Michael A. Braun

Blaze Software, Inc. was a supplier of software for enterprise scale e-business applications that deliver service beyond personalization. They made a call center automation system that applied business rules to call center processes called Elements. Blaze Software, Inc. changed its name to Fair Isaac Corp. The company was located in San Jose, CA.

Callidus Software, Inc. provides cloud-based sales, marketing, learning and customer experience solutions. It offers a suite of Software-as-a-Service solutions that identifies leads, trains personnel, implements territory and quota plans, enables sales forces, automates configuration pricing and quoting, manages contracts, streamlines sales compensation, captures customer feedback, and provides predictive analytics for competitive advantage. The firm’s products include sales performance management, sales automation, execution and customer engagement. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

Captara Corp. provides web-based enterprise lease management solutions. Its solutions include control, compliance, cost savings and improves the management of enterprise leasing activities, ensuring compliance with sec, fasb and sarbanes-oxley rules and reporting requirements and achieving operating efficiencies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sage Intacct, Inc. provides cloud financial management services. Its systems includes accounting, cash management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation, revenue recognition, subscription billing, contract management, project accounting, fund accounting, inventory management, and financial reporting applications, all delivered through the cloud. The company was founded by David C. Thomas and Odysseas Tsatalos in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Boardwalktech, Inc. provides enterprise spreadsheet data management solutions. It offers Boardwalk Application Engine, a patented enterprise spreadsheet data management technology which automates and enterprise enables spreadsheet-based business processes making them collaborative and integrated with the extended enterprise; and Boardwalk Enterprise Blockchain, designed to support multi-party, work-in-process enterprise data collaboration/management. The company was founded by Dharmesh Dadbhawala, Sarang Kulkarni, and Ravi Ganesh Krishnan in 2004 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.