William Sandy Bird

Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham.

Twistlock, Inc. provides enterprise container security services. It offers Twistlock, a technology that enables developers and security operations teams to keep container-based applications safe; Twistlock Trust that scans images and registries to detect vulnerabilities in the code, as well as configuration errors; and Twistlock Runtime, an automatic, real-time active threat protection and policy enforcement for containerized applications. The company was founded by Ben Bernstein and Dima Stopel in 2015 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

BitSight Technologies, Inc. offers data analytics and security software. It offers vendor risk management, bench marking, cyber insurance, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise vendor discovery, and national cyber security solutions. The firm's products include BitSight security ratings, discover and sovereign security ratings. The company was founded by Nagarjuna Venna and Stephen Boyer in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Strata Identity, Inc engages in the provision of distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its products include identity fabric, discovery, and orchestrator and connector catalog. The company was founded by Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, and Carl Eric Leach and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

EJ2 Communications, Inc. provides threat intelligence from the deep and dark web for corporations and governments. Its solutions include an proactive approach with identifying potential threats and a research tool as know your enemy. The company was founded by Evan F. Kohlmann and Josh Lefkowitz and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Motorola Solutions UK Ltd. manufactures and sells electronic devices. It offers radio communication products, cellular telephones, and electronic components. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, the United Kingdom.

Part of Internap Holding LLC, Sockeye Networks, Inc. provides Internet route control software and services. The company is based in Waltham, MA. Sockeye Networks was acquired by Internap Holding LLC on October 20, 2003 for $1.75 million.

Q1 Labs, Inc. provides networks security intelligence solutions. The company was founded by Christopher Newton, William Sandy Bird and Brian Flood in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.

Unravel Data Systems, Inc. develops software and data operations. Its solutions include APM for Big Data, resource and cost optimization, and cloud migration. The company was founded by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

AppDome, Inc. provides mobile application protection platform. It secures enterprise and consumer-facing apps from cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. The firm?s security solutions used by the financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance and security for consumers and employees. The company was founded by Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Aisera, Inc. develops artificial intelligence platform which makes businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Abnormal Security Corp. engages in the development of a cloud email security platform. Its product and solutions include Microsoft Office365 and G Suite integration. The company was founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar and Evan Reiser in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

MealPal, Inc. develops an application for a subscription meal services. It allows users to browse meals available at nearby restaurants, filter meals by cuisine and portion size, and preorder the night before or in the morning, choosing a time to pick up their lunch. The company was founded by Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dedrone Holdings, Inc. develops identifier of unmanned flying objects. It offers a multi sensor drone detection system, drone tracker, drone software, and applications for drones. The company was founded by Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Ingo Seebach in February 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Yellcast, Inc. engages in developing internet connection engine. The company was founded by Venkat Ganesan, Bill Foster & Richard Wright and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Part of Dedrone Holdings, Inc, Dedrone GmbH is a German company that develops and manufactures multi-sensor systems for the detection of modern civilian drones. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. The company was founded in 2014 by Ingo Seebach, Jörg Lamprecht, René Seeber. The CEO is Aaditya Devarakonda.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. engages in the provision of commercial banking services. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. provides banking, financial products and services to retail, small business, corporate and institutional clients. It operates its business through the following segments: Australia Retail and Commercial; Institutional; New Zealand; Pacific; and Technology, Services and Operations and Group Centre. The Australia segment comprises the retail and corporate and commercial business units which provides products and services to consumer and private banking customers in Australia via the branch network, mortgage specialists, the contact centres, a variety of self-service channels and and third party brokers; and banking services including traditional relationship banking and financial solutions through managers focusing on privately owned small, medium, and large enterprises as well as the agricultural businesses. The Institutional segment refers to the transaction banking, loans and specialised finance and markets solutions. The New Zealand segment refers to the retail and commercial business units. The Pacific segment offers products and services to retail customers, small to medium-sized enterprises, institutional customers and governments located in the Pacific Islands. The Technology, Services and Operations, and Group Centre segment provides support to the operating divisions including technology, operations, shared services, property, risk management, financial management, strategy, marketing, human resources and corporate affairs; as well as group treasury, shareholder functions, enablement functions and minority investments in Asia. The company was founded in 1835 and is headquartered in Docklands, Australia.

IBM Global Financing provides Information Technology financing solutions. The firm serves commercial clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 firms. It also assists companies in getting rid of obsolete systems by disposing, recycling, and reselling. The company is headquartered in Armonk, NY.

FireScope, Inc. develops business service management software. The firm's solutions include service performance management, business analytics for information technology, advanced operations and predictive analysis. The company was founded by Mark Lynd and Bryan Cantwell in August 2006 and is headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA.

Telstra Corp. Ltd. engages in the provision of telecommunications and information services for domestic and international customers. It operates through the following segments: Telstra Consumer and Small Business, Telstra Enterprise, Networks and IT, Telstra InfraCo, and All Others. The Telstra Consumer and Small Business segment comprises of telecommunication products, services, and solutions across mobiles, fixed and mobile broadband, telephony and play TV/IPTV, and digital content to consumer and small business customers in Australia. The Telstra Enterprise segment sells and contracts management for medium to large businesses, and government customers globally. The Networks and IT segment is responsible for the overall planning, design, engineering architecture, and construction of Telstra networks, technology, and information technology solutions. The Telstra InfraCo segment provides a range of telecommunication products and services delivered over Telstra networks and associated support systems to other carriers, carriage service providers, and internet service providers. The All Other segments include certain items of income and expense relating to multiple reportable segments that are recorded by its corporate areas. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Aura Sub LLC is a company that specializes in protecting individuals' identity, finances, and sensitive data. The company is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in Sweden and the United States. The company offers various plans that include a $1M insurance policy to cover eligible losses. Aura Sub was founded in 2017 by Hari K. Ravichandran, who has been the CEO since then.

Feedzai Spain SL manufactures software of Cloud security solutions. It offers bugThreats Cyberthreat Intelligence Platform, bugBlast Next-gen AppSec Platform, bugScout SCA and bugFraud Defense. The company was founded on November 12, 2010 by Pablo de la Riva and is headquartered in Alcobendas, Spain.