Thomas Ahn Hicks

Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

PassBan was founded in March 2012. PassBan was born with the vision to transform smart devices into "companions customers' can trust." The company wants to replace traditional password & key fob (token) based security with flexible & modern multi-factor verification (voice/face/motion/location/token/password). The goal is to put the user in control of deciding which combinations of verifications they want to use. To achieve this goal PassBan created Passboard, a fresh ground-up mobile solution that focuses on natively protecting mobile apps and sites.Passboard allows users to protect themselves without having to change the mobile sites and apps they use everyday. The team is passionate about building multi-factor verification security with the user in mind. PassBan has completed its Series A financing thru private investors & friends of the company. Headquarter in SOMA, San Francisco, PassBan draws talent from around the world. At PassBan, engineers, designers and product specialists join to create next generation security for customers' mobile devices and applications. The company is always on the lookout for driven individuals passionate about revolutionizing mobile security.

Qwiki, Inc. provides an online information platform. The firm's technology transforms data into rich-media narratives, delivering an information experience. The company was founded by Douglas Imbruce, Jay Oh, Gregory Smith and Louis Monier in October 2009 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Watchful, Inc. engages in the development of software and provision of information technology services. The company was founded by John Singleton and Shayan Mohanty and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Era Software, Inc. provides technology services. The company is headquartered in Bainbridge Island, WA.

Wink Robotics, Inc. is engaged in providing beauty services. The company was founded by Nathan Harding, Amundson Kurt and Lynn Heublein and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Viz.ai, Inc. operates as an artificial intelligence healthcare company. Its products include Viz LVO and Viz CTP. The firm?s system connects to a hospital CT scanner and alerts the stroke specialist that a suspected LVO stroke has been identified, sending the radiological images directly to smart phone. The company was founded by Chris Mansi, David Golan and Manoj Ramachandran in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Danhua Capital Management LLC (Danhua Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Andrew Gu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Tonkean, Inc. develops robotic automation and management platform for business operations. It automates and integrates management tools for right processing of visible data. The company was founded by Sagi Eliyahu and Offir Talmor and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Compound Labs, Inc. operates as an open-source protocol for algorithmic, efficient money markets on the ethereum blockchain. The company was founded by Robert Leshner and Geoffrey Hayes and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cohesity, Inc. provides data solution and services. It offers dataplatform, dataprotect and hyperconverged nodes. The firm?s services include data protection, cloud integration, file services, object storage, HP enterprise, pure storage integration, test/Dev, and analytics. The company was founded by Mohit Aron in June 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

People Center, Inc. helps startups to staff up. The company was founded by Prasanna Sankaranarayanan and Parker Conrad is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Settle Network is a digital assets settlement network that provides programmatic interoperability between traditional and digital assets across Latin America. The company is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Argentinean company offers an array of products such as Latamex, Settle X, and PSP XRamp, among others, which enable unlimited and compliant interoperability between digital assets and the most important local currencies. Settle Network connects businesses via its network of strategic partners and service providers, enabling secure and fast transactions with cryptocurrency. Settle Network was founded by Pablo Orlando, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

GrubMarket, Inc. engages in the provision of online food services. It offers food products and other items to customers. The company was founded by Min Yi Xu in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SafelyYou, Inc. is a seed-stage company which engages in the development of artificial intelligence tools in memory loss management. Its aims to provide patients, caregivers, and families with a safety system that could adequately identify falls and make daily living safer for those living in memory care. The company was founded by Pulkit Agrawal, Alexandre Bayen, Julien Jacquemot, and George Netscher and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Cisco Systems Capital Corp. manufactures chassis racks. The company is based in San Jose, CA.

21st Century Fox America, Inc. publishes newspapers, magazines and books. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

News Corp. UK & Ireland Ltd. publishes newspapers and magazines. Its magazines include The Sun, The Times, News of the World, and The Sunday Times. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

British Broadcasting Corp. provides broadcasting services. It offers news, sport, weather reports, DVD shopping, videos, travel, capital, culture, music, nature, food and local news. The company was founded by John Charles Walsham Reith in 1922 and is headquartered in White City, the United Kingdom.

Telegraph Media Group Ltd. engages in the publication of newspaper and magazines. It covers news, politics, sport, business, mony, opinion, technology, life, style, travel, and culture. The company was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Eluvio, Inc. is a blockchain-based content platform that enables owner-controlled storage, distribution, and monetization of digital content at scale. The company was founded by Michelle C. Munson, an Emmy award-winning technologist and co-founder of Aspera, and Serban Simu, and is based in Berkeley, CA. Eluvio has received numerous industry awards, including the Engineering Excellence Award by the Hollywood Professional Association and has been recognized with 11 US patents. The platform offers live and file-based content publishing, transcoding, packaging, sequencing, and dynamic and static distribution, and minting of derivative NFTs for all ranges of content experiences. Eluvio has powered content blockchain initiatives for companies and creators such as Fox Entertainment, Microsoft, Sony Pictures, and many others.

Flexport, Inc. engages in the provision of online customs brokerage and freight forwarding services. It offers ocean freight, air freight, trucking and delivery, government agency filing, cargo insurance, and warehousing and fulfillment. The company was founded by Ryan Roy Petersen and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

QED Investors LLC (QED Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Frank Rotman, Caribou Honig and Nigel William Morris. The firm is headquartered in Virginia, US.

Gemini Trust Co. LLC /Venture Capital/ (Gemini Trust) is a venture capital subsidiary of Gemini Trust Co. LLC founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Nifty Gateway operates digital asset exchange for both individuals and institutions. It facilitates nifty purchases for some of crypto-games and applications, including OpenSea, Gods Unchained, and CryptoKitties. The company was founded by Duncan Cock Foster and Griffin Cock Foster in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ontology Foundation develops a public blockchain and distributed collaboration platform. The company is based in Shanghai, China.

Lime Technology Ltd develops lime based building products. It offer a wide range of sustainable low carbon lime based building systems for mainstream construction, comprising Limetec mortars, Baumit renders and plasters, plus Tradical Hemcrete. The company was founded by Ian Pritchett and headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Protocol Labs, Inc. provides information technology and internet services. It offers data-locality aware and secure network stack for distributed applications. The company was founded by Juan Benet Batiz and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Tenaris SA, Tenaris Rods (USA), Inc. is a company that specializes in deepwater products designed for high service severity applications. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company's products are specifically tailored to address the challenges posed by increased formation pressure and high temperature that threaten deepwater well integrity.

Vimeo OTT Solutions, Inc. operates as a social platform to share and discover videos on the web. It provides tools for web design, social media integration, search engine optimization, traffic analytics, robust customer data, flexible pricing, and content bundling. The company was founded by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh in May 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Flexsteel Pipeline Technologies, Inc. engages in a pipeline industry. It offers flexsteel pipe products and installation services. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.