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Grey Group, Inc. provides advertising and marketing services. It offers digital, activation, public relations, multicultural, advertising, media, shopper marketing, and mobile and connected experiences. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

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.

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.

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.

PrecisionDemand provides on-demand business intelligence and marketing solutions. The firm is a marketing platform that leverages big data to provide insights and drive compelling efficiencies for its clients. It has taken television (TV) advertising from an unaccountable mass medium to a precise marketing channel that drives demand with predictive analytics. The company was founded by Jeremy Hyra, Keith Pool, Roberts Tyson in 2005 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

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.

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.

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners LLC (Cross Atlantic Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Donald Caldwell and Gerry McCrory. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania with an additional offices in the United Kingdom and Israel.

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.

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.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

American Association of Advertising Agencies, Inc. operates a national trade association representing advertising agency business in the United States. It is a management-oriented association that offers broadest possible service and business information. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tribal Worldwide provides digital marketing services. It offers consultancy, media planning, buying, e-commerce design and development services. The company was founded by Matthew J. Freeman in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Modem Media, Inc. is a private company based in Norwalk, CT. The company provides advertising and marketing consulting services.

The John A. Reisenbach Foundation, Inc. provides grants and strategic support to nonprofit partner organizations. It specializes in fundraising, strategic planning, programmatic partnerships and philanthropy. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ForgePoint Capital Management LLC (ForgePoint Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Donald R. Dixon, William Lin and Juan Alberto Yépez. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

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.

Stipple, Inc. is a company based in Menlo Park, CA, with Evangelos Simoudis as its CEO. The company provides mobility intelligence to drive businesses by leveraging actionable user journey insights at an unprecedented scale. Stipple offers a cutting-edge dashboard that empowers marketers, city planners, advertisers, and automotive/mobility companies to analyze and leverage both first-party and third-party geolocation data in a comprehensive trip format. The company is still in stealth mode, and interested parties can sign up to be the first to know when they launch.