Jessica Zhou

MACOM Technology Solutions, Inc. supplies semiconductors and subassemblies for microwave and milliwave applications. It offers semiconductors, active and passive components, and sub-assemblies for use in radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave applications. The company was founded in March 2009 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

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

Light Blue Optics Ltd. develops miniature laser projector systems. It also develops and supplies advanced user-interface technology for use in markets including education, training, corporate boardrooms and consumer electronics. The firm’s software is embedded in cutting-edge interactive flat-panel displays and projection-based whiteboards. The company was founded by Adrian Cable James, Lawrence Nicholas Alexander, Peter Mash, Susan Elizabeth Dixon and Edward Buckley on January 19, 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Actiance, Inc. provides information archiving applications and services. It offers cloud archiving, data loss prevention, regulatory compliance, security, and supervision solutions. Its products include Vantage, Socialite, and Alcatraz. Vantage, captures and secures all communications channels. Socialite, gives enterprise the flexibility to customize usage policies for public social channels across devices. Alcatraz, a cloud-based content archive captures and preserves communications channels. The company was founded by Mehdi Maghsoodnia and David W. Hsieh in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Webex, Inc. provided precision rolls to customers within the web handling and converting industries. The firm's products include heating rolls, carbon composite rolls, chill rolls, anvil rolls, nip rolls, coating rolls, vacuum rolls and belts, dancer rolls, air-removal rolls, spreader rolls, printing cylinders, dead and live shaft idler rolls, and embossing roll. The company was founded in 1972 and was headquartered in Neenah, WI.

Instart Logic, Inc. develops cloud solutions fo web and mobile application performance. The company was founded by Manav Ratan Mital, Raghu Venkat, and Hariharan Kolam and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

3com Megahertz Corp. provides voice and data networking products and services. The company was founded by Robert M. Metcalfe, Howard S. Charney and John P. Marshall in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

A Cloud Guru Ltd. engages in the development of learning and talent development platform for cloud computing. Its learning application helps businesses and individuals develop cloud skills, prepare for certification exams, and progress through learning paths to become gurus in specialized disciplines. The company was founded by Ryan Johannes Kroonenburg and Sam Kroonenburg in January 2015 and is headquartered in Twickenham, the United Kingdom.

Part of Progress Software Corp., Telerik, Inc. is a company that provides consulting and training professional services for all Progress products. The company is based in Waltham, MA. The company's focus is on providing customers with the best products to develop, deploy, and manage high-impact business applications. The company's products speed up business app development, automate processes to configure, deploy, and scale apps, and make critical data more accessible and secure.

Progress Software EAD develops and markets software products. It provides end-to-end solutions for application development, software testing, agile project management, and reporting and content management across different Microsoft development platforms. The firm enables developers to build compelling applications for any screen with modular platform combining user interface tools with cloud services. The company was founded by Vassil Terziev, Svetozar Georgiev, Boyko Iaramov and Hristo Kosev in 2002 and is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC provides a variety of capital raising, market making, advisory and brokerage services for governments, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and corporate clients and affiliates. It is also a primary dealer in U.S. government securities and an underwriter, placement agent, and dealer for money market instruments, commercial paper, mortgage and other assetbacked securities, as well as a range of debt, equity and other convertible securities of corporations and other issuers. The company was founded on January 3, 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Amobee, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It provides data driven cross channel digital advertising solutions for agencies, brands, and publishers. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

LiveXLive Corp. provides live music streaming network. The company was founded by Rob Ellin and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Lycos, Inc. provides search-based Internet properties and services. The firm operates through the following divisions: LYCOS Media, LYCOS Advertising, and LYCOS Life. Its products and services include tools for blogging, web publishing and hosting, online games, e-mail, and search. It operates a network of sites and services including Lycos.com, Tripod, Angelfire, HotBot, Gamesville, WhoWhere, and LYCOS Mail. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Benhamou Global Ventures LLC (Benhamou Global Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Eric Benhamou. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

NYPIT, Inc. provides technology related services. The company is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Ayehu, Inc. provides information technology (IT) process automation and orchestration solutions for IT and security professionals. It offers run book automation, automated cyber security incident response, self service portal, notification and escalation, and IT process automation. The company was founded by Gabby Nizri and on Yaron Levy on August 15, 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, 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.

Linden Research, Inc. engages in the development and operation of virtual world platform Second Life. It also involves in registered money services business under the Tilia platform. The company was founded by Philip Rosedale in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Scale Computing, Inc. develops and manufactures data storage systems. It offers HC3 platform that integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server. The firm also offers solutions for private cloud, VDI, V2V Migration, P2V Migration, file sync and share, disaster recovery and VM Security. The company was founded by Jeffery Ready, Nate Hardt, Ehren Maedge, Peter C. Fuller, Mike Olson, Alan D. Hahn, Jason Collier and Scott Loughmiller in 2008 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Clicker Media Inc. provides internet television services. It catalogs various broadcast programming online with an information to help the client to decide what to watch, includes pictures, descriptions, tags, categories, cast members, airdates, related shows, programming notes and ratings. Clicker Media was founded by Paul Wehrley and Jim Lanzone in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.