Raymond J. Smets

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SolarBridge Technologies, Inc. develops electronics for solar power technologies. The company was founded on January 16, 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Big Switch Networks, Inc. engages in provision of public cloud-style and hybrid cloud networking services. It offers data center switching, visibility and analytics solutions for on-premises clouds, public clouds, and multi-cloud environments. The company founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster in March 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm is founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Metaswitch Networks Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the development of systems management and networking software solutions. The firm specializes in the design of networking, session border control, infrastructure, management tools, and application development systems. Its solution areas encompass Internet protocol multimedia subsystems, telephony, original equipment manufacturing, and hosted business services. The company was founded by Ian S. Ferguson and Christopher John Mairs in 1981 and is headquartered in Enfield, the United Kingdom.

Applied Predictive Technologies, Inc. provides cloud-based predictive analytics software solutions. Its products include APT Index, APT Illuminate, engage, category management insights, market basket analyzer, network planner, and space planning optimizer. The firm serves to the airlines, automotive, hotels, insurance, retail, technology and telecom industries. The company was founded in 1999 by Anthony Bruce, James J. Manzi and Scott H. Setrakian and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

San Francisco Opera Association owns and operates opera theater. It offers an array of training programs and performance opportunities for young artists under the support of the San Francisco Opera Center and the Merola Opera Program. The company was founded by Gaetano Merola in 1923 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Clearwell Systems LLC offers knowledge management and business intelligence solutions. The firm also offers electronic discovery for enterprises, government agencies and law firms in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations. Its E–Discovery Platform streamlines end-to-end e-discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review and production. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Qteros, Inc. develops cellulosic ethanol transportation fuel. The firm utilizes a Q Microbe that converts all fermentable components of biomass to ethanol. The company was founded by Stephan Rogers, Jeffrey Hausthor, Susan Leschine, Jonathan Gorham, John Fabel and Jeffrey C. Sharp in 2006 and is headquartered in Amherst, MA.

AcademixDirect, Inc. provides tailored solutions for improving university enrollment and education marketing. The firm uses a technology that incorporates a proprietary matching algorithm, fraud detection software, lead scoring, and targeting capabilities. The company was founded by Al Abhari and Jamie Claire in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Metaswitch Networks Corp. provides communications networks and services. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Docker, Inc. engages in the operation and development of a container management platform. It provides developers, architects, development operations, and information technology clients solutions for building, sharing and running modern applications. It offers Docker Enterprise and Docker Hub. The firm serves the government, higher education, financial services, insurance, and healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Solomon Hykes, Benjamin Golub, and Pahl Sebastien in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

FirstFuel Software, Inc. provides analytics software that tracks energy usage in commercial buildings. It offers FirstFuel Rapid Building Assessment platform that uses advanced analytics to remotely audit, motivate and monitor building energy performance, creating rich energy profiles that eliminate the need for costly and inconsistent on-site energy assessments. The firm's platform helps utilities engage their commercial customers and deliver energy efficiency across commercial building portfolios. The company was founded in 2009 by Swapnil Shah, Kenneth Kolkebeck, Nalin Kulatilaka and Robert Kaufmann and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Palo Alto Networks (Israel Analytics) Ltd. provides behavioral attack detection solutions. Its products include Magna Detector, Magna Probe, Magna Master, Magna Pathfinder, and Magna Cloud Expert System. The firm's LightCyber Magna platform, a security product to integrate user, network and endpoint context to provide security visibility into a range of attack activity. The company was founded by Giora Engel and Michael Mumcuoglu in 2011 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Tile, Inc. designs and develops location tracking device and application. Its products include Tile Mate, Slim, Style, Sport, and Bluetooth tracker that is attached to keys, luggage, backpacks, purses, and other valuable items which when lost can be located through the Tile software application. The firm also offers accessories such as adhesives, luggage tags, pockets, zip straps, and money clips. The company was founded by Michael G. Farley and Nicholas G. Evans in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

APT Software Holdings, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Wilmington, DE.