Nathaniel Friedman

Goldman Sachs Bank AG engages in the provision of banking and financial services. Its business activities also include securities trading, asset management, and investment consulting. The company was founded on May 27, 1992 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Benchmark Capital Corp. provides investment services. The private company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Andrew Samuel Rachleff.

Oakwood Worldwide, Inc. provides housing solutions. It offers relocation, government, business travel and consulting, insurance, entertainment, industry sight, apartments, and extended-stay lodging. The company was founded by Howard Ruby in 1960 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Redpoint Ventures (Redpoint Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jeffrey Brody, Tom Dyal, Tim Haley, Brad Jones, John Walecka and Geoff Yang. The firm is headquartered in Woodside, 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.

Hellman & Friedman LLC (Hellman & Friedman) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd., Chekiang First Bank Ltd. is an international commercial bank. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Chekiang First Bank was acquired by OCBC Wing Hang Bank Ltd., a subsidiary of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. from Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. on September 30, 2003 for $615.45 million.

The Linux Foundation operates as a non-profit organization which provides support for open source communities. It offers financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, events, and training. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Shoreline Venture Management LLC (Shoreline Venture Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Peter Craddock and Robert S. Spears. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BitRock SL provides management software solutions. Its software platform includes Bitnami, Bitnami Cloud Hosting, and InstallBuilder. The company was founded by Daniel Lopez Ridruejo and is headquartered in Sevilla, Spain.

Founded in 2011, Index Venture Management (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Index Venture Management SA

Wonderschool, Inc. develops eCommerce tool that enables businesses to sell products within comments on Facebook pages. The firm operates as an online social commerce platform allowing brands, individuals, and merchants to sell directly within Facebook. The company was founded by Chris Bennett, Edward Robertshaw and Arrel Gray in February 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Worldwide ERC is a non-profit organization that has been connecting and educating workforce mobility professionals globally since 1964. The private company is based in Arlington, VA, with offices in London and Shanghai. The company is the source of mobility knowledge and innovation in talent management from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to the Americas. Lynn Shotwell has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

bitnami develops and provides server applications and automation for software supply chain. The company was founded by Daniel Lopez and Erica Brescia in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lingo Live Language Services, Inc. provides live online lessons taught by native instructors. It offers a language application and tutoring platforms that allows users to gain basic proficiency in a non-native language and to meet their coaches online for scheduled live sessions. The company was founded by Tyler Muse, Mike Giordani and Alex Au and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cypress.io, Inc. develops end-to-end automation framework for web applications. It is a software company which operates test engine that runs unit and integration tests in browser. The company was founded by Brian Mann and Kent Randall in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Productboard, Inc. develops an online platform for strategic product design and management. The company was founded by Hubert Palan and Daniel Hejl in 2013 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Abstract Studio Design, Inc. engages in the provision of design and redesign services. It offers version control, design collaboration, and developer handoff. The company was founded by Joshua Brewer, Kevin Smith and Frank Chimero in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

XFactor Ventures (XFactor Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Exeter Venture Management Company LLC founded in 2017 by Anna B. Palmer and Chip M. Hazard. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Physna, Inc. engages in the development of a geometric search engine that is designed for the development of computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing. It focuses on providing solutions for three dimensional (3D) problems. The firm serves designers, manufacturers, and cyber security. The company was founded by Paul Powers and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Helpr, Inc. provides childcare services. The company was founded by Kasey Edwards and Becka Klauber Richter and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. provides health care services. It offers mental health and wellness and community health services. The company was founded by Sidney Garfield and Henry J. Kaiser on July 21, 1945 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

InVisionApp, Inc. engages in the design of prototyping tool. It is a platform that enables companies of all sizes to create product development and make a common design language among both business and design teams. The company was founded by Clark Valberg and and Ben Nadel in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PeopleTech Partners (PeopleTech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Cara Brennan Allamano. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Asymmetric Capital LLC (Asymmetric Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Robert Duke Biederman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Poolside, Inc. is a company that provides pool and spa installation services. The company is based in Traverse City, MI. The company was founded in 2000.

Railway Corp. is a platform that provides infrastructure for development purposes. Users can provision infrastructure, develop locally, and then deploy to the cloud. The American company was founded in 2020 by Jake Cooper, who has been the CEO since 2020.

Dagger, Inc. is a marketing agency founded in 2014 that helps brands stay relevant in today's fast-paced consumer market. The agency believes that brands should behave like media companies by creating valuable content and distributing it across various media platforms. The American company has their own media brand called Butter, which has become a popular culture channel since its launch in 2018. Dagger offers a range of services, including brand and content strategy, storytelling, campaign thinking, and media connections. The company's clients include Aflac, Intercontinental Hotels Group, The Coca-Cola Company, The American Cancer Society, and Boys and Girls Club. The company was founded in 2014 by Samuel Alba and Andrea Luzzardi.

BitRock, Inc. develops multiplatform installation and management tools. Its products include InstallBuilder and InstallBuilder for Qt. The company was founded by Daniel Lopez Ridruejo and Erica Brescia in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Xatabase, Inc. is a cloud service that provides an abstraction layer on top of multiple data stores to simplify application development and operations. The company is based in Middletown, DE. The company offers a serverless data platform that is branchable and includes a serverless database, analytics engine, and free-text search engine with a spreadsheet-like UI and an indefinitely scalable data API. The company was founded in 2021 by Monica Sarbu, who has been the CEO since 2021.