James Collins

TriQuint WJ, Inc. designs and manufactures broadband communications products. The firm provides radio frequency solutions serving multiple markets targeting wireless communications, RF identification, broadband cable, and defense and homeland security. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops and markets proprietary analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. Its products includes integrated voltage regulator semiconductors, integrated power protection and distribution semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by electronic systems. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract equipment manufacturers and merchant power supply manufacturers. Volterra Semiconductor was founded by Craig Teuscher, David B. Lidsky, Anthony Stratakos and Marco Zuniga in August 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Affinity Internet, Inc. provides web hosting services. The company was founded by John Zdanowski in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Taco Bell Corp. operates a chain of restaurants. Its products include texas-mexican cuisine foods such as tacos, burritos, gorditas, quesadillas, nachos, chalupas, salads and food items. The company was founded by Glen William Bell, Jr. in 1962 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Sapien Capital Partners Ltd. Is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Roger Allen and Roger G. Buckeridge. It is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

DataDirect Networks, Inc. manufactures scalable storage controllers and networks. The firm’s solutions include academic research, artificial intelligence and deep learning, big data analytics, cloud and web, DDN federal, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, media, microscopy, national laboratories, oil and gas and video surveillance. It also offers products like block storage, flash storage, file storage, AI storage, object storage, monitoring and management. The company was founded by Alex K. Bouzari and Paul Bloch in 1998 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

Atanaskovic Hartnell is an Australian company that provides legal services. The private company is based in Sydney, Australia. The company was founded by Anthony Geoffrey Hartnell.

New Dream Network LLC provides web hosting services. Its services include shared web hosting for bloggers, website designers, e-commerce stores, and small businesses as well as virtual private server hosting for scalability, dedicated server hosting for intensive applications and complex databases. The company was founded by Michael Rodriguez and Dallas Kashuba in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Lovejoy LLC manufactures and markets shaft couplings, power transmission components, hydraulic components, and rubber suspensions. It offers jaw type, jaw in-shear type, curved jaw, S-flex, motion control, gear, grid, disc, and torsional couplings. The company was founded by Thomas Lovejoy in 1900 and is headquartered in Downers Grove, IL.

Pretend City Children's Museum of Orange County engages in the operation of a children's museum. It offers educational programming and interactive exhibits. The company was founded by Sandy Stone and Alexandra B. Airth in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Aptira Pty Ltd. is a leading cloud services provider that offers a wide range of open-source and enterprise technologies. The private company is based in Surry Hills, Australia, and its CEO is Tristan Goode. The Australian company provides independent advice, consulting, delivery, and managed services to enterprises, ISPs, and telcos worldwide. Aptira's approach to technology is to teach its customers how to fish, and it has a strong preference for open-source solutions.

Instaclustr Pty Ltd. provides managed and hosted Cassandra and DataStax enterprise solutions. The firm offers cassandra on AWS, cassandra on azure, developer nodes and pricing. Its services include proof of concept, data migration, and architecture. The company was founded by Adam Zegelin and Ben Bromhead in 2013 and is headquartered in Bruce, Australia.

Instaclustr, Inc. provides managed and cloud solutions. It offers apache cassandra and datastax enterprise solutions. It allows distribution of cluster servers across cloud provider failure zones. Cassandra’s rack concept is designed to group servers within a cluster where the likelihood of a failure is correlated and to provide ongoing availability despite the failure of a group of servers. The solution also allows nodes to be replaced within a cluster with no interruption to the service provided by the cluster. The company was founded by Ben Bromhead, Doug Stuart, Peter Lilley and Adam Zegelin in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Butterfly Equity LP (Butterfly Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Adam Waglay and Dustin Beck. The firm is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Dog Haus International LLC is a private company that specializes in gourmet hot dogs, sausages, burgers, chicken, and plant-based proteins. The company is based in Pasadena, CA. The company also offers a variety of craft beers. It was founded in 2010 by Quasim Riaz, Andre Vener, and Hagop Giragossian. The CEO is Michael Montagano.

Mission Cloud Services, Inc. provides online platform services. It offers managed AWS Cloud, DevOps, cloud foundation. The company was founded by Simon Anderson in November 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Mission Cloud Services, Inc., Mission, Inc. is a company that provides IT and cloud management services. The company is based in El Segundo, CA. The company was founded by Simon Anderson. Simon Anderson has been the CEO since incorporation.

Epic Kitchens, Inc. operates multi-branded ghost kitchens. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

OxBridge Angels Ltd. is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded by Rashid Zuberi, Ricard Torres Marti, and Stephen Lile in 2019. The firm is headquartered in London.