Mark Leslie

Cassatt Corp. offers clients the capability of implementing cloud-style computing environments using their existing systems, inside firewalls of their data centers, without having to modify their current hardware or software. The company was founded by William T. Coleman III and Mark A. Forman in September 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Scalix Corp. develops Linux-based email, group calendaring, and messaging software solutions. The firm's portfolio includes a Linux-based collaboration platform that integrates with existing messaging clients, infrastructure, and applications. It offers Enterprise Edition, a solution for enterprises that supports multiple servers; Small Business Edition, a single-server solution for small businesses; Hosting Edition, a multi-tenant solution for managed service providers looking to provide customers with outsourced email; Scalix Starter Packs, a mobile messaging solution for small companies; Community Edition, a messaging solution; and ActiveSync, a server-side implementation of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol providing for push email, and wireless calendar and contact synchronization with various devices. The company was founded in June 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Doostang, Inc. provides online employment services. Its platform offers jobs in the areas of accounting, insurance, finance, consulting, marketing, PR, advertising, technology, investment banking advisory, and business strategic management. The company was founded by Mareza Larizadeh and Pavel Krapivin in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PANTA Systems, Inc. builds data warehouse appliances. It offers PANTA data warehouse appliance with Oracle, which provides the ability to utilize data warehouse applications from star-schema data marts to large-scale enterprise data warehouses to operational data stores. The company was founded by Tung Nguyen in June, 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Xsigo Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells data center solutions. The company was founded by Ariel Cohen, Cheng Tang, Ashok Krishnamurthi and S. K. Vinod in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

SugarCRM, Inc. provides customer relationship management software solutions. Its solutions include marketing automation, sales automation, customer service, on-premise CRM, revenue analytics, and artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Clint Oram, John Roberts, and Jacob Taylor in 2004 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Scuba Analytics, Inc. operates as a continuous intelligence platform to unify customer experience management. The firm?s solutions include customer experience, product intelligence, operational analytics and marketing. It allows users to analyze and explore the key business metrics that matter in a data-driven world such as growth, retention, conversion and engagement. The company was founded by Lior Abraham, Ann Stimmler Johnson and Bobby Johnson in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Servo Software, Inc. has created a ground-breaking user data management service. Servo's service is currently being deployed with several of the world's leading wireless service providers and device manufacturers. Servo Software is based in San Mateo, California, with offices in Hangzhou, China.

SeaMicro, Inc. provides serves architecture platforms. The company was founded by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, and Anil Rao on November 16, 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Wall Street Systems, Inc. was provides treasury, trading, and settlement solutions. It was offered corporate and bank treasury, central banking, trade processing, and global cross-asset back-office software. The company was founded in 1986 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Switchfly LLC operates an ecommerce platform that provides a one-stop travel solutions for airlines, financial services companies, hotels, and other travel brands. It offers Switchfly packaging and Switchfly loyalty products to help firms grow revenue and increase customer loyalty. The company was founded by Heidi Vavul and Tina Fitch in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Big Switch Networks, Inc. engages in provision of public cloud-style and hybrid cloud networking services. It offers data center switching, visibility and analytics solutions for on-premises clouds, public clouds, and multi-cloud environments. The company founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster in March 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of DataMetrics Corp., Rugged Digital Systems, Inc. produces computer workstations. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded by Gregory McNulty, Donne Smith. Rugged Digital Systems was acquired by DataMetrics Corp. on August 11, 1993 for $1.60 million.

Liquid Robotics, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of autonomous ocean robots for ocean monitoring and operations. It offers the Wave Glider that capture live ocean data close to where lava is flowing into the ocean. The company was founded by Graham Hine, Joseph D. Rizzi, and Roger Hine in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Skybox Imaging, Inc. developed technology services to interpret satellite data more efficiently. It offered services in sectors such as finance, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure. The company was headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

PernixData, Inc. develops flash storage virtualization. It provides an enterprise-class software platform for application acceleration. The company develops a software-defined Flash Virtualization Platform that virtualizes server-side flash into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers. PernixData was founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nebula, Inc. helps businesses deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The company has developed a hardware appliance that allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive computers. The firm has locations in California and Washington. The company was founded by Chris C. Kemp and Devin Carlen and Steve O'Hara in April 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Zerto Ltd. provides disaster recovery and business continuity software. Its services include backup, disaster recovery, and cloud mobility. The company was founded by Ziv Kede and Oded Kedem on November 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Leslie Ventures, Inc (Leslie Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Mark Leslie. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California.

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. NetApp® storage solutions include specialized hardware, software, and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments, and Yahoo!, utilize NetApp global data management solutions

VERITAS Software Corp. develops software and provides computer services. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Coraid, Inc. is a technology manufacturing company based in the United States. It designs and manufactures a line of computer and data storage products branded under the trade name EtherDrive storage. The firm sells its products through technology channel partners. The company was founded by Brantley Coile in 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Keynote Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based solutions for mobile application. The company was founded by Jim Barrick and Andrew Popell in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Part of The Reynolds & Reynolds Co., Synapse Computer Services, Inc. provides information technology outsourcing services. The company is based in Somerville, NJ. Synapse Computer Services was acquired by DCS Group Plc on September 18, 2000 for $6.01 million.

Data General Corp. designