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Sierra Ventures, Inc (Sierra Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Peter Wendell. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Balto Software, Inc. engages in the development of a software artificial intelligence tool that can transcribe and analyze sales and customer service calls. It offers speech solutions for enterprise sales, customer service, and accounts receivable organizations. The company was founded by Christopher Kontes and Marc Bernstein in 2017 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Phenom People, Inc. develops mobile technology platform that enables companies to recruit and retain. It offers career connect, employee connect deliver enterprise mobile recruitment, and retention solutions. The company was founded by Bard Goldoor, Hari Bayireddy, and Mahe Bayireddy in 2010 and is headquartered in Ambler, PA.

MobileWorks, Inc. provides next-generation crowd sourcing platform services. Its products include target, build, engage, and measure. The company was founded by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula and David Rolnitzky in May 2011 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Zycada Networks, Inc. provides networking security solutions through artificial intelligence. Its products include CDN accelerator, connection insights, CDN Orchestrator, video stream optimizer and cloud security products. The firm offers eCommerce networking, live streaming and video on demand soltuions. The company was founded by Sameer Rao, Subbu Varadarajan and Roy Antonyraj in 2014 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Applitools, Inc. develops cloud based software testing tool that automatically validates all the visual aspects of web services. It provides an unprecedented visual failure analysis and test coverage analysis that result in better and faster app release process. The company was founded by Gil Sever and Adam Carmi in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Appcues, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers user onboarding and engagement software platform that helps companies improve user retention and reduce customer churn. The company was founded by Jonathan Kim and Jackson Noel in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SupportLogic, Inc. provides information technology services. It offers record system. The company was founded by Krishna Raj Raja on January 17, 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Astronomer, Inc. develops software for online data transfer. Its services include connector development, data hub implementation, data science, and data visualization. The company was founded by Greg Neiheisel, Tim Brunk and Ry Walker in May 2015 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Commerce Fabric, Inc. is engaged in providing engineering services. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Enable Global, Inc. engages in the provision of SaaS solutions. It offers solution for distributors, manufacturers, building materials, retail, and wholesale. The company was founded by Andrew Butt and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sedai, Inc. delivers an autonomous cloud management platform that proactively detects and addresses potential issues and optimization opportunities in production, improving performance, ensuring availability, and managing cloud costs. The company is based in Pleasanton, CA. The platform uses AI/ML to find and execute on opportunities to improve performance, reduce cost and availability, safely operating in production environments without human intervention. Sedai's customers include Fabric, Inflection, Campspot, Canopy Servicing, and Tasq. The company was founded by Suresh Mathew. Suresh Mathew has been the CEO since incorporation.

Fabric, Inc. develops gaming applications. The firm offers place to share and keep track of what people love and discover from people. It is led by industry veterans with backgrounds in entertainment, advertising, tech and mobile. The company was founded by Jonathan Vlassopulos in February 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Speedscale, Inc. engages in the development of Kubernetes-native prototype. It uses traffic and data from late stage environments to auto-validate SLO's (service-level objectives) and services. the company as founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Calyptia, Inc. engages in the development of data collection and management platform. Its products includes Fluent Bit, Calyptia Core, and Calyptia Fluent Bit. The company was founded by Eduardo Silva and Anurag Gupta in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bina Technologies, Inc. provides platform accelerating and genomic analysis services. It is a big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine for researchers and clinicians requiring fast, accurate and scalable genomic analysis. The company was founded by Garry P. Nolan, Narges Bani Asadi, Wing H. Wong and John Wawrzynek in 2011 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.

Part of Betterment Holdings, Inc., Makara Digital Corp. is a SEC-registered investment adviser that offers automated cryptocurrency portfolios. The company is based in Seattle, WA. Makara is built with security at the forefront, providing investors with confidence in their simple investing experience through curated crypto portfolios alongside educational resources. The company offers passive exposure to dozens of vetted cryptocurrencies via its thematic baskets, which are recommended to meet different investment goals and interests. The company was founded in 2021 by Jesse Proudman, Sadie Raney, Matt Kern, Nico Cordeiro. Jesse Proudman has been the CEO since 2021. Makara Digital was acquired by Betterment LLC on March 08, 2022.

Hired, Inc. provides recruiting services. It operates a marketplace that enables tech companies to recruit engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers. The company was founded by Mehul Patel, Matt Mickiewicz, Douglas Feirstein and Allan Grant in April 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nexenta Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of software-based systems for data storage and backup solutions. It offers backup and archive, cloud, containers, file, virtualization, and 5G mobility solutions. The company was founded by Alex Aizman, Dmitry Yusupov, and Evan Powell in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Everest Software, Inc. develops business management software solutions. It offers Everest Version 6 which integrates business operations, including accounting, inventory management, marketing, sales, return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), point of sale, shipping, and receiving, as well as customer relationship management. Its services include standard and custom extension, and integrations. The company was founded by Bijal Mehta, Ali Jani and Sanjay Mahesh Shah in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Spoke Software, Inc. provides Internet publishing and broadcasting services. Its products give marketers, sales people, and recruiter's access to people and contact information through providing a network of contacts gathered by corporations' own employees. The company was founded by Chris Roon, Prasad Akella, Christopher Tolles, James Alastair Campbell, Paul Reddy, and Benjamin T. Smith IV in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sourcefire LLC engages in the provision of intelligent cyber security solutions for information technology, environments of commercial enterprises, including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, energy, education, retail and telecommunications companies, and federal, state and local government organizations. The company was founded by Martin F. Roesch in January 2001 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Shape Security, Inc. engages in the provision of website security solutions. The firm offers Shape Defense, Shape Enterprise Defense, BlackFish, API defense, and manual-attack defense. The company was founded by Derek Smith, Justin Call, and Sumit Agarwal in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Appcelerator, Inc. provides enterprise mobile engagement platform. Its cloud based platform enables users to build and test cross-platform applications. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Haynie and Nolan Wright in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Alpine Analytics, Inc. provides script-less and web-based analytics software. It helps data scientist and business analysts to work with large data sets, develop, refine models, and collaborate at scale without having to use code or download software. The company was founded by Anderson Wong, Steve Hillion and Yi-Ling Chen in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Oracle Corp., Motiva, Inc. is a company that provides enterprise incentive management (EIM) software. The company is based in Pleasanton, CA. The company was founded by Matthew Baird. Motiva was acquired by Siebel Systems, Inc. on October 15, 2003.

Treasure Data, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based analytics services. It offers solutions including automotive, retail and consumer packaged goods, internet of things, and entertainment. Its product is enterprise customer data platforms that allows to view various data across different channels. The company was founded by Hironobu Yoshikawa, Kazuki Ohta and Sadayuki Furuhashi in June 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.