Ijad Madisch

Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC (Benchmark Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Kevin Harvey, Andy Rachleff and Bob Kagle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

Fotolia LLC operates as an online stock photography company. It allows individuals and professionals to legally buy and share digital stock images and illustrations. The firm allows users to buy and sell images to illustrate professional and commercial brochures, advertisements, magazines, and websites. The company was founded by Oleg Tscheltzoff and Thibaud Elziere in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MyHeritage (USA) Inc. engages in the operation of genealogy and social networking website. It manages an online community of casual and expert genealogists working together to create a single world family tree. The company was founded by George Ishii in 2006 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Knewton, Inc. develops a platform to personalize educational content. It also offers courseware for higher education concentrated in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The company was founded by Jose Ferreira in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Duo Security, Inc. develops cloud-based security platform. It offers two-factor authentication, endpoint remediation, and secure single sign-on tools. The company was founded by Douglas Joon Song and Jon Oberheide in 2009 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

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.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Arts Alliance Ltd. is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Thomas C. Høegh. The firm is headquartered in London.

Accel Partners Management LLP provides investment advisory services. The company was founded by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson in 1983 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization, which works to forge practical solutions that help nature and people prosper sustainably. It launched the Smart Boat Initiative (SBI) which focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip and surround fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability, profitability and transparency in fishing. The company was founded by Arthur P. Cooley, Charles F. Wurster and Dennis Puleston in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

San Francisco Symphony provides symphony orchestra presentations. The firm enriches, serves, and shapes cultural life throughout the spectrum of bay area communities. It offers performer’s series, south bay, organ and chorus concerts, open rehearsals, chamber music, youth orchestra concerts, family-friendly concerts and special events. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Do Something, Inc. provides charity services to young people. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

KKR Group Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment and private equity asset management services. The firm manages investments across multiple asset classes including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and hedge funds. It operates through the Asset Management and Insurance segments. The Asset Management segment includes investment management and other services to funds, vehicles, collateral loan obligations, managed accounts and portfolio companies, and transaction-specific income from capital markets transactions. The Insurance segment offers retirement and life insurance services which provide a suite of protection, legacy and savings products to customers and reinsurance solutions to clients across individual and institutional markets. The company was founded by Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts in 1976 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Edmodo, Inc. provides online social platform for students, teachers, and educators. It provides a global education network that helps to connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their potential. The company was founded by Crystal Hutter, Jeffrey O'Hara and Nicolas Borg in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

CouchSurfing International, Inc. provides cultural exchange network services. It allows travelers to connect and stay at the home of a local resident to learn about the culture, similarities and to attend events. The company was founded by Sebastien Le Tuan, Casey Fenton, Daniel M. Hoffer and Leonardo Bassani da Silveira in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Yahoo!, Inc. is a private group led by Silver Lake Partners, Microsoft Corp and Andreessen Horowitz LLC.

AppCard, Inc. provides customer retention and loyalty platform services. The company was founded by Yair Goldfinger and Amichay Oren in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tinder, Inc. develops online dating applications. It provides a software that can be connected to social media and can be downloaded to mobile phones. The company was founded by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Christopher Gulczynski, Joe Munozm, and Whitney Wolfe in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Mosaic Ventures(Mosaic Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Simon Levene, Mike Chalfen and Toby Coppel. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Forteil GmbH develops an application tool that enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data and help customers optimize their financial situation. The company was founded by Gamal Moukabary, Andreas Bermig, Josef Korte and Jan Ortmann in 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Shipamax Ltd. operates as fleet and deal management firm. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Gigafund Management Co. LLC (Gigafund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Stephen Oskoui and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Mavenoid AB builds troubleshooting software. The company was founded by Gintautas Miliauskas and Shahan Lilja and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Instagram LLC provides photo and video-sharing social networking service. The company was founded by Kevin Y. Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010 and is headquartered in Menio Park, CA.

Nexar, Inc. develops mobile road safety app. It operates a network of human drivers and machine sensors that predict, prevent and protect the cars on the road. The company was founded by Eran Shir and Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Veriff OU, Veriff, Inc. is an Estonian company that provides an online information platform. The company is based in Tallinn, Estonia. The CEO of the company is Kaarel Kotkas.

MyHeritage Ltd. operates a family-oriented social network service and genealogy website. The firm also provides family pages, which are personalized websites to enable families to stay in touch, celebrate birthdays, share photos, explore and preserve family history. Its solution, family tree builder, is a tool to set up a family tree and genealogy research that enables user to search for ancestors on the Internet. The company was founded by Gilad Japhet in 2003 and is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel.