Lisa Hwang

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Plaxo, Inc. operates as a cloud-based online address book that synchronizes, updates and unifies the user's contacts across multiple sources. The company was founded by Cameron T. Ring, Sean N. Parker and Todd J. Masonis in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Rockstar Music, Inc. operates as a live streaming community that brings EDM fans and DJs together with live audio streaming, live Webcam or artist visual streaming, and live chat. The company was founded by David Moricca and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Yammer, Inc. operates online enterprise application for employee communication. It engages in enterprise social networking, providing a secure way for employees to communicate, collaborate, and share information. The company was founded by Adam Pisoni, David Oliver Sacks and George Ishii in 2008 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Tidemark Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based analytics platform. The company was founded by Christian Gheorghe, Tony Rizzo and Nenshad Bardoliwalla on September 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Airtime Media, Inc. provides web based video chat services. It operates a community network that showcases the video chat. The company was founded by Joey Liaw, Shawn D. Fanning and Sean N. Parker in 2010 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Revenue.io operates online platform which provides sales engagement and conversation analytics. Its platform offers solutions for outbound sales, inbound sales, sales managers, sales operations, and marketing managers. The company was founded by Howard Brown and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA.

SignalFx, Inc. provides advanced monitoring platform for modern applications. Its monitoring platform lets them create custom analytics pipelines on metrics data collected from thousands or more sources to create meaningful aggregations such as percentiles, moving averages and growth rates-within seconds of receiving data. The firm SignalFx takes care of the infrastructure and plumbing to process, store, and run analytics against the data in real time by using its SignalFlow technology that streams the results of analytics out as fast as the raw data coming in. The company was founded by Phillip Liu and Karthik Rau in 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Databricks, Inc. is a data and AI company that combines data warehouses and data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company provides solutions and solution accelerators for various industries, including healthcare, government, and manufacturing. Databricks helps data provider partners monetize data assets and offers a pay-as-you-go pricing approach. The company was founded in 2013 by Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Ali Ghodsi, who has been the CEO since 2013. Databricks was acquired by Dominari Holdings, Inc.

Hire an Esquire, Inc. provides legal staffing services. The firm rebuilds legal recruiting and staffing from the ground up, using an online platform that analyzes a candidate’s experience and expertise and matches attorneys with contract and permanent positions at law firms and legal departments. It has offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. The company was founded by Julia Shapiro, Jules Miller and Andrew Somerville on May 5, 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Skype Technologies SA provides communications services via the Internet. The company’s Skype software serves individuals and businesses to make free video & voice calls, send instant messages, and share files with others. It also enables them to make calls to landlines and mobiles internationally. The company also provides headsets, webcams, and phones through its online shop. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Part of Unity Software, Inc., Weta Digital Ltd. is a standard-bearer for creativity and innovation in visual effects and animation. The company is based in Miramar, New Zealand and is the largest single-site VFX studio in the world, drawing artists from over 40 countries. The New Zealander company attracts talent, partners, and clients who seek to push the boundaries of artistic vision. Weta Digital's proprietary pipeline provides artists with the necessary tools to create their best work. Weta Digital has earned numerous awards, including six Visual Effects Academy Awards, ten Academy Sci-Tech Awards, and six Visual Effects BAFTA Awards. Prem K. Akkaraju has been the CEO of the company since 2020. Weta Digital was acquired by Unity Software, Inc. on December 01, 2021 for $1,145.38 million.

Omidyar Network LLC (Omidyar Network) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Omidyar Network Commons LLC founded in 2004 by Pierre Omidyar and Pam Omidyar. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

The Sunlight Foundation advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. The firm focuses on the digitization of government data and the creation of tools and Web sites to make that data accessible for all citizens. It serves local, state, federal and international level governments. The company was founded by Michael R. Klein and Ellen S. Miller in 2006 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Foursquare Labs Inc. provides free mobile location-based social networking services. Its application Foursquare, helps users to connect to friends and locations which they have visited. The firm's application can also be used as a marketing tool for businesses, brands and agencies. The company was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in March 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Factual, Inc. operates as a platform that enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data. It enables mobile applications developers to create personalized mobile experience. The firm's products include marketing, location and consumer data so;utions. The company was founded by Gil Elbaz in 2008 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Skype SARL provides communication services via the Internet. Its software-based communications platform offers tools for consumers and businesses to communicate and collaborate globally through voice, video and text conversations. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Green for All is a non-profit organization that works build a green economy to lift citizens out of poverty. The company was founded by Van Jones and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Magnet Systems, Inc. develops and builds business applications with social and mobile capabilities. It powers the next-generation of mobile apps with software, infrastructure and tools to build enterprise-grade mobile apps that meet the expectations of users today and the demands of tomorrow. The firm also offers Magnet message, an open source solution that allows developers to build messaging into iOS, Android, or hybrid mobile applications. The company was founded by Renee Barton and Alfred S. Chuang in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Code For America Labs, Inc. provides internet services. The firm specializes in technology, software, policy and government. The company was founded by Jennifer Pahlka and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Propper Daley LLC is a private company based in Los Angeles, CA.

TheAudience, Inc. publishes social and digital contents. It offers social consulting, social publishing, and influencer activation. The company was founded by Oliver Luckett, Sean N. Parker, and Ariel Z. Emanuel in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Tmunity Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products that free the immunological potential of T cells to treat disease indications. It develops novel T Cell Receptor (TCR) engineered T cells, regulatory T cells (Treg), and universal engineered T cell platforms. The company was founded by Carl H. June, Anne Chew, Bruce Levine, Yangbing Zhao, James L. Riley and Bruce Blazar and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy is a research organization that aims to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases. The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy is based in San Francisco, CA. The private company conducts clinical trials to tackle the toughest cancers and answer the hardest questions in immunotherapy. The institute coordinates cancer research efforts between the best scientists, clinicians, and partners in the industry. The company has legal experts who help their researchers navigate the intellectual property process and turn their cancer immunotherapy discoveries into treatments. It was founded by Sean N. Parker, Adam Kolom, Michael Polansky.

Heypster SAS is a French startup that specializes in creating social media applications. The company is based in France, and it was founded in 1999 by Shawn D. Fanning, Sean N. Parker, Kevin Choleau. The French company's flagship product is heypster-gif, which is a platform for sharing GIFs on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and App iMessage.

Arsenal Biosciences, Inc. discovers, develops, and commercializes curative immune cell therapies. It offers cell therapy, cloud computing, computational biology, genome engineering, machine learning, software engineering, and synthetic immunology. The company was founded by Ken E. Drazan, Bradley E. Bernstein, W. Nicholas Haining, Theo Roth, Kole T. Roybal, and E. John Wherry and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Institute For Women's Policy Research is a non-profit research organization. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The American company was founded in 1987. C. Nicole Mason has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

SnapLogic, Inc. provides data and application integration tools. It offers tools for connecting cloud data sources, software as a service applications, and on-premise business applications. The firm SnapStore model allows developers, system integrators, and independent software vendors to build and sell purpose-built Snaps for both used and emerging applications. It has offices in Boulder, Burlington, Hyderabad and New York. The company was founded by Gaurav S. Dhillon and Mike Pittaro in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.