Sam Shapiro

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. provides digital television entertainment services. It operates as a digital broadcast satellite service company. The firm transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in several countries. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Portal Software, Inc. provides accounting services. The firm offers billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media companies. The company provides platform for the end-to-end management of customer revenue across offerings, channels, and geographies. The company was founded by John E. Little in 1985 and is located in Cupertino, CA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Helix OpCo LLC is a genomics company. It offers consumer genetics, next generation sequencing (ngs), bioinformatics, consumer insights, big data, dna, population health, and genomics. The company was founded by Justin Kao, Scott Burke, Jay T Flatley and James Lu in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Outreach Corp. designs and develops a sales engagement platform. It specializes in sales acceleration, sales efficiency, and sales management analytics. The company was founded by Gordon Leland Hempton, Andrew Kinzer, Manuel Medina and Wesley R. Hather in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Flywheel Building Intelligence, Inc. provides cloud-based energy management platform for building owners and operators. Its products, SCIenergy cloud, SCItrack, and SCItendant, are designed to control annual energy. The firm solutions, iRCX and MESA, perform the following functions: predicting, detecting, diagnosing and prioritizing system faults. The company was founded by John Pitcher in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Performics Inc. provides online marketing and technology services. Its customers include retailers and other direct marketers including affiliate marketing, search marketing and e-mail marketing. The company was founded by James A. Crouthamel in 1998 and its headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Intellinex LLC provides e-Learning solutions for workers, companies, government and educational institutions. It offers learning solutions to achieve targeted business results such as sales force optimization, accelerating strategy implementation, reducing training costs and improving employee development. The firm serves Cisco Systems, Canon USA, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmacia and Turner Construction Company. The company was founded on October 10, 2000 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Kajeet, Inc. engages in the provision of filtered connectivity and device management solutions to help students safely explore the digital world. It offers Kajeet Sentinel, a platform that centrally manages and enables safe, online connectivity, device management, and visibility into learning. The company was founded by Daniel J. Neal, Matthew D. Baker, and Ben Weintraub in 2003 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

PremjiInvest (PremjiInvest) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Azim H Premji. The firm is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

TripActions, Inc. engages in the operation of a travel agency. It offers online corporate and business travel management services. The firm specializes in business travel, employee rewards, modern travel, hotel booking, online booking, mobile booking, travel apps, company savings, hotels, rental cars, flights, technology, customer service, support, e-commerce, travel, travel search, and reducing travel spend. The company was founded by Ariel Cohen and Llan Twig in May 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sysdig, Inc. develops network and application software solutions. It offers application, infrastructure, and container technologies. The company was founded by Loris Degioanni and Massimo Sgrelli in 2013 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

Signifyd, Inc. operates as an eCommerce fraud prevention company. The firm helps online businesses to control fraud and abuse. It offers an investigation tool and API to control fraud and abuse at industrial scale that arise from access, automation and anonymity. The firm also offers training on best practices for reviewing suspicious user behavior, fundamental verification principles and reviewing card-not-present payments and making live accept and decline on eCommerce transactions. It serves eCommerce, collaborative consumption and online gaming businesses. The company was founded by Rajesh Ramanand and Michael Liberty in June 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

YapStone Holdings, Inc. provides electronic payment solutions. It processes transactions for the property management and non-profit sectors, including rents, dues, storage fees, and donations. It specializes in online and mobile payments solutions for apartment and vacation rental and marketplace payments. The company was founded by Scott Michael Honour, Thomas J. Villante, Kirk Honour and Matthew Golis in 1999 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

Part of Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc., Malleable Technologies, Inc. designs high performance semiconductor systems. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Malleable Technologies was acquired by Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc. on June 27, 2000 for $235.07 million.

RS LiveMedia Pvt Ltd. provides advertising network with liquid crystal display screens. It serves to the restaurants, corporate offices, and business processing outsourcing, gyms, salons and hospitals. The firm's liquid crystal display screens show entertainment and information oriented content. The company was founded by Rajan Mehta in July 2006 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Lighthouse 360, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based marketing automation solutions for local businesses. Its platform includes a comprehensive desktop, mobile, web and social presence, reviews and offer management, and email campaign automation. The company was founded by Ben Rubenstein, John Berkowitz, Nathaniel V. Stevens, and Kartik Hosanagar in March 2005 and is headquartered in Sugar Hill, NY.

Fonality, Inc. provides cloud-based business phone and unified communications solutions for small to medium sized businesses. It offers employee presence, drag and drop calls, voicemail to email or text, mobility, chat, click-to-email, screen share, and HD video collaboration solutions for internal communication; and contact center solutions for automatic call distribution, skills-based routing, real-time metrics, unlimited queues, and on-demand call recording, as well as barge, monitor, and whisper. The firm also provides HD video collaboration and screen sharing solutions for video conferencing and online meetings; VoIP, voicemail to email transcription, and paperless fax services; business phone system equipment, including IP phones and servers; and support services. The company was founded by Samy Kamkar, Adrian Otto, Marc Smookler, and Chris Lyman in 2004 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

TPG Capital LLC is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 1992 by William S. Price and James George Coulter. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth with additional offices in London and São Paulo.

Next Play Capital LLC (Next Play Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ryan Nece and Ronnie Lott. The firm is headquartered in Tolucal Lake, California.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.