Eric M. Bardin

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Ariba, Inc. provides collaborative business commerce solutions. Its solutions include spend and supplier management, spend analysis, financial supply chain management, sourcing, contract management, supply chain collaboration and invoice management. The company was founded by Keith J. Krach, Robert J. Desantis, Paul Hegarty, Edward P. Kinsey, Robert D. Lent, Boris Putanec and Paul C. M. Touw in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Wily Technology, Inc. provides information technology management solutions. Its products include introscope, customer experience manager, manager for siteminder, portal manager, transaction generator, web services manager, and application compatibility. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

Revinate, Inc. designs and develops SaaS technology for hospitality industries. The company was founded by Jay Ashton and Marc Heyneker in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Digits LLC provides cyber security and digital forensics services. It also offers planning, incident response, computer forensic investigation, trade secrets protection, intellectual property protection, corporate computer security, litigation support, network security advisory, data recovery and information collection and preservation services. The company was founded by Michael G. McCartney and James Domres and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Azure Capital Partners, Inc. (Azure Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Cameron Lester, Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris and Paul Weinstein. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

JBoss, Inc. develops software and provides IT technical supporting services. It provides services through the JBoss Subscription, which includes certified software, patches and updates, management tools, long term maintenance policies, and technical support. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

San Francisco Opera Association owns and operates opera theater. It offers an array of training programs and performance opportunities for young artists under the support of the San Francisco Opera Center and the Merola Opera Program. The company was founded by Gaetano Merola in 1923 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sage Intacct, Inc. provides cloud financial management services. Its systems includes accounting, cash management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation, revenue recognition, subscription billing, contract management, project accounting, fund accounting, inventory management, and financial reporting applications, all delivered through the cloud. The company was founded by David C. Thomas and Odysseas Tsatalos in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The California Academy of Sciences operates as a scientific and cultural institution. The Academy houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a rainforest. It was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MDV Management Co. LLC (MDV Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

FriendFeed, Inc. operates a social network information sharing site. It enables its members to invite friends and get customized feed made up of the content consisting of photos, interesting links, videos, and messages. The company was founded by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh in 2007 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Polyvore, Inc. operates as an online store for clothes and accessories. Its category includes dresses, skirts, tops, jackets, coats, jeans, pants, handbags, shoes and jewelry. The company was founded by Pasha Sadri, Jianing Hu, Lee Jess and Guangwei Yuan on February 1, 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Puppet, Inc. provides enterprise information technology automation services. It products include open source projects and pricing. The firm's software helps system administrators automate configuration and management of machines. The company was founded by Luke Kanies, Teyo Tyree, and Andrew Shafer in 2005 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Optimizely, Inc. operates as a web optimization platform. Its solutions include marketing, engineering, retail, travel, and finance. The company was founded by Peter Koomen and Dan Siroker in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Efficient Select (Pty) Ltd. is an asset management firm headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa. The firm is a subsidiary of Efficient Group Ltd., owned by Apex Group Ltd. in Great Britain. Efficient Select is a multi- faceted financial solutions provider.

Buoyant, Inc. develops software for microservices. It builds practical tools to identify, mitigate, and prevent production incidents in microservices without affecting the pace of product development. The company was founded by Oliver Gould and William Morgan in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cockroach Labs, Inc. provides data base services. The firm combines the functionality of SQL with the horizontal scalability common to NoSQL offerings and provides enterprise-grade disaster recovery. Its products include CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Enterprise. The company was founded by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and Benjamin Darnell in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Timescale, Inc. extracts Insights from device data. Its time-series database and visualization tool designed for connected hardware. The company was founded by Ajay Kulkarni and Ajay Kulkarni and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Elasticsearch, Inc. provides open source search and analytics engine services. The firm’s products include Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, X-Pack, and Elastic cloud. Its services include support, consulting, and training services. The company was founded by Shay Banon, Uri Boness, Steven Schuurman, and Simon Willnauer in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Holberton, Inc. provides project-based and peer learning services for computer science and software engineering students. It offers a two-year higher education program which includes training, internship, and onsite or remote study in a specialization of chosen field. The company was founded by Julien Barbier and Sylvain Kalache in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.