Steve P. Bird

Sequence Design, Inc. manufactured electronic design automation equipment. The company offered Power-Aware SoC Design Flow, which enables power-aware SoC design from system level to signoff; Power Theater, a set of power tools that creates power efficiency for SoC designs; Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer SoC designs; Columbus-Turbo, an extraction for nanometer standard-cell designs; Columbus-AMS, a RLC extraction for analogs; and CoolTime, a cell-based electrical integrity solution for concurrent analysis of voltage drop, power, electromigration, timing, and signal integrity for nanometer SoC designs. The company was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Located in Rosemont, Illinois, Comdisco Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of Comdisco Holding Co., Inc. (PK: CDCO

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. is a traded business development company that seeks investment opportunities in companies located across the globe primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. The fund focuses on companies operating in the fields of biofuels, business applications software, wireless communications equipment, e-commerce, clothing & accessories, conferencing equipment & services, personal goods, financial institutions & services, entertainment, mixed retailing, and healthcare services. It provides financing in the form of growth capital loans with an investment size ranging from $5 million to $50 million, equipment financings with an investment ranging from $5 million to $25 million, revolving loans with an investment ranging from $1 million to $25 million, direct equity investment transactions with an investment size ranging from $0.1 to $5 million, and warrants.

Focus Management, Inc. (Focus Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Steve Bird, Kevin J McQuillan and James Boettcher. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

MarkMonitor, Inc. provides enterprise brand protection solutions. The firm specializes in domain management, anti-piracy, and fraud. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides information immediacy, discovery, and continuity services. It enable corporations to manage email, files, SharePoint, Instant Messages (IM) and other enterprise content. The company was founded by Roy D’Souza and Thirumalai M. Ravi in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.