Paul L. Ciriello

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Future Dial, Inc. provides device processing solutions for the corporate mobile device supply chain. It offers asset tracking, data clearing, functional testing, and side loading solutions. The company also offers consulting, customization, integration and training services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Redseal, Inc. provides proactive security management solutions. The firm’s solutions include compliance, incident response, vulnerability management and cyber insurance. The company was founded by Scot Malloy, Alain J. Mayer and Brian Laing in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Interactions LLC engages in the provision of conversational virtual assistant applications for customer care. Its products include customer engagement, voice biometrics, and social customer care. The company was founded by Michael Edward Cloran in 2004 and is headquartered in Franklin, MA.

Lavante, Inc. provides cloud-based supplier management software solutions. It offers on demand supplier management solutions including recovery audit and supplier information management applications. The company was founded by Joseph A. Flynn and Thomas Flynn in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

GoSecure, Inc. provides in-progress cyber attack intelligence and response solutions. Its products include countertack sentinel, countertack scout, and knowledge library. The firm's sentinel and scout solutions offer attack capture and automated intelligence, and detect malicious behaviour, enabling organizations to counter known and unknown threats to their business. The company was founded by Alen Capalik and Stan Eramia in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Atieva, Inc. designs solutions and provides technology for electric vehicles. It offers motor controllers, battery chargers, electric motors, battery packs, and other electric power systems that power hybrid and pure-electric vehicles. The firm also commercializes electric powertrains and critical components for electric vehicles. The company was founded by Bernard Tse and Sam Weng in December 2007 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Exoprise Systems, Inc. provides application performance management and monitoring solutions for business cloud applications and services. Its solutions include complete offices 365, SKYPE and VOIP, ADFS and SSO, web and network monitoring and SAAS application myths. The company was founded by Jason Lieblich in 2009 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

CrowdTwist, Inc. provides omni-channel loyalty marketing and data solutions. It provides marketers with a true 360-degree view of their customers across their digital, social, mobile, and transactional channels. The firm offers a loyalty technology that is capable of aggregating cross-channel and first party data which could then be attributed back to individual customers. The company was founded by Josh Bowen, Irving Fain, Deborah A. Farrington and Michael C. Montero in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ZeroFOX, Inc. is a social risk management company, which engages in the provision of security technology that enables organizations to detect and prevent social media-based cyber threats. Its solutions include enterprise protection, brand protection, executive protection, domain protection, threat protection, and dark web monitoring. The company was founded by Christopher B. Cullison, Hillary Herlehy, James C. Foster, Evan Blair, Robert Francis, and Neil Smith in January 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

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.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cylance, Inc. engages in the provision of cybersecurity products and services. It offers Cylance PROTECT, Cylance OPTICS, Cylance ThreatZERO, and Cylance Smart Antivirus. The firm also provides industrial control systems, education, and red team services. The company was founded by Stuart McClure and Ryan Permeh in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

CropX Technologies Ltd. engages in the development of cloud-based software solutions for soil sensing. It focuses on boosting crops yield and save water and energy. The company was founded by Isaac Bentwich in 2015 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

Zylotech, Inc. provides self-learning customer analytical services. The company was founded by Abhi Yadav and Iqbal Kaur in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

ShieldX Networks, Inc. offers cloud security and micro-segmentation software. The company was founded by Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Harjinder Singh, Manuel Nedbal and Lovely Kaur in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Resilient Systems, Inc. provides cyber security services. Its services include incident response platform, security module, action module, privacy module, integrations, professionals services, and resilient labs. The company was founded by John Bruce, Luca Fabbri and Ted Julian in September 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc. designs, develops & manufactures stents and stent delivery systems. It provides research and development of innovative devices for the treatment of complicated lesions. The company was founded in 1997 and is located in Pleasanton, CA

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.

AgGenetics, Inc. engages in gene discovery and editing to develop a suite of products to improve livestock health and productivity. The company is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Allegis Capital LLC (AllegisCyber Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Robert Ackerman and Barry M Weinman. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Maryland and Utah.

Celtra, Inc. provides a platform for agencies, advertisement networks, and publishers to create, distribute, and measure rich media mobile display advertising across native applications and the mobile web on the device platforms. It offers AdCreator, a self-service mobile rich media platform for creating, optimizing, and tracking rich media advertising and analytics on an array of HTML 5 enabled mobile devices around the world. The company was founded by Michael Mikek, Matevz Klanjsek and Maja Mikek in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

ZeaKal, Inc. engages in the operations as a plant science company, which develops and commercializes synthetic biological traits. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

StarVest Management Inc (Starvest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Farrington Anne Deborah, Laura Belle Sachar and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

StarVest Partners LP invests in companies located in the United States with a revenues of USD 3 - 15 million. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of information technology, business services, and e-commerce. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements with an average initial investment size of USD 3 - 7 million. It acts as a lead investor, makes follow-on investments and also makes co-investments.

Solid Power, Inc. manufactures and supplies power batteries. It provides solid-state batteries. The company was founded by Doug Campbell, Sehee Lee and Conrad Stoldt in 2012 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Silicon Valley Forum provides resources and information services to the startup and investment ecosystem. The non-profit company is based in San Jose, CA.