David Kirtley

AppDirect, Inc. develops end-to-end commerce platform for selling, distributing, and managing cloud-based products and services. It offers AppMarket, AppReseller, AppBilling, and AppDistribution. The company was founded by Nicolas Desmarais, Andy Sen, and Daniel H. Saks in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pollen, Inc. provides financial services. It provides C2FO market, working capital exchange that allows companies to optimize their working capital positions in a live, bid/ask environment. The firm serves buyers and suppliers who use the market to increase profit and accelerate cash flow between themselves. The company was founded by Alexander C. Kemper and Pete Thomas in May 2010 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Mithril Capital Management LLC (Mithril Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Peter Andreas Thiel and Ajay Royan. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Oklo, Inc. constructs reactor and distributes power. The company was founded by Jacob DeWitte and Caroline Cochran and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

The Thiel Foundation awards grants to groups that empower people to improve their lives, champions organizations and individuals who expose human rights abuses and authoritarianism. It programs include The Thiel Fellowship, Breakout Labs and Imitatio. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

DoubleDutch, Inc. develops mobile engagement applications for events, conferences, and trade shows. It offers platform, integrations, security, and live engagement marketing. The company was founded by Lawrence Stockton Coburn, Mathew Spolin, and Pankaj Prasad in January 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Embrace Innovations Pvt. Ltd. provides infant warmers. It offers little lotus, a swaddles and blankets that keep babies at an ideal temperature. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Nuvia, Inc. develops silicon chips and CPU products. The company was founded by Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sense Labs, Inc. develops mobile applications and electronic devices for analyzing electricity usage in households. It provides wide range of uses including monitoring home appliances, determining whether left appliances running, and identifying energy drains in home so it can substantially reduce energy costs. The company was founded by Michael S. Phillips, Christopher Micali, and Ryan Houlette in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Summerbio LLC operates as a diagnostic company. It COVID-19 testing services. The company was founded by Sasha Seletsky, Dave Scheinman and Roy Feague and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Planet Labs, Inc. operates earth-imaging satellites. The firm offers its imaging services for logistics, site development, crop monitoring, urbanization, natural resources, and asset management applications. The company was founded by William S. Marshall, Robert H. Schingler, Jr. and Christopher R. Boshuizen in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Alphabet, Inc., Raxium, Inc. is a company that is on the cutting edge of bringing monolithic integration, the foundation underpinning Moore's Law, to microLEDs. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company enables a new class of smaller and more powerful display products, ranging from augmented and virtual reality micro-displays to life-size panel-based light field arrays. The company was founded in 2017, and the CEO is Craig Peters. Raxium was acquired by Google LLC on May 04, 2022 for $1,000 million.

Form Energy, Inc. produces renewable energy. It develops new class of ultra-low cost, long duration energy storage systems. The company was founded by Yet-Ming Chiang, Theodore A. Wiley, William Woodford, Mateo Cristian Jaramillo, and Marco Ferrara and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Saildrone, Inc. provides ocean data collected by a fleet of sailing drones. Its solutions include oceanography and climate, fish stock analysis, and environmental monitoring. The company was founded by Richard Jenkins in 2011 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

ElectraSteel, Inc. engages in electrifying and decarbonizing steelmaking through renewable energy. The company is based in Boulder, CO. The company was founded in 2020 by Quoc Pham and Sandeep Nijhawan. Sandeep Nijhawan has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Electric Hydrogen Co. manufactures and delivers powerful electrolyzers for critical industries to produce low-cost green hydrogen. The company is based in Los Altos, CA. The company's complete 100MW solution includes all system components required to turn water and electricity into green hydrogen. The company's advanced PEM technology helps critical industries achieve their climate objectives by making green hydrogen an economic inevitability. Electric Hydrogen has a team of nearly 300 people with offices in undisclosed locations. The company was founded in 2020 by David J. Eaglesham, Raffi Garabedian, and Paula Doran. Raffi Garabedian has been the CEO since incorporation.

Redwood Materials, Inc. engages in the provision od of technology and process development for materials recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse. The company was founded by Jeffrey Brian Straubel in 2017 and is headquartered in Carson City, NV.

Part of Navitas Semiconductor Corp., Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. is an Irish company that develops gas power integrated circuits for the power supply markets. The company is based in Saint Peter's, Ireland. The company was founded in 2014 by Daniel M. Kinzer, Gene Sheridan, Jason Zhang, Nick Fichtenbaum. Gene Sheridan has been the CEO of the company since 2014. Navitas Semiconductor was acquired by Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II on October 19, 2021 for $1,476.67 million.

SilverRail Technologies, Inc. provides technology solutions for the distribution of train tickets and other rail-related products. It offers SilverCore, a global rail distribution platform that brings railways and travel retailers together. The firm also offers SilverAPI that provides end-to-end booking services that comprise search, book, cancel, payment, and ticketing, SilverAgent Lite, a Web-based application that delivers travel management companies’ access to live reservations made through its online booking tool partners, and SilverAgent Pro, a Web-based application for travel professionals that provide staff with a Web interface to search, book, pay, ticket, and modify company global rail content. The company was founded by Aaron M. Gowell and William D. Phillipson in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Auris Health, Inc. develops robotics technology for medical applications. The company was founded by Frederic H. Moll, Hariharan Sundram and Christopher J. P. Velis and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Adimab LLC provides human therapeutic antibodies. The firm has discovered antibodies for a wide variety of therapeutic targets within many disease areas, including oncology, immunomodulation, inflammation, neuroscience and pain, cardiovascular and metabolic disease and infectious disease. The company was founded in 2007 by Tillman Gerngross, Dane Wittrup and Errik Anderson and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

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.

Orca Biosystems, Inc. engages in empowering cell therapies by precisely engineering bone marrow transplants (BMT) using rapid clinical cell sorting of human grafts. The company was founded by Nathaniel fernhoff and Ivan K. Dimov and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Dren Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on protein engineering technologies for depletion of cells, protein aggregates, and other disease-causing agents. The company was founded by John Wesley and Nenad Tomasevic in 2019 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Senti Biosciences, Inc. develops novel therapeutics. It specializes in thetic biology, gene therapy and cell therapy. The company was founded by Timothy K. Lu, Wilson Wong, James J. Collins and Philip Lee in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Pango, Inc. develops privacy and security products. It offers hotspot shield, 1password, robo shield, and identity guard. The company was founded by Sujay Jaswa in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quantify Labs, Inc. provides a content and analytics platform and builds software for institutional trading desks. Its solutions include desk analyst, sales, management, research and trading. The firm specializes in institutional finance, technology, capital markets, sell side, buy side and SaaS. The company was founded by Blair Livingston in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

MIT Energy Initiative operates as a MIT’s hub for energy research, education and outreach. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides technical and scientific research services. The firm performs basic and applied research in principal areas such as neutron science, energy, supercomputing, advanced materials and national security. It also has research programs in nuclear and atomic physics, nuclear fusion, and microscopy. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN.

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.

The National Academies of Sciences provides advisory services in the areas of science, technology, and health policy.

Ankyra Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Grey Orange Pte Ltd., Grey Orange International, Inc. is a company that provides technology related services. The company is based in Roswell, GA. The CEO of the company is Samay Kohli.

BlackSky Global LLC develops satellite-imaging-as-a-service software. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.