Jeff Dickey

Sutter Hill Ventures LLC (Sutter Hill Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1962 by Paul M Wythes and Bill H Draper. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc., an open-ended management investment company.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation (dba Hewlett Foundation) is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The foundation was founded in 1966 by engineer and entrepreneur William R. Hewlett and his wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett, with their eldest son, Walter Hewlett. Hewlett Foundation provides grants to a broad range of institutions across the globe to help people build better lives.

Ceon Corp. provides service management software solutions. The company was founded by James V. Rohde in 1999 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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.

Redseal, Inc. provides proactive security management solutions. The firm’s solutions include compliance, incident response, vulnerability management and cyber insurance. The company was founded by Scot Malloy, Alain J. Mayer and Brian Laing in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Swift Financial Corp. provides financial services to business. It operates as a direct financial services company, which provides small business banking products and services for business owners in the United States. The company also supports numerous partnership programs to expand access to business funding. Swift Financial was founded by Edward A. Harycki in March 2006 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Orpheus Media Research LLC is a music research and development company. It offers search, analysis, and discovery of music. The firm provides clio technology leverages PhD-level musical expertise, adaptive technology, and music cognition research. The company was founded by Greg Wilder in 2007 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Splice Machine, Inc. develops a SQL-compliant database designed for Big Data applications. Its flagship product is Splice SQL Engine, which provides all the benefits of NoSQL databases such as auto-sharing, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability, while retaining the strengths of the industry standard. The firm’s SQL Engine optimizes complex queries to power real-time Big Data apps and enables interactive analytics without rewriting existing SQL-based apps and front-end BI tools. The company was founded by Monte Zweben, John Leach and Gene Davis in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The James Irvine Foundation operates nonprofit grant making foundation an expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, inclusive and successful society. Its grant making is organized around three program areas: Arts, Youth, and California Perspectives. The Foundation has provided more than $900 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout California. The organization was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

H.J. Heinz Co. Ltd. produces, processes, and distributes food products. It also offers beans, sandwich spreads, fruit spreads, jams and jellies, cookies and cereal bars, spaghetti sauces, canned and microwave soups, ready entree meals, ready breakfasts, and canned & dry pasta products. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1917 and is headquartered in Hayes, the united Kingdom.

Actiance, Inc. provides information archiving applications and services. It offers cloud archiving, data loss prevention, regulatory compliance, security, and supervision solutions. Its products include Vantage, Socialite, and Alcatraz. Vantage, captures and secures all communications channels. Socialite, gives enterprise the flexibility to customize usage policies for public social channels across devices. Alcatraz, a cloud-based content archive captures and preserves communications channels. The company was founded by Mehdi Maghsoodnia and David W. Hsieh in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

NASA Ames Research Center develops scientific research and applications for space technology. The company performs research on supercomputing, networking, intelligent systems, nanotechnology, fundamental space biology, biotechnology, aerospace, thermal protection systems, and human factors. NASA Ames Research Center was founded on December 20, 1939 and is located in Moffet Field, CA.

The RAND Corp. engages in conducting research and analysis to improve policy and decision-making. Its services include benchmarking, case study analysis, cost analysis, economic analysis, modeling, simulation, and optimization, performance measurement and measurement development, policy analysis, program evaluation, risk assessment and analysis, strategic planning, survey research, and technology assessment and development. The company was founded on May 14, 1948 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

StarKist Co., Ltd. produces and distributes seafood products. The firm offers ready-to-use, low-sodium marinated tuna varieties, flavor fresh pouches and canned tuna products. Its products are marketed to grocers and food suppliers. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation operate as a grantmaking organization works locally through its San Francisco Bay Area Program. It seeks to make a contribution to the quality of life in the bay area through targeted support in three areas: land protection, science and technology museums and the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative. The company was founded by Gordon and Betty Moore in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cooley LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offers strategic litigation and business transaction services and is a representative of private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Its practices include commercial litigation; patent counseling and prosecution; employment and labor; asset recovery; and estate planning and personal representation. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace engages in the analysis and development of policy ideas and engagement and collaboration with decision makers in the government, business, and civil society. It refers to issues such as climate and energy, defense and security, democracy and governance, economy, foreign polocy, global governance, nuclear weapons, political reform, society and culture, and technology. The company was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1910 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.