Sarah Tavel

Linden Research, Inc. engages in the development and operation of virtual world platform Second Life. It also involves in registered money services business under the Tilia platform. The company was founded by Philip Rosedale in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Terracotta, Inc. provides java based software services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zillow, Inc. provides online real estate services. It buys, sells, rents, finances, and remodels homes. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Glassdoor, Inc. operates an employee review and job-search platform. It offers job listings, as well as access to user-generated content, including company-specific salary reports, ratings and reviews, interview questions and reviews, office photos and more. The company was founded by Richard N. Barton, Timothy Andrew Besse and Robert Hohman in 2007 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, CA.

Engine Yard, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud orchestration platform. It helps developers and DevOps to provision, manage, monitor, and control applications in the public and private cloud. The company was founded by Jayson Vantuyl, Lance Walley, Ezra Zygmntowicz and Tom Mornini in 2006 and is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

Duo Security, Inc. develops cloud-based security platform. It offers two-factor authentication, endpoint remediation, and secure single sign-on tools. The company was founded by Douglas Joon Song and Jon Oberheide in 2009 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Accel Partners LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson. The firm is headquartered in California, the US.

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.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization, which works to forge practical solutions that help nature and people prosper sustainably. It launched the Smart Boat Initiative (SBI) which focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip and surround fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability, profitability and transparency in fishing. The company was founded by Arthur P. Cooley, Charles F. Wurster and Dennis Puleston in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

San Francisco Symphony provides symphony orchestra presentations. The firm enriches, serves, and shapes cultural life throughout the spectrum of bay area communities. It offers performer’s series, south bay, organ and chorus concerts, open rehearsals, chamber music, youth orchestra concerts, family-friendly concerts and special events. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Do Something, Inc. provides charity services to young people. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

KKR Group Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment and private equity asset management services. The firm manages investments across multiple asset classes including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and hedge funds. It operates through the Asset Management and Insurance segments. The Asset Management segment includes investment management and other services to funds, vehicles, collateral loan obligations, managed accounts and portfolio companies, and transaction-specific income from capital markets transactions. The Insurance segment offers retirement and life insurance services which provide a suite of protection, legacy and savings products to customers and reinsurance solutions to clients across individual and institutional markets. The company was founded by Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts in 1976 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Edmodo, Inc. provides online social platform for students, teachers, and educators. It provides a global education network that helps to connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their potential. The company was founded by Crystal Hutter, Jeffrey O'Hara and Nicolas Borg in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

ResearchGate Corp. operates a social network for scientists and researchers to collaborate, share and network. The company was founded by Ijad Madisch and Sören Hofmayer and Horst Fickenscher in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CouchSurfing International, Inc. provides cultural exchange network services. It allows travelers to connect and stay at the home of a local resident to learn about the culture, similarities and to attend events. The company was founded by Sebastien Le Tuan, Casey Fenton, Daniel M. Hoffer and Leonardo Bassani da Silveira in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nextdoor, Inc. engages in the development of a private social network. It offers a neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of information, goods, and services. The company was founded by Prakash Janakiraman, Nirav N. Tolia, Sarah Leary, Adam Ginsburg, and David Wiesen in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bugsnag, Inc. provides automated crash detection platform for its web and mobile applications. Its platform collects error diagnostic information and notifies development teams over email, SMS, or chat, and provides various features that include error search, real-time tracking, intelligent exception grouping, automatic creation of tickets in an issues system, various users per account with access controls, support for 256-bit SSL security and data filtering, stacktrace per exception, and at a glance indicators for new and spiking exceptions. The company was founded by Simon Maynard and James Smith in September 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tinder, Inc. develops online dating applications. It provides a software that can be connected to social media and can be downloaded to mobile phones. The company was founded by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Christopher Gulczynski, Joe Munozm, and Whitney Wolfe in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Payfit SAS engages in the development and sale of corporate payroll software products. It offers software for editing and document management for corporate payroll services. The company was founded by Florian Fournier, Firmin Zocchetto, and Ghislain Gouhier de Fontenay on September 14, 2015 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Elasticsearch, Inc. provides open source search and analytics engine services. The firm’s products include Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, X-Pack, and Elastic cloud. Its services include support, consulting, and training services. The company was founded by Shay Banon, Uri Boness, Steven Schuurman, and Simon Willnauer in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Gloat, Inc. is a workforce agility and talent marketplace platform that helps enterprises democratize career development, unlock skills, and future-proof their workforce. The company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in Israel. The company's agile workforce operating system translates the world of work to the language of skills to give companies unprecedented ability to navigate change, enable more fulfilling and equitable careers for their employees, and dismantle the silos, bureaucracy, and biases that hold people and businesses back. The company was founded in 2015 by Danny Shtainberg, Roy Reuveni, Amichai Schreiber, Ben Horizon Reuveni. Ben Horizon Reuveni has been the CEO since 2015.

Salto Labs, Inc. provides software development services. It offers an open source and enterprise SaaS product that re-imagines multi-application configuration. The company was founded by Benny Schnaider, Rami Tamir, and Gil Hoffer and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

AcuityMD, Inc. is a medical device targeting platform that automates opportunity discovery and user tracking for medical device companies. The American company's software simplifies research and data entry, allowing companies to connect with future users and keep track of existing ones. AcuityMD was founded by Lee Smith, Michael Monovoukas, and Robert Coe, with Michael Monovoukas serving as CEO since incorporation.

Benchling, Inc. provides a suite of tools for life science. It also provides an online tool that designs, analyses, and shares DNA sequence data in the cloud for researchers. The company was founded by Sajith Wickramasekara, Ashutosh Singhal and Cory Li in May 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.