Brian Smith

Sipera Systems is the worldwide market leader in communications security solutions that simplify and accelerate the adoption of VoIP and Unified Communications (UC). Sipera's award-winning UC-Sec security appliances protect up to 1 million UC devices in enterprises around the world. As the only Common Criteria certified security appliance for UC, the UC-Sec is the choice of enterprises and service providers who want to migrate to the new generation of communications with lower risk and higher return on investment. Founded in 2003, Sipera has operations and an extensive network of distributors and resellers across the world. Sipera is a top tier partner to leading UC vendors including Avaya, Cisco and many others. Certified as interoperable with leading UC configurations, the UC-Sec provides comprehensive application-layer security for UC applications such as VoIP, video, collaboration tools and messaging solutions. Sipera's research arm, the VIPER Lab, is the industry's premier professional services and research team devoted to UC security. The VIPER team has collectively conducted more than 100 vulnerability assessments and security consultations, including projects to secure VoIP and video at Fortune 100 enterprises.

LibreDigital, Inc. provides web-based warehouse and distribution platform services. The firm allows publishers to store and secure digital content in any form and to deliver content on-demand to any marketplace or device. The company was founded by Billy Taylor, Doug Dobbs and Tracy Jones in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets orthodontic devices. The firm engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of products to enhance dental care and orthodontic treatment. It develops and sells AcceleDent, a FDA-cleared clinical approach to safely accelerate orthodontic tooth movement by applying gentle micropulses, SoftPulse Technology, as a complement to existing orthodontic treatment. The company was founded by Mark Kwatia, Kirk A. Purcell, Lawrence W. Swol, Colin I. James and Anna Lisa Somera in 2007 and is headquartered in Bellaire, TX.

Kimbia, Inc. engages in the provision of online fundraising, crowdfunding, and event platform for nonprofits, higher education, and community foundation. It enables non-profit organizations to effectively use the Internet through online donation forms to increase giving, participation and overall support. The company was founded by Daniel Gillett, Richard Stanford and Thon Aron Morse in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

BlueCava, Inc. provides cross-screen and cross-device technology. It offers audience association platform enables cross-screen audience management and measurement for brands, agencies and Adtech. The firm’s platform addresses ID reconciliation, mobile device recognition and cross-screen association and cross-screen data management and deployment. The company was founded by John Sherrod and David Norris on July 1, 2010 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

TVA Medical, Inc. engages in the development of invasive therapies for end-stage renal disease and peripheral vascular disease. It provides catheter-based system that allows physicians to create an arterio-venous fistula to deliver hemodialysis to patients suffering from kidney failure. The company was founded by William E. Cohn and Adam L. Berm In 2008 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

VUV Analytics, Inc. manufactures vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) molecular spectroscopy instruments. It specializes in Gas Chromatography, Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Spectrometry. VUV Analytics'' patented and proprietary technologies create the most exciting advancement in molecular spectroscopy in decades. The company was founded by Sean Jameson and Dale Harrison in 2009 and is headquartered in Cedar Park, TX.

Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Conformative Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures computer systems. The company was founded by John E Derrick, Ram Ramarao and Arie Brish in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of CEVA, Inc., Chicory Systems, Inc. is a private company that provides semiconductor intellectual property. The company is based in Austin, TX. Chicory Systems was acquired by Parthus Technologies Plc on May 15, 2001 for $75.47 million.

Gravitant, Inc. provided cloud brokerage and management software that empowers organizations to truly deliver IT-as-a-service. It offered software services to create a simplified way for businesses and government agencies with complex information technology needs to make better use of cloud computing. The firm operated an online portal that can help enterprise customers plan, buy and manage their software services that may come from multiple cloud service providers. The company was founded by Raghunath Sapuram, Manish Modh and Mohammed Farooq in 2004 and was headquartered in Durham, NC.

Storage Area Networks provides data storage systems integration services. The company is based in Castle Rock, CO. Storage Area Networks was acquired by SAN Holdings, Inc. on January 10, 2000.

StoredIQ Inc. provides enterprise class intelligent information management solutions. It offers scalable analysis and governance of unstructured data in-place across disparate and distributed email, file shares, desktops, and collaboration sites. The company was founded by Jeff Erramouspe and James A. Schellhase in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Qualia, Inc. provides intent-targeting platform. The company was founded by Manish Ahuja, Reza Qorbani, Nihal Mehta, Kathy Leake, Michael Muse, and Deepen Shah in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Briggo, Inc. engages in the provision of food and beverages. The firm specializes in coffee, espresso, latte, robotics, technology, mobile and beverage. The company was founded by Charles F. Studor and J. Kevin Nater in 2008 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Solace Therapeutics, Inc. develops non-surgical treatments for common bladder disorders. It offers medical devices for stress urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, male voiding dysfunction, and lower urinary tract symptoms. The company was founded by Kevin G. Connors in 2002 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Liquibase, Inc. provides database automation solutions. It offers integrations, product information and product videos. The firm provides deployment monitoring console, database code packager and dynamic rules engine solutions. The company was founded by Daniel Nelson, Robert Eric Reeves and Peter Pickerill in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Saranas, Inc. develops medical devices to improving patient outcomes through early detection of internal bleeding complications. The company was founded by Mehdi Razavi and Alex Arevalos and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

NeighborFavor, Inc. provides a food-delivery and all-purpose courier service. It offers a mobile app that allows users to order anything from stores and restaurants and delivers the ordered items, such as food, dry cleaning, prescriptions, clothing and groceries. The company was founded by Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais on November 13, 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Complex Networks is a lifestyle brand and media company that produces original programming for its channels and through output deals with premium distributors. The company is based in New York, NY, and was founded in 2002 by Richard Antoniello. The company's content spans across popular culture from music to movies, sports to video games, fashion to food, and it reaches the coveted 18-24-year-old male audience. Complex Networks was formed from the acquisition of Complex Media Inc. through a joint venture by Verizon and Hearst.

Performance Edge Partners LLC (Performance Edge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.