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Bessemer Venture Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in companies primarily located in the US. The fund focuses on companies with a strong business model, experienced management teams and growth potential. It targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors such as healthcare, information systems, telecommunications, and retailing. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements.

Overture Services, Inc. provides commercial search services on the Internet. It used to provide search-driven targeted advertising services to its customers. It also used to distributes text-based advertising based on keywords that typically appears next to online content. It also used to operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com web sites. It was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003. It was founded in the year 1997. It was headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Flock, Inc. develops social web browsers. The firm helps its users to connect, share, and discover web. It also helps its clients to create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds, and comments across social communities, media providers and popular websites. The company was founded by Bhavin Turakhia, Anthony Young, Geoffrey Arone and Bart Decrem in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Reputation.com, Inc. provides online reputation and privacy management services. It offers online reviews, customer surveys, social media, business listings, reputation score, reporting and analytics, and managed services. The company was founded by Michael Fertik, Owen Tripp, Ross Chanin, Raefer Gabriel, and Brian Kelley in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Truaxis, Inc. provides loyalty rewards and personalized statement solutions for financial institutions, merchants, and consumers. It offers StatementRewards, a loyalty platform for U.S. credit and debit cardholders. The company was founded by Samir Kothari and Schwark Satyavolu in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Smule, Inc. develops interactive sonic media applications for the iPhone. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Smith and Alex Rae in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Virtru Corp. develops software solutions. It specializes in digital privacy, digital security, Email encryption and HIPAA compliant email. The company was founded by John M. Ackerly and William Ackerly in 2012 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Nominum, Inc. provides web hosting services. It provides network-based solutions and applications powered by DNS and DHCP core engines. The company was founded by Paul Vixie, David R. Conrad and Paul V. Mockapetris in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Silversky, Inc. provides cloud-based security software and managed services. Its security-as-a-service platform SilverSky delivers cloud-based software and managed services, such as email protection services with advanced data loss prevention, targeted attack protection, network security services, and managed application services, that protect critical information. The company was founded by Andrew Ivar Greenawalt in 1997 and is headquartered in Milford, CT.

Vimo, Inc. provides online comparison services for health insurance and benefit plans. Its services include implementation and launch, sales and marketing, customer support and account management, and consumer service center. It offers administration modules and advanced billing and payment. The company was founded by Chini Krishnan and Shankar Srinivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

WorkMetro, Inc. provides online recruiting solutions. Its solutions connect companies with job seekers in their local area. The company was founded by Jon Stevenson and David Lambert in 2003 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Zoosk, Inc. engages in the provision of online social dating network services. It specializes in behavioral matchmaking technology. The company was founded by Shayan Ghazizadeh Zadeh and Alex Mehr in 2007 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Water.org, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that has transformed over 58 million lives worldwide by providing access to safe water and sanitation. The non-profit company is based in Kansas City, MO, and has subsidiaries in the United States. Water.org pioneers market-driven financial solutions to the water crisis and has been helping women, children, and families for over 30 years. Water.org is committed to sharing its evidence, research, and data to achieve universal access to safe water and sanitation. The company's unique approach to solving the water crisis is scalable, allowing them to meet the needs of millions worldwide without safe water and sanitation. Learn about their solutions and how to help today. The company was founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, with Gary White serving as CEO since its inception.

Endgame, Inc. provides security intelligence and analytics solutions. The firm’s services include managed EDR, compromise assessment, incident response and managed threat hunting. Its products include real-time IP reputation data, protection of customers' critical information, proactive data analysis and vulnerability research. The company was founded by Raymond Gazaway, Daniel S. Ingevaldso, David Miles, Thomas E. Noonan, Earle W. Ady and Christopher J. Rouland in 2008 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

iSIGHT Security LLC provides cyber threat intelligence services. The company was founded by Jonathan Couch and John P. Watters in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Defense.Net, Inc. develops technology to mitigate distributed-denial-of-service attacks. It provides businesses and organizations with tools to protect against the new generation of massive and sophisticated DDoS attacks while delivering the highest levels of Internet application performance. The company was founded by Barrett Lyon in December 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Auth0, Inc. engages in the provision of universal authentication and authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications. It serves the financial, healthcare, media, retail, and real estate industries. The company was founded by Matias Woloski and Eugenio Pace in 2013 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Rigetti & Co., Inc. develops and delivers integrated quantum and classical computing capabilities. The firm's flagship product, Quantum Cloud Services provides dedicated access to quantum hardware and a development environment tailored for practical applications. The company was founded by Chad T. Rigetti in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Velo3D US, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers sapphire printer, flow software, and assure system. The company was founded by Benyamin Buller and Erel Milshtein in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Claroty Ltd. provides cyber security services. It secures cyber physical systems across industrial, healthcare, and enterprise environments. The company was founded by Amir Zilberstein, Benny Porat and Galina Antova and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Iris Automation, Inc. develops computer vision systems that can make unmanned aerial vehicles, and eventually other robotics and vehicles, truly autonomous. The company was founded by Alexander Harmsen and James Howard and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Impossible Aerospace Corp. manufactures electric aircraft and drones. The company was founded by Albert Spencer Gore in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

Center for Inquiry, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Richard Dawkins. The organization's mission is to eliminate the influence of religion in science education and public policy, and to remove the stigma surrounding atheism and non-belief. The Center for Inquiry advocates for reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through specialized policy and political actions focusing on secularist topics and human rights. The organization is a community of freethinkers, activists, leaders, atheists, and humanists who advocate for science literacy and rational thinking in examining religion and other extraordinary claims. The Center for Inquiry provides a virtual library of discussion guides, instructional videos, expert Q&A sessions, and other tools to help groups promote science, reason, and secular values.