Murali Chirala

SVQUAD is a syndicate of investors based in Silicon Valley that provides seed capital to first-time technology entrepreneurs in the US. SVQUAD is based in Monte Sereno, CA. The company invests in both B2B and B2C startups and provides ample capital for 18 to 24 months to reach a meaningful milestone, setting companies up to attract venture capital from series A investors. The company has assembled a syndicate of passive investors who provide supplemental capital, enabling it to lead seed rounds and engage deeply with entrepreneurs. SVQUAD was founded by Raj-Ann Rekhi Gill, B. V. Jagadeesh, Raju Reddy, Kanwal Rekhi, and Kanwal Rekhi has been the CEO since incorporation.

Inventus Capital Partners (Inventus Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Kanwal Rekhi and John Robert Dougery. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Research is a corporate research lab with over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations across six continents. The company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY and was founded by Thomas Boudalier. The company invests in breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain technology. IBM Research is dedicated to applying AI and science to industry challenges, from healthcare to environmentalism to retail.

Woodside Fund Corp. is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded by Vince M. Occhipinti and Bob E. Larson in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

Naukri Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. operates an employment portal online. It offers a forum for employers, placement agencies, and job seekers to exchange information on the internet. The site enables job seekers to register and include resumes on the database, resumes will then be displayed to the employers and recruitment consultants on the web site. It also offers recruitment advertising, under which job vacancy posting services and advertising space are included. The company was founded on December 9, 1999 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Komli Media India Pvt Ltd. operates as a digital advertising and media technology company. The firm offers lead acquisition, targeting, rich media, audience measurement and brand measurement solutions. The company was founded by Akshay Garg, Mukul Kumar and Amar Goel in 2006 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

JiGrahak Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd. provides mobile commerce services in India. It offers ngpay, a mobile commerce platform that enables users to buy air and rail tickets, pay bills, make hotel reservations and payment, and buy movie tickets, as well as to shop, gift, bank, and transfer funds. The company was founded by Sourabh Jain in 2004 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Anantara Solutions Pvt Ltd. provides business consulting and information technology services. The firm provides business and strategic solutions in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and convergence verticals. The company was founded by Guruvayoor Balakrishnan Prabhat in 1995 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Workspot, Inc. develops software applications to secure mobile workplace for information technology industry. Its secure mobile workplace helps end-users and information technology departments conveniently separate work-related content and personal information stored on the device. The company was founded by Puneet S. Chawla, Ta-Hui Ty Wang and Amitabh B. Sinha in August 2012 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

MySmartPrice Web Technology Pvt Ltd. provides online shopping platform for mobiles, books, cameras and electronics. The firm operates a price comparison site that actively lists products and commodities on its website with attractive price comparison. Its latest offering, MSP Fashion, assists users in finding the ideal look for any season, and features brands from all over the globe. MySmartPrice Web Technology was founded in 2010 by Sitakanta Ray and Sulakshan Kumar and is headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

mygola, Inc. provides personalized travel concierge services through online. The company was founded by Anshuman Bapna and Prateek Sharma in 2009 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Tavant Technologies, Inc. provides information technology solutions and services. The firm offers application and development maintenance, business intelligence, mobility, independent software testing, and content management solutions. The company was founded by Sarvesh Mahesh and Ashish Gupta in 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Securematics, Inc. engages in the distribution of secure networking products and solutions in North America. It offers services in government contractors, service providers, global system integrators, and value added resellers. The company was founded by Pradeep Aswani in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Jivox Corp. enagges int he provision of personalized digital marketing platform. It offers Jivox IQ, a platform designed to deliver dynamic ads at scale for programmatic media across all formats and screens. Its platform enables brand advertisers, digital agencies, and publishers to deliver highly engaging video advertisements by interactive and social sharing widgets. The company was founded by Diaz H. Nesamoney and Naren Nachiappan in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Silent Circle LLC provides enterprise-scale secure mobile communications solutions. Its product family comprises: Silent Phone, a secure calling and messaging application; Blackphone, a hardened, secure handset; Silent World, a secure way to communicate globally outside of the Silent Phone network; and Silent Manager, a web-based administrative console for managing users. The company was founded by Michael Janke, Phil Zimmermann and Jonathan Callas and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

The EastWest Institute operates as a network of influential stakeholders that engages in building trust and preventing conflict worldwide. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

