Founders: Ash Ashutosh
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Website: actifio.com
Type of business: Data Management Virtualization

Actifio™ pioneered the industry’s first storage system optimized for managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT infrastructure and data management applications. Actifio introduced virtualization into data management and has helped liberate IT organizations and services providers of all sizes from vendor lock-in and the management challenges associated with exploding data growth. Actifio is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with offices around the world.



Founders: Sunny Gupta, Kurt Shintaffer, Paul McLachlan
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA
Website: apptio.com
Type of business: IT Cost Transparency Software

Apptio is a provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio’s IT Cost Transparency solutions are designed to provide greater visibility into the cost, utilization and operations of IT products and services so that businesses can identify ways to reduce IT costs, make better IT decisions and benefit from more proactive IT Demand Management. Capabilities include template driven IT cost modeling, interactive reporting and analytics, and business facing IT demand management.

Founders: Dustin Mokovitz, Justin Rosenstein
Founded: 2009
Website: asana.com
Type of business: Enterprise collaboration software

Asana builds enterprise-level collaboration software, or a Collaborative Information Manager. For their software, Asana is developing an in-house programming language called Lunascript for writing rich web applications more efficiently.

Founders: Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: box.net
Type of business: Cloud content management

Box is transforming the way organizations ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500s share and manage all their information in the cloud. Box’s cloud content management platform makes it easy for its 5 million end users to share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device, while also providing the security, visibility and reporting capabilities required by IT departments. The Box Apps Marketplace includes integrations with leading cloud solutions like Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite and Jive, making Box content accessible across business applications.

Headquarters: Cupertino, CA
Website: bromium.com
Type of business: Intersection of virtualization and security

Founders: Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, John Cieslewicz, and Vaibhav Nivargi
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: clearstorydata.com
Type of business: Big Data

ClearStory Data is focused on enabling self-driven big data exploration. ClearStory Data is making it easy for business users to gather and explore big, diverse, dispersed data from databases, Hadoop and the web for more intuitive insights.

Founder: David Flynn
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, UT
Website: fusionio.com
Type of business: Flash storage

The increasing demand for a next-generation, solid-state storage technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore’s Law, have grown exponentially in performance. Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap.

Ushering in a new era of application-centric, solid-state storage solutions for the enterprise, Fusion-io is revolutionizing the way database, application and system administrators architect their data centers. The company is closing the gap between processing power and storage needs by delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems. Now, the performance of an entire disk array can be placed inside a server.

Fusion-io’s executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace. Fusion-io was founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage and superclusters, and computing and image processing.

Founders: Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: gooddata.com
Type of business: Collaborative Analytics

Good Data uses cloud computing to deliver a business intelligence solution as an on-demand service. A central component of Good Data is collaborative analytics, making it easy for users to collectively reach and share insight.

Founder: Alfred Chuang
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: magnet.com
Type of business: Enterprise Social Software

Magnet Systems has created the Workplace Interaction Network (WIN), a development platform that enables companies to build and deploy cloud-based enterprise-ready social applications. The first application to run on WIN is Sales WIN, which utilizes the connectedness of social networking to help sales people get closer to customers, interact with them more frequently, and understand each customer’s needs.

Founders: Steve Mullaney, Marin Casado, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: nicira.com
Type of business: Virtualization Software

Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network. Based on the innovative Network Virtualization Platform (NVP)™ architecture, Nicira solutions provide unprecedented network flexibility and control for service provider and enterprise data centers, leading to dramatically improved scalability, service velocity and costs.

The company was founded by networking research leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, virtualization and security.

Founders: Todd McKinnon, Frederic Kerrest
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: okta.com
Type of business: On Demand Identity Management

Okta is the market leading on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. Okta delivers a complete solution addressing the needs of IT, end users, and business leaders; no customization required.

With a catalog of pre-integrated applications and deep integration with Active Directory, Okta provides IT centralized user provisioning, access management, and reporting. Every end user gets a personalized, single sign-on home page for all of their applications, and business leaders get the insight they need to maximize ROI and track compliance.

Okta’s initial service is built on a secure, reliable and extensible on-demand platform that will serve as the foundation upon which a core set of services will be delivered to eliminate cloud adoption barriers and unlock the potential of the cloud for enterprises everywhere.

The Okta team has built, deployed, and supported market leading, on-demand and enterprise software solutions from companies including Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, Sun, and HP.

Founders: Ken Elkabany & Aaron Staley
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
Website: picloud.com
Type of business: Cloud Computing Platform

PiCloud offers an on-demand cloud computing platform that is easy to use, highly elastic, and free of data lock-in. With PiCloud’s unique serverless architecture, developers can instantly leverage the compute power of public and private clouds without having to manage, maintain, or configure virtual servers for batch processing,high performance computing, and scientific computing applications.

Founders: Ben Werther
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: platfora.com
Type of business: Big data

Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and dynamic interface.

Founders: Ari Tuchman, John Stockton
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: quantifind.com
Type of business: Breakthrough data oriented search capability

Quantifind Inc. has developed a new paradigm for Business Intelligence solutions that lets you learn things from your data that you didn’t know to look for. Whether you are interested in uncovering leading indicators of breakthrough clinical cancer trials, strategizing for novel applications of fuel cell technologies or discovering predictive indicators of mortgage defaults, quantiFind analytics can help you see things in ways the competition hasn’t thought to.

The quantiFind engine automatically extracts data from unstructured content, contextualizes the data, and derives meaning from large scale data aggregation. This approach can discover which metrics the corpus itself thinks are important, and these learned metrics are unbiased by how the industry is used to thinking about the topic.

Founders: Slava Akhemechet, Michael Glukhovsky
Founded: 2009
Website: rethinkdb.com
Type of business: Database optimized for flash storage

RethinkDB is designed to be extremely fast, and implements powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage. Today’s databases heavily optimize to account for high seek latency—the time it takes for a rotational drive’s platter to move. RethinkDB takes full advantage of solid-state drives, making traditional data storage layouts unnecessary

Founders: Elizabeth Iorns, Ryan Abbott, Dan Knox
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: scienceexchange.com

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science experiments. Our mission is to improve the efficiency of scientific research by making it easy for researchers to access experimental services and expertise across institutions.

Founder: Guarav Dhillon
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: snaplogic.com
Type of business: Data integration

SnapLogic transforms how companies connect business applications, both on premise and in the Cloud. SnapLogic customers can connect any combination of applications and data sources with a radical improvement in cost and performance over traditional integration solutions. An independent integration company, SnapLogic reduces vendor lock-in, providing an open extensible solution.

Founders: Tony Rizzo, Christian Ghoerghe, Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: tidemark.net
Type of business: Analytics Technology

Tidemark thinks that it’s time to rethink analytic applications. It’s time for self-reliant applications for every user, not more meaningless reports that no one reads. It’s time for actionable, predictive, collaborative applications that cut across transactive business processes, not more applications that create new silos. It’s time for cloud-based, community-managed applications that become smarter through the power of the network.

Founders:Rotem Perelmuter, founder and CEO
Website: topprospect.com
Type of business: Social networking for recruiting market