Vijay Kumar

Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC (CAI) is a SEC-registered asset management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup Investments, Inc., which is owned by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CAI provides advisory services to private investment companies, such as private equity funds and funds of one or more private equity and real estate funds. The investors in the funds advised by the firm are institutional investors, funds of funds, high-net worth individuals and employees, and former employees of Citigroup, Inc.

July Systems, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based mobile solutions. Its products include July MX, WiFi-MX and July Rapid; and also specialize in the design and management of a platform that offers end-to-end solutions enabling brands to publish, distribute, and monetize inventory and personalized services for consumers on the mobile internet. The firm serves retail and hospitality industries, malls, stadiums, airports and convention centers. The company was founded by Ashok Narasimhan and Rajesh T. S. Reddy in July 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

KAI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops biopharmaceutical drugs. It is a multiple, novel clinical-stage programs in the areas of cardiovascular, renal, and pain. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Conforma Therapeutics Corp. designs and develops drugs for treatment of cancer. It also develops applications in the areas of medicine, including inflammation, virology and central nervous system disorders. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of VMware, Inc., CloudVolumes, Inc. provides real-time application delivery technologies. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Henrik Rosendahl, Matthew Conover, Matthieu Bapthiste Suiche. CloudVolumes was acquired by VMware, Inc. on August 20, 2014 for $45 million.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Guava Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes cytometry systems for cellular analyses. Its products include Guava Personal Cell Analysis systems, Guava PCA, Guava PCA-96, and Guava EasyCyte systems. The company was founded by Goix J. Philippe in 1998 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

U-Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets ultrasound systems. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Schenectady, NY.

California Digital Corp. specializes in system and interconnect integration, software support, and configuration. It serves the manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, bioinformatics, financial services, and digital content creation industries. The company was founded by B.J. Arun and Srinidhi Varadarajan in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

ProteinSimple engages in the proprietary systems and consumables for protein analysis. Its products include simple plex, ice, simple western, micro-flow imaging, and single-cell western. The company was founded by Linda Cahill, Nancy Allbritton, Christopher Sims, Scott Lockard, and Jim Schlater in December 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Quantros, Inc. provides data management and quality improvement solutions. It offers software and services for healthcare quality and safety performance. The firm’s solutions include safety and risk management, regulatory reporting management, safety Rx, licensing quantos technology, quantros patient safety center, accreditation and compliance excellence, IRIS and data assets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Greenville, SC.

The Indus Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization. It provides mentoring, networking, education and funding to entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Bay Area Council Economic Institute operates an advocacy and research organization. The firm's services include infrastructure, trade, globalization, science and innovation, business development and governance. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MCNC, Inc. is a non-profit company based in Durham, NC. The company is a team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers who provide high-end services to the community.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an organization that works with the government to implement the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in government schools and government-aided schools in order to eliminate classroom hunger. The program has resulted in increased school attendance, enrollment, concentration, and reduced class drop-out rates. The non-profit company is based in Bangalore, India. The foundation has been dedicated to feeding nutritious meals to school children for 22 years and complies with international financial reporting standards to maintain transparency. The foundation was founded by Mohandas Tellicheery Pai after Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada witnessed children fighting with street dogs for scraps of food.

Velocita, Inc. operates a SaaS-based, social, referral and loyalty marketing platform. Its products include Refer-a-Friend, Photomonials, Customer Loyalty, Social Login, Share-a-Purchase, Get-a-Fan, Share-and-Save, Viral Offer Sharing, and Viral Flash Sale. It also offers software development and managed online marketing services. The company was founded by Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar in 2010 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

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.

VKRM Ventures(VKRM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Kumar Malavalli. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Glassbeam, Inc. operates as a machine data analytics company. It serves manufactures of products such as servers, storage, networking, software, telecom and medical devices. The company was founded in 2004 by Kumar Malavalli and Puneet Pandit and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Fabric LLC (The Fabric) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Rajan Raghavan, Prabakar Sundarrajan and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The Hive LLC (The Hive) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by T.M.Ravi and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Hyderabad Educational Institutions Pvt Ltd. provides educational services. The company is headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

TADA Cognitive Solutions LLC operates as a cloud-based platform which delivers business solutions. The firm serves the manufacturing, materials, insurance, healthcare, and financial services industries. The company is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Feuji, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers salesforce consulting, supply chain management, managed services, BPO services and strategic staffing. The firm’s practices include salesforce clouds implementations, app exchange development, salesforce CPQ and contracts life cycle, salesforce E-Commerce, data migration and integrations, and training and support. The company was founded by Manohar Reddy and Ruchi Bindra in 2014 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Aparna Systems, Inc. develops cloud storage and networking applications. Its µCloud and µServer products provide a high density, high performance and high availability Cloud-in-a-Box solution for edge applications ranging from hybrid cloud gateways to edge artificial intelligence applications. The firm’s products include µCloud 4015 Open Edge System and µServers. The company was founded by Sam S. Srinivasan and Alex D. Henderson on February 13, 2013 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Youplus, Inc. develops and operates a search platform. It offers Video Opinion Search Engine (VOISE). The company was founded by Shaukat Shamim and Bharat Vijay in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bluevine Ventures LLC (BlueVine Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in silicon valley, California.