Alan Foster

Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Artiman Management LLC (Artiman Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Amit Dilip Shah. The firm is headquartered in East Palo Alto, California.

Affinity Internet, Inc. provides web hosting services. The company was founded by John Zdanowski in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

VoiceObjects, Inc. provides voice application management systems. The company was founded by David B. Becker, Karl-Heinz Land and Michael Codini in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

InterGen NV operates power generation plants. It owns, operates and maintains combined-cycle gas-fired power plants in the United Kingdom and has a stake in modern coal-fired power stations in Australia. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Bechtel Group, Inc. provides engineering and construction services. It offers technology, development, financing, ownership, procurement, safety, and environment services for roads, rail systems, airports, seaports, fossil and nuclear power plants, refineries and petrochemical facilities, mines and smelters, defense and aerospace facilities, environmental cleanup projects, telecommunications networks, pipelines and oil and gas field development services. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Part of Bechtel Group, Inc., Bechtel Enterprises, Inc. provides engineering services. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Jungo Ltd. develops residential gateway software and technology platforms. The company was founded by Ofer Vilenski and Derry Shribman in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Virsec Systems, Inc. develops data security software. Its products include trusted execution, real-time monitoring and privileged user verification. The company was founded by Satya Gupta and Raymond F. DeMeo and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ENOVIX Corp. develops energy storage cells used in lithium-ion and lithium polymer rechargeable batteries. The firm offers 3D wave array based silicon lithium-ion rechargeable cells. The company was founded by Harrold Jones Rust III, Ashok Lahiri, Venkat Srinivasan, Murali Ramasubramanian, and Robert M. Spotniz in 2006 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

MACOM is a semiconductor company that specializes in high-performance microwave and optical semiconductor expertise. MACOM is based in Lowell, MA. The company applies advanced circuit designs techniques, packaging solutions, and semiconductor materials to the most demanding applications in industrial and defense sectors. The company also has deep knowledge of high-speed signal processing, analog & mixed signal and digital design, and optical semiconductors, which enables their customers to achieve the fastest possible connections inside and around the data center. The company recently acquired Linearizer Communications Group, which adds module and subsystem design expertise to their portfolio.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sofinnova Investment Inc (Sofinnova Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by Jacques F. vallle & Joel F. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Virtela Technology Services, Inc. provides network and security solutions. It provides cloud, network, security, mobility, information technology and infrastructure management services. The company was founded by Brain Wilkove and Vab Goel in April 2000 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

Guavus, Inc. develops and designs data management applications and decision making solutions. It offers Guavus Reflex platform, provides customers the ability to collect, correlate and fuse network, business and any other operational or external data revealing previously undiscoverable insights in real time. The company was founded by Anukool Lakhina in February 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

CenturyLink Communications LLC provides communications services and products. It offers local and long distance voice, data and Internet services. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

NetDevices, Inc. provides networking solutions. Its services include fire walling, intrusion detection, virtual private networking & directing and filtering content into a single, manageable platform. The company was founded in 2003 by Seenu Banda, Jeff Kidd, and Rob Haragan and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Griddable, Inc. develops resilient scale-out grid platform, which synchronizes data across any topology and database platform. The company was founded by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, Chavdar Botev, Burton Hipp and Carsten Thoma and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ApplyBoard, Inc. provides online application for students to apply for universities and colleges. The company was founded by Martin Basiri, Meti Basiri and Sina Sadeghian in 2015 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Box Bot, Inc. develops robots for automating last mile logistics services. It offers robotic services which reduces delivery costs and improves customer experience. The company was founded by Austin Oehlerking and Mark Godwin in 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. designs and develops NVMe-oF storage technologies. Its NVMe-over-Fabric Storage Array ingests, processes, stores, and serves an order of magnitude more data for massively-parallel, modern applications. The company was founded by Kiran Malwankar, V. R. Satish, and Sundar Kanthadai in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

Cisco Investments Inc (Cisco Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

WhipTail Technologies, Inc. manufacturer of solid-state storage arrays. The firm's datacenter and virtual desktop systems dramatically reduce delays related to disk contention and access times - thereby allowing database or virtualization servers to process more data in dramatically less time, while lowering the overall TCO by up to 90 percent when compared to traditional storage. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Whippany, NJ.

Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kennet Partners Ltd. is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded in 1997 by Michael S. Elias. Kennet Partners Ltd. is headquartered in London with additional office in Foster City.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Epoch Partners, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., is a technology-enabled investment bank focused on high-growth companies and electronically connected institutional and individual investors. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).

Redback Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and builds routers. It offers services like VoIP, IPTV, on-demand video, and online gaming. The firm's products enable carriers & service providers to deploy broadband Internet access. The company was founded is headquartered in Dover, DE.

Part of MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., Veloce Technologies LLC designs, develops and markets semiconductor solutions and integrated circuits. The company is based in Cupertino, CA. The company was founded by Amos Ben-Meir. Veloce Technologies was acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corp. on June 20, 2012 for $136.59 million.