Shirish Sathaye

Granular, Inc. provides a cloud based software and analytics platform for the farming industry. It offers various solutions that allow producers to manage work assignments and analyze farm data for planning, operations, marketing, and accounting. The firm platform makes it easier to manage a large farm and use data for critical business decisions. The company was founded by Justin White, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Sidney Gorham and Mike Preiner in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Panzura, Inc. engages in provision of cloud storage and application optimization products. It offers application cloud control, data protection, cloud integration and global file system management. The firm provides cloud-integrated local NAS capabilities to global enterprises, allowing storage capacity to be centrally located, managed, and protected. The company was founded by John Taylor and Randy Chou in July 2008 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Big Switch Networks, Inc. engages in provision of public cloud-style and hybrid cloud networking services. It offers data center switching, visibility and analytics solutions for on-premises clouds, public clouds, and multi-cloud environments. The company founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster in March 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Kumu Networks, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless systems using full-duplex wireless design technology. Its wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time using a single frequency channel. The company was founded by Jung-il Choi, Philip Levis, Sachin Katti, Steven Hong, Mayank Jain and Jeffrey A. Mehlman in 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Flex Logix Technologies, Inc. provides software services. Its products include embedded FPGA, SOC applications and EFLX compiler. The company was founded by Cheng Wang, Fang-Li Yuan and Geoffrey Tate in March 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Matrix Management Corp. (Matrix Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in China and India.

Khosla Ventures LLC (Khosla Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. develops small cell network platforms that enables mobile operators to deliver coverage, capacity, and cloud services to enterprises and venues. The firm offers Radio Node, Services Node, and Spidernet. The company was founded by Peter L. Wexler, Allan Baw, and Michael K. Gallagher on August 27, 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Cervin Ventures Management LLC (Cervin Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Preetish Nijhawan and Neeraj Gupta. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Vectra Ai, Inc. develops automated threat management solution. It monitors internal network traffic to detect in real time active attacks inside network. The company was founded by Mark Abene and James P. Harlacher is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Formation8 Partners LLC (Formation8) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo, and Jim Kim. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bidgely, Inc. provides energy analytics software solutions. Its software platforms include customer engagement, energy efficiency, audits and surveys, and demand management. The company was founded by Abhay Gupta and Vivek Garud in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

DB CyberTech, Inc. provides database security equipment for organizations who need to protect its data from advanced attacks. Its products include DBN-6300 and layer 7 Database sensor. The company was founded by Chuck Paterson, Tim Ruddick, Steve Schnetzler, and Eric Varsanyi in 2009 and is headquartered in Centennial, CO.

Cazena, Inc. provides a variety of platforms that enable enterprises to speed up access to big data. It offers data lake service, data mart service, and sandbox service. The company was founded by Pratyush Moghe, Jitendra S. Saxena, and James P. Baum in 2013 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Aviatrix Systems, Inc. provides cloud networking services. It offers transit networking, secure egress, cloud hosted app access, aviatrix gateway and controller. The company was founded by Pankaj S. Manglik and Xiaobo Sherry Wei in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Zerostack, Inc. provides turnkey private cloud management platform utilizing intelligent software and cloud-based monitoring solutions. It offers self-service private cloud for information technology and developers that automates infrastructure operations. The company was founded by Ajay Gulati and Kiran Bondalapati in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cape Analytics, Inc. provides data and analytics solutions. The firm leverages geospatial imagery, computer vision and machine learning to instantly and automatically extract proprietary data. The company was founded by Ryan Kottenstette and Suat Gedikli in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Privacera, Inc. provides a platform to discover, manage, and monitor personal and sensitive data across database, big data, and cloud systems. Its solutions include classification, appropriate use, monitoring, and data flow. The company was founded by Balaji Ganesan in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Nyansa, Inc. develops analytics software solutions to diagnose and optimize application and network performance. It offers user application analytics, service baselining, full stack correlation, actionable answers, cloud sourcing, comparative benchmarking, and predictive planning solutions. The company was founded by Abe Ankumah, Anand Srinivas and Daniel Kan in September 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Airgap Networks, Inc. provides information technology services. The company was founded by Ritesh Agarwal and Satish Mohan and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.