Matthew Ford

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Coradiant, Inc. manufactures user performance monitoring equipment. The company was founded by Thanos Moschopoulos in 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Redseal, Inc. provides proactive security management solutions. The firm’s solutions include compliance, incident response, vulnerability management and cyber insurance. The company was founded by Scot Malloy, Alain J. Mayer and Brian Laing in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Expertvoice, Inc. operates a platform that connects a community of influential products experts with brands, retailers, and consumers. It operates two web-based services: 3point5.com and ProMotive.com. 3point5.com trains retail sales associates on a brand's product line and aims to improve sales numbers as a result of that knowledge. ProMotive.com tries to help brands connect to thousands of credible professionals whose product benefits them according to the embargoed release. The company was founded by Paul Kirwin in 2004 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Demandbase, Inc. operates as a platform for business to business marketers. The firm provides business to business marketing cloud services, advertisement, measurement, personalization, conversion, and consulting services. The company was founded by Christopher J. Golec in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

USVP Management Co. LLC (US Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Bill Bowes. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Aria Systems, Inc. provides software solutions to the apparel and related industries. Its services include consulting, technical support, custom programming, education and offsite backup. The company was founded by Omar Ramadan in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Tugboat Venture Management LLC (Tugboat Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Dave Gregory Whorton. The firm is headquartered in Ketchum, Idaho.

Lendio, Inc. operates as an online loan application and lending platform. It provides information on business loan types such as acquisition loan, business financing, cash advance, commercial real estate, equipment financing, microloan, franchise loan, start-up loan and business loans for women. The company was founded by Brett Child, Brock J. Blake, Levi King and Trent Miskin in 2005 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

MATRIXX Software Inc. provides digital commerce solution that enables always-on customer engagement. Its products include MATRIXX Charging Engine, which provides real-time rating and discounting, pricing, subscription and balance management, spend control, and credit management solutions; MATRIXX Policy Engine, which integrates policy management with charging, as well as enables customers to offers subscribers with views and controls of service usage and spending; MATRIXX Insight Engine, which transforms network traffic and usage data into information about customer behavior, over-the-top usage patterns, subscriber spending, service uptake, and customer profitability; and Parallel-MATRIXX Technology, an architecture for real-time transaction processing that offers CSPs with instant visibility, intelligence, and control of data services across their mobile networks. The company was founded by Luther Kitahata, David S. Labuda and Jennifer Kyriakakis in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

XANT Inc. engages in the provision of lead management tools. It offers e-mail, fax and sales work-flow management built into contact management software. It also provides implementation, certification, training, consulting, customer support, and custom development services. The company was founded by David R. Elkington and Kenneth Krogue in November 2004 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

CallFire, Inc. provides intuitive voice and text connectivity products. It is a cloud telephony company that provides enterprise-level telecommunication services on a pay-as-you-go basis for clients. The firm?s customers include small business owners, nonprofits, political groups, insurance agents and marketers. The company was founded by Komnieve Singh, TJ Thinakaran, Vijesh Mehta, Punit Shah and Dinesh Ravishanker in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Extend, Inc. engages in software industry. The firm provides a platform to merchants to extend warranties to customers. The company was founded by Woodrow H. Levin, Michael Darmousseh, Rohan Shah, and Joseph Moss and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kenna Security, Inc. provides vulnerability threat management platform. The firm’s products include Kenna.VM, Kenna.AppSec and Kenna.VI. It specializes in vulnerability management, vulnerability intelligence, threat management and information security. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Heuer and Edward T. Bellis in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Prevoty, Inc. operates as a cloud-based security company. It provides web application security. The firm products offers performance optimization, multi-source content protection, flexibility, in-application security development, scalability and compliance. The company was founded in 2013 by Julien Bellanger and Kunal Anand and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Starmobile, Inc. develops mobile technology. It provides networking, software, mobile computing research and laboratory services. The company was founded by Todd Fryburger, Sandeep Kakumanu, Raghupathy Sivakumar and Cheng-Lin Tsao in 2012 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Workboard, Inc. provides execution intelligence applications for enterprise managers. It offers business velocity automation, leadership and management, employee engagement, team productivity and performance management. The company was founded by Deidre Paknad and Daryoush Paknad in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Percepto Robotics Ltd. develops miscellaneous drone technologies. Its product is Autonomous Drone-In-A-Box. The company was founded by Dor Abuhasira, Raviv Raz, and Sagi Blonder in 2014 and is headquartered in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel.

Spark Gift Sales LLC provides gifting and investing services that gives stock and index funds as gifts. The company was founded by Peggy Mangot and Bob Haigler in March 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SB Investment Advisers (UK) Ltd. is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. founded in 2016 by Masayoshi Son. SB Investment Advisers (UK) Ltd. is headquartered in London, UK.

M12 Ventures (M12) is a venture capital subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Raken, Inc. develops mobile application to track the daily reports of the employees for construction companies. Its solutions include general, trade, concrete, mechanical, and excavating contractors. The company was founded by Kyle Richard Slager and Sergey L. Sundukovskiy and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Cooler Screens, Inc. develops IoT-enabled screens for retail cooler surfaces that deliver marketing opportunities and merchandising. The company was founded by James Koval, Greg Wasson, Arsen Avakian, and Glen Tullman and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cityblock Health, Inc. engages in building a personalized health system that serves qualifying Medicaid or Medicare members. It offers connected services that provides communication with local service providers, convenient care which health happens at home and in the communities, and localized solutions which is customize approach to specific local needs. The company was founded by Iyah Romm, Mat Balez and Toyin Ajayi in October 2017 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Elsewhere Partners LLC (Elsewhere Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Christopher A. Pacitti and John Douglas Thornton. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.