Patrick A. Pohlen

DataWave Systems, Inc. develops prepaid and stored-value programs and merchandising solutions. It sells prepaid calling cards and point-of-sale activated prepaid cellular personal identification numbers on a wholesale basis to retail operators and other customers. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.

Deutsche Bank AG provides financial and banking services. It also offers commercial and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

ClariPhy Communications, Inc. develops mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for networking applications. It also develops mixed signal, advanced digital signal processing SoCs targeting multi-mode, multi-rate high performance optical network applications at 10, 40, 100, and 200G via the industry's most comprehensive product portfolio. The company provides CL1012, a clock and data recovery integrated circuit for metro, regional, and long haul telecom networks; CL1012 evaluation board, a tool used to test and analyze maximum likelihood sequence estimated electronic dispersion compensation technology in combination with XFP modules; CL4010 LightSpeed, a coherent single chip dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying transceiver; and custom system-on-chips. ClariPhy Communications was founded by Paul Voois, Norm Swenson and Bharath Jagannathan on September 19, 2002 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Vativ Technologies, Inc. manufactures fabless semiconductors. The company provides high-bandwidth digital signal processing solutions for digital television and networking infrastructure markets. It was founded by Sreen Raghavan and Keith Vertrees in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SpectraSensors, Inc. manufactures optically based gas sensors for the industrial process. It offers approval drawings, analyzer racks and cabinets, thermal-modeling of sample streams, sample probes, heated sample transport bundles, stream switching hardware and controls, programmable logic controllers, lighting, as-built design documentation, analyzer startup and commissioning, on-site training for analyzer operations, remote technical support, spare parts recommendation and ordering and field and factory repair. The company was founded by George M. Balogh, John J. Kelly, Siamak Forouhar and Randy May in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Soonr, Inc. provides secure file sharing and collaboration services. It uses encryption and geo-redundant datacenters to keep files secure at all times. The company offers soonr scribble, a mobile application that provides a way to mark up documents. Soonr was founded by Martin Frid-Nielsen, Steven Boye, Song Z. Huang and Lars Gunnersen on May 1, 2005 and is headquartered Campbell, CA.

Promptu Systems Corp. provides voice recognition and natural language understanding technology. It engages in the provision of recognition base search and navigation services for mobile phones. The firm’s products are developed in collaboration with major automotive manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and Smart TV OEMs to ensure privacy, security, scalability and speed. The company was founded by Jeff Shukis, Paul M. Cook, Robert T. Nendza, Jay R. Macintosh and Alan Chase in 2000 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Virtana Corp. engages in the development of an artificial intelligence for information technology operations (AIOps) providing infrastructure monitoring and artificial intelligence-powered analytics. It offers VirtualWisdom, WorkloadWisdom, and metricly for public cloud products. It also offers hybrid information technology infrastructure management, technology solutions, and storage performance validation. The firm serves the healthcare, government, financial services, retail and marketing, telecommunications and cloud service providers, energy and utilities, and technology vendors. The company was founded by Mark R. Urdahl in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Janrain, Inc. provides customer identity management technology services. It offers a customer identity management platform that helps companies to build a unified view of their customers across all devices by collecting accurate customer profile data to power personalized marketing. Its platform includes social login, registration, customer profile data storage, customer insights, single sign-on, and user-generated content. The firm serves consumer brands, entertainment, insurance, media, nonprofit and education, retail, and technology customers. The company was founded by Larry Drebes in 2002 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Signpost, Inc. operates an online marketing platform for small businesses. Its cloud-based platform makes digital and mobile marketing simple and effective for small and medium businesses. The company was founded by John Matthew Buchanan and Stuart Wall in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zettaset, Inc. provides an enterprise-level software platform designed to drive the data analysis for small-and medium-size organizations. The firm offers Big Data security, enterprise-class data privacy and protection for Object, NoSQL, Hadoop and relational data environments. Its data protection solutions are designed and performance-optimized for distributed-computing architectures and elastic cloud environments. The company was founded by Michael Dalton and Jeffrey Michael Krone in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

SS8 Networks, Inc. provides network intelligence services. It offers advanced threat detection, internet communications discovery, communication provider compliance, insider threat detection, security interface enrichment, and law enforcement investigations. The company was founded by Henry H. Wong and Sharon Chen in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Tasmania Network Systems, Inc. develops network caching software. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Roy Thiele-Sardiña. Tasmania Network Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on November 18, 1999 for $25 million.

Trivest Partners LP (Trivest Partners) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Trivest Partners Inc. founded in 1981 by Earl W. Powell. The firm is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Inc. operates as the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The firm provides treatment for , lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. It identifies and funds the most promising blood cancer research projects and forges partnerships with academic institutions, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the development of new therapies. The company is headquartered in Rye Brook, NY.

Ignite Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise software solutions. It offers software solutions that publish, deliver and manage digital assets such as video and media for communications and training to software patches and virus updates. The company was founded by Scott H. Wilson in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Quivox Systems, Inc. provides a comprehensive business-to-business claims and information management system for insurance carriers, collision repair facilities, and other trading partners. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company was founded by Joseph DiPasquale, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

GED Capital Development SGEIC SA (Conexo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Robert Micheal Luke. The firm is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Keynote Ventures LLC (Keynote Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Paul Dali. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

HighBar Management LLC (Highbar Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1900 by Andreas Bechtolsheim, Roy Thiele-Sardiña and John H. Kim. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Workshare Ltd. provides secure content compliance solutions. The firm offers technology, software, collaboration software, file share & sync, and cloud technology. It develops document integrity management software that helps users manage the exchange and verification of electronic information and documents. The company was founded by Barrie Hadfield in 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Eidogen-Sertanty, Inc. provides drug discovery services. Eidogen-Sertanty's nutraceutical products embody years of research and are directed towards proactive health and wellness. It specializes in chemical- and bio-informatics, target and ligand SAR databases, in silico drug discovery, mobile and cloud computing. The company was founded by Steven Muskal in 2003 and is headquartered in Oceanside, CA.

OmeCare Ventures, Inc. engages in health and wellness industry. It provides fitness, nutrition, skin, mental health DNA insight, pain medication DNA insight, carrier status DNA insight and cannabis DNA products. The company was founded in September 2008 by James Plante and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Clustrix, Inc. develops a scale-out SQL database. It is used in advertising technology, e-Commerce, gaming, and large web and mobile businesses. The company was founded by Sergei Tsarev, Paul A. Mikesell and Eric Hoffman in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Brooklands Capital Strategies BD, LP provides investment banking services.

Story3 Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Peter Harley Comisar. The firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

SNH Management Company LLC (SNH Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Jevin Sackett. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.