David R. Gross

Persistence Partners (Persistence Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by David R. Gross and Rusty B. Reed. The firm is headquartered in Carpenteria, California.

Connexity, Inc. engages in the provision of audience discovery and retargeting services to clients in the publishing and advertising industries. It applies a social network architecture, establishing connections between product and people. It offers solutions for multi-graph analysis, real-time campaign control and reporting, and ad delivery optimization. The company was founded by Dean Banks and Dave Gross in 2010, and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

BioIQ, Inc. develops and markets health screening and medical diagnostic platforms. It offers health improvement technologies, with focus on optimizing investments in corporate health and wellness programs. The firm's technology platform features the Dimensions, Axis, Ecosystem and Advisor components, serving as foundation for outcome-based wellness, performance measurement, population stratification and assignment of targeted health-improvement solutions based on each participant's actual risk. The company was founded by Justin J. Bellante and Raja Jindal in 2005 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

ValueClick Media, Inc. provides online advertising network services. Its services include display advertising and lead generation. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Celerus Diagnostics, Inc. is a holding company, which develops technological solutions that enhance the diagnostic capabilities of anatomic pathology laboratories. It offers Celerus Wave RPD System, a staining system that performs automated deparaffinization through counter-stain. The firm also manufactures and sells linear reagent magazines, antibodies, and accessories and components of its wave RPD system products. The company was founded by Page Erickson in 2004 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.