John W. Schroeder

Compuware Corp. engages in the provision of software solutions and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. It focuses on the development of mainframe software tools for the development and operations. The firm's products include topaz, topaz workbench, topaz for total test, hiperstation, xpediter, strobe, thruput manager, abend-aid, and application audit. The company was founded by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes, and Allen B. Cutting in 1973 and is headquartered in Detroit, MI.

MapR Technologies, Inc. develops and runs data applications. Its products and services include MAPR converged data platform, platform services, open source engines, commercial engines, deployment engines, professional services and solutions. The company was founded by John W. Schroeder in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Candle Corp. provides e-business solutions. It also provides solutions to manage and optimize business-critical infrastructures, systems, service levels and other information technology assets. Candle Corp. was founded by Aubrey G. Chernick in 1976 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Brio Technology, Inc. used to provide software solutions to help companies extract, integrate, analyze and report information. Its software products were enable individuals, workgroups and executives in organizations to view data and information allowing for more actionable insight for business decisions. It used to offer a set of technologies that create an integrated analytic platform called the Brio Business Performance Platform. It was founded in year 1984 and was headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Part of Oracle Corp., Sqribe Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise reporting and enterprise information portal software. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. Sqribe Technologies was acquired by Brio Technology, Inc. on August 02, 1999 for $248.08 million.

Rainfinity, Inc. provides network storage solutions. It offers solutions to critical networked storage resources and security applications. The company was founded in 1999 by Jehoshua Bruck and Charles Chenggong Fan and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Calista Technologies, Inc. develops desktop virtualization technologies. It offers centralization of desktop software and hardware resource initiatives. The company was founded by Neal Margulis, Anil Kumar and Asael Dror in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.