Robert A. Cramer

Nimbit, Inc. offers direct-to-fan sales and marketing platform for the music industry. It powers the brands and businesses of thousands of artists by giving them the ability to easily market and sell their music and products. The company was founded by Philip Antoniades, Patrick Faucher, Matthew Silbert and Joseph P. Twarog in 2002 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

LiveVault Corp. provided server backup and recovery solutions for small and mid- sized businesses and enterprises with remote offices. LiveVault's flagship products, the first to automate and integrate data backup, offsite protection, archiving and recovery, specifically address the needs of customers whose servers reside outside of major data centers. The company was founded by John Butler & Chris Midgley and was headquartered in Southborough, MA.

Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The Ingres Database offers high-volume transaction processing, high availability, multi-platform support, and security for mission-critical application deployments. Its software and support services are designed to provide customers these enterprise-class features at a lower total cost of ownership. It also offers its database software as part of integrated software appliances, enabling customers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy, manage, and maintain open source solutions throughout the enterprise. These appliances are the result of its work with leading business intelligence and content management providers. Its business intelligence appliance delivers advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities; while its appliance for content management allows for the management of structured and unstructured data. As an open source company, Ingres has an active community of developers that continually test its code, influence their product roadmap by submitting specific feature requests, and contribute code for inclusion in its software. When integrating their applications with its database, developers increase their productivity given their direct access to its source code. The company offers their customers a variety of support options ranging from online access to on-site support. Ingres is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally.

CenterLine Software, Inc. develops computer software. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Stephen Kaufer and Sesha Pratap.

FirstSense Software, Inc. provides application and service response management solutions. It offers its services to enterprise-wide distributed applications, including client/server, intranet and extranet environments. The Company's flagship product, FirstSense Enterprise, is the first applications management product that continuously monitors application performance and availability from the end user perspective and delivers Just-In-Time Applications Performance Management. FirstSense Software was founded in 1997 and is located in Burlington, MA.