Srini Avirneni

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Versata, Inc. develops business management software solutions. It offers professional, training, online, and contact support services. It also offers business and vertical solutions. The company was founded on August 27, 1991 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Invensys Ltd. designs and manufactures software products, systems, and control equipment to various markets. Its Software segment develops and supplies industrial software products including SimSci-Esscor, a design, simulation, and optimization software, as well as a trading, planning, and scheduling software. The company was founded on April 1, 1920 and is headquartered in Telford, he United Kingdom.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Right90 is a market leader in sales forecasting solutions. Right90 delivers a powerful suite of SaaS-based applications that enable companies to quickly and accurately generate a trusted sales forecast. By integrating with leading CRM and ERP systems, Right90 applications help companies optimize overall revenue performance. Right90 applications capture and consolidate enterprise-wide sales forecasts and provide robust analytics that expose trends and suggest targeted actions that enable business leaders to have confidence and trust in the forecast. Customers use Right90 applications to achieve higher revenue, greater margins and increased sales performance. Customers of Right90 range from innovators such as Mellanox to industry leaders such as Sharp Microelectronics. Sales forecasting is a mission critical business process that is key in the overall revenue generation process. Organizations relying on subjective and untrustworthy sales forecasts suffer from excess inventory, unshipped backlog, poor revenue execution, and financial performance.

Big Switch Networks, Inc. engages in provision of public cloud-style and hybrid cloud networking services. It offers data center switching, visibility and analytics solutions for on-premises clouds, public clouds, and multi-cloud environments. The company founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster in March 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

SRI International provides contract research and development services. It is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, 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.

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.

Benetech, Inc. provides dust control and bulk material handling solutions. Its products include engineered transfer chutes, belt support & containment, dust suppression, washdown systems, wet dust extraction and specialty applications. The firm offers engineering, assessments, plant and training services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Aurora, IL.

Part of LivePerson, Inc., NewChannel, Inc. develops technology that enables real-time on-line customer interaction. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. NewChannel was acquired by LivePerson, Inc. on July 10, 2002.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Trend Micro, Inc. (USA) provides security software, hardware and services. It offers layered data security to protect information on mobile devices, endpoints, gateways, servers, and the cloud of consumers, businesses and governments. The company was founded by Steve Ming-Jang Chang, Eva Yi-Fen Chen and Jenny Chang in 1988 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. engages in the design and development of cyber security solutions to corporate enterprises and governments. The firm offers cloud compliance and governance, branch virtual security, endpoint security, and enterprise mobile security. The company is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Morgenthaler Management Corp (Morgenthaler Management) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1968 by David Morgenthaler. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California.

Genalyte, Inc. specializes in instrumentation and multiplex assays for biomarker and protein detection. The firm offers autoantibody testing assays for autoimmune research, custom assay services and maverick detection system. The company was founded in 2007 by Lawrence Cary Gunn III and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Metalogix Software US, Inc. provides management tools for mission-critical collaboration platforms. It offers content matrix, storagepoint, replicator, cotrolpoint, sharepoint backup, diagnostic manager, archive migratory, content matrix email edition, archive manager, selective restore manager, and cloud acceleration suite products. The company serves the energy, financial, legal, maritime and public sectors. It has offices in El Segundo, Galvaniho, London, Melbourne, Washington & Woburn. The company was founded by Julien Sellgren, Rasool Rayani and Geordie Henderson in 2008 and and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Siri, Inc. engages in the development of mobile phone applications. It offers virtual personal assistant application. The company was founded by Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber, Adam Cheyer and Norman D. Winarsky in 2007 and is headquartered in DE.

Digital Reef, Inc. provides e-discovery software for enterprises, law firms, and litigation support service providers for complex eDiscovery matters. It offers an e-discovery platform that manages legal matters, regulatory inquiries, and corporate investigations. The company was founded by Stephen G. Akers in 2006 and is headquartered in Boxborough, MA.

ClearStory Data, Inc. develops an enterprise-scale, continuous intelligence analytics solution for complex and unstructured data. It enables users to find, combine, and interactively explore big, diverse data across first-party, and third-party sources for immediate insights. The firm also offers data processing, analytics, and visualizations services. The company was founded by Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, John Cieslewicz, and Vaibhav Nivargi in 2011 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Defense.Net, Inc. develops technology to mitigate distributed-denial-of-service attacks. It provides businesses and organizations with tools to protect against the new generation of massive and sophisticated DDoS attacks while delivering the highest levels of Internet application performance. The company was founded by Barrett Lyon in December 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Canvas Management Co. LLC (Canvas Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Gary Little, Rebecca Lynn and Paul Hsiao. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California.

Bastille Networks, Inc. develops software-defined radio and machine learning technology for enterprise threat detection. Its products include Bastille Enterprise, Bastille Wireless Vulnerability Audit, and Bastille Desktop. The company was founded by Michael Engle and Christopher J. Rouland in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

Pathogenomix, Inc. engages in the direct sequencing analysis of clinical samples. Its RipSeq can analyze both NGS and Sanger direct-from-speciment sequencing files. The company was founded by Bjarte Karlsen, Oystein F. Saebo and Oyvind Kommedal and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

Functionize, Inc. engages in the development and operation of a complete test-automation solution. It offers a machine learning and artificial intelligence platform for software testing. Its products include test creation and execution, self-healing test maintenance, and performance and analytics. The company was founded by Tamas Cser and Raymond Grieselhuber in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.