Rajiv Bala

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sipera Systems is the worldwide market leader in communications security solutions that simplify and accelerate the adoption of VoIP and Unified Communications (UC). Sipera's award-winning UC-Sec security appliances protect up to 1 million UC devices in enterprises around the world. As the only Common Criteria certified security appliance for UC, the UC-Sec is the choice of enterprises and service providers who want to migrate to the new generation of communications with lower risk and higher return on investment. Founded in 2003, Sipera has operations and an extensive network of distributors and resellers across the world. Sipera is a top tier partner to leading UC vendors including Avaya, Cisco and many others. Certified as interoperable with leading UC configurations, the UC-Sec provides comprehensive application-layer security for UC applications such as VoIP, video, collaboration tools and messaging solutions. Sipera's research arm, the VIPER Lab, is the industry's premier professional services and research team devoted to UC security. The VIPER team has collectively conducted more than 100 vulnerability assessments and security consultations, including projects to secure VoIP and video at Fortune 100 enterprises.

Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Phurnace Software, Inc. develops and distributes software solutions, which include Java EE applications. It eliminates the error-prone, repetitive processes and problems associated with the set up, configuration and migration of software running on web application servers regardless of vendors. The company was founded by Daniel Nelson and Robert Reeves in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Invodo, Inc. engages in retailers and brands turn online shoppers into buyers. The firm's services include visual content strategy and planning, new ecommerce experiences, and program support. The company was founded in 2007 by Ben Brooke and Mayer Gard and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Briggo, Inc. engages in the provision of food and beverages. The firm specializes in coffee, espresso, latte, robotics, technology, mobile and beverage. The company was founded by Charles F. Studor and J. Kevin Nater in 2008 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Gravitant, Inc. provided cloud brokerage and management software that empowers organizations to truly deliver IT-as-a-service. It offered software services to create a simplified way for businesses and government agencies with complex information technology needs to make better use of cloud computing. The firm operated an online portal that can help enterprise customers plan, buy and manage their software services that may come from multiple cloud service providers. The company was founded by Raghunath Sapuram, Manish Modh and Mohammed Farooq in 2004 and was headquartered in Durham, NC.

VUV Analytics, Inc. manufactures vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) molecular spectroscopy instruments. It specializes in Gas Chromatography, Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Spectrometry. VUV Analytics'' patented and proprietary technologies create the most exciting advancement in molecular spectroscopy in decades. The company was founded by Sean Jameson and Dale Harrison in 2009 and is headquartered in Cedar Park, TX.