Ian O’Donnell

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.

Part of Intel Corp., NetBoost Corp. develops hardware and software solutions that provide a programmable platform for deploying complex policy applications. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded in 1997 by Leonard Rand, Jerry Hall, Kevin R. Fall. NetBoost was acquired by Intel Corp. on September 01, 1999.

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.

Talari Networks, Inc. provides software defined wide area network solutions. The firm's products include appliances, management and network controller including Talari failsafe SD WAN solutions, physical appliances, on-board appliance and performance management. Its solutions include software defined WAN, hybrid WAN, and internet as WAN, cloud connect and WAN optimization solutions. It serves to financial services, credit unions, and banking, and public sector, legal and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by John E. Dickey and Andrew J. Gottlieb in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

PernixData, Inc. develops flash storage virtualization. It provides an enterprise-class software platform for application acceleration. The company develops a software-defined Flash Virtualization Platform that virtualizes server-side flash into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers. PernixData was founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

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.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Vareto, Inc. is a strategic finance platform that provides enterprise and growth stage companies with a secure platform for planning, reporting, and operational decision-making. The company is based in Mountain View, CA and was founded by Lalit Singh and Ekaterina Orekhova. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and offers powerful reports and models. Vareto is backed by GV, Menlo Ventures, and 40 angel investors, including CFOs from leading technology companies. The platform streamlines collaboration with stakeholders, provides a holistic view of business spending, and integrates with 50+ ERP, HRIS, CRM, and other business-critical systems. Vareto's mission is to help companies operate better by bringing elegant design and data intelligence into FP&A processes. Ekaterina Orekhova has been the CEO since incorporation.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pervasive Software, Inc. provides embedded database software and cloud-based services. Its products include Pervasive PSQL, Pervasive DataExchange, Pervasive Data Integrator, Pervasive DataRush and Pervasive DataSolutions. Pervasive PSQL database provides embeddable data management. Pervasive DataExchange provides solution to eliminate data loss and down time due to system crashes or site disasters. Pervasive Data Integrator provides cost-effective extraction, transformation and flow of nearly any kind of data between sources throughout the organization. Pervasive DataRush is a software development platform. Pervasive DataSolutions gives customers affordable, subscription based integration delivered as configurable services on the Pervasive DataCloud. The company was founded by Nancy Woodward in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

3PAR, Inc. provides utility storage solutions. It also provides platform for the delivery of enterprise IT as a utility service. The company was founded by Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal in 1999 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Voltage Security, Inc. operates as a data protection provider which delivers data-centric encryption, tokenization, and key management solutions. The company was founded by Matt Pauker, Rishi Kacker, Dan Boneh and Guido Appenzeller in 2002 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Phiar Corp. develops metal-insulator electronics. Its products include diodes, transistors, detectors, varactors, transceivers, modulators, and supporting devices. The company was founded by Michael Estes, Garret Moddel and Blake Eliasson in July 2001 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Dstillery, Inc. is an applied data science company. It provides cross-device audience targeting platform for brands. The company was founded by Alan Murray, Joe P. Doran, Rod Hook, David Honig, Joshua Abram and Kathy Leake in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Authoria, Inc. develops human capital management software solutions. Its products specific targets are recruiting, performance, incentives, salary, succession and communications. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RightHand Robotics, Inc. provides piece-picking solutions. The firm offers ReFlex SF, a system that comprises a 3D-printed palm filled with dynamixel servos, a palm, three compliant fingers, an interface circuit board and a basic software driver to publish motor commands and read sensor values. The company was founded by Leif Jentoft, Lael Odhner and Yaroslav Tenzer in 2014 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Cofactor Genomics, Inc. operates as a biotech company that offers services to the life-science, pharmaceutical, agriculture, and biofuels companies. The firm provides human genome projects. The company was founded by Jarret Glasscock, Dave Messina, and Jon Armstrong in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

tCell.io, Inc. designs security control equipment and systems. It protects apps from OWASP top 10 attacks, bots and fraud; and manages access to data; prevent data loss. The company was founded by Michael Feiertag and Boris Chen in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Platform9 Systems, Inc. operates as a software service cloud platform. It offers OpenStack transforms users existing servers into self-service private cloud within minutes, enabling organizations to run private clouds. The company was founded by Sirish Raghuram, Bich Le, Madhura Maskasky and Roopak Parikh in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

BlueGill Technologies developer of applications for the conversion of legacy data into interactive web applications. Applications include tools, modules, reusable objects, industry-specific applications and partner solutions which work with the data management functions.

Rubric, Inc. develops e-marketing automation applications. The company is based in Worcester, MA. The company was founded in 1994 by Anu Shukla, Hal Steger, Francoise Henderson, Ian A. Henderson. Francoise Henderson has been the CEO since 1994.

INVIDI Technologies Corp. provides targeted television advertising and marketing solutions. It offers Advatar, a delivery system that includes Advatar Advertising, which provides access, preview, purchase, verification, campaign management, and reporting of television delivered impressions for media buyers, as well as allows them to execute their advertising campaigns. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

eXelate, Inc. provides data technology powering and digital marketing economy. Its products include data management platform, data marketplace and analytics. The company was founded by Meir Zohar and Elad Efraim in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zylo, Inc. provides technology based solutions. It operates as a SaaS optimization platform for managing cloud-based applications. The company was founded by Eric Christopher in 2016 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.