Adam Spector

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

E-Tek Dynamics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells fiber optic components and communication devices. Its products include WDM components and modules, isolators, couplers, and micro optic integrated components. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Securify, inc. provides identity-based monitoring and verification solutions. Its clients include Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, Guardian Life, VISA - America and EU, Defense Exchange Commissary Agency and Defense Finance and Accounting Service. The company was founded in 1998 by Geoffrey Cooper, Dan Kolkowitz, and Taher A. Elgama and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Applied Identity, Inc. provides enforcement solutions. Its platform enables users to secure critical systems, implement guest networks, and protect enterprise networks. The company was founded by Dennis Pollutro in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Splashtop, Inc. provides instant-access computing solutions. Its products include Splashtop 2, which is the easiest way to access all of users content from any device from anywhere, and Splashtop for Business, which is a secure, high-performance solution for organizations to provide and manage access for their mobile users, and Splashtop OS, which is a platform that allows users to access e-mail and chat with friends, and Splashtop Remote, which provides access to watch movies, listen to music, access files and applications, and play PC, Mac, and flash games remotely. The company was founded in 2006 by Mark Ming Hsun Lee, Philip Felkal Sheu, Thomas Wel-Lun Deng, Alex Lu and Robert Ha and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Appcelerator, Inc. provides enterprise mobile engagement platform. Its cloud based platform enables users to build and test cross-platform applications. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Haynie and Nolan Wright in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SwiftStack, Inc. provides private cloud storage software solutions. The firm offers software defined storage built from the ground-up for web, mobile and as-a-service applications. SwiftStack contains everything customer need to set up, integrate and operate a private storage cloud based on OpenStack Swift. The company was founded by Joe Arnold, Anders Tjernlund, Darrell Bishop and Orion Auld in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GuideSpark, Inc. operates as a digital employee communications company. The firm offers mobile, video and interactive solutions, communications solutions, business analytics and communication campaigns. The company was founded by Wolff S. John, Larocque A. Joseph and Keith Kitani in 2008 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

AtScale, Inc. offers business intelligence solutions. The firm provides a BI platform that allows business users at corporations across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and online industries, to get interactive and multi-dimensional analysis capabilities, directly on Hadoop, using the tools they already know and own. It soecializes in Hadoop, Big Data, OLAP, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Cloudera, Tableau, PowerBI, Hortonworks, MapR, Google BigQuery, MicroStrategy, Amazon Redshift. The company was founded by David P. Mariani, Matthew Baird, Sarah Gerweck and James Lai in 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Digital Shadows, Inc. provides digital risk management and monitoring services for organizations. It offers data analytics with human data analysis to management and mitigate risks of an organization’s brand exposure, cyber threat, data exposure, infrastructure exposure, physical threat, and third party risks. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Nominum, Inc. provides web hosting services. It provides network-based solutions and applications powered by DNS and DHCP core engines. The company was founded by Paul Vixie, David R. Conrad and Paul V. Mockapetris in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Storm Ventures LLC (Storm Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Dick Moley, Alex Mendez, Ryan Floyd, Tae Hea Nahm and Sanjay Subhedar. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Optimal Networks, Inc. provides outsourced information technology (IT) management and consulting services to small and mid-sized businesses, associations, and law firms. It offers strategic IT consulting, managed IT services, and cloud solutions. The company was founded by Heinan H. Landa in 1991 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

XDN, Inc. provides online enterprise data managing software. The firm’s solutions include global network reach, rule based load-balancing, edge caching, video, security, analytics and extensive API features. The company was founded by Christopher Wallace and Barrett Gibson Lyon in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

CloudUp Networks, Inc. provides cloud data security and compliance solutions. The company was founded by Gaurav Kumar and Jon Shalowitz and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Digital Shadows Ltd. provides cyber situational awareness solutions that helps organizations protect against cyber attacks, loss of intellectual property, and loss of brand and reputational integrity. It offers Digital Shadows SearchLight, a flagship solution analysis platform that provides a view of an organization’s digital footprint and the profile of its attackers. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Avanoo, Inc. provides corporate training services. The firm specializes in employee engagement, human resources, learning & development, employee performance, values alignment, culture change, culture enablement, storytelling, leadership development, corporate identity & culture, workplace culture and employee stories. The company was founded by Daniel Jacobs, C. Prosper Nwankpa and Ivan Pasev in 2013 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Lumentum Operations LLC manufactures optical and photonic products. Its commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

SignalWire, Inc. develops computer applications. The firm delivers a cloud platform for building advanced communications products, applications or enterprise infrastructure. The company was founded by Anthony Minessale, II and Evan McGee and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Toric Labs, Inc. engages in the development of software. The company is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.