WorldHaus, Inc. provides architecture services. It services include architectural design, structural engineering and drafting, end to end construction services from foundation to the final finishing touches, sale of construction systems, turnkey and Greenfield projects, joint project development. The company was founded by Daniel Gross in October 2010 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

National Skill Development Corp. engages in promotion of skill development for-profit vocational institutions. It offers funding to build scalable, for-profit vocational training initiatives. The firm is a public private partnership in India, under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. The company is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Access Healthcare Services USA LLC provides business process outsourcing, applications services, and robotic process automation tools. The company offers services to healthcare providers and payers. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Shiftsmart, Inc. operates as marketplace connecting part-time workers with open shifts across multiple platforms. The company was founded by Tony Matthews and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Helion Venture Partners (Helion Venture Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Kanwaljit Singh, Sanjeev Aggarwal and Rahul Chandra. The firm is headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius.

Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd. provides mobile point-of-sales payment solutions. It processes card payments on mobile phones, signaling the growing global attention to India's early-stage technology industry. The firm's mobile point of sale (PoS) solution allows gadgets like feature phones, smart phones as well as tablets to be converted into point of sale terminals, in-store, on the road or at the customer's doorstep. The company was founded in 2011 by Sanjay Swamy, Abhijit Sinha Bose, Bhakta Kesavachar, Balaji Parthasarathy and Shripati Acharya and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Kirusa, Inc. provides mobile social media and value added services. It offers voice messaging, instavoice, social media, infotainment, delivery model and enterprise solutions. The company was founded by Louis C. Golm, Barinderpal Singh Mumick and Inderpal Singh Mumick in 2001 and is headquartered in New Providence, NJ.

Zmanda, Inc. provides open source backup and recovery solutions for small to medium businesses. Its innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. The company was founded by Chander Kant, K. K. George and Paddy Sreenivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Mu Sigma Inc. provides analytical decision support services. It offers proprietary technology platforms, processes which scales the use of its interdisciplinary approach to decision sciences. The company was founded by Dhiraj C. Rajaram and Ambiga Subramanian in 2004 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

QwikCilver Solutions Pvt Ltd. provides stored-value-card solutions. The firm's services include design packaging and real time reporting. It also provides gifting and stored value, storage, and retail distribution solutions. The company offers pre-paid cards, electronic and physical gift cards, E-promotion cards, loyalty programs, discount cards, and other physical and virtual card based programs. QwikCilver Solutions was founded by Bhaskar Vasudevan, T. P. Pratap and Sudarsan Naganath Kumar in 2006 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Whatfix Pvt Ltd. engages in the provision of Internet based software as a service customer engagement solutions. It offers in-app digital guidance; user enablement; alerts and announcements; analytics and feedback; and management and customization. The company was founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar Namburu Maruthi Priya Kanyaka in April 2013 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Infrrd, Inc. is a California-based company that specializes in providing intelligent document processing solutions. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company's solutions utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to extract and manage data from semi-structured and unstructured documents in large volumes. Infrrd offers pre-built, highly configurable solutions for managing complex documents such as invoices, claims, and bank statements, while also allowing organizations to create and train new models. The company's intelligent document processing solution automates data extraction from complex, unstructured documents with guaranteed accuracy.

Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity/ venture capital subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Viptela, Inc. provides software-defined wide area network service. It offers secure extensible network solutions. The company was founded by Amir Khan and Khalid Raza in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

VCE Co. LLC develops converged cloud infrastructure systems. Its products include Vblock System 100, Vblock System 200, Vblock System 300, and Vblock System 700. The firm also provides VCE Vision, an intelligent operations software, Vblock, a specialized system for extreme applications, high performance databases, and SAP HANA. The company through its Vblock systems, which delivers the industry''s only fully integrated and virtualized cloud infrastructure systems. Its solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure. The company was founded on November 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Quantela, Inc. develops and provides ready-made end-to-end smart city solutions. The firm offers Atlantis platform. The company was founded by Sridhar Gadhi and Raju Indukuri and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Amsol Group of Cos. provides consulting services in enterprise applications and Internet technologies and in various information system design and architecture technologies. It has offices in the U.S., India, and Singapore. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newark, DE

Artha operates as a school for entrepreneurship. The Indian company was founded by Ashish Gupta.