Abe Taha

Blue Kai, Inc. provides cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalize online, offline, and mobile marketing campaigns. The company was founded by Grant Ries, Omar Tawakol, and Alexander Hooshmand in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

Ask.com operates an Internet portal and search index website. It offers information regarding art literature, beauty fashion, business finance, education, family, food, geography, government politics, health, history, pets animals, and technology. The company was founded by Garrett P. Gruener and David C. Warthen in 1996 and headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Ning, Inc. provides web hosting services. It offers a SaaS platform that provides users with the tools to nurture and engage their own community and also offers off-the-shelf community features, such as profiles, photos, forums, liking, sharing and foster engagement. The company was founded by Saul Charles Klein, Ryan Sholin, Gina L. Bianchini and Marc Lowell Andreessen in October 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Karmasphere was a business analytics software company brought Apache Hadoop power to the desktop. Karmasphere enables companies to unlock the competitive advantages within their large datasets by providing an easy-to-use class of client-side software. Karmasphere's first product, Karmasphere Studio: Community Edition was available for download at www.karmasphere.com. The company operated out of offices located in San Jose, California USA and Europe.