Brian Connors

IP Infusion, Inc. provides network software for internet protocol (IP) services. It offers network operating systems for physical and virtual networks to carriers, service providers and enterprises. The company was founded by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Formative Ventures LLC (Formative ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000 by Brian Connors and Clint Chao. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Pyxis Technology, Inc. operates as an early-stage EDA company that develops router for use in the design of semiconductor devices. The company was founded by PT Patel is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Open Country, Inc. provides system management and support software services. It also develops OC-Manager software, which runs on Linux and Windows and keeps track of Linux-based blades, desktop computers, information appliances and servers. The company's solutions allow customers to build, deploy, manage and support the Linux systems. Open Country was founded in 2001 by Paul Cubbage and Laurent Gharda and is located in Redwood City, CA.

Institutional Venture Partners (Institutional Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Reid Dennis. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Redpoint Ventures (Redpoint Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jeffrey Brody, Tom Dyal, Tim Haley, Brad Jones, John Walecka and Geoff Yang. The firm is headquartered in Woodside, California.

Samplify Systems, Inc. is a provider of intellectual property solutions which solve data acquisition and data processing bottlenecks. Its Prism Compression addresses data acquisition bottlenecks in industrial, scientific, medical markets, while its APAX technology accelerates software applications which are performance-limited by I/O, storage, or memory bandwidth bottlenecks in the computing, consumer, and mobile device markets. It is a private company based in Silicon Valley, with backing from leading venture capitalists, Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures and strategic partners Schlumberger, IDT, and Cosmo.

C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. manufactures, designs, develops, and sells semiconductors and software solutions for digital video applications. It also designs microprocessors. The company was founded by Edmund Sun, Alexandre Balkanski, Alain Rossman, and Jim Rafferty in July 1988 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA