Eric Chin

Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Crosslink Capital, Inc. founded in 1989 by Sy F. Kaufman and Michael Joseph Stark. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

DataStax, Inc. designs and develops database management software. Its products include DataStax enterprise, built on Cassandra which provides the massive scalability, continuous availability and enhanced data security big data applications demand, DataStax opscenter is a simplified management for DataStax enterprise and Apache Cassandra database clusters and DataStax sandbox is a packaged and personal virtual machine image that contains everything customer need to get started with DataStax software. The firm also offers training, consulting and support services. The company was founded by Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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.

TakeLessons, Inc. operates as an online marketplace for finding qualified and vetted music instructors. It teaches guitar, piano, singing, violin, drum, accordion, banjo, cello, flute, opera, saxophone and other instrumental lessons. The firm also offers music programs for schools and community centers, as well as at-work lessons and programs for corporate clients and their employees. The company was founded by Michael Steven Cox, Chris Waldron, and Chuck Smith in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

NodeSource, Inc. operates software company created to build a robust product ecosystem. It is a technology company that delivers enterprise-grade software products in support of a sustainable ecosystem for the open source Node project. The firm offers Node.js and NSolid platforms. The company was founded by Dan Shaw and Joseph Isaac McCann in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Feedback Loop. engages in the operation of end-to-end customer development platform which offers product teams with test patterns, asset designs, target users and insights. The company was founded by Michael Bamberger, Nis Frome, and Eythor Ernstsson in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bay Partners LLC (Bay Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by John Freidenrich. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Wallop started as a research project in the Microsoft labs where a team built a prototype for a next generation social network. Karl Jacob, a serial entrepreneur, developed a business model for the network and worked with Microsoft to spinout the company. Over the next year, the Wallop team continued building the prototype and researching social networking. While the Wallop team was working on launching their website, other social networks expanded to platforms and opened their APIs. As a result Wallop retooled their product and focused on developing cutting-edge applications for leading social networking platforms like Facebook, and Bebo.