Brad Collier

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

MyHeritage (USA) Inc. engages in the operation of genealogy and social networking website. It manages an online community of casual and expert genealogists working together to create a single world family tree. The company was founded by George Ishii in 2006 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Emerald Cloud Lab, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers Emerald Cloud Laboratory, a life sciences laboratory that scientists can remotely access via the internet where automated robotics conduct experiments exactly as specified by the user. The company was founded by Daniel Jerome Kleinbaum and Brian M. Frezza in 2010 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Workrise Technologies, Inc. is engaged in technology services. It serves contractors, vendors and operators. The company was founded by Sandeep Jain, Michael Witte, and Xuan Yong Ying in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity/ venture capital subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Khosla Ventures LLC (Khosla Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sportelligence, Inc. provides online news updates regarding sports. It owns and operates a sports website. The firm website enables sports fans to compete against others to prove their sports knowledge; broadcast to other fans their takes on news, rumors; unite with like-minded fans to cheer their teams and root against their rivals. The company was founded in 2005 by Peter A. Thiel and Ty Shay and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Horizon Capital Group provides securities brokerage services.

Postmates LLC operates logistics platform that offers delivery from restaurants and stores previously only available offline. It specializes in transportation, logistics, and local commerce. The company was founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice, and Bastian Lehmann in March 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

YourPeople, Inc. provides payroll and human resource services. The company’s People Platform delivers the most comprehensive, mobile HR experience in the market. Its HR, Benefits, Payroll and Performance apps combine with advisory services and tightly integrated partner apps to radically simplify HR administration-reducing paperwork and complexity so companies can focus on starting, running and growing their businesses. The company was founded by Parker Conrad and Laks Srini in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CapitalG Management Company LLC (CapitalG) is a private equity division of Alphabet, Inc founded in 2013 by David Lawee. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Affirm, Inc. provides online payment services. It offers reimagining financial services, from credit cards to deposit banking. The firm helps to improve sales conversions and boost basket sizes. It allows online shoppers to pay for purchases in multiple monthly installments with financing costs lower than credit card interest rates. The company was founded by Max R. Levchin, Jeffrey Kaditz, Alastair Rampell, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nightingale App, Inc. provides clinical decision support software for evidence based autism treatments. It operates as a health technology company which develops data-driven solutions to improve the quality of patient care. The company was founded in January 2013 by Delian Tihomirov Asparouhov and Eric Bakan and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Flexport, Inc. engages in the provision of online customs brokerage and freight forwarding services. It offers ocean freight, air freight, trucking and delivery, government agency filing, cargo insurance, and warehousing and fulfillment. The company was founded by Ryan Roy Petersen and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Leaflink, Inc. operates a business-to-business wholesale order management platform for the cannabis industry. Its software platform is designed to support participants in a B2B supply chain, providing basic tools designed to save money for retailers and allow producers to get better pricing for their product. The company was founded by Ryan Smith and Zach Silverman in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Eight Sleep, Inc. manufactures non wearable sleep tracker. The firm also provides smart mattress, mattress and bed sheets. It offers purchasing and shipping services. The company was founded by Matteo Franceschetti, Massimo Andreasi Bassi, Alexandra Zatarain and Andrea Ballarini in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

LTSE Services, Inc. engages in national securities exchange services. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cloud9 Esports, Inc. operates e eSports team organization. It is a multi-gaming organization with teams in League of Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Sm4sh, H1Z1, Vainglory, Dota2, and Overwatch. The company was founded by Jacques M. Etienne and Paullie K. Etienne in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Lula Technologies, Inc. develops and operates an online peer-to-peer car sharing platform for college students. The company was founded by Matthew Vega-Sanz and Michael Vega-Sanz and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Solugen, Inc. is a venture-backed biotech startup, which focuses in replacing petroleum based products with plant-derived substitutes. The company was founded by Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt in 2016 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Gigafund Management Co. LLC (Gigafund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Stephen Oskoui and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

The Founders Fund Growth Principals Fund LP engages in the investment of pooled investment fund and venture capital fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is a company that is building space factories to revolutionize the production process. The company is based in El Segundo, CA. The company is currently the only company aiming to operate entirely on commercial supply chains and are well positioned to be the worldwide leader in commercial microgravity manufacturing. Using their spacecraft as a manufacturing platform in microgravity, they create game-changing products that defy gravity's constraints on earth. With their economical re-entry capsules, they not only bring these products back safely to earth but also pave the way for life on an orbital manufacturing platform that delivers products back to earth. The company was founded in 2020 by Daniel Marshall, Delian Tihomirov Asparouhov, William Bruey. William Bruey has been the CEO since 2020.

Ripple Labs, Inc. engages in the development of virtual currency and open source payments systems. The firm offers blockchain technology for payments. The company was founded by Christopher A. Larsen, Arthur Britto, and Jed Mccaleb on December 21, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Anduril Industries, Inc. engages in the research and development of artificial intelligence platform for military and security solutions. Its products include sentry towers and lattice ghost drones. The company was founded by Brian Schimpf, Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, and Joseph Chen and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

LTSE Group, Inc. designs securities and exchange commission- regulated national securities exchange that aligns companies and long-term investors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nobl9, Inc. is a service level objective platform that helps organizations set and understand reliability goals by tracking the performance of their systems. The company is based in Waltham, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform allows users to integrate with their existing technologies and manage service levels by defining and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs), tracking latency, and managing SLAs. Nobl9 makes SLOs powerful and easy to use by providing information on platform pricing and options. The company was founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singerman, with Marcin Kurc serving as the CEO since incorporation.

CollectiveHealth, Inc. provides self-insurance platform. Its platform helps organizations and its consultants to design, administer and optimize employee health benefit programs harnessing the power of data science and technology in ways that have simply not been possible to-date. The company was founded by Ali Diab, Kent Keirsey, Rajaie Batniji and Preston Tollinger in October 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.