John Olson

Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Simplex Solutions, Inc. provides software and services for the design and verification of integrated circuits (ICs) to enable its communications, computer and consumer-products to achieve production success and delivery of complex systems-on-chip. The company is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

E-Trolz, Inc. provides integrated signal acquisition and data management products for electrophysiological medical devices. Its applications are signal acquisition capabilities in conjunction with Dual Partition Tri-Core ArchitectureT and integrated development environment. The company was founded in 2005 and is located in North Andover, CA.

Aggregate Knowledge, Inc. provides online collective discovery services. delivers the neutral data management platform on which advertisers make their digital media decisions. Aggregate Knowledge was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Schneider Electric Ltd. manufactures and distributes electrical and automation control products and services. Its products include installation accessories, legacy controllers, medium voltage equipment, detection equipment, and interface and panel components. He firm offers products and services for panel builders, OEMs, contractors, specifiers, and the electrical supply industry for commercial and industrial applications. The company is headquartered in Telford, the United Kingdom.

MindChild Medical, Inc. develops medical device for the healthcare industry in the United States. It offers meridian, a non-invasive fetal electrocardiograph (fECG) monitor which is designed to report fetal heart rate data equivalent to the gold standard fetal scalp electrode. The company was founded by Adam J. Wolfberg, Gari Clifford, Jay Ward and James K. Robertson in 2008 and is headquartered in North Andover, MA.

MiRTLE Medical LLC develops medical devices and software solutions. It designs and manufacturers MRI-compatible 12-lead ECG monitors and software that provide cardiologists visibility into a patient’s health during an MRI. The company was founded by James K. Robertson and Jay Ward in 2012 and is headquartered in North Andover, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Audio Engineering Society, Inc. is a professional society dedicated to audio technology. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The company offers online sessions, resources, and a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, which contains technical papers, feature articles, and news from AES sections around the world.

Conviva, Inc. engages in the provision of online video optimization and online video analytics. The firm helps operators and broadcasters to meet audience expectations for video experience, across a multi-screen viewing environment. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

BloomReach, Inc. provides web search services for online retailers and commerce sites. It offers a personalized discovery platform with applications for organic search, site search, and content marketing and merchandising. The firm also offers Compass, a tool that understands products and identifies opportunities to maximize revenue, SNAP for Mobile that personalizes site search, content, and navigation to make each visit personal, and Organic Search that matches consumer intent to the client content. The company was founded by Raj K. De Datta and Ashutosh Garg in February 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Aspire Human Capital Management Pvt Ltd. discovers, develops, and delivers employable in-campus education programs. It offers an employability education product that provides training in aptitude, communication, industry and personality development in schools, colleges, and universities. The company was founded by Amit Bhatia, Karandeep Singh and Sumer Datta in July 2007 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Indian Angel Network Services Pvt Ltd (Indian Angel Network Serv) is an angel network firm founded by Saurabh Srivastava, Raman Roy, Pradeep Gupta, Mohit Goyal, Alok Mittal in April 2006 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Wealth India Financial Services Pvt Ltd. operates FundsIndia, an online transactional investment platform for Indian and NRI investors. Its platform enables users to invest in mutual fund, equity, and fixed deposit products. The company was founded by Srikanth Meenakshi and Chockanath Ramakrishnan Chandrasekar in 2009 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Skillpoint Alliance, Inc. provides workforce training and education. It provides in-demand workforce training to vulnerable members of the Central Texas community. The firm also provides gateway training that is specifically tailored to Austin-area opportunity youth. It also conducts adult training, and gateway training programs. The company was founded in April 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers operates as a professional association.

QuanticMind, Inc. provides intuitive SaaS tools for enterprise-level advertisers to manage search engine, display and mobile marketing. It offers online marketing, performance marketing, optimization, analytics, search engine marketing, SEM, PPC, pay per click. The company was founded by Brian Bird, Enriko Aryanto and Chaitanya Chandrasekar on May 1, 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Zerostack, Inc. provides turnkey private cloud management platform utilizing intelligent software and cloud-based monitoring solutions. It offers self-service private cloud for information technology and developers that automates infrastructure operations. The company was founded by Ajay Gulati and Kiran Bondalapati in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Forbes Technology Council operates as a community for senior technology executives. The private company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Scott Gerber.

Fortanix, Inc. provides software and hardware information security services. Its product, self-defensing key management services (SDKMS), allows the user to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as secrets such as passwords, tokens, application programming interface (API) keys, and any blob data. The company was founded by Ambuj Kumar and Anand Kashyap in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Eightfold AI Inc. develops and operates software platform for powering employee performance. The firm offers talent intelligence, diversity, and management services. The company was founded by Varun Kacholia and Ashutosh Garg and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Opas AI, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology services. It offers artificial intelligence for root cause analysis. The company was founded by Mohit Gupta and Gurashish Brar in 2017 and is headquartered in DE.

Omni Design Technologies, Inc. develops disruptive, ultra-low power semiconductor embedded circuits. Its products include data converters, sensors and loT. The company was founded by Kush Gulati, Hyun Boo, Drew Peck, Siddharth Dutta and Hae-Seung Lee in 2015 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.