Ken Nicolson

Red Brick Systems, Inc., was the industry's fastest growing database company and was a leading provider of high-performance relational database products for data warehousing. Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse 5.0, was the fastest and most scalable relational database for data warehousing, including data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining. It was located in Los Gatos, CA.

Pluck Corp. offers integrated community platform for retailers, brands and publishers. It gives these organizations everything they need to build unique social experiences. The firm enables users to rate, review products, services and provides forums, a discussion application for open-ended conversation and interaction, as well as provides Q&A configuration, unread post tracking, managed subscription notifications, integrated polls, and other services. The company was founded in 2003 by Andrew Busey and David E. Panos and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Veridiem, Inc. provides marketing resource management software, which enables companies to plan, measure and optimize the return on marketing investments.

AlphaBlox Corp. provides the open web-based platform for e-business analysis applications. AlphaBlox is located in Cupertino, CA.

Kiva Software Corp. develops server products that link internal and external computer networks

Antenna Software, Inc. offers cloud-based enterprise mobility software solutions. Its products are designed to enable information technology professionals and business executives to create and manage mobile applications, website,s and content. The company was founded by Peter Semmelhack in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Eschool.com, Inc. provides computer software development services. It offers services to the software publishers, custom computer programming, administrative management and general consulting. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.