Laurie Achziger

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.

Apacheta Corp. delivers mobile workflow applications. It offers services to the medical logistics, enterprise workforce, and technology sectors. The company was founded by Bernie Skomra and Stewart Skomra in 2002 and is headquartered in Media, PA.

Automattic, Inc. develops web pages and software. It offers visual information processing hosting, free blogging software, blog designing, plug-in development, training, setup and social media planning services. The company was founded by Matthew Charles Mullenweg in August 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

LoopFuse, Inc. operates as a business to business marketing automation platform. It provides reports on online customer behavior in merchants’ websites. The company was founded by Sean Dwyer, Roy Russo and Thomas M. Elrod in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Inventables, Inc. offers 3d carving software, machines and related raw materials. It develops Easel, a 3D platform which allows users to pair with 3D carving machine and X-carve and produce their first project in short time. The company was founded by Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

bLife, Inc. develops mobile stress management tools. The firm offers technological, health and well-being, state-of-the-art design and science. The company was founded by Paul A. Campbell and Hamet A. Watt in 2010 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Hedvig, Inc. provides software defined storage solutions. It offers deployment options, management and plugins, cloudscale reference architectures and universal data plane. The firm accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized pool. The company was founded by Avinash Lakshman and Srinivas Lakshman in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Infogain Corp. provides front-end, customer-facing technologies, processes and applications. It offers digital transformation, port logistics, customer service, application management, mobility, port logistics, quality assurance and test, oracle knowledge and cloud and testing services. The firm specializes in software product engineering, service automation and mobility. It serves the retail, high technology, travel, hospitality, insurance, and health care industries. The company was founded by Kapil K. Nanda in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Telogy Networks, Inc. provides embedded communications software solutions. It provides solutions for voice, fax, and data over IP. The company was founded by Jack Hangen, Thomas H. Scholl, and William E. Witowsky in 1990 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD

SPhere SA engages in the manufacture and distribution of household packaging materials. Its products include refuse bags, bin-liners, freezer bags, fruit and vegetable bags, food wrappings, films, baking parchment, food containers, and aluminum foil. The company was founded by John Persenda in 1976 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Calvert Capital Management Co. (Calvert Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Blacksmith Capital (Blacksmith Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

True Ventures LLC (True Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by John Burke and Philip Black. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Puppet, Inc. provides enterprise information technology automation services. It products include open source projects and pricing. The firm's software helps system administrators automate configuration and management of machines. The company was founded by Luke Kanies, Teyo Tyree, and Andrew Shafer in 2005 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Airship Group, Inc. engages in the provision of mobile marketing solutions. Its services include professional services, technical support, and account management. The company was founded by Michael Richardson, Adam Lowry, Scott Kveton, and Steven Osborn in 2009 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Kiip, Inc. develops a mobile platform that enables games and other applications to deliver rewards for virtual achievements. It provides rewards to application users through advertising products, free samples, special offers and virtual currencies. The firm also helps developers monetize their apps by rewarding users during in-app events. Its solutions also enable performance marketers find customers on mobile. The company was founded by Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin and Amadeus Demarzi in September 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nodeable, Inc. provides a social platform for systems data. It offers real-time data stream processing for big data applications. The company was founded by Mark Griffin, Neil Levine and Dave Rosenberg in March 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SocialPandas, Inc. operates as a social selling platform. The company was founded by Mark Trang, Jason Ouellette and Gretchen DeKnikker in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Apply Financial Ltd. provides payments validation solutions. It specializes in rapid application delivery, payments automation, mobile banking, and web service transaction engines. The company was founded by Philip Goffin and Mark Bradbury in November 1, 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

npm, Inc. provides services and support for the node.js and npm projects. It offers docusign, siriusXM, uber, and visa, to manage and deploy packages. The company was founded by Roderick Boothby, Isaac Z. Schlueter and Laurie James Voss in 2014 and is headquartered in Monterey, CA.

Understory, Inc. provides weather data. It offers weather technology and revolutionary hail monitoring networks. The firm offers weather data to insurance, agriculture and utility companies. The company was founded by Alexander Kubicek, Bryan Dow and Alexander Jacobs in 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Copper CRM, Inc. designs, develops, and provides cloud-based customer relationship management software for small to medium-sized businesses. It serves the companies that use google applications. The firm enables business owners, senior executives, and sales professionals to track sales leads, manage contacts, and close deals. The company was founded by Chris Cheng, Jun Hu and Jonathan Lee in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

strongDM, Inc. provides data monitoring software solutions. It develops a platform for automated data error detection. The company was founded by Elizabeth Joy Zalman, Justin Allan McCarthy and Schuyler Chapin Brown in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame,CA.

Datos IO, Inc. develops time management software for enterprise. Its products include scale-out software, scalable versioning, reliable recovery and semantic deduplication. The firm offers backup and recovery, cloud data protection and big data solutions. The company was founded by Tarun Thakur and Prasenjit Sarka in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Gradle, Inc. provides software services. It offers services include training, consulting and support. The company was founded by Hans Dockter and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

solo.io, Inc. develops cloud-based solutions. Its products and services include Squash, debugger for microservices applications; Unik, platform for building and running unikernels; and Talks, an open source community. The company was founded by Idit Levine on February 7, 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Pulse Q&A, Inc. engages in providing real-time business insights for data-driven executives. The company was founded by Anand Thaker and Mayank R. Mehta in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hi Marley, Inc. acts as a software provider offering the AI-enabled conversation platform designed for the insurance industry. It enables insurance carriers to easily communicate with customers and other partners in the insurance ecosystem. The company was founded by Michael Greene, John Miller and Mitesh Suchak and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.