Merle Axlerod

Heroku, Inc. engages in the design and development of cloud application platform. It offers Heroku Connect allows clients to build Heroku apps that share data with Salesforce deployment and it unifies the data in Postgres database with the contacts, accounts, and other custom objects in the Salesforce database. The company was founded by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, and Adam Wiggins in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Codenvy LLC provides coding, building and testing applications. The firm's cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps uses cloud's infinite resources to shorten development tasks while organizations simplify on-boarding, collaboration and compliance processes. The company was founded by Benjamin Mestrallet and Tyler Jewell in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Socrata, Inc. provides cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. Its products include capital projects explorer, citizen connect, insights dashboard, open finance, performance, perspectives and publica open data. The firm also offers financial insights, open data and citizen management, performance improvement and accountability solutions, blueprint and socrata support site services. The company was founded by Kevin Merritt in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.