Founders: Ash Ashutosh
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Website: actifio.com
Type of business: Data Management Virtualization

Actifio™ pioneered the industry’s first storage system optimized for managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT infrastructure and data management applications. Actifio introduced virtualization into data management and has helped liberate IT organizations and services providers of all sizes from vendor lock-in and the management challenges associated with exploding data growth. Actifio is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with offices around the world.



Founders: Derek Collison
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: apcera.com
Type of business: Cloud

Next Generation Cloud Platform

Founders: Sunny Gupta, Kurt Shintaffer, Paul McLachlan
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA
Website: apptio.com
Type of business: IT Cost Transparency Software

Apptio is a provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio’s IT Cost Transparency solutions are designed to provide greater visibility into the cost, utilization and operations of IT products and services so that businesses can identify ways to reduce IT costs, make better IT decisions and benefit from more proactive IT Demand Management. Capabilities include template driven IT cost modeling, interactive reporting and analytics, and business facing IT demand management.

Founders: Dustin Mokovitz, Justin Rosenstein
Founded: 2009
Website: asana.com
Type of business: Enterprise collaboration software

Asana builds enterprise-level collaboration software, or a Collaborative Information Manager. For their software, Asana is developing an in-house programming language called Lunascript for writing rich web applications more efficiently.

Founders: Dev Patel, Harmeek Singh Bedi, Soren Riise
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: bityota.com
Type of business: Big Data Accessibility

BitYota was founded in late 2011 on the guiding principle that data is a critical asset for all companies in today’s fast-paced world. Companies want to use information at a much higher frequency and get timely answers to complex queries for faster decision-making. We recognize that this is a critical market need. We are data geeks with 35+ years of Big Data experience at Yahoo!, Oracle, Informix, Veritas/Symantec, BMC, Tibco, Twitter and Salesforce. “Big Data” today translates to either “Big Cost” or “Big Headache” or both for everyone who has to deal with it. “Big Headache” is caused by a scarcity of specialized skills needed to integrate today’s Big Data technologies, which in turn are incompatible with the mature analytics ecosystem. “Big Cost” because companies have to evaluate uniquely engineered, prohibitively costly systems which were not designed for Cloud deployment and second-guess users on the value of data upfront. Our vision is to make data and analytics accessible to all. There’s a revolution underway and we’re taking sides. We want to create a data platform that enables everyone – from data scientists and engineers to SQL savvy analysts, business and product users, to understand their data, to build better products/services, and create new avenues of growth and productivity. We think this benefits us all. Ours is a SaaS approach that is accessible by both analysts and developers, fits into an existing ecosystem of BI and multiple data sources, and scales affordably with needs.

Founders: Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: box.net
Type of business: Cloud content management

Box is transforming the way organizations ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500s share and manage all their information in the cloud. Box’s cloud content management platform makes it easy for its 5 million end users to share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device, while also providing the security, visibility and reporting capabilities required by IT departments. The Box Apps Marketplace includes integrations with leading cloud solutions like Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite and Jive, making Box content accessible across business applications.

Headquarters: Cupertino, CA
Founders: Gaurav Banga, Simon Crosby, Ian Pratt
Website: bromium.com
Type of business: Intersection of virtualization and security

Founders: Pravin Kothari
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Website: ciphercloud.com
Type of business: Cloud Security

CipherCloud, is the leader in cloud information protection, and provides cloud encryption and tokenization gateways to enable organizations to securely adopt cloud applications by eliminating concerns about data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance. CipherCloud’s groundbreaking gateway encrypts sensitive information in real time, before it’s sent to the cloud, using operations-preserving encryption and tokenization technology without impacting usability or the application in any way. The CipherCloud product portfolio supports popular cloud applications out-of-the-box such as Salesforce, Force.com, Chatter, Google Gmail, Microsoft Office 365, and Amazon AWS. Additionally, CipherCloud Connect AnyApp and Database Gateway enable organizations to extend data protection to hundreds of third-party cloud and private cloud applications and databases.

Founders: Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, Vaibhav Nivargi
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: clearstorydata.com
Type of business: Big Data

ClearStory Data is focused on enabling self-driven big data exploration. ClearStory Data is making it easy for business users to gather and explore big, diverse, dispersed data from databases, Hadoop and the web for more intuitive insights.

Founders: Drew Perkins (CEO), Shlomo Rakib (CTO), Jeff White (CBO), Mark Stalica (VP Sales)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Website: cohere.net
Type of business: Cable Provider Infrastructure

Cohere Networks is redefining how cable networks are built.

Founders: Todd Papaioannou, Jonathan Gray, Nitin Motgi
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: continuuity.com
Type of business: Big Data Platform

Continuuity delivers the industry’s first Big Data application fabric, fueling the next generation of Big Data applications by making it fast and easy for any developer to build, deploy, scale and manage Big Data apps. Continuuity offers a unified experience across the entire application lifecycle from development to DevOps. By providing pre-packaged building blocks with higher level APIs, Data Libs, tooling and documentation, Continuuity makes creating Big Data applications blazing fast. The cloud-based Continuuity AppFabric, the next generation application serving platform, is built on top of Hadoop open source components and shields developers from the complexity of Big Data and cloud infrastructure. With visually rich UIs, elastic scalability at the touch of a button and push-button app deployment from the developer’s local machine to the cloud, Continuuity shifts the focus from infrastructure creation to business value creation. Built by a team that has worked on and run some of the biggest, most sophisticated Big Data systems in the world, Continuuity is the future of Big Data application development.

Founders: Ramana Jonnala (CEO), Andrew Warfield (CTO), Keir Fraser (Chief Architect)
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Website: convergent.io
Type of business: Enterprise Infrastructure

Comprised of a founding team with decades of deep storage and virtualization experience, Convergent.io is an enterprise infrastructure startup redefining how storage resources are delivered in the software-defined datacenter for rapid flexibility and high-performance. Based in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, BC, Convergent.io is assembling a world-class team of storage, networking and virtualization architects, engineers and UX developers.

Founders: Tom Wong and Amit Saxena
Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA
Website: eventley.com
Type of business: Business Event Platform

Eventley’s an engagement platform for business events. Every company organizes events to sell to, satisfy and engage audiences. Eventley helps their marketing and sales teams get closer to their prospects and customers than they ever thought possible. With our single, integrated event platform, Eventley takes the headache out of managing events so marketers can focus on engaging attendees with matching logic, social and mobile tools. Passive attendees become active fans, marketers become heroes, sales can sell more, and executives gain visibility into their customers across one or multiple events.

Founder: David Flynn
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, UT
Website: fusionio.com
Type of business: Flash storage

The increasing demand for a next-generation, solid-state storage technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore’s Law, have grown exponentially in performance. Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap.

Ushering in a new era of application-centric, solid-state storage solutions for the enterprise, Fusion-io is revolutionizing the way database, application and system administrators architect their data centers. The company is closing the gap between processing power and storage needs by delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems. Now, the performance of an entire disk array can be placed inside a server.

Fusion-io’s executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace. Fusion-io was founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage and superclusters, and computing and image processing.

Founders: Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: gooddata.com
Type of business: Collaborative Analytics

Good Data uses cloud computing to deliver a business intelligence solution as an on-demand service. A central component of Good Data is collaborative analytics, making it easy for users to collectively reach and share insight.

Founders: Manav Mital, Hariharan Kolam, Raghu Venkat
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: instartlogic.com

Instart Logic is building disruptive technology that radically changes the way the Internet gets delivered.

Founders: Michael Buckwald, David Holz
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: leapmotion.com
Type of business: Motion-Control Technology Software Development

Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world’s most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology. Leap Motion’s first product, the Leap Motion controller, will be available in early 2013. Leap Motion is 200 times more sensitive than existing motion-control technology, making it the first product to let users navigate and interact with computer applications using natural hand and finger movements. Leap Motion was founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.

Founders: Franklyn Chien, Joe Woo, Anthony Wu
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: learnsprout.com
Type of business: Application Programming Interface

LearnSprout represents the latest thinking and best practices behind the development of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and has built the first universal API for K-12 education. By building a single integration that works across multiple student information systems (SIS), LearnSprout has solved one of the longest-standing problems in edtech, opening the door to a world of student engagement data that until now, has been locked away, inaccessible to not only K-12 administrators, but also aspiring edtech developers. By tapping into live student engagement and performance data, LearnSprout is uniquely positioned to act as the conduit for real-time data integration between a school or district’s student information system (SIS) and all other edtech solutions. Now, integration projects that used to take a district or school days or even months, can be done in a matter of minutes. Free to schools and districts, LearnSprout Connect is the easiest and most secure, FERPA compliant method for integrating an SIS within the edtech ecosystem. LearnSprout was founded by Google, Facebook and Microsoft alumns Anthony Wu, Franklyn Chien and Joe Woo and supported by Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, Code for America and Imagine K12.

Founders: Alexis Ringwald and Kenny Ma
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: learnup.me
Type of business: Training and Hiring Aid

LearnUp helps employers pre-train and hire entry-level workers

Founder: Alfred Chuang
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: magnet.com
Type of business: Enterprise Social Software

Magnet Systems has created the Workplace Interaction Network (WIN), a development platform that enables companies to build and deploy cloud-based enterprise-ready social applications. The first application to run on WIN is Sales WIN, which utilizes the connectedness of social networking to help sales people get closer to customers, interact with them more frequently, and understand each customer’s needs.

Founders: Yoram Novick
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Website: maxta.com
Type of business: Infrastructure Software

Maxta is a well funded stealth-mode startup developing a disruptive infrastructure software solution to enable the realization of a cost-effective, scalable, and agile Software-Defined Datacenter.

Founders: Geoff Schmidt, Matt DeBergalis, Nick Martin
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: meteor.com
Type of business: Web App Development

Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.

Founders: Pete Kim
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: mightyhive.com

MightyHive is currently in stealth mode.

Founders: Suhail Doshi, Tim Trefren
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: mixpanel.com
Type of business: Data Analytics

Mixpanel’s mission is to help the world learn from its data. We’ve built the most advanced analytics platform for mobile & web, growing the number of actions we analyze to over 6 billion every single month. Our platform empowers individuals and businesses to explore their data instead of reading canned reports. Every day, some of the leading companies in gaming, e-commerce, social networking, and media are surprised by what they learn from Mixpanel and ultimately are in a better position to make strategic decisions.

Founders: Jim Gilliam, Joe Green, Jesse Haff
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Founded: 2009
Website: nationbuilder.com
Type of business: Community Platform

NationBuilder is the world’s first Community Organizing System: an accessible, affordable, complete software platform that helps leaders grow and organize communities to achieve great things.

Founders: Steve Mullaney, Marin Casado, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: nicira.com
Type of business: Virtualization Software

Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network. Based on the innovative Network Virtualization Platform (NVP)™ architecture, Nicira solutions provide unprecedented network flexibility and control for service provider and enterprise data centers, leading to dramatically improved scalability, service velocity and costs.

The company was founded by networking research leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, virtualization and security.