Kumar Palaniappan

Founded in 2006 by Jon Najarian and Pete Najarian, optionMONSTER Media LLC is an investment research firm located in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Aperture Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Aperture Holdings LP. optionMONSTER Media publishes news, education and market intelligence on options and equity trading.

Basho Technologies, Inc. develops non structured query language (NoSQL) database technology. It offers Riak, an open-source distributed database used to power scalable, data-intensive web, mobile, and e-commerce applications; and Riak CS, an open source storage software built on top of Riak that can be used to build public or private clouds, or as storage to power applications and services. The company was founded by Earl P. Galleher, Jeffrey M. Hoffman and Antony P. Falco in January 2008 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Sourcethought, Inc. provides data analysis services. It offers automated data shaping that lets an analyst ingest, cleanse, join and restructure data on Hadoop without ETL or programming. The company was founded by Mike Pennelle & Ron Frohock in 2013 and is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Metafor Software, Inc. provides anomaly detection for web and data center applications. The firm automates anomaly detection so that it operators to identify inconsistencies that create errors and downtime. The company was founded by Jenny Yang in 2010 and Toufic I. Boubez and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

StreetLight Data, Inc. delivers next-generation geospatial business intelligence for the in-store retail ecosystem. It repurposes and recombines data from traffic and transportation management systems, such as traffic jam alerts and navigation to help retailers understand the context in which their stores operate. The company was founded by Rich Miller, Paul Friedman and Laura Schewel in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CoinFlip Solutions, Inc. provides a payment technology solution for route transactions on a per-item basis. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Truedomain, Inc. focuses on intercepting scam e-mails.

VEXTEC Corp. provides predictive models and computer aided engineering services. Its predictive models are used to simulate fatigue, corrosion and other damage mechanisms in structural, mechanical and electronic products. The firm’s technology can be used to determine the need for spare parts. The company was founded by Robert G. Tryon III and Animesh Dey in 2000 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Strategic Blue Ltd. is a British cloud management company that helps organizations optimize their cloud usage and reduce costs. Strategic Blue is based in London, UK and works with organizations of all types, including cloud vendors, customers, and technical partners. The company offers FinOps solutions that evolve with the customer's cloud journey and provide resources such as podcasts, blogs, and videos to keep them up to date with the latest Cloud FinOps trends. The company specializes in helping healthtech, edtech, and not-for-profit companies worldwide with cloud procurement and offer flexible finance and procurement options that allow customers to buy cloud their way. The company was founded in 2017 by James Christopher Mitchell and John Woodley.

Hub (California) provides software solutions. The private company is based in California.

Shoreline Venture Management LLC (Shoreline Venture Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Peter Craddock and Robert S. Spears. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Privitar Ltd. develops products for privacy preserving data mining and sophisticated data anonymization. It offers privacy-preserving data mining, protect against re-identification or differential privacy attacks, policy driven, consistent risk management, native support for big data and background services. The company was founded by Jason du Preez, John G. Taysom and Gerard Buggy in 2015 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Snyk Ltd., FossID AB is a leading provider of open source software compliance and security tools and services. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden. FossID was acquired by Snyk Ltd. on May 12, 2021. Fossid's open source scanner detects and identifies pieces of free and open source software (foss) in your code base, from entire components to code snippets. It uncovers license obligations and finds the lines of code that introduce security vulnerabilities and identifies their remediation. Fossid's open source software audits are performed without the need to expose the source code, providing unparalleled levels of confidentiality and accuracy so that you can focus on creating great products. The Swedish company was founded in 2016 by Jon Aldama, Matías Juárez Melgarejo, Oskar Swirtun. Oskar Swirtun has been the CEO since 2016.

Cloudsoft Corp. Ltd. specializes in automated multi-cloud application management. The firm provides open source application management solutions and supports open source projects like Apache Whirr, Jclouds and its own Brooklyn project which enables enterprises to develop, manage and provide large-scale distributed applications at lower cost, complexity and risk. The company was founded by Duncan Johnston-Watt, Alex Heneveld and Derek Gray in 2009 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom

Univa Corp. engages in the development of enterprise-class workload management and containerization solutions. Its solutions include life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, electronic design, education and research, government, and transportation. The firm's products include Univa Grid Engine; Navops Launch. The company was founded in 2004 by Steve Tuecke, Ian Foster, Rich Miller, and Carl Kesselman and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Telematica, Inc. provides design-driven process and consulting services for enterprise digital transformation. The private company is based in San Mateo, CA. The American company offers early stage launch executive consulting and process management for startup and emerging technology companies in transition. Telematica also provides bespoke research and due diligence on cloud native computing, data engineering, and data privacy. The company invests in private companies by accepting equity as compensation for consulting services and advisory services.

Behavox Ltd., engages in the provision of employee surveillance solutions. Its data operating platform products include compliance, conduct, insider threat, and customer relationship management. The company was founded by Alex Glasman, Erkin Adylov, Kiryl Trembovolski, and Roman Zelov in 2014 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Provenant Data, Inc. develops data assurance software.

Blockchain Technology Partners Ltd. offers two blockchain-based solutions, Chronicle and Sextant. The company is based in Edinburgh, UK. Chronicle is a domain-agnostic solution that records the provenance data for any physical or digital asset. Sextant supports Chronicle and also provides a blockchain-backed solution for recording provenance data. The British company was founded in 2018 by Duncan Johnston-Watt and Kevin Timothy O'Donnell, with Duncan Johnston-Watt serving as CEO since then.

Xpansiv Data Systems, Inc. engages in the development of a commodity-intelligence platform. Its Xpansiv platform bridges production systems and global markets. The company was founded by Joe Madded and Tom Baumann and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ovation Life Sciences LLC develops next-generation scientific data-layer-as-a-service platforms. Its main products are a lab service for the tracking of samples, workflows, and processes, and a research service for facilitating collaboration and data sharing between separate teams. The company was founded by Barry Wark and Winston Brasor in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed startup that provides advanced software-only cloud data management solutions. DBM Cloud Systems is based in Burlingame, CA. The company's Aire data management platform enables IT professionals to replicate, migrate, and encrypt large-scale data volumes. DBM Cloud Systems is committed to delivering leading-edge cloud migration and replication solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to realize the potential of their multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. The company was founded in 2016 by an accomplished team of data storage industry veterans. The company was founded by Dixon R. Doll, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Jacobi, Inc. provides technology for multi-asset portfolio design and analytics. Its products include workspaces, portfolio design, cashflow analysis, story boards and software development kit. The company was founded by Tanya Bartolini, Anthony James Mackenzie and Greg Knox in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.