Ron Nieman

Netsocket, Inc. provides internet protocol service assurance solutions. It specializes in internet protocol networking service assurance, unified communications service assurance, virtualized networking, video calibration service assurance, and voice over internet protocol service assurance. The company was founded by Kenneth Lewis on September 19, 2006 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Keibi Technologies, Inc develops a media discovery and moderation platform for online communities. Its solutions allows publishers, advertisement networks, and social media platforms to protect members, advertisers, and own brands by identifying and removing content that violates a community's terms of service. The company was founded by Pierre Grenier in September 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA

GlobeRanger Corp. provides radio-frequency identification, mobility and sensor based software solutions. Its production-tested iMotion Edgeware platform simplifies the development, deployment, management of RFID, mobile, sensor-based solutions, Edge software platform integrates existing and new technologies such as bar code, RFID, wireless and sensor based systems preserving past investments while enabling new edge applications. The company was founded by George Brody in 1999 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Founded in 1998, Covera Ventures, formerly Hunt Ventures, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm spun out from Hunt Consolidated, Inc. in 2009.

Sirific Wireless Ltd. designs and develops RF transceiver integrated circuits. It offers digital direct conversion, transmitter, and transceiver. The company was founded by Tazinder Manku in 2000 and is located in Waterloo, CA.

RipCode delivers transcoding solutions to providers of mobile, desktop and IPTV content. Its transcoding platform uniquely supports both live and file-based transcoding applications with the broadest codec support, most extensive device coverage, and widest range of picture resolutions. The platform provides this transcoding flexibility while enabling customer-optimized tradeoffs between concurrency, real-time performance, and quality of experience - enabling video transcoding and delivery to be closely aligned with specific business model needs. Its platform is fully integrated with all popular forms of video delivery applications including RTSP streaming, Adaptive RTSP streaming, HTTP Progressive Download, Apple iPhone 3.0 Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe's upcoming HTTP Adaptive Download. The RipCode TransAct Platform™ sets them apart from traditional 'box' transcoding vendors. The TransAct portfolio extends industry-leading transcoding technology to a policy-driven video delivery platform elevating scalable, easy to deploy, revenue-generating video delivery to an on-the-fly, real-time network transaction tuned to the needs of each provider's business goals.

Sevin Rosen Bayless Management Co (Sevin Rosen Bayless) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Interlock Partners Management LLC (Interlock Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Washington Capital Ventures LLC (Washington Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Lev Volftsun. The firm is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Markpoint Holdings LP (Markpoint Holdings) is a venture capital firm founded in 1900 by Tex Sekhon. The frim is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

CenterPoint Ventures Co. LLC (CenterPoint Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Robert J. Paluck and Kent A. Fuka. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Waterrun, Inc. provides CDMA wireless radio access network solutions. Its broad portfolio is designed to help operators improve in-building coverage, offload data and enhance capacity. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

GENBAND, Inc. provides smart networking solutions for service providers and enterprises. Its products include application and client platforms, session border controllers, call controllers, media gateways, wireless access gateways, cloud services and management. The company also provide customer support, EDGE training, education, FLEX deployment services. GENBAND was founded by Anthony John Paul Carew, Brendon W. Mills, Ronald D. Lutz and Steven Raich in 1999 and is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

Trellis Partners (Trellis Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by John L. Long. The firm is headquartered in Cedar Creek, Texas.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Landmark Graphics Corp. provides software and consulting services for the oil and gas industry. The Company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Aristos Ventures Management LLC (Aristos Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Felipe Mendoza. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

ExteNet Systems, Inc. owns, manages and operates indoor and outdoor distributed networks. It offers node and fiber network monitoring, base transceiver station hub security monitoring, advanced remote diagnostics, network event notification and resolution, trouble ticketing, scheduled maintenance, and network health reporting services. The company was founded by Ross W. Manire and Eric Lekacz in 2002 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Vidyo, Inc. provides video conferencing solutions. Its services include adoption, deployment, project management, and telehealth clinical design. The firm's products include mobile, desktop, huddle room and board room. Its core capabilities include management and call control, media routing and optimization, recording and webcasting, and interoperability. The company was founded by Tal Dilian, Ofer Shapiro, Isaac Levy, Avery More, and Alexandros Eleftheriadis and in 2005 and is headquartered in Hackensack, NJ.

Sestra Systems, Inc. is a company based in Sterling, VA. Sestra Systems' mission is to bring the internet of things to beverage dispensing, making customers smarter and enriching the guest experience. The company's cloud-connected solutions enable customers to maximize profit by providing state-of-the-art features optimized to prevent loss, improve service speed and quality, and ease operations, while providing business management, control, and analytics tools. Sestra's TapWise solution turns any keg dispensing system into a smart dispensing solution with electronic portion control, real-time data analytics, and a host of other state-of-the-art features. The company was founded in 2015 by Lev Volftsun and Kim AuBuchon, with Lev Volftsun serving as the CEO since then.