Ritu Narayan

Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Domino Data Lab, Inc. provides software services. Its platform makes data scientists more productive and facilitates collaborative, reproducible and reusable analysis. The firm helps data scientists develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, build better cars, or simply pick the best song to play next. The company was founded by Nick Elprin, Matthew W. Granade and Christopher E. Yang 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.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

ChargePoint, Inc. engages in the development of cloud subscription platform and software-defined charging hardware. Its products include commercial chargers, residential chargers, Cloud Plans, and ChargePoint Enterprise Charging Optimization (ECO). The company was founded by Dave Baxter, Harjinder S. Bhade, Richard Lowenthal, Praveen K. Mandal, and Milton T. Tormey in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

TechSoup Global operates as a non-profit international network of non-governmental organizations that provides technical support and technological tools to other non-profits. The firm offers help desk, tech implementation, managed IT, website and development, digital marketing and techSoup courses services. The company was founded by Daniel Ben-Horin in 1987 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AgilOne, Inc. develops and sells a software-as-a-service marketing intelligence platform. It provides a fully integrated marketing solution that includes data management, marketing intelligence, predictive analytics and multi-channel campaign execution. The firm’s predictive intelligence application provides poweralerts, pathways and metrics. The company was founded by Omer Artun in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Thumbtack, Inc. engages in the operation of online marketplace for hiring workers. It enables the customers to hire professionals for painting and remodeling homes, learning a new language, teaching kids, DJ and photographing weddings, dog-sitting, and planning birthday parties. The company was founded by Marco Zappacosta, Jonathan Swanson, Sander Daniels and Jeremy Tunnell in August 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ifeelgoods, Inc. provides digital promotion and marketing solutions. Its digital rewards platform offers inventory management, campaign management, and security solutions. The firm’s customers include the advertising, social media, eCommerce, customer relationship management, customer care and shopper marketing industries. The company was founded by Michael Amar, Dimitri Ducourtieux, Scott Silverman, Suchit Dash and Vida Ha in 2010 and is headquartered in Pal Alto, CA.

Inkling Systems, Inc. provides cloud-based digital publishing platform. Its products include inkling knowledge and inkling collaboration. The firm also offers the following solutions: field reference, sales enablement, retail operations, training, and franchise operations. The company was founded by Matthew Charles MacInnis, Joshua Forman and Robert Cromwell in August 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BMW i Ventures Inc (BMW i Ventures), a venture capital subsidiary of of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Good Eggs, Inc. designs and develops online applications for local food producers. It helps connect users to networks of locally-owned farms, small food businesses, commercial kitchens, warehouses, grocers and other people involved that feed a single region. The company was founded by Robert J. Spiro, Greta Caruso, Robert Zoller, Randy Puro, Ali Pflaum and Alon Salant in August 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Clever, Inc. provides education software solutions. Its products include Its products include secure sync, single sign-on, clever badges and goals. It provides an educational application platform that allows schools to keep their learning software in sync with their existing student information systems. The company was founded by Daniel Carroll, Tyler Bosmeny and Rafael Garcia in March 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RideCell, Inc. provides an intelligent software platform that empowers mobility operators, including OEMs, car rental companies, auto clubs, cities, transit agencies, dealer groups, and private fleets to launch, expand, and maximize the utilization of their own ridesharing, carsharing, and autonomous fleet services. The company was founded by Aarjav Trivedi, Steve Dickerson, and ArunKumar Elangovan in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

VarageSale, Inc. operates a platform where local and interest based groups form communities to buy, sell and hangout. Its mobile applications can be operated on ios, android and kindle devices. The firm helps members to list items for sale, comment and discuss whether to purchase or not. The company was founded by Tami Zuckerman and Carl Mercier in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Frontapp, Inc. develops mobile applications for shared inboxes. It offers API and integration products. The company was founded by Thibaud Elzière, Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Scoop Technologies, Inc. develops and operates application for carpooling and transportation. Its application allows users to schedule morning and afternoon commutes with nearby co-workers and neighbours; and tailors a custom carpool based on route, employer, and traffic. The company was founded by Jonathan Sadow and Robert Sadow in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fair Financial Corp. provides car leasing services. The firm gives customers the flexibility to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the ability to walk away any time. The company was founded by Scott Painter and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Tekion Corp. engages in the development of business applications. Its product is as dSE, an end-to-end digital technology for both consumers and dealership personnel that connects the entire service experience from appointment scheduling to payment and everything in-between. The company was founded by Jayaprakash Vijayan and Guru Sankararaman in 2016 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Newfront Insurance, Inc. provides retail brokerage services. The firm provides services to commercial coverages across all industries. The company was founded by Gordon Wintrob, Forrest Wittenmeier and Spike Lipkin in July 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.