Shera Ahmad

DSL.net, Inc. provides data communications and Internet access services. The firm's services include private network solutions, web hosting, DNS management, enhanced e-mail, online data backup and recovery, firewalls, bundled voice, and data nationwide dial-up. The company was founded in March 1998 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

NYFIX, Inc. provides electronic trading solutions. It provides value-added informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Instinet LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is the equities execution services arm of the Nomura Group. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Instinet Holdings, Inc., which is ultimately owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Instinet offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, which includes market insights and commentary, full-service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via their array of crossing pools, and a set of workflow solutions.

WiSpry, Inc. manufactures RF-CMOS integrated circuits and components. It offers tunable RF components, digital capacitor arrays, RF evaluation kits, filters and duplexors, and power amplifiers. The firm's products are used in airbag sensors, game controllers, accelerometers, microoptics, video projection systems, and printer heads. It serves mobile handset manufacturers and network operators. The company was founded by Jeffrey L. Hilbert and Arthur S. Morris III in October 2002 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Yipes Holdings, Inc. provides ethernet solutions and networking services. It provides services in major metropolitan markets throughout UK and US. The company was founded in 1998 by Kamran Sistanizadeh, Jerry Parrick and Ron Young and is located in San Francisco, CA.

Mimeo.com, Inc. provides online managed content distribution and printing services. It offers presentation, manual, brochure, booklet, poster, newsletter, catalog, flyer, postcard, and proposal printing solutions. The firm provides binding services, which include spiral, twin loop wire, comb, 3-ring, tape, velo, saddle stitch, perfect, and stapled types. The company was founded by Key Compton, David H. Meadows, David Uyttendaele, Jeffrey Stewart and John Delbridge in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

School Loop, Inc. provides software solutions for public school districts. It offers a learning management system for K-12 professional learning communities supporting vulnerable youth and at-risk populations. The company was founded by Mark Gross, Thomas Burns and Dede Tisone in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

House Party, Inc. organizes house parties and events. It puts brands into the hands, homes and conversations of consumer brand advocates through its member-based community, proprietary digital platform, and in home events. The company was founded by Gene DeRose and Parker Reilly in 2005 and is headquartered in Irvington, NY.

Phanfare, Inc. provides online photo and video sharing services. The firm offers a Photon application that enables the home printing of photos from iPhone or iPod touch devices to networked HP printers. It also sells archive DVDs, photo books, cards, and prints. The company was founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich in 2004 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

DeepDyve, Inc. provides online rental services for scholarly and professional research articles. It offers articles on subject areas, such as business and finance, computer science, humanities, life sciences, medicine, patents and law and social sciences. The company was founded by Tom Tang and Qianjin Hu in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Q1 Nanosystems Corp. designs, develops and manufactures solar photovoltaic modules. It products utilize a three-dimensional, single-junction solar cell to increase the power output of solar panels. The company was founded by John Mathew Argo, Ruxandra J. Vidu and Brian Argo in June 2005 and is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, CA.

Gluware, Inc. offers cloud-based network automation services. It automates the configuration and management of complex deployments. The firm's products include Gluware, Gluware control, Gluware lab and Gluware platform. The company was founded by Jeff Gray and Olivier Huynh Van in 2007 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.

DisperSol Technologies LLC offers plastics processing technology to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. It offers KinetiSol, a pharmaceutical processing technology that provides solutions to oral drug delivery problems and for amorphous solid dispersion systems; and ArmoRx Platform, a processing technology that enables use of certain compendial pharmaceutical polymers to produce oral dosage forms that are inherently abuse deterrent. The company was founded by Gershon Yaniv in 2007 and is headquartered in Georgetown, TX.

RiverMeadow Software, Inc. develops software products that automates the migration of physical, virtual and Cloud based servers into and between public, private, and hybrid clouds. The company was founded by Sanjay Mazumder in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Tube, Inc. engages in the design, development and production of prepackaged computer software. The firm develops and operates network-aware mobile marketing platform that enables advertisers, businesses, and service vendors to increase visibility around their products and services on mobile sites and applications, while funding end users' mobile data consumption. The company was founded by Harjot Saluja and Mung Chiang and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Mzinga, Inc. provides enterprise learning management and social engagement solutions. It offers enterprise social software solutions and services serving the learning, marketing and customer experience markets. The firm’s products include OmniSocial Engaged, OmniSocial Insure, OmniSocial Learning and OmniSocial Content. The company operates through its offices located in Burlington and Mechanicsburg. Mzinga was founded by Barry D. Libert on November 23, 1999 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. provides managed network and application delivery services. The company's services include ethernet, yipes financialconnect, managed premium Internet, collocation, and international private line. The firm was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Radianz Americas, Inc. provides information services to financial industries. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC engages in the provision of investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Greylock Management Corp (Greylock Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 by Charlie P. Waite and Daniel S. Gregory. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Intematix Corp. develops and manufactures phosphor solutions. Its products include phosphor materials and phosphor solutions. The firm provides blue light down selection access to the entire color spectrum, regardless of the manufacturer of the underlying blue LED chip. The company was founded by Yi-Qun Li and Xiao-Dong Xiang in March 2000 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Acadia Woods Partners LLC (Acadia Woods Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York.

