Chris Shanahan

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. provides digital television entertainment services. It operates as a digital broadcast satellite service company. The firm transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in several countries. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

Akros Silicon, Inc. provides power management integrated circuits. The company was founded by J. Francois Crepin, Sajol C. Ghoshal and John R. Camagna in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Viridos, Inc. develops and commercializes genomic-driven solutions and products. The firm's offerings are designed for application in solutions such as human health, food, water production, and environment. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter, Hamilton O. Smith, David C. Kiernan and Juan Enriquez-Cabot in February 2005 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Kajeet, Inc. engages in the provision of filtered connectivity and device management solutions to help students safely explore the digital world. It offers Kajeet Sentinel, a platform that centrally manages and enables safe, online connectivity, device management, and visibility into learning. The company was founded by Daniel J. Neal, Matthew D. Baker, and Ben Weintraub in 2003 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Flywheel Building Intelligence, Inc. provides cloud-based energy management platform for building owners and operators. Its products, SCIenergy cloud, SCItrack, and SCItendant, are designed to control annual energy. The firm solutions, iRCX and MESA, perform the following functions: predicting, detecting, diagnosing and prioritizing system faults. The company was founded by John Pitcher in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Outreach Corp. designs and develops a sales engagement platform. It specializes in sales acceleration, sales efficiency, and sales management analytics. The company was founded by Gordon Leland Hempton, Andrew Kinzer, Manuel Medina and Wesley R. Hather in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Intellinex LLC provides e-Learning solutions for workers, companies, government and educational institutions. It offers learning solutions to achieve targeted business results such as sales force optimization, accelerating strategy implementation, reducing training costs and improving employee development. The firm serves Cisco Systems, Canon USA, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmacia and Turner Construction Company. The company was founded on October 10, 2000 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Part of Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc., Malleable Technologies, Inc. designs high performance semiconductor systems. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Malleable Technologies was acquired by Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc. on June 27, 2000 for $235.07 million.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

iExplore, Inc. provides on-line travel information and services. It operates travel website that offers guides, private tours, and group trips to its users. The firm's travel guides, activity guides, and experiences offer content to give its users the information they need for their trips. The company was founded by Ashim Mehra and George Deeb in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Performics Inc. provides online marketing and technology services. Its customers include retailers and other direct marketers including affiliate marketing, search marketing and e-mail marketing. The company was founded by James A. Crouthamel in 1998 and its headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Bay Partners LLC (Bay Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by John Freidenrich. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

The Pritzker Group (Venture Capital) (Pritzker Group Venture Capital) is a venture capital division of The Pritzker Group founded in 1996 by Jay Robert Pritzker and Tony N. Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ParAccel, Inc. provides purpose-built database management system used for data warehousing, business intelligence (BI) and analytic processing. The company caters to financial services, healthcare, retail, government, and telecommunication sectors. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA

RS LiveMedia Pvt Ltd. provides advertising network with liquid crystal display screens. It serves to the restaurants, corporate offices, and business processing outsourcing, gyms, salons and hospitals. The firm's liquid crystal display screens show entertainment and information oriented content. The company was founded by Rajan Mehta in July 2006 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

YapStone Holdings, Inc. provides electronic payment solutions. It processes transactions for the property management and non-profit sectors, including rents, dues, storage fees, and donations. It specializes in online and mobile payments solutions for apartment and vacation rental and marketplace payments. The company was founded by Scott Michael Honour, Thomas J. Villante, Kirk Honour and Matthew Golis in 1999 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

PremjiInvest (PremjiInvest) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Azim H Premji. The firm is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 due to Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

Signifyd, Inc. operates as an eCommerce fraud prevention company. The firm helps online businesses to control fraud and abuse. It offers an investigation tool and API to control fraud and abuse at industrial scale that arise from access, automation and anonymity. The firm also offers training on best practices for reviewing suspicious user behavior, fundamental verification principles and reviewing card-not-present payments and making live accept and decline on eCommerce transactions. It serves eCommerce, collaborative consumption and online gaming businesses. The company was founded by Rajesh Ramanand and Michael Liberty in June 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sysdig, Inc. develops network and application software solutions. It offers application, infrastructure, and container technologies. The company was founded by Loris Degioanni and Massimo Sgrelli in 2013 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

TripActions, Inc. engages in the operation of a travel agency. It offers online corporate and business travel management services. The firm specializes in business travel, employee rewards, modern travel, hotel booking, online booking, mobile booking, travel apps, company savings, hotels, rental cars, flights, technology, customer service, support, e-commerce, travel, travel search, and reducing travel spend. The company was founded by Ariel Cohen and Llan Twig in May 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Helix OpCo LLC is a genomics company. It offers consumer genetics, next generation sequencing (ngs), bioinformatics, consumer insights, big data, dna, population health, and genomics. The company was founded by Justin Kao, Scott Burke, Jay T Flatley and James Lu in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Loftium, Inc. engages in offering down payment money and monthly mortgage assistance services. The company was founded by Yifan Zhang and Adam Stelle in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Prototype Capital LLC (Prototype Capital) is a venture capital firm founded by Nandeet Mehta and Rajat Bhageria in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.