia, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions. It offers Acquia cloud site factory services. The firm?s services include learning, professional, onboarding, global support and technical account management services. The company was founded by Dries Buytaert, Michael J. Skok, and Jay Batson in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

D2L Corp. provides cloud-based learning environment and solutions. It specializes in learning solutions in an open and extensible platform to clients and learners in higher education, K-12, healthcare, government, and the corporate sector. The company was founded by John Baker in 1999 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Goji Ltd. manufactures cooking ovens. It ovens uses radio waves for quick, precise and efficient cooking and is a global business with customers doing business on every major continent. The company was founded by Shlomo Ben-Haim in 2006 and is headquartered in Des Plaines, IL.

MindTickle, Inc. provides data-driven solution for sales readiness and enablement. Its products include applications, data and insights, integrations and pricing. The firm also offers technical support, professional, content, education and managed services. It provides transform sales capability, accelerate onboarding, ensure ongoing readiness, host virtual and online sales events solutions. The company was founded by Deepak Diwakar, Nishant Mungali, Mohit Garg, and Krishna Depura in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Forter, Inc. engages in the provision of intelligent technology and fraud prevention system services. It focuses on making decision, and use cases such as account abuse, loyalty programs, account takeover, return abuse, and promo abuse. The company was founded by Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri and Alon Shemesh in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SiteTracker, Inc. develops enterprise project management software for site based projects. It serves to telecommunications, utilities, smart cities, and alternative energy industries. The company was founded by Timothy May and Brett Cupta in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

NewView Capital Management LLC (NewView Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame.

Forter Ltd. provides intelligent technology and fraud prevention system services. The firm offers Forter. The company was founded by Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri, and Alon Shemesh in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Course Hero, Inc. engages in the development of online learning platform for course-specific study resources. It offers crowd sourced study documents, expert tutors, customizable flashcards and online courses. The firm helps users to maintain or improve grades all for less than the cost of a textbook. The company was founded by Jared Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, David Grauer, and Andrew T. Grauer in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

BNSF Railway Co. provides rail transportation services. It operates railroad networks in North America. The firm transports products and commodities including the transportation of consumer goods, grain and agricultural products, low-sulfur coal, and industrial goods such as petroleum, chemicals, housing materials, food and beverages. The company was founded on September 22, 1995 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Railinc Corp. provides information technology and information services for railroads. The firm offers car accounting, clear path system, damage prevention, equipment health, authorization, messaging, rail service finder, tracing products, publications and transportation management services. The company is headquartered in Cary, NC.

Topia Ltd. provides an online mobility management platform for companies and employees. It offers global mobility management, relocation and assignment support, and talent mobility cloud. The company was founded by Brynne Kennedy Herbert and Steve Black in September 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Soraa, Inc. develops gallium nitride chip-based laser diodes. Its products can be used in consumer, biomedical, defense and industrial applications. Its products include VIVID 2 LED MR16 lamps, premium LED MR16 lamps, outdoor LED MR16 lamps and snap system LED MR16 lamps and accessory solutions. The company was founded by Shuji Nakamura, Steven Denbaars, and James Speck in 2008 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Integral Ad Science, Inc. provides a media valuation platform for buying and selling media. Its services include brands, agencies, publishers and AD Tech. The firm serves the advertising industry. The company was founded by Helene Monat, Will Luttrell, Bryan St. John, and Kent Wakeford in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OpenX Ltd. designs ad server software for web publishers. It provides a software as a service product that combines as ad server, ad exchange, and yield optimizer to maximize results. The company was founded by Tobias Ratschiller, Amith Shah, Scott Switzer, Jason Fairchild, and Damon Andrew Reeve in 2007 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

OpsRamp, Inc. develops information technology management cloud platform. The company was founded by Varma Kunaparaju and Raju Chekuri and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Adverity GmbH develops marketing data analytics, reporting and ETL software. The firm offers Datatap and insights products. The company was founded Alexander by Igelsböck and Andreas Glänzer in 2014 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Brightfield Strategies LLC provides modeling and analytics, management consulting, governance, risk, and compliance solutions. It specializes in rate modeling, workforce mix modeling, and variance control solutions and management consulting. The company was founded by Christopher Minnick and Jason Ezratty in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Safegraph, Inc. builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Availink, Inc. develops chips for consumer electronics markets. It offers a variety of demodulators, system-on-a-chips, embedded software solutions to digital TV and multimedia customers throughout the world. The firm produces chips for satellite, terrestrial and cable TV, as well as for OTT applications. The company was founded in 2005 by Feng-Wen Sun and Yimin Jiang and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Jentro Technologies GmbH provides navigation software and services for mobile phones. The company was founded by Erno Hempel and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Suniva, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic solar cells and modules. It products include optimus monocrystalline modules, ARTisun Series monocrystalline and monocrystalline cells. It serves to the commercial, government, micro-utility and residential clients. The company was founded by Ajeet Rohatgi in 2007 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Liquidia Technologies, Inc. is a clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of human therapeutics using its proprietary PRINT technology to transform the lives of patients. It operates in two segments: Pharmaceutical Products and Partnering & Licensing. The two product candidates from its pipeline: LIQ861 for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and LIQ865 for the treatment of local post-operative pain. Liquidia Technologies was founded by Joseph M. DeSimone, Ashok K. Mendiratta, Edward T. Samulski, William R. Kenan, Ginger Denison and Jason Rolland in 2004 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.