DREAM Charter Schools is a community-focused organization that provides a welcoming and nurturing environment for children. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The CEOs of DREAM Charter Schools are Eve Colavito and Richard A. Berlin. The company, founded in 1991, aims to create schools where children are known, seen, and loved.

Quisk, Inc. provides cash and empowers financial institutions through online. It also provides a digital services and transaction processing platform for integrated mobile payments and digital rewards and loyalty programs. The firm has locations in Dubai Internet, Louisville and Sunnyvale. The company was founded by Jorge M. Fernandes, Thomas L. Recktenwald and David J. Barram in 2006 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Netpulse, Inc. operates as a media and data services company. Its application allows members to attract new prospects, convert prospects into members, engages members and keeps them coming back, increases revenue, and connects applications and devices, as well as offers mobile marketing solutions. The company was founded by Bryan Arp and Thomas A. Proulx in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Marketcetera, Inc. provides open source platform for trading solutions services. It offers dare order routing engine, strategy studio, and market data nexus. The company was founded by Toli Kuznets and Graham Miller in July 15, 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada

Omniox, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops medicines for hypoxic diseases. Its technology overcomes fundamental biochemical shortcomings of hemoglobin-based and per fluorocarbon oxygen delivery approaches. The company was founded in 2006 by Stephen P. L. Cary, Michael A. Marletta, Jonathan Winger and Elizabeth Marshall Boon and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

IntegriCo Composites, Inc. manufactures and markets composite plastic products made from recycled plastic. It offers composite and wood railroad ties, and wood core ties. The firm's technology mixes landfill-bound plastics to create composite railroad ties and other related products which are used in petrochemical, creosote, termite damage and grade crossing applications. The company was founded by Gershon Yaniv and J. Michael Miller in 2007 and is headquartered in Sarepta, LA.

Urgent Career, Inc. provides software solutions for sales and marketing. Its linguistic technology and algorithms solutions helps companies hire the best sales talent. The company was founded by Jeff Stewart on June 25, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Thumbtack, Inc. engages in the operation of online marketplace for hiring workers. It enables the customers to hire professionals for painting and remodeling homes, learning a new language, teaching kids, DJ and photographing weddings, dog-sitting, and planning birthday parties. The company was founded by Marco Zappacosta, Jonathan Swanson, Sander Daniels and Jeremy Tunnell in August 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lenddo Pte Ltd. operates an online platform that helps the emerging middle class use its social connections to build its creditworthiness and access local financial services. Its services include scorecard model hosting, scorecard design consulting and semi-annual scorecard review. The company was founded by Jeff Stewart and Richard Eldridge in 2011 and is headquartered in Makati City, Philippines.

Reterro, Inc. provides soil remediation and waste-stream cleaning services. The firm provides a mobile and compliant solution for hydrocarbon contamination cleanup. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Execthread, Inc. develops as a venture-backed social network software for executives who share job opportunities with one another. It specializes in executive search, careers, career development, networking, jobs, recruitment, recruiting, hiring, staffing, executive recruiting and career management. The company was founded by Joe Meyer in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GPO /VENTURE CAPITAL/ (GPO Fund) is a Private equity firm founded by Jeff Stewart & Key Compton in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Professional Trading Solutions, Inc., PTS Financial Technology LLC is a leading provider of professional trading technology solutions for equities, equity options, and futures markets. The company is based in Chicago, IL, and was founded in 2001. The company's comprehensive product suite includes EMS trading platforms, OMS, and risk and margin solutions, backed by a dedicated in-house support team. Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a subsidiary of PTS Financial Technology, provides tailored solutions to over 100 clients, including leading brokers, clearing firms, and prop groups in over 20 countries. The CEO is Jennifer Peggy Joan Nayar.

Gofriendshop, Inc. develops a job searching platform. The American company was founded in 2019 by Vivian Rui Wang and Jacqueline Xu. Vivian Rui Wang has been the CEO since 2019.