Chris Schaepe

Aerohive Networks, Inc. engages in designing and developing cloud networking platform and enterprise Wi-Fi solution. Its products include Wi-Fi access points, routers and switches; a cloud services platform for centralized management & data collection, analytics and applications. The company was founded by Changming Liu and Gang Zhu on March 15, 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Aprius is a venture-backed company developing technology to bring the performance advantage of PCIe Express to the Ethernet network. Aprius technology extends a server's internal PCIe bus out over the Ethernet network, enabling groups of servers to access and share network-attached pools of PCIe Express devices at near-native PCIe performance levels. Aprius technology enables server vendors to build dense slot-less servers with virtual I/O by connecting the servers to needed PCIe devices such as SAN HBAs, Disk Controllers, and PCIe SSDs over the Ethernet fabric. Aprius gives data center managers dedicated PCIe performance but with the economics of sharing, and allows a broad range of applications with varying I/O needs to be virtualized on cost-effective and homogeneous server infrastructure, reducing costs by nearly 50%.

Delphix Corp. provides database virtualization software solutions which include test data management, DevOps, ERP upgrades, cloud migration and government services. The company was founded by Jedidiah Yueh and Charlie Zha in July 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Virtana Corp. engages in the development of an artificial intelligence for information technology operations (AIOps) providing infrastructure monitoring and artificial intelligence-powered analytics. It offers VirtualWisdom, WorkloadWisdom, and metricly for public cloud products. It also offers hybrid information technology infrastructure management, technology solutions, and storage performance validation. The firm serves the healthcare, government, financial services, retail and marketing, telecommunications and cloud service providers, energy and utilities, and technology vendors. The company was founded by Mark R. Urdahl in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Plexxi, Inc. provided network infrastructure for public and private cloud deployments. It delivered software defined infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers. The firm’s products included Plexxi switch, Plexxy control and Plexxy connect. Its solutions include cloud builder generation, public cloud and MSP, and private cloud. The company was founded by David Husak, Ephraim Dobbins and Mat Mathews in 2010 and was headquartered in Nashua, NH.

Kenandy, Inc. provides cloud platform for the modern global enterprise. The firm offers services, which include proactive support, implementation and customer support. The company was founded by Sandra L. Kurtzig in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

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.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. develops applications, websites, networks, data centers, the cloud, and remote offices. It offers visibility, intelligent optimization, and simplified control for all applications. The firm's solutions include application performance monitoring, network performance monitoring, end-to-end performance management, hyper-converge branch, wide area network optimization and hybrid wide area network. The company was founded by Jerry M. Kennelly and Steven McCanne in May 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

eHealthInsurance Serivces, Inc. provides online health insurance plan services. It provides buying and using health insurance information through toll free number, online chat, email, fax, customer care team. The firm’s customers include individuals, families and small businesses. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

MonoSphere, Inc. designs and develops storage capacity management software that enables companies to forecast, plan and optimize their storage capacity. Its storage horizon solution reduces spending on storage infrastructure. The company was founded by Avi Shillo in March 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

SiPort's Audio/Data Broadcast Receivers are high-performance, low power, highly-integrated single-chip CMOS solutions enabling free-to-air and subscription broadcast Audio and Data services in MP3 Players, mobile handsets, Personal Navigation Devices (PND), automotive and home radios. With support for both analog and digital broadcast standards, SiPort's solution allows mobile and portable device manufacturers to provide consumers with on-the-go access to exciting new audio content with HD digital radio as well as the same live, familiar programming that they receive on their radios at home and in the car. SiPort single chip solution provides the low power, form factor, and cost needed to enable delivery of live navigation data services on PNDs.

Unruly Group LLC provides mobile video advertising services. It offers video ad units, tablet ad units, display ad units, rich media ads and interactivity options. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fusion-io LLC developed solid-state architecture and input and output solutions. It provided next generation datacenter solutions that accelerate databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and the applications to drive business from the smallest e-tailers to largest data centers and social media leaders. The company was founded on December 23, 2005 by David A. Flynn and Rick C. White and was headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

SK Hynix Memory Solutions, Inc. provides data recovery and transport technologies for storage devices. It offers dynamic random access memory chips, flash memory chips, and CMOS image sensors. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Forty Seven, Inc. develops therapies that target cancer immune evasion pathways. It develops Hu5F9-G4, a monoclonal antibody against human CD47 that potentially has applications spanning multiple tumor types and treatment modalities. The company was founded by Irving L. Weissman, Ravi Majeti, Mark Chao and Jens-Peter Volkmer in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

eVariant, Inc. is a healthcare consumer and physician engagement company, which engages in the development of software for data analytics. It combines digital marketing solutions, big data and analytics into a unified platform and this allows healthcare organizations to identify opportunities, measure marketing campaigns against reportable ROI and improve patient, physician and employer engagement. Its services include project planning and management, system configuration and deployment, process improvement and re-engineering, healthcare data migration and conversion, reporting, and optimizations and enhancements. The company was founded by William Moschella, Ryan Hubbard and A. Robert Grant in October 2008 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Elementum Ltd. develops cloud and mobile applications for the supply chain management. The company was founded by Nader Mikhail, David A. Blonski and Glenn Jones in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cohere Technologies, Inc. develops a wireless technology for wireless bandwidth applications. It offers orthogonal time frequency and space, a new wireless multi-dimensional modulation scheme that overcomes issues with current TDMA and OFDM modulation schemes used in wireless to increase bandwidth and throughput. The company was founded by Salim Shlomo Rakib and Ronny Hadani in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Tintri (Ireland) Ltd., Tintri (UK) Ltd. is a British company that engages in the sale of storage equipment for virtual machines. The private company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2011.

Pixer Technology Ltd. provides semiconductor capital equipment. The company also provides both fabs and mask makers with solutions to measure, correct, improve, and selectively optimize the photolithography masks that are used to imprint an IC design onto wafers in the manufacturing process