Stephen Ward

Bloomspot, Inc. offers online discounted coupons for restaurants, spas, salons, weekend getaways, events, and international resorts. The firm provides discounted coupons through a flash-sale site Bloomspot.com. The company was founded by Jasper Malcolmson and Nimit Maru in 2008 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Unravel Data Systems, Inc. develops software and data operations. Its solutions include APM for Big Data, resource and cost optimization, and cloud migration. The company was founded by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

REV, Inc. operates department stores.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Microsoft Corp. (India) Pvt Ltd. designs, manufactures and markets Microsoft software products. It offers Windows products, including Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer. It also offers server and tool products, such as Windows, SQL, and Exchange servers; Visual Studio, an integrated development environment to create applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as Web applications and cloud services; Microsoft Azure that offers cloud computing platform and services; Windows I tune for mobile device and application management, and PC management from the cloud; and SharePoint, a team collaboration software tools. Microsoft was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Greylock Management Corp (Greylock Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 by Charlie P. Waite and Daniel S. Gregory. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

GupShup Technology (India) Pvt Ltd. provides cloud messaging services. It serves Commerce, banking, transportation, hospitality, healthcare, educational and government institutions. The firm's products include SMS, voice call, email, USSD and Data. The Company was founded by Rakesh Mathur, Beerud Sheth, Bradley V. Husick, Viswanath Ramachandran, Milind R. Agarwal and Chirag Jain and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Machine Zone, Inc. develops games and applications for mobile and social-networking platforms. It focuses on creating free-to-play mobile social games. The company was founded by Michael Sherril, Halbert Nakagawa, and Gabriel Leydon in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Glilot Capital Investments GP Ltd. (Glilot Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein. The firm is headquartered in Herzliya.

TiE Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs and executives of South Asian origin. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding programs and activities. TiE events bring together the entrepreneurial community to learn from leaders and each other. The economic value enabled through TiE's entrepreneurial endeavors is estimated to exceed over time.

A Place for Rover, Inc. provides an online marketplace that connects dog owners with local dog sitters in cities across the United States. Its services include dog boarding, house sitting, drop-in-visits, doggy day care, and dog walking. The company was founded by Greg Gottesman and Philip Kimmey in 2011 and is headquartered in Olympia, WA.

Gild, Inc. provides technology that bringing meritocracy to HR with its innovative recruiting solutions. Its platform is used for automatic interview scheduling and one-click video interviewing. The company was founded by Luca Bonmassar and Sheeroy Desai in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

UpCounsel, Inc. operates as a holding company, which provides a marketplace of attorneys to help small businesses and startups find legal help without hiring a full-service law firm. It works by matching customers with attorneys based on the type of legal help needed, as well as the specialties of the lawyers available. the firm's practice areas include business formation, commercial contracts, employment and labor, immigrations, lawsuits and siputes, non-profit, real estate, trademark and copyright, business operation, debt and bankruptcy, financing, landlord and tenant, leagl research and writing, patents, and tax. UpCounsel was founded by Matthew Faustman, Mason Blake and Touraj Parang in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BitSight Technologies, Inc. offers data analytics and security software. It offers vendor risk management, bench marking, cyber insurance, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise vendor discovery, and national cyber security solutions. The firm's products include BitSight security ratings, discover and sovereign security ratings. The company was founded by Nagarjuna Venna and Stephen Boyer in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Rev.com, Inc. provides online audio, video transcription and document translation services. It also provides marketplace that works with selected freelancers to deliver services to businesses. The company was founded by David Abrameto, Jason M. Chicola, Josh Breinlinger and Paul Huck in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Breather Products, Inc. provides on-demand space for relaxation and other purposes in a network of rooms opened by phone. Its rooms can be used for activities such as brainstorming, strategy sessions, and product sprints. The company was founded by Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi in August 2013 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

OverOps, Inc. provides cloud computing services. It offers an online debugging solution that comes in lite, pro, and enterprise plans. The firm also develops scala programming and language scripts. The company was founded by Tal Weiss, Iris Shoor, Chen Harel, Dor Levi, and Niv Steingarten in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AppDome, Inc. provides mobile application protection platform. It secures enterprise and consumer-facing apps from cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. The firm?s security solutions used by the financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance and security for consumers and employees. The company was founded by Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Avi Networks, Inc. provides cloud application delivery platform. It delivers automated application services including load balancing, application analytics, predictive autoscaling, and security for on-premises or public cloud applications. The company was founded by Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah and Ranga Rajagopalan in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Dedrone Holdings, Inc. develops identifier of unmanned flying objects. It offers a multi sensor drone detection system, drone tracker, drone software, and applications for drones. The company was founded by Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Ingo Seebach in February 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MealPal, Inc. develops an application for a subscription meal services. It allows users to browse meals available at nearby restaurants, filter meals by cuisine and portion size, and preorder the night before or in the morning, choosing a time to pick up their lunch. The company was founded by Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Dedrone Holdings, Inc, Dedrone GmbH is a German company that develops and manufactures multi-sensor systems for the detection of modern civilian drones. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. The company was founded in 2014 by Ingo Seebach, Jörg Lamprecht, René Seeber. The CEO is Aaditya Devarakonda.

Yellcast, Inc. engages in developing internet connection engine. The company was founded by Venkat Ganesan, Bill Foster & Richard Wright and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Sonrai Security, Inc. operates as a cloud based security company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Cresta Intelligence, Inc. owns and operates as a enterprise software company. The firm’s products include guided selling responses, real-time coaching, workflow automation, and visibility and control for managers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Strata Identity, Inc engages in the provision of distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its products include identity fabric, discovery, and orchestrator and connector catalog. The company was founded by Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, and Carl Eric Leach and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Aisera, Inc. develops artificial intelligence platform which makes businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Snorkel AI, Inc. engages in the provision of end-to-end Machine Learning (ML) platform. It offers document and contract intelligence, news and social media monitoring, customer support and routing, anti-money laundering, analyst triage, named entity and event recognition, and relation extraction solutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cerby, Inc. is a stealth cybersecurity company, which focuses on helping enterprises harness shadow information technology. The company was founded by Belsasar Lepe and Vidal Gonz?lez and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.