Eric Gries

Compuware Corp. engages in the provision of software solutions and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. It focuses on the development of mainframe software tools for the development and operations. The firm's products include topaz, topaz workbench, topaz for total test, hiperstation, xpediter, strobe, thruput manager, abend-aid, and application audit. The company was founded by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes, and Allen B. Cutting in 1973 and is headquartered in Detroit, MI.

Skytide, Inc. provides digital media businesses and content delivery services. It’s software-as-a-service and on-premise solutions process massive amounts of disparate data sources - including CDN log files, ad insertion logs, and web analytics data - and consolidate them into a single dashboard view. The company was founded by Nat Wyatt and Joseph Rozenfeld in 2003 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Lucidworks, Inc. engages in the development of enterprise search solutions. It offers Fusion platform and managed search for Apache Solr. The company was founded by Erik Hatcher, Yonik Seeley, Frank Calderon, Krellenstein Marc and Grant Ingersoll in August 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Granite Ventures LLC (Granite Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Jackie Berterretche, Sam D. Kingsland and Chris B. Hollenbeck. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DEC International, Inc. sells dairy equipment and manufactures heat recovery systems and dehumidifiers.

XACCT Technologies, Inc. provides business infrastructure software. The company also provides the convergent mediation platform for telecommunications service providers such as wire line carriers, mobile operators, cable operators, and managed services providers. It was founded in 1997 by Eran Wagner and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Cullinet Software, Inc. distributes database management system. The company was headquartered in Islandia, NY.

Amdocs, Inc. provides software solutions and services. It offers customer management, digital lifestyle services, revenue management, network functions virtualization, advertising and media, operations support systems, centralized management and optimization solution, amadocs delivery, network control, support services, and unified foundation. The firm also offers strategic business consulting, testing services, document management as a service, order to activation, program and business services, digital services, gateway services, managed services, and contact center services. The company was founded by Boaz Dotan in 1982 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.