Ron Baden

Buy.com, Inc. is an online marketplace, focused on providing its customers with a selection of retail goods. It offers products in a range of categories, including consumer electronics, computer hardware and software, cell phones, books, music, DVDs, games, toys, bags, fragrance, home and outdoor, baby, jewelry, shoes, apparel, household essentials, and sporting goods. The company was founded Scott A. Blum in June 1997 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Part of SoftBank Group Corp., Ziff Davis Publishing, Inc. publishes technology-based digital content products. The company is based in New York, NY. Ziff Davis Publishing was acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. on October 01, 1994 for $198.91 million.

Vector Capital Management LP (Vector Capital Management) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1997 by Alexander R. Slusky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

LiveOps, Inc. provides cloud contact center and customer service solutions. It offers various call types and channels, including customer service call center, outbound services interactions, inbound sales interactions, lead generation interactions, and self-service interactive voice response capabilities. The firm also provides cloud contact center solutions such as LiveOps Engage, LiveOps Voice and LiveOps Insight. LiveOps serves the financial, health, insurance, retail, marketing and media industries. The company was founded by William J. Trenchard in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

zSpace, Inc. engages in creating real world virtual reality systems. Its software solutions include education, medical, and universities. The company was founded by Nancy Clemens and Michael Vesely in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Hyperion Energy, Inc. operates as a blank check company. It intends to serve as a vehicle to effect an asset acquisition, merger, exchange of capital stock, or other business combination with a domestic or foreign business. The company was founded on December 29, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nlyte Software Ltd. develops automated datacenter management solutions. The firm's suite of products replaces spreadsheets and Visio diagrams with data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software that contains the predictive intelligence and management controls companies need to reduce operational risks. It offers Nlyte 7, Nlyte Predict, Nlyte Reconciliation, Nlyte DCM, Nlyte Dashboard Engine and Nlyte Integrations. The company was founded by Alexander John Moreton, John Ernest Moreton, Lee James Moreton and Robert Benjamin Neave in 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Monetate, Inc. provides testing, targeting, and personalization services for websites. It products include TestLab that provides Website A/B testing and multivariate testing; LiveTarget that offers Website targeting; Merchandiser that provides product recommendations, badging, and visual search; and LiveAudience, a segmentation product that enables marketers to integrate customer and visitor profile and audience segment data from BlueKai with Monetate's user and real-time target attributes, such as referral and inbound marketing channel, location, weather, device, and in-session behavioral data. The firm's products enable online businesses to implement marketing strategies to test and target website content and features. The company was founded by David Bookspan and David Brussin in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Information Builders, Inc. engages in the development of data and analytics software. Its ibi platform offers data preparation, integration, quality, management, and governance; visualization and reporting; augmented analytics; and embedded analytics solutions. It serves the healthcare; financial services; public sector; insurance; manufacturing; transportation and logistics, consumer and retail; and utilities industries. The company was founded by Gerald D. Cohen, Martin B. Slagowitz, and Peter Mittelman, Sr. in 1975 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Financial Technology Ventures Management Co LLC (Financial Technology Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Jim Hale, Bob Huret and Richard Garman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

Part of SAP SE, Business Objects Americas, Inc. develops, markets and supports integrated enterprise decision support software. The company is based in San Jose, CA.

Part of SoftBank Group Corp., Softbank, Inc. provides investments in mobile, internet, energy, business services and robotic industries. The company is based in New York, NY.

FirstFuel Software, Inc. provides analytics software that tracks energy usage in commercial buildings. It offers FirstFuel Rapid Building Assessment platform that uses advanced analytics to remotely audit, motivate and monitor building energy performance, creating rich energy profiles that eliminate the need for costly and inconsistent on-site energy assessments. The firm's platform helps utilities engage their commercial customers and deliver energy efficiency across commercial building portfolios. The company was founded in 2009 by Swapnil Shah, Kenneth Kolkebeck, Nalin Kulatilaka and Robert Kaufmann and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Malwarebytes, Inc. provides disinfection and protection solutions to combat harmful Internet threats. Its products and services include Malwarebytes for Teams; Endpoint Protection; Incident Response; Endpoint Protection and Response; Endpoint Security; and Malware Remove Service. The company was founded by Marcin Kleczynski and Marcus Chung in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Centerview Capital Technology Fund invests in companies located in the US. The fund focuses on the technology sectors. It provides financing for buyout transactions.

Metric Insights, Inc. provides business solution services. Its products include key performance indicators warehouse, push intelligence and javascript charting. It offers healthcare, sales analytics, and big data solutions. The company was founded by Marius Moscovici and Steve Mock in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

HEAVY.AI Inc. provides analytics software. The firm offers MapD, a vertically-integrated big data analysis and visualization platform for data querying, visualization, and analysis. The company was founded by Todd Mostak and Thomas Graham in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

HEAT Software USA, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers cloud service management and unified endpoint management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Stepladder Holdings LLC (Stepladder Holdings) is a private equity firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Linktree operates as a media firm. The company was founded by Alex Zaccaria, Anthony Zaccaria, and Nick Humphreys in 2016 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Saba Software (UK) Ltd. provides cloud-based talent management software solutions. It offers learning management, intelligent talent management, performance management, and cloud collaboration solutions used by organizations to hire, develop, engage, and inspire their people. The company was founded on October 7, 1998 and is headquartered in Berkshire, the United Kingdom.

Sontiq, Inc. operates as a holding company that develops heck fraud protection solutions. The firm offers family monitoring, financial transaction monitoring, secure platform, and online identity vault services. It serves financial products and employee benefits industries. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.