Carol Rice-Murphy

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Chordiant Software Inc. solutions automate and manage operational business processes for leading service-driven global organizations in retail finance, telecommunications and consumer direct industries. Chordiant orchestrates the unique processes of an organization from the point of customer interaction, through the front and back offices to multiple transactional systems, corporate applications and data stores

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Vendavo, Inc. provides margin and profit optimization solutions. It offers Profit Analyzer to analyze transaction data for pinpointing leaking margins; Power and Risk that provides data-driven optimal prices for salespeople to negotiate and grow revenue; Price Manager to manage price lists and set policies for deal negotiations; Deal Manager that provides deal guidance and targets for profitable deal execution to sales teams; and Deal Guide to expedite deal cycle time and equip sales force to negotiate profitable deals. The company was founded by Jamie Rappperport and Joshua W. Sommer in November 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

PINC Solutions engages in the development of scalable software and hardware that enable firms to identify, locate, and orchestrate inventory throughout the supply chain. It develops cloud-based asset tracking platform powered by an Internet of Things sensor network that includes passive radio-frequency identification, global positioning system, optical, cellular, and other sensors. The company was founded by Aleks Göllü and Meng-Hsiung Kiang in 2004 and is headquartered in Union City, 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.

View Operating Corp. engages in the design and manufacture of architectural glass. It offers smart windows and smart building. The company was founded by Paul Nguyen in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Crave Innovations, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells sex toys through online. The company was founded by Ti Chang and Michael J. Topolovac and Ti Chang in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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.

Aeroprise, Inc. is the world's most-deployed software for mobilizing BMC Remedy IT service management applications. Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses and public institutions use Aeroprise to extend service desk, asset management and change management functionality to BlackBerry and other mobile devices. Aeroprise lowers IT support costs, improves customer satisfaction and reduces critical asset downtime. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with operations in Bangalore, Aeroprise is a privately held company.

Part of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., LEVIENT Corp provides software applications and a unified mobile interface with direct access and live interaction and messaging. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. LEVIENT was acquired by FusionOne, Inc. on June 21, 2001.

Part of Ziff Davis, Inc., DocuMagix, Inc. develops document management software. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Sam Hahn. DocuMagix was acquired by JetFax, Inc. on November 12, 1997 for $7.20 million.

Part of Monitronics International, Inc., Visualize, Inc. provides creative services for the commercial, television and feature film markets. The company is based in Madison, WI. Visualize was acquired by Four Media Co. LLC on December 17, 1997 for $27.10 million.

SPL WorldGroup, Inc. develops customer and billing management software. It offers solutions in customer care & billing, enterprise asset & work management, mobile workforce management, outage & distribution management and enterprise business intelligence. The company provides implementation services such as scoping, sales handover, initiation, analysis, assembly, acceptance and rollout. SPL WorldGroup was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc. provides wireless communication solutions. The firm designs and supplies advanced 4G LTE and 5G semiconductor solutions. GCT’s market-proven LTE solutions, commercially available since 2010, have enabled fast and reliable LTE connectivity to numerous commercial devices such as smartphones, tablets, hotspots, CPEs, USB dongles, routers, M2M applications, and more, to the world’s top LTE carriers. It's system-on-chip solutions integrate radio frequency, baseband modem and digital signal processing functions into a single die, therefore offering complete 4G platform solutions with small form factors, low power consumption, high performance, high reliability and cost effectiveness. The company was founded by Kyeong-Ho H. Lee and Ki-Sub Lee in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of APG & Co., Saba is an Australian company that provides designer label apparels. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded by Kamyar Kaviani. Saba was acquired by APG & Co. on May 25, 2005.

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.

Montalvo Arts Center operates as a non-profit center for the arts. The company is headquartered in Saratoga, CA.

Part of Paramount Global, Computer Curriculum Corp. is a company that provides software development services. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

Sapphire Ventures LLC (Sapphire Ventures) is a private equity and venture capital firm, subsidiary of SAP Ventures Investment GmbH founded in 1996 by R. Douglas Higgins and Andreas Markus Weiskam. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Matterport Operating, Inc. operates as a spatial data company that focuses on digitizing and indexing the built world. Its products include 3D content platform, pro2 3D camera, 360 cameras, virtual reality and mobile apps. The firm serves residential real estate, engineering and construction, travel and hospitality and commercial real estate sectors. The company was founded by Michael Beebe, Matthew Bell and David Gausebeck in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Wildcat Venture Partners LLC (Wildcat Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Bill Ericson, Bryan D. Stolle, Bruce Cleveland and Katherine Barr. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Roambee Corp. operates as a supply chain and enterprise asset visibility company. It offers Bee, a portable wireless locator with an array of sensors to monitor goods and assets. The company was by Sanjay Sharma and Vidya Subramanian founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Mobile Data Labs, Inc. provides mileage-tracking mobile application. Its MileIQ application captures, logs, and calculates miles that the user drives, as well as stores the drive log in cloud. The firm serves primarily independent contractors, consultants, real estate agents, and business owners. The company was founded by Chuck Dietrich and Daniel Bomze in 2013 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.