Murali Basavaiah

Terracotta, Inc. provides java based software services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

D2S, Inc. supplies computational design platforms. Its products include TrueMask MDP and TrueMask DS. TrueMask DS, a mask-wafer double simulation platform for research and development exploration, bit-cell design, hot-spot analysis, and mask-defect categorization that comprehends overlapping shots and dose modulation. The company was founded by Aki Fujimura in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

High Gear Media, Inc. provides online information about automative products and news. It owns and operates car shopping and automotive news Websites that publishes automotive content to connect car-seeking audiences with content and tools on desktop and mobile devices. The company is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

OpenX Ltd. designs ad server software for web publishers. It provides a software as a service product that combines as ad server, ad exchange, and yield optimizer to maximize results. The company was founded by Tobias Ratschiller, Amith Shah, Scott Switzer, Jason Fairchild, and Damon Andrew Reeve in 2007 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Parsable, Inc. provides enterprise solutions using wearable computing hardware. It offers services to healthcare, energy and other industries. The company was founded by Yan-David Erlich, Ryan Junee, and Chase Feiger in July 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Clickatell, Inc. provides mobile messaging services. It offers developers? central, an interface to global short message services (SMS) gateway that allows users to manage various SMS API connections, monitor campaigns, do reporting, make online payments, receive invoices, add sub-users, and more;; provides additional APIs and code scripts for use with various interfaces and support integration with product documents; allows APIs to integrate various systems or applications with global SMS messaging gateway; and adds SMS short codes. The company was founded by Pieter de Villiers, Patrick Lawson, Casper de Villiers and Danie du Toit in June 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

DAG Ventures LLC (DAG Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by John James Cadeddu, Tom Goodrich and John M. Duff. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

GreenRoad Technologies, Inc. provides fleet telematics solutions. It offers technology and programs to inform and engage many types of drivers for reducing driving risk, saving fuel, and reducing insurance and maintenance costs. The firm also provides greenroad driver improvement loop, a technology-based personalized driver self-improvement solution. The company was founded by Hod Fleischman and Ofer Raz in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Serverless, Inc. offers developers an open source framework. It provides paid consulting services and paid proprietary features. The company was founded by Austen Collins in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cyberhaven, Inc. provides cyber security technology solutions. It specializes in malware, social engineering, and malicious insiders. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Dremio Corp. develops Structured Query Language query engine software. The company was founded by Tomer Shiran and Jacques Nadeau in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

LightSpeed Israel Ltd is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Israel.

ShieldX Networks, Inc. offers cloud security and micro-segmentation software. The company was founded by Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Harjinder Singh, Manuel Nedbal and Lovely Kaur in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Arrcus, Inc. provides software-powered network transformation services. It offers ArcOS, a fully programmable, modular, extensible software that enables organizations to cost-effectively build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments while delivering security and deployment flexibility. The company was founded by Devesh Garg Nandan, Keyur Patel and Derek Yeung in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Impira, Inc. develops and provides data management software solutions. The company was founded by Ankur Goyal and Richard Stebbing in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pensando Systems, Inc. operates as an edge computing startup firm. It develops enterprise and cloud computing software. The company was founded by Mario Mazzola, Prem Chand Jain, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani in 2017 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Lightspeed SPV OB LLC operates as a venture capital firm. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Giant Ventures Global LLP (Giant Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Part of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Noname Gate, Inc. is a privately held company that specializes in API security. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Noname Gate takes a proactive approach to API security, covering the entire API security scope across four pillars: discovery, posture management, runtime security, and API security testing. The company works with 20% of the Fortune 500 and aim to eliminate the challenges of API sprawl and the threat of API security attacks. Noname Gate offers a powerful and easy-to-use API platform that helps enterprises deploy APIs at the speed of business while protecting them in real-time and detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before they are exploited. The company was founded in 2020 by Oz Golan and Shay Levi. Oz Golan has been the CEO since 2020. Noname Gate was acquired by Akamai Technologies, Inc. on June 25, 2024 for $450 million.

Part of Diabsolut, Inc., Foundry52 is a consulting firm that specializes in billing and revenue implementations on the Salesforce platform. The company is based in Campbell, CA. The company was founded in 2006. The CEO is Mark F. Anderson. Foundry52 was acquired by Diabsolut, Inc. on February 01, 2021.

Part of Lightspeed Management Co LLC, LSVP XB-F LLC is a venture capital fund. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Neosec, Inc. is a company that is revolutionizing application security by providing a platform that unifies security and development teams to protect modern applications from threats. The company is based in Milpitas, CA, with R&D in an undisclosed location. The company's SaaS platform is built on data and analytics to manage security at scale and prevent threats from abusing the complex network of APIs that connect today's businesses. Neosec has pioneered the use of behavioral analytics to understand normal versus abnormal API usage and delivers powerful threat hunting capabilities together with a team of expert threat hunters. Neosec was founded by Giora Engel and Ziv Sivan, and Giora Engel has been the CEO since incorporation.