Peter T. Klante

Smart Picture Technologies, Inc. provides solutions for home remodeling and design markets. The firm takes the traditional truck and tape measure estimation process and replaces it with a computer vision powered SaaS measurement platform. The company was founded by Kari Myllykoski and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

The integrated suite of solutions for Predictive IT Management from Hyperformix enables IT organizations to make informed business decisions to predictably, efficiently, and dependably deliver good business outcomes, productivity and growth. When planning for budgets, virtualization, service levels, and successful IT rollouts, there is no substitute for predictable and accurate insights into future performance. Hyperformix is a US-based, venture-backed independent software company delivering software, solutions and services that help CIO's make informed decisions about IT. Hyperformix offers products and solutions for capacity planning and management at progressive levels of sophistication and automation. Depending on customer needs, Hyperformix provides software and services for application profiling, IT decision support and detailed performance operations. Application Profiling: A profile of existing applications and infrastructure to determine current performance and capacity, identify risks to committed business service levels, and predict 'time to live' for key applications and business functions. IT Decision Support: Solutions to quickly identify the costs and risks inherent in IT projects, to accurately plan IT budgets in support of business goals, and to simulate alternative IT cost scenarios to support business planning. Detailed Performance Operations: Sophisticated capabilities for comparing virtual IT scenarios, optimizing resources and identifying bottlenecks in systems and applications. Detailed Performance Operations solutions from Hyperformix prescribe architecture and configurations that allow IT to guarantee service levels. These solutions are delivered through an integrated suite of software products designed to automate IT capacity projects and make predictive capacity planning accessible to every IT organization. Hyperformix customers have consistently realized infrastructure cost savings of over 17% and improved responsiveness of key applications leading to 21% higher end-user satisfaction. As IT organizations struggle with the complexity and cost of virtualizing servers, major application upgrades, consolidations and power costs, the ability to accurately predict budget and capacity requirements is indispensable. Hyperformix solutions have been proven and battle tested with hundreds of blue chip customers including Wells Fargo, Aetna, Cemex, McKesson, and many others.

Cognos LLC provides pre packaged software solutions. It offers ERP, packaged applications and database investment services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

LiveOak Management Services LLC (LiveOak Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Venu Shamapant, Krishna Srinivasan, and Ben Scott. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

NSS Labs Inc. provides information security research and advisory services. It specializes in security technologies and a testing laboratory. The firm has built the Cyber Advanced Warning System, a revolutionary cloud-based security and risk management platform that lets clients see where they are at risk. The company was founded by Robert Walder and Vikram Phatak in 1991 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Infocyte, Inc develops cyber security solutions. It also provides proactive cyber security solutions designed to find threats and unauthorized activity in enterprise networks. The company was founded by Chris Gerritz and Ryan Morris in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

EcoRise Youth Innovations empowers youth to tackle real-world challenges. The non-profit company is based in Austin, TX.