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New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Phiar Corp. develops metal-insulator electronics. Its products include diodes, transistors, detectors, varactors, transceivers, modulators, and supporting devices. The company was founded by Michael Estes, Garret Moddel and Blake Eliasson in July 2001 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Talari Networks, Inc. provides software defined wide area network solutions. The firm's products include appliances, management and network controller including Talari failsafe SD WAN solutions, physical appliances, on-board appliance and performance management. Its solutions include software defined WAN, hybrid WAN, and internet as WAN, cloud connect and WAN optimization solutions. It serves to financial services, credit unions, and banking, and public sector, legal and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by John E. Dickey and Andrew J. Gottlieb in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Voltage Security, Inc. operates as a data protection provider which delivers data-centric encryption, tokenization, and key management solutions. The company was founded by Matt Pauker, Rishi Kacker, Dan Boneh and Guido Appenzeller in 2002 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

INVIDI Technologies Corp. provides targeted television advertising and marketing solutions. It offers Advatar, a delivery system that includes Advatar Advertising, which provides access, preview, purchase, verification, campaign management, and reporting of television delivered impressions for media buyers, as well as allows them to execute their advertising campaigns. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

eShares, Inc. operates as a transfer agent. The firm operates as a SEC-registered transfer agent for private companies and its online platform allows companies from seed stage to pre-IPO to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors and legal counsel. The company founded by Henry Ward on July 6, 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Aptara, Inc. provides content transformation solutions and services. It offers publishing, data conversion, performance and content technology services. The firm serves publishers, information aggregators, government agencies, universities, libraries, research groups, corporations and financial institutions. The company was founded by Rakesh Gupta, Anita Gupta and Neal Gupta in 1988 and is headquartered in Falls Church, VA.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Part of Intel Corp., NetBoost Corp. develops hardware and software solutions that provide a programmable platform for deploying complex policy applications. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded in 1997 by Leonard Rand, Jerry Hall, Kevin R. Fall. NetBoost was acquired by Intel Corp. on September 01, 1999.

Rubric, Inc. develops e-marketing automation applications. The company is based in Worcester, MA. The company was founded in 1994 by Anu Shukla, Hal Steger, Francoise Henderson, Ian A. Henderson. Francoise Henderson has been the CEO since 1994.

BlueGill Technologies developer of applications for the conversion of legacy data into interactive web applications. Applications include tools, modules, reusable objects, industry-specific applications and partner solutions which work with the data management functions.

eXelate, Inc. provides data technology powering and digital marketing economy. Its products include data management platform, data marketplace and analytics. The company was founded by Meir Zohar and Elad Efraim in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PernixData, Inc. develops flash storage virtualization. It provides an enterprise-class software platform for application acceleration. The company develops a software-defined Flash Virtualization Platform that virtualizes server-side flash into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers. PernixData was founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Platform9 Systems, Inc. operates as a software service cloud platform. It offers OpenStack transforms users existing servers into self-service private cloud within minutes, enabling organizations to run private clouds. The company was founded by Sirish Raghuram, Bich Le, Madhura Maskasky and Roopak Parikh in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Envoy, Inc. engages in the development of visitor management software for the modern lobby. It focuses on the security, touchless sign-in, meet compliance requirements, and access control. The company was founded by Larry Gadea in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

6 River Systems, Inc. provides turnkey automation solutions for e-commerce fulfillments. The company was founded by Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo and Rylan Hamilton in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Zylo, Inc. provides technology based solutions. It operates as a SaaS optimization platform for managing cloud-based applications. The company was founded by Eric Christopher in 2016 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

tCell.io, Inc. designs security control equipment and systems. It protects apps from OWASP top 10 attacks, bots and fraud; and manages access to data; prevent data loss. The company was founded by Michael Feiertag and Boris Chen in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Alloy Technologies, Inc. develops digital supply chain software for teams that make, move and sell products. The company was founded by Evan Goldenberg, Zack Reynolds, Joel Cannon Beal and Roberto Carli in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Harness, Inc. provides computer software services. The firm uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight. The company was founded by Jyoti Bansal and Rishi Singh and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Vivun, Inc. develops a platform for presales management. It offers deal targeting and forecast accuracy. The company was founded by Matthew Darrow, Claire Bruce, John Bruce and Dominique Darrow and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Firehydrant Inc. provides system management tools and frameworks for the most sophisticated and complex systems. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

Vareto, Inc. is a strategic finance platform that provides enterprise and growth stage companies with a secure platform for planning, reporting, and operational decision-making. The company is based in Mountain View, CA and was founded by Lalit Singh and Ekaterina Orekhova. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and offers powerful reports and models. Vareto is backed by GV, Menlo Ventures, and 40 angel investors, including CFOs from leading technology companies. The platform streamlines collaboration with stakeholders, provides a holistic view of business spending, and integrates with 50+ ERP, HRIS, CRM, and other business-critical systems. Vareto's mission is to help companies operate better by bringing elegant design and data intelligence into FP&A processes. Ekaterina Orekhova has been the CEO since incorporation.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.

Squint, Inc. develops an augmented reality-powered interface and app to improve accessibility and reduce operator training. The American company was founded in 2021 by Jim Zhu, Devin Bhushan, and Dylan Conway. Devin Bhushan has been the CEO since 2021.

Clarifai, Inc. provides image recognition systems for customers to detect near-duplicates and visual searches. The company was founded by Matthew Zeiler in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.