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Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Bessemer Venture Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in companies primarily located in the US. The fund focuses on companies with a strong business model, experienced management teams and growth potential. It targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors such as healthcare, information systems, telecommunications, and retailing. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements.

Worldtalk Communications Corp provides Internet content security and policy management solutions. It also designs and develops software. The company was founded on March 28, 1996 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

IGN Entertainment, Inc. provides internet and media services. It focuses on the video game and entertainment markets. It offers gaming and entertainment content for 18-34 year old men online; gaming technology services for online game developers; and iPhone UI Toolkit for iPhone developers. The firm also operates Direct2Drive, an online site that allows consumers to purchase and download PC games, comics, and anime titles directly from the Web to their desktops; FilePlanet, a video game download site that provides free game patches, mod files, game demos, and trailers; AskMen.com, a men's lifestyle Website; and UGO.com, a men's entertainment site. The company was founded by Mark A. Jung, Peer Schneider, Kenneth H. Keller and Christopher Anderson on September 29, 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Elemental Cyber Security, Inc. develops and delivers superior security policy and compliance automation, risk management as well as network access control technology to the IT security markets. Its solutions include element security platform, discovering and controlling unmanaged hosts. The company was founded in December 2002 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Flock, Inc. develops social web browsers. The firm helps its users to connect, share, and discover web. It also helps its clients to create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds, and comments across social communities, media providers and popular websites. The company was founded by Bhavin Turakhia, Anthony Young, Geoffrey Arone and Bart Decrem in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Truaxis, Inc. provides loyalty rewards and personalized statement solutions for financial institutions, merchants, and consumers. It offers StatementRewards, a loyalty platform for U.S. credit and debit cardholders. The company was founded by Samir Kothari and Schwark Satyavolu in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Sungevity, Inc. provides technology-driven solutions. Its asset-light business model focuses on value-added in-house services for software platform development, project management, and customer experience. The company was founded by Andrew Birch Lu, Daniel Ian Kennedy, and Alexander Guettel in 2007 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Nominum, Inc. provides web hosting services. It provides network-based solutions and applications powered by DNS and DHCP core engines. The company was founded by Paul Vixie, David R. Conrad and Paul V. Mockapetris in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Excite at Home Corp. provides voice, data, and video telecommunication services. The company provides Internet access over cable lines. It is headquartered in Redwood City, CA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

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

BT Counterpane, Inc. provides internet managed security monitoring services. Its services include vulnerability scanning, security assessment, maintenance, training, support, consulting, e-mail scanning, network device management and denial of service attack prevention. The company was founded by Schneier Bruce and Thomas E. Rowley in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Financial Executives International enhances member professional development through peer networking, career planning services, conferences, publications and special reports, and research. Its members include Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance, Treasurers, and Controllers. The company was founded in December 1931 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

WorkMetro, Inc. provides online recruiting solutions. Its solutions connect companies with job seekers in their local area. The company was founded by Jon Stevenson and David Lambert in 2003 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

The Nueva School operates as an independent school serving gifted students and emphasizing integrated studies, arts, and social-emotional learning. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Hillsborough, CA.

iSIGHT Security LLC provides cyber threat intelligence services. The company was founded by Jonathan Couch and John P. Watters in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Anomali, Inc. provides information technology support services. It specializes in data security, third party integration, data sourcing, threat management and analytics, and system collaboration. The company was founded by Gregory Martin and Colby M. Derodeff in 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Rigetti & Co., Inc. develops and delivers integrated quantum and classical computing capabilities. The firm's flagship product, Quantum Cloud Services provides dedicated access to quantum hardware and a development environment tailored for practical applications. The company was founded by Chad T. Rigetti in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Velo3D US, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers sapphire printer, flow software, and assure system. The company was founded by Benyamin Buller and Erel Milshtein in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc. provides cloud computing services. The company was founded by Christian Weedbrookin 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Forcepoint LLC, Websense LLC is a company that provides email services. The company is based in San Diego, CA.

Center for Inquiry, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Richard Dawkins. The organization's mission is to eliminate the influence of religion in science education and public policy, and to remove the stigma surrounding atheism and non-belief. The Center for Inquiry advocates for reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through specialized policy and political actions focusing on secularist topics and human rights. The organization is a community of freethinkers, activists, leaders, atheists, and humanists who advocate for science literacy and rational thinking in examining religion and other extraordinary claims. The Center for Inquiry provides a virtual library of discussion guides, instructional videos, expert Q&A sessions, and other tools to help groups promote science, reason, and secular values.