Gene Eidenberg

Smule, Inc. develops interactive sonic media applications for the iPhone. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Smith and Alex Rae in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Five Across, Inc. provides social networking and community building technology that helps organizations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. The company was founded in 2003 by Glenn C. Reid and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

Mixamo, Inc. is a holding company that provides three-dimensional (3D) animation services though an online platform. It allows animators, game artists, and 3D professionals to customize and create character animations, and bring those animations into their games or applications. The firm specializes in the development of character centric applications and games for mobile and social network platforms. The company was founded by Stefano Corazza and Nazim Kareemi in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

HyTrust, Inc. provides cloud security automation solutions. It offers HyTrust CloudControl, a control point that adds critical authentication, authorization and auditing for administrators of virtual infrastructure. The firm’s solution simplifies compliance and provides control and visibility into private clouds. It also offers HyTrust DataControl, a solution that provides strong encryption for virtual machines in any public or hybrid cloud, along with easy to deploy key management. The firm offers compliance, private cloud controls, virtual machine encryption and HyTrust boundary controls. The company was founded by Renata Budko, Eric Chiu, Boris Strongin and Boris Belov in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

HireVue, Inc. engages in the development and provision of hiring intelligence platform. Its product allows candidates for jobs to interact and respond to preprogrammed questions with webcams. The firm also provides digital interviews, digital assessments, predictive analysis, technical recruiting, and sales coaching solutions. The company was founded by Mark Newman, Chip Luman, and Ryan Money in 2004 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

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.

Morgan Keegan & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF). Morgan Keegan & Co. provides securities brokerage services to various types of clients.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

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.

Aspen Avionics, Inc. manufactures and distributes advanced technology aviation products. It produces flight display systems for general aviation aircrafts, class III aircrafts, and helicopters. The firm engages in bringing the advanced technology and capability from the commercial and business aviation markets into general aviation cockpits. The company was founded in 2004 by Peter Lyons and Jeff Bethel and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

CBF Networks, Inc. provides mobile network back haul services. It develops a transformational solution that enables the acceleration of next generation mobile services. The firm provides wireless transport solutions for mobile network operators and Ethernet backhaul providers. It offers Fast intelligent Backhaul Routing, a technology solution that integrates microwave technology with carrier-grade data networking features; wireless fiber extensions; and Any Line Of Sight, a fusion of bleeding edge radio technology and high performance networking solution. The company was founded by Kevin J. Duffy and Kevin J. Negus and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Empowered Careers Corp. operates as a mobile learning platform technology company. The company was founded by Stephen L. Poizner in 2011 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Pelican Imaging Corp. provides camera technology solutions for mobile devices. The firm offers 3D image viewer, depth for AR and MR and mobile solutions. It specializes in Computational Imaging, Mobile Application Technology and Light-field photography. The company was founded by Kartik Venkataraman, Robert H. Mullis and Aman Jabbi in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

RipCode delivers transcoding solutions to providers of mobile, desktop and IPTV content. Its transcoding platform uniquely supports both live and file-based transcoding applications with the broadest codec support, most extensive device coverage, and widest range of picture resolutions. The platform provides this transcoding flexibility while enabling customer-optimized tradeoffs between concurrency, real-time performance, and quality of experience - enabling video transcoding and delivery to be closely aligned with specific business model needs. Its platform is fully integrated with all popular forms of video delivery applications including RTSP streaming, Adaptive RTSP streaming, HTTP Progressive Download, Apple iPhone 3.0 Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe's upcoming HTTP Adaptive Download. The RipCode TransAct Platform™ sets them apart from traditional 'box' transcoding vendors. The TransAct portfolio extends industry-leading transcoding technology to a policy-driven video delivery platform elevating scalable, easy to deploy, revenue-generating video delivery to an on-the-fly, real-time network transaction tuned to the needs of each provider's business goals.

Quantance, Inc. manufactures ultra-fast, envelope tracking power supplies. The company was founded by Vikas Vinayak and Serge Francois Drogi in 2006 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

RF Magic, Inc. manufactures broadband radio frequency integrated circuits. It offers services for consumer markets, broadband & digital broadcast entertainment industries. RF Magic has design center and sales office in Nice, France. The company was founded by Mark Foley and Dale Hancock in 2000 and is headquarters is located in San Diego, CA

Commonwealth Equity Services LLC, dba Commonwealth Financial Network (Commonwealth), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Joseph (Joe) S. Deitch in 1979 as The Cambridge Group. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of 1979 Holding Co. LLC, an indirect and wholly-owned subsidiary of Gratitude Holdings, Inc. Commonwealth provides advisory services to individuals and high net-worth individuals, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit-sharing plans (other than plan participants), state or municipal government entities, and charitable organizations.

Aviator Capital Management LLC (Aviator Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Aventura, with additional offices in Miami, Florida and Dublin, Ireland.

Recommind, Inc. develops and sells software for electronic discovery, information governance, enterprise search, and content categorization. Its products include axcelerate, decisiv, and perceptiv. The firm solutions include eDiscovery for law firms and enterprise, information governance and access. The company was founded by Robert Tennant, Derek Schueren, and Jan Puzicha in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Dell, Inc. engages in the manufacture of electronic devices. Its products include laptops, desktops, tablets, thin clients, printers, monitors, software, workstations and accessories. The company was founded by Michael Saul Dell on February 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, TX.

JK&B Capital (JK&B Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by David Kronfeld and George H. Spencer. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

NBC Internet, Inc. provides integration, multimedia and entertainment via the Internet services. It portfolio of services included Information, Entertainment, Utility, E-commerce and Advertising Services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.