Joel Backman

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

NextBio Corp. provides a scientific platform to aggregate and interpret quantities of genomic data for research and clinical applications. It offers products for pharmaceutical, bio-tech, academia, and medicine organizations. The company was founded by Saeid Akhtari and Ilya Kupershmidt in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Nexenta Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of software-based systems for data storage and backup solutions. It offers backup and archive, cloud, containers, file, virtualization, and 5G mobility solutions. The company was founded by Alex Aizman, Dmitry Yusupov, and Evan Powell in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Motiv Power Systems, Inc. engages in the development of software to electrify medium-duty trucks and buses. It offers Electric Powered Intelligent Chassis (EPIC), an all-electric equivalent to the internal combustion powered chassis fleets used in medium-duty vehicles. Its product is available in body configurations including step vans, box trucks, work trucks, shuttle buses, school buses, trolleys, and other specialty vehicles. The company was founded by Jim Michael Castelaz in August 2009 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Aperia Technologies, Inc. provides automatic tire inflation devices. Its products are used in various types of fleet vehicles, including buses, box trucks, tractors, trailers, and refuse vehicles. The company was founded by Joshua Carter and Brandon Richardson in 2010 and is headquartered in Burlingame. CA.

Looker Data Sciences, Inc. provides business intelligence software services. It develops software that focuses on the intersection of economics and engineering. The firm's solutions specialize in cohort analysis, transaction sequencing, customer lifetime value, customer lifetime transactions, distribution analysis, behavioral analysis, supply chain analytics, and digital marketing. It serves eCommerce, Media, Ad Tech, SaaS, Healthcare, Gaming and FinTech industries. The company was founded by Lloyd W. Tabb, Marc Randolph, and Ben Porterfield in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

DataRobot, Inc. develops automated machine learning, automated machine series, and managed al clouds. It offers solutions to the banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and marketing sectors. The company was founded by Jeremy Achin and Thomas de Godoy in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bryj Technologies, Inc. provides mobile engagement solutions services. The firm?s Contextual Analytics Engine and Push-Button Connectors to customer data sources, it does the heavy lifting for business users by providing intelligence and automation to create mobile and omnichannel experiences that delight customers. The company was founded by Samir Addamine in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pendo.io, Inc. provides cloud software for digital product teams and application services. It offers insights, sentiments, guidance, feedback, roadmap, integration, and adoption services. The company was founded by Todd Olson, Erik Troan, Eric Boduch and Rahul Jain in 2013 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

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.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Westinghouse Electric Corp. engages in the distribution and marketing of home appliances. It offers air purification, bakeware and baking tools, blenders and juicers, ceiling fans, cookers and steamers, cooking utensils, cookware, electric cooktops, electric kettles, food preparation, and fryers. The company was founded by George Westinghouse in 1886 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of Ask.com, Classifieds2000, Inc. provides classified advertising and distribution on the Internet. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Classifieds2000 was acquired by Excite, Inc. on April 06, 1998 for $50.18 million.

Homestead Technologies, Inc. provides website and online marketing solutions for small businesses. Its services encompass website creation software and eCommerce solutions. The company was founded by Justin Kitch in 1996 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

BigFix, Inc. provides global information technology infrastructure services. The company was founded by David Donoho and David S. Hindawi in 1997 and is headquartered in Armonk, NY.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

ParAccel, Inc. provides purpose-built database management system used for data warehousing, business intelligence (BI) and analytic processing. The company caters to financial services, healthcare, retail, government, and telecommunication sectors. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA

Children's Discovery Museum is an educational and interactive play space for young children located at Mineta San Jose International Airport. The Children's Discovery Museum is based in San Jose, CA. The play space is themed around "all things that fly" and is situated in Terminal B between Gates. The museum offers third-party evaluations of educational programs and provides fun and learning experiences for Bay Area kids and families. The museum's mission is to inspire creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning through open-ended, play-based learning.

Flexenclosure AB engages in the design and manufacture of prefabricated data centers and power management systems for the information and communications technology industries. It offers eCentre™ data centre buildings and eSite™ x10, a telecom site power system. The company was founded by Stefan Jern in 1989 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Confrapar Participações e Pesquisa SA (Confrapar) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded in 2007.

CloudHealth Technologies, Inc. offers business performance management software platform for the cloud. It operates as SaaS software development firm that allows companies to trend, analyze, model, plan and predict performance and cost optimization for the cloud as it applies to business model. The company was founded by Joseph Kinsella, David D. Eicher, and Daniel D. Phillips Jr. in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Endless Mobile, Inc. develops platforms and solutions for smart phones. Its product Endless OS, is an operating system which comes pre-installed with over 100 apps. The company was founded by Matthew Dalio and Marcelo Sampaio in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ceres Nanosciences, Inc. provides research, development, and commercialization of innovative sample preparation products, based on its proprietary technology. The company was founded by Emanuel F. Petrioin III, Lance Liota and Ross M. Dunlap in 2008 and is headquartered in Manassas, VA.

Cytovale, Inc. develops mechanical biomarkers to improve human health based on the mechanical properties of individual cells or mechanomics. The company was founded by Dino Di Carlo, Ajay M. Shah and Tat Kwong Tse in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ThrustMe SAS is a French company that specializes in providing ground and space equipment to help research and test space hardware before launch. The company is based in Verrieres-le-Buisson, France. The company's i2t5 system is a cold gas propulsion system designed for cubesats and nanosats that operates with solid iodine propellant. ThrustMe aims to deliver groundbreaking mobility solutions for satellites, promoting economic and environmental sustainability in the space industry. It was founded in 2017 by Ane Aanesland and Dmytro Rafalskyi, with Ane Aanesland serving as the CEO since then.

Blackhorn Ventures Capital Management LLC (Blackhorn Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Philip O’Connor, Jack Fuchs and Trevor Zimmerman. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Cloud Academy, Inc. provides cloud computing learning technologies to the companies and individuals. The firm's solutions include management of multi-cloud, migration to clud and developing tech talent. The company was founded by Stefano Bellasio, Anthony Russell and Giacomo Marinangeli in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pactolus Ventures LLC (Pactolus Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Tray.io, Inc. operates a platform that makes users to build and share SaaS integrations. It provides event bus systems to send messages between modules and event loop based programming models. The company was founded by Rich Waldron, Alistair Russell and Dominic Lewis in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.