N. R. Palapati

RPX Corp. provides new patent acquisition services. The firm offers patent risk solutions, defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. It operates through the RPX: Patent Risk Management and Inventus: Legal Discovery Management. The RPX: Patent Risk Management segment is involved in the solutions that rationalize and lower the costs of patent licensing by reducing the unnecessary legal costs associated with infringement litigation brought by NPEs. The Inventus: Legal Discovery Management segment focuses on intelligent document analysis, hosting and managed review to its clients for litigation and investigations. Inventus serves industries across the board from Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Aerospace and Defense, and Technology. The company was founded by John A. Amster, Geoffrey T. Barker, and Eran Zur on July 15, 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Epocrates LLC provides clinical tools and solutions. The firm provides the healthcare industry, primarily pharmaceutical companies, and opportunities to engage with its user network through delivery of targeted information and to conduct market research. The company was founded by Richard Fiedotin and Jeff Tangney on August 1998 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.