Engineering New Markets and Strong Businesses

3DV Systems
Breakthrough imaging technology captures the three dimensions of objects, enabling users to control personal space through intuitive body gestures.
Yokneam, Israel

3VR Security, Inc.
Has developed the world's first third generation video recorder.
San Francisco, CA

41st Parameter
Provides highly accurate, non-intrusive Internet fraud solutions for financial institutions and merchants.
Scottsdale, AZ

AOptix
Designs and manufactures ultra-high-bandwidth laser communication systems based on the Company's patented adaptive optics technology.
Campbell, CA

Aerohive Networks
Next-generation enterprise wireless LAN architecture.
Santa Clara, CA

AesThera
High technology aesthetics and advancements in the field of light-based aesthetic treatments.
Pleasanton, CA

Agami
Has created a new class of network storage called information servers.
Sunnyvale, CA

Aggregate Knowledge
Performs item-to-item collaborative filtering in real time. Content Recommendation Services apply analytics across large datasets to derive and present personalized content recommendations for every visitor to your site.
 San Mateo, CA.

Akimbo
Akimbo provides a complete solution for monetizing video over the Internet from content providers’ own websites.
San Mateo, CA

Altarock Energy Inc
A geothermal development company.
Seattle, WA

Altra Biofuels
Developing and producing renewable fuels - ethanol and biodiesel.
Los Angeles, CA

Amyris Biotechnologies
Makes better molecules for the bio-fuels and bio-chemical industries using synthetic biology techniques.
Emeryville, CA

Applied Minds
Explores and evaluates technology and teams, coaches and consults with entrepreneurs at a very early stage.
Glendale, CA

ArcSight
The leading vendor in security and compliance management.
Cupertino, CA

Ausra
Ausra develops and deploys utility-scale solar technologies to serve global electricity needs in a dependable, market competitive, environmentally responsible manner.
Palo Alto, CA

AutoNavi
China's leading provider of digital map and location-based services for automotive and personal navigation systems, mobile and internet map applications and solutions. China Mobile's nationwide exclusive provider of geographic information system platform and digital map database.
Beijing, China

Bit9, Inc.
Provides endpoint security software to help IT organizations increase the effectiveness of their endpoint security strategy while simplifying the effort it takes to manage those desktops.
Cambridge, MA.

Bloom Energy
Developing solid oxide regenerative fuel cells (SORFC) - renewable electrical energy generated from hydrogen and the oxygen in ambient air.
Sunnyvale, CA

CardioDx
Developing molecular diagnostic tests for use by cardiologists to assist in the identification and management of cardiac disease in patients.
Palo Alto, CA

Celladon
Developing a gene therapy/delivery device combination (administered in a cardiac catheterization laboratory) for congestive heart failure.
La Jolla, CA

Codon Devices
Working to pioneer in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Cambridge, MA

CoolIris
Revolutionizing the way we discover and interact with media by combining the best of desktop and web technologies.
Menlo Park, CA

Corthera
Corthera is a biopharmaceutical company committed to acquiring, developing and commercializing therapies for illnesses in the acute care setting.
San Mateo, CA

Danoo
Danoo is a rapidly growing place-based digital media network that captures the attention of consumers in their favorite locations, as part of their daily ritual.

Dash Navigation
Connects people to the information that empowers them while in their cars.
Mountain View, CA

Devicescape (Formerly Instant 802 Networks Inc.)
Developing embedded and application software for wireless devices.
Brisbane, CA

Digital Chocolate
Creating an entirely new category of mobile phone software for millions of consumers worldwide.
San Mateo, CA

EASIC
Developing a structured ASIC (shares characteristics of an FPGA and ASIC).
Santa Clara, CA

Elance
Over 100,000 entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and managers rely on Elance to do the projects that start, market, and grow their businesses.
Mountain View, CA

Fisker Automotive
Fisker Automotive is a green American premium sports car company with a mission to create a range of beautiful environmentally friendly cars that make environmental sense without compromise.

Five Prime Therapeutics
Discovering and developing novel protein based drugs from its breakthrough "high throughput protein screening" technology and systems.
South San Francisco, CA

Fortify Software
Develops and sells solutions to detect security vulnerabilities in source code and to have them removed before the products are ever released.
Palo Alto, CA.

Friendster
An Internet-based social network in which consumers can find new friends, communicate with existing friends, and organize their social lives online.
Mountain View, CA

Glori Oil
State-of-the-art biotechnology solutions to improve and increase recovery from mature oil wells.
Houston, TX

GreatPoint Energy
Commercializing a proprietary catalytic process for converting coal (and other carbon-based feedstocks) into clean-burning, pipeline quality natural gas.
Cambridge, MA

Hx Diagnostics
Rapid diagnostics for seasonal and emerging infectious diseases.
Emeryville, CA

IP Unity
Services platform and applications enable telecom service providers (wireless, wireline, and cable) to develop, manage and deploy revenue generating services.
Milpitas, CA

Invuity
New technology in customized lighting and advanced visualization solutions for less invasive surgeries.
San Francisco, CA

IronPlanet
Each year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of used construction equipment is sold through IronPlanet to businesses all over the world.
Pleasanton, CA

Ketera Technologies
A leading provider of spend analysis solutions with an "on demand" business model.
Santa Clara, CA

KnowNow Inc.
A leading provider of event-driven integration solutions.
Sunnyvale, CA

Kodiak Networks
The leading provider of advanced wireless services.
San Ramon, CA

Kovio
Technology to enable printed electronics.
Sunnyvale, CA

LifeLock, Inc.
The most advanced Identity Theft Protection solution available.

Lilliputian Systems
Miniature fuel cells for portable electronic devices and wireless appplications.
Wilmington, MA

Luca Technologies
Leveraging the ability of naturally occurring microorganisms to convert under-utilized domestic oil, organic-rich shale and coal resources to clean, renewable energy.
Golden, CO

M2Z Networks
Ad-supported wireless broadband Internet service.
Menlo Park, CA

Mascoma Corporation
Leading in the development of bio and process technology for cost-effective production of cellulosic ethanol, an inexpensive and source of renewable energy. Cambridge, MA

MetaMatrix
Provides solutions for federated data access and meta data management.
New York, NY

MetaRAM
Fabless semiconductor company focused on improving memory performance. The company's first product – MetaSDRAM™ – enables four times the amount of standard memory to be placed into existing systems without any modifications.
San Jose, CA

MetricStream
Enterprise Quality and Compliance Management Solutions.
Redwood Shores, CA.

Miasole
Miasole is a low-cost, thin film CIGS solar company.
San Jose, CA

Mobilygen
Develops low-power H.264 codecs for mobile applications such as camcorders, solid-state digital cameras and cell phones.
Santa Clara, CA

Navigenics
Navigenics, Inc. specializes in personalized consumer health and wellness services, with the overall goal of improving health outcomes in individuals across the population. Navigenics educates and empowers consumers with knowledge of their genetic predispositions, and then motivates them to act on the information with support from their physician to prevent the onset of disease, achieve earlier diagnosis, appropriately manage disease or otherwise lessen its impact.
Redwood Shores, CA

New Vine Logistics
Proprietary fulfillment systems that enable fully compliant consumer-direct wine shipping across most of the United States.
Napa, CA

Nodality
Nodality is focused on patient-specific classification of disease.
San Francisco, CA

Oakley Networks
The leading provider of security appliances that monitor and prevent proprietary information leakage from commercial and government entities.
Salt Lake City, UT

OnFiber Communications, Inc.
Fiber optic local access networks.
Denver, CO

One True Media, Inc.
Online service where visitors take digital media and express themselves in new and creative ways by eliminating the complexity inherent in video editing and making the entire process, from creation to output, fun and rewarding.
Redwood City, CA

Optimedica
Developing products and medical instrumentation to treat ocular diseases.
Santa Clara, CA

Pacific Biosciences
Developing an ultra low-cost, ultra fast gene sequencing instrument and related reagents.
Menlo Park, CA

PayMate
Wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and customers using a simple, secure and seamless technology.
Mumbai, India

PeakStream
Building a breakthrough software platform for next-generation computing.
Redwood City, CA

Pelago, Inc.
Mobile community-based search and discovery application.
Seattle, WA

Pinger
Enabling people to communicate with their voice in new and remarkably convenient ways.
San Jose, CA

PodShow
A media network that brings together podcasting talent with advertising dollars.
San Francisco, CA

Presto
Connects friends and family by making it easy to share digital content. With Presto service and an HP Printing Mailbox, you can now send email and photos to people who do not have a computer or an internet connection.
Mountain View, CA.

Quorum Systems
Develops multi-mode radio tranceivers for cell phones.
San Diego, CA

RGB Networks
Web resource and solutions provider.
San Mateo, CA

RazorGator, Inc.
A leading provider of secondary tickets on the Internet for sports events, concert and theatre tickets.
Beverly Hills, CA

RecycleBank
RecycleBank works with municipalities and haulers to measure and reward residents for recycling. The more they recycle, the more RecycleBank points they accrue. These points are redeemable online and can be used with local and national merchants.
New York City, NY

SS8 Networks
Develops and sells telcom equipment for carriers that provides voicemail, voice-value add services, signaling and security solutions.
San Jose, CA

Scintera Networks
Develops a high speed signalling processor in CMOS focused on communications applications to extend signal distance and performance.
San Jose, CA

Segway
Makers of the Segway Personal Transporter, the first two-wheeled, self-balancing, electric transportation device using patented dynamic stabilization technology.
Bedford, NH

Silecs, Inc.
Develops and manufactures advanced dielectric materials for semiconductor chips and flat panel displays, focused on enabling improved speed, power, density and image quality.
Mountain View, CA.

Spatial Photonics, Inc.
Develops and manufactures innovative microdisplays for high definition, high brightness and high contrast projection displays.
Sunnyvale, CA

SpikeSource
Integrating open source middleware components for customers and providing service and support around these integrated stacks.
Redwood City, CA

Spinal Modulation
Developing a next generation Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) technology to treat chronic back and lower extremity pain.
Menlo Park, CA

Stoke
Fixed mobile convergence technology.
Santa Clara, CA

Tellme Networks
Unites the Internet and telephone networks underneath an elegant speech user interface to provide the world’s largest Voice Application Network.
Mountain View, CA

Terralliance
Oil and gas exploration and production.
Newport Beach, CA

Tethys Bioscience
Developing blood-based laboratory tests to determine an individual's risk for major chronic diseases and devastating health events (such as osteoporotic fractures), permitting physicians to focus effective preventative therapy on the millions of people at high risk who don't know they're at high risk.
Emeryville, CA

TherOx
Developing a new treatment for cardiac ischemia patients.
Irvine, CA

Tidal Software (formerly Intersperse)
Provides IT teams with the tools needed to monitor all the components and services across the enterprise.
Pasadena, CA

Trumba
Trumba OneCalendar includes Web and email publishing tools that give you a better way to communicate events, activities and schedules.
Seattle, WA

Upromise
Harnessing the purchasing power of consumers in order to help them address some of the most important investments in life, starting with a college education.
Needham, MA

Verdiem
Verdiem's SURVEYOR software provides measurable energy and cost savings through network-level control over PC and monitor power settings. SURVEYOR consistently reduces PC energy consumption by 30%-50%.
Seattle, WA

Virsa (acquired by SAP, April 2006)
Real time enterprise compliance solutions.

Visible Path
Provides companies with Relationship Capital Management (RCM) services to build, protect and extend corporate networks. Start building your private network today by registering at www.visiblepath.com
New York, NY

Vivaty
Vivaty is making the Immersive Web a reality. Vivaty Scenes bring together your web friends, photos and videos into personal virtual experiences in the browser.
Menlo Park, CA

WildBlue
Affordable satellite broadband service.
Englewood, CO

XDx, Inc.
Develops and markets molecular diagnostic tests for immune system measurement.
South San Francisco, CA

Xsigo
Xsigo Systems has developed the industry's first hardware-based solution that's purpose-built to virtualize I/O. Xsigo helps IT directors manage infrastructure quickly, precisely, and easily. I/O can be deployed when and where it's needed—in seconds, rather than days or weeks.
Sunnyvale, CA

Zagat
Strives to be the most trusted, useful, up-to-date guide to quality dining experiences focusing on discerning customers in the major business cities of the world.
New York, NY

Zazzle
The leading Internet marketplace for custom products.
Palo Alto, CA

Zettacore
Using unique molecules to replace the deep trench capacitors in a traditional DRAM cell.
Englewood, CO

iZon (formerly Ophthonix)
High-resolution lenses for vision correction.
San Diego, CA