Nikki Johns

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Abilita Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering and developing drugs that target challenging human membrane proteins with high medical impact, such as GPCRs, ion channels, and transporters. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company's internal drug discovery pipeline is focused on treating cancer and chronic pain. Abilita Bios EMP™ platform fuels research collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. The company was founded in 2014 by Mauro Mileni, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Versa Networks, Inc. provides virtualized network functions and services. It develops NFV technology that will allow virtual network functions to run anywhere where compute resources are available on customer premises equipment, in a carrier data center or in the cloud. The company was founded by Kumar B. Mehta and Apurva Mehta in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Viptela, Inc. provides software-defined wide area network service. It offers secure extensible network solutions. The company was founded by Amir Khan and Khalid Raza in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Graphiant, Inc. provides cloud connectivity solutions through their edge network, which simplifies provisioning enterprise connectivity solutions with rock-solid security at a fraction of the cost of SD-WAN. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company's agile, elastic network can be a perfect alternative and SD-WAN replacement, with the performance of and low costs of SD-WAN. The company was founded by Khalid Raza, Stefan Olofsson, and Khalid Raza has been the CEO since incorporation.

FYR Diagnostics, Inc. is a healthcare company that is revolutionizing the industry by creating diagnostic solutions that use new understandings of disease to develop the next generation of liquid biopsies. The company is based in Missoula, MT. The company uses extracellular vesicles (EVs) and other innovative biomarkers to bridge the gaps between healthcare, patients, and disease. FYR Diagnostics was founded by Braxton Norwood and David Booth, and the CEO is Chris Booth.

Good Start Genetics, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics firm. It offers pre-pregnancy diagnostic test services to screen a panel of genetic disorders. The firm also provides clinical laboratory and genetic counseling support services. The company was founded by Eric Boutin, Paris Wallace, and Gregory J. Porreca in December 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Celmatix, Inc. operates as a personalized medicine company that focuses on women?s health. It offers POLARIS, a web-based analytics platform for optimizing a woman?s fertility; and NOVA, a patient portal that helps clinics to maximize the patient experience. Its products help women to make informed decisions about their fertility, as well as provide doctors with data-driven tools for patient care. The company was founded by Piraye Yurttas Beim and Laura Towart Bandak in 2009 and is headquartered New York, NY.

Think Finance, Inc. develops next-generation financial products for consumers using a technology and analytics platform. Its products bridge the gap between payday loans and credit cards. The firm assists its clients by helping them to offer responsible and transparent credit products and also as a trusted advisor in developing sustainable business strategies. Think Finance was founded by Mike Stinson in 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Partners HealthCare Corp. provides patient care, research, teaching and community services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

Horsley Bridge Partners LLC (HBP) is a private equity firm, founded in 1983 by Phillip Horsley and Gary Bridge. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London and Beijing.

Part of Starlight Investments Ltd. (Canada), Lion Funds Management, Inc. is a Canadian company that manages mutual funds. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. Lion Funds Management was acquired by Stone Asset Management Ltd. from Orion Securities, Inc. on March 19, 2002.

Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with ten colleges emphasizing career education and experiential learning. It was founded in 1829 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Tula Technology, Inc. develops digital signal processing technology. It is a silicon valley based supplier of dynamic skip fire a software enabled powertrain technology that integrates advanced digital signal processing with sophisticated powertrain controls to create the ultimate variable displacement engine. The firm delivers optimal fuel efficiency across a wide range of engine types to the world’s automotive manufacturers, helping them meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates at the lowest cost. The company was founded by Adya S. Tripathi and Chester J. Silvestri in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

OpenDNS, Inc. provides internet security services.It offer Umbrella, an enterprise security product The company was founded by David A. Ulevitch on July 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SecurityScorecard, Inc. develops software applications which provides threat intelligence and risk awareness services. Its threatscape benchmarking service gives organizations unique visibility into the security posture of their partners and vendors and now companies can collaborate with their partners to close the loop on open security issues, protecting their revenue and brand integrity. The company was founded by Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh in July 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MEMX, Inc. provides fiber-optic switching systems for telecommunication networks. The firm focuses on designing, fabrication, packaging, test and qualification of micro-electro-mechanical system based products. The company was founded by Michael Donald McIntosh and Paul J. McWhorter in 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

LitePoint Corporation designs, develops, and supports wireless testing solutions for developers of wireless devices and consumer electronics, contract manufacturers, and wireless integrated circuit designers. The company offers a range of testing solutions for manufacturing facilities, radio frequency laboratories, and connectivity and cellular chipsets. The company was founded by Benny Madsen, Bouas Spiros and Christian Olgaard in May 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Clickatell, Inc. provides mobile messaging services. It offers developers? central, an interface to global short message services (SMS) gateway that allows users to manage various SMS API connections, monitor campaigns, do reporting, make online payments, receive invoices, add sub-users, and more;; provides additional APIs and code scripts for use with various interfaces and support integration with product documents; allows APIs to integrate various systems or applications with global SMS messaging gateway; and adds SMS short codes. The company was founded by Pieter de Villiers, Patrick Lawson, Casper de Villiers and Danie du Toit in June 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Qwikker, Inc. provides wireless network appliances. It provides solutions for out of home application, such as kiosks, bus shelters and airports; retail application comprising shopping centers, grocery stores, and specialty retail outlets; and event applications, including music festivals, museum openings, sporting games and fashion shows. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

R2 Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a power management company which specializes in semiconductor chip manufacturing. It develops novel analog semiconductors for applications including mobile devices. The firm also supplies semiconductor devices through wholesale and retail stores. The company was founded by Bret Rothenberg in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SynapSense Corp. provides data center infrastructure management solutions. It offers data center optimization platform, environmental monitoring systems, power usage monitoring, active cooling control, data center assessment and thermal mapping and humidity mapping systems. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

Ometric Corporation provides innovative solutions to embed analytical technology into industrial processes. Ometric's SpectrInline Processware™ utilizes patented Multivariate Optical Computing™ to perform spectroscopy at the speed of light, thus providing real-time, in-line process control and final product testing to a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, food and beverage, pet nutrition, environmental, plastics, oil and gas, and homeland security.

PayDay One Holdings, Inc. provides lending services. It offers fax less cash, payday loans cash advance, online loans and unsecured loans. The company technology enables the company to provide totally automated payday advance via the internet, with no faxing of information or human intervention required to close a loan. PayDay One Holdings was founded in September 2005 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.