Denis Cochet

VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China.

Ogin, Inc. develops and manufactures wind turbines for electrical power production. It products include mixer and ejector wind turbines. The firm's turbines are deployed in lower-voltage distribution grids. The company serves wind farm developers, industrial operators and utilities in the United States and internationally. Ogin was founded by Stanley Kowalski III in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Innotas, Inc. provides cloud solutions for portfolio management. Its solutions include project portfolio management, application portfolio management, resource management, agile portfolio management, and the integration platform. The company also offers community support, implementation, consulting and education services. Innotas was founded by Sarb Takhar, Demian Entrekin, Caleb Entrekin and Charles E. Entrekin on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

InnoPath Software, Inc. provides mobile device management solutions to wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. It offers ActiveCare, which enables operators to update, troubleshoot, configure, and secure phones over-the-air. The company was founded by Stephen Artim in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

edo Interactive, Inc. provides digital and mobile advertising solutions. It offers an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. The firms EDO’s Prewards marketing platform employs advanced analytics and loyalty solutions to create value for consumers, brand advertisers and financial institutions. The company was founded by Edward Braswell in 2007 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Livescribe, Inc. develops paper based computing platform. It designs and manufactures smart pens, enabling customers to capture, search and share handwritten notes on the digital devices they use every day. The firm makes smartens on the market that synchronize handwritten notes with recorded audio and making the ubiquitous pen. The company was founded by L. James Marggraff and Byron Connell in January 2007 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

GAIN Capital, Inc. provides online foreign exchange trading services. It offers direct-access trading and asset management services to the global Foreign Exchange markets. Its management services include customer on-boarding, account funding, transfers, allocations, daily P&L, credits, and commission allocation. The company was founded by Mark Galant in 1999 and is headquartered in Bedminster, NJ.

Klipsch Audio Technologies LLC manufactures and distributes loudspeakers, home theater electronics and other entertainment products. It provides home audio and theater, installed whole-house contracting, ipod and mp3 audio solutions, headphones, computer & multimedia systems, professional cinema as well as commercial sound. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP engages in the provision of legal services. Its practices include: antitrust and competition; banking and finance; capital markets; copyright, trademark and false advertising; cyber, privacy and data innovation; employment law and litigation; energy; financial services litigation; global compliance and regulatory, infrastructure; intellectual property; patents; public finance; real estate; securities litigation; supreme court and appellate; tax advocacy; technology transactions; trials; and white collar, investigations, securities litigation and compliance. The company was founded by John R. Garboe in 1863 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Intel Corp., Intel Electronics Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures electronic components, including microprocessors, chipsets, and motherboards. The company is based in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

Liquid Robotics, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of autonomous ocean robots for ocean monitoring and operations. It offers the Wave Glider that capture live ocean data close to where lava is flowing into the ocean. The company was founded by Graham Hine, Joseph D. Rizzi, and Roger Hine in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Bridgelux, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state lighting and light-emitting diode components for use in diverse exterior and interior lighting applications. Its products include LED sub-systems are integrated products that deliver world class performance and leading cost while additionally reducing time to market, and LED chips, provides light emitting diode solutions. The firm serves the retail and hospitality, warehouse, exterior, industrial and eco system partners. Bridgelux was founded by Heng Liu in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Silicon Valley Leadership Group operates as an advocacy organization to influence public policy relating to the valley. The non-profit company is based in San Jose, CA.

GKM Management LLC is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of First Western Financial, Inc. founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

BP Alternative Energy Ltd. develops wind energy projects. It produces and markets solar panels. The firm also produces solar electric systems to be used in the homes, businesses, and industries. The company was founded by Vivienne Cox in November 2005 and is headquartered in Sunbury-on-Thames, the United Kingdom.

Vionx Energy Corp. manufactures flow batteries based on the company’s proprietary Zinc-Flow advanced energy storage technology. The zinc bromide flowing electrolyte energy storage system stores and releases electricity though a reversible electrochemical reaction. The company was founded by Sufan Siauw, Gary M. Collelo, and Dennis M. Dacy in 2002 and is headquartered in North Reading, MA.

Envara Ltd. develops and manufactures networking chips. The company products are used for application such as last mile broadband connections, hotspot, cellular backhaul, and high-speed enterprise connectivity for businesses. Envara was founded in 2000 by Gideon Barak, Alain Fogel, and Izik Kirshenbaum and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.

Siklu Communication Ltd. engages in the development of E and V band radios. Its products include the EtherHaul Hundred series, EtherHaul Kilo series, MultiHaul PtMP series, and SmartHaul network software tools. The company was founded by Izik Kirshenbaum, Yigal Leiba, Baruch Schwarz, Elad Dayan, and Yossi Kofman in 2008 and is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, Inc. provides nutrient recovery and phosphorus management solutions. Its chemical precipitation process removes phosphorous and ammonia (nitrogen) from a treatment facility's dewatering stream and creates pure crystalline pellets that are marketed as a commercial fertilizer called crystal green. The company was founded by Joseph E. McHugh, Don Mavinic, F. Phillip Abrary, Ahren T. Britton, and Edward Jones in 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.