John Gardner

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.

ModCloth, Inc. operates an online fashion and clothing retail business. It offers dresses, tops, bottoms, swimwear, outerwear, intimate apparel, tights and socks, and shoes; and vintage clothing and accessories for women. The firm also provides bags and accessories that include jewelry, sunglasses, hats, hair accessories, scarves, gloves, belts, umbrellas, and beauty products; and gifts for men and women, and gift certificates. The company was founded by Eric C. Koger and Susan Gregg-Koger in July 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Ridge Ventures is an independent venture capital firm, a subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc founded in 1997 by Alex Rosen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Founded in 1991, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich LLC (DAG) is a private equity investment firm located in San Francisco.

DAG Ventures LLC (DAG Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by John James Cadeddu, Tom Goodrich and John M. Duff. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

CollegeSource, Inc. develops building software that students and staff of higher education. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Imperva, Inc., Incapsula, Inc. develops web security and protection solutions. The company is based in Redwood Shores, CA. The company was founded by Marc Gaffan.

Tique, Inc. provides online shopping services. It focuses on the beauty, fashion, lifestyle and home verticals for women. The firm produces web videos which are designed to be optimized for online customer conversion. The company was founded by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Diana L. Williams in January 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Choose Energy, Inc. provides online energy platform. It provides comparison shopping for consumers and business owners on its monthly energy bill. The firm finds cheaper energy for homes and businesses, compare electricity rates between supplier and switch energy suppliers. The company was founded by Jerry C. Dyess in 2008 and is headquartered in Fort Mill, SC.

Aspect Management LLC(Aspect Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Integrity marketing group LLC founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Evident ID, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for managing and sharing personal data. The company was founded by David W. Thomas in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Birch Finance Pty Ltd. develops software applications to track spending. The Company was founded by Alexander Whiteside and Alexander Cohen and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

OneTrust LLC develops data privacy compliance software solutions. The firm?s software automates privacy impact assessments and data mapping, identifies privacy risks, and enforces risk management and control activities in an integrated and agile approach. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Westbound Equity, LLC (Westbound Equity) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Sean Mendy, Ian Beadle, and Jason Norman. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

LTV Capital Partners I operates as a blank check company. It is formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Jeffrey Housenbold on March 9, 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

CommandDot, Inc. was an American company that provided a fast and friendly way to schedule meetings. It brought the calendar into the inbox, making it 17,465 times faster to share availability for meetings than manually typing. The availability links allowed people to see their own calendar events alongside the openings of the person they wanted to meet, making it easy to find overlapping availability. It was backed by some of Silicon Valley's best early-stage investors. However, the company shut down at the end of 2022 due to the fact that consumer scheduling behavior was not going to revert to pre-2020 norms, making its advantages over more rigid scheduling tools competitively moot.

Fernished, Inc. offers furniture rental services for luxury properties. The company was founded by Michael L. Barlow Jr. and Lucas Dickey and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Rothys, Inc. manufactures shoes for women. It offers ballet and pointed toe flats. The company was founded by Stephen P. Hawthornthwaite and Roth W. Martin in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Carbon Health Medical Group, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare solutions. It develops platform that supports ongoing care management and virtual appointments. The company was founded by Eren Bali, Caesar Djavaherian, Tom Berry, and Greg Burrell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Protect AI, Inc. provides organizations with the ability to manage their machine learning environments end-to-end. The company is based in Seattle, WA, with offices in San Francisco and Raleigh. The company's Radar platform creates a machine learning bill of materials (MLBOM), remediates security vulnerabilities, and detects threats to prevent data and secrets leakages. The company is defining and leading a new market segment within security called MLsecOps. Protect AI is privately held and funded by Acrew Capital, Avisio Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and experienced cybersecurity leaders Shlomo Kramer, Nir Polak, and Dimitri Sirota. Protect AI was founded by AI leaders from Amazon and Oracle, including Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Silverfort Ltd. is engaged in protecting enterprises from data breaches, cyber attacks and insider threats, by preventing credential compromise and misuse across the entire corporate network and cloud infrastructure. The company was founded by Hed Kovetz, Matan Fattal, and Yaron Kassner in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

At-Bay, Inc. operates as a cyber insurance firm for the digital age. It specializes in cyber liability, insurance and IT security. The company was founded by Rotem Iram, Etai Hochman and Roman Itskovich in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Ciphertrace, Inc. operates online trading platform for crypto currency. The company was founded by David Jevans, Shannon Holland and Stephen Ryan in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Nokod Security Ltd. is an application security platform that specializes in low-code and no-code applications as well as robotic process automation. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli company was founded in 2023 by Amichai Shulman and Yair Finzi. Yair Finzi has been the CEO since 2023.

Radiant Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Milpitas, CA. Radiant Security offers an AI-powered security co-pilot for Security Operations Centers (SOCs) that enables them to detect more real attacks, boost analyst productivity, and reduce incident response times from days or weeks to minutes. The company's solution can be deployed in minutes via API, providing rapid time to value and reducing analyst workloads by up to 95%. The company was founded by Barry Shteiman and Shahar Ben Hador, with Shahar Ben Hador serving as CEO since incorporation.

Treau, Inc. manufactures home heaters and air conditioners. The company was founded by Saul Griffith and Adrien Benusiglio and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.