W. Pete Buhl

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

FreedomPay, Inc. operates a commerce platform that helps merchants in solving complex payment environments. It offers various transaction solutions, including mobile payments, cashless solutions, virtual and remote terminals, payment processing, intelligent analysis, routing of promotions, incentives, and customer relationship management services. The firm also offers incentive management, product mapping, POS integration, analytic tools, and customer segmentation tools, payment Switch solution that streamlines processes and transactions, connects to POS systems and captures detailed data; integrating solutions, security solutions for electronic payments, mobile applications for payments, and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution that includes EMV and NFC compliance. The company was founded by Thomas Durovsik in 2000 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

Netli, Inc. provides Internet infrastructure services. Its products include netlilightning, netlioffload, netliview, and netlicontinuity. The company was founded in 1999 by Adam J. Grove & Michael Kharitonov and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA

Avesair was a provider of mobile marketing technology and services for wireless operators and content providers. Through the delivery of mobile marketing media, Avesair enables mobile operators to: Significantly reduce subscriber churn through proven loyalty marketing programs Increase subscriber.

Nevis Networks, Inc. develops and markets ASIC-based LAN security appliances designed to help corporations protect information privacy and integrity, ensure network availability, and maintain regulatory compliance. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Atrua Technologies, Inc. provides touch controls solutions for mobile phones, handheld games, and personal electronic devices. It offers intelligent fingerprint-reading and analog touch controls which includes joysticks, touch pads, and directional keys. The firm's products are used in various applications such as mobile gaming, computing, mass storage, keyboards, remote controls, embedded biometric security, and consumer electronics devices. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Location Labs, Inc. provides location-based tracking software solutions. Its products include phone controls, locators, drive safe, and sparkle platform. The company was founded by Tasso Roumeliotis in 2000 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Sequoia Communications Corp. manufactures fabless RF semiconductors for the wireless handset markets. It develops FullSpectra common architecture, which enables communications in various wireless applications such as WCDMA, EDGE, GSM/GPRS, GPS, WiFi, and WiMAX. The company's clients include QUALCOMM, Nokia, Maxim, Skyworks, Texas Instruments, and Mitsubishi. Sequoia Communications was founded by John Groe in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Zmanda, Inc. provides open source backup and recovery solutions for small to medium businesses. Its innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. The company was founded by Chander Kant, K. K. George and Paddy Sreenivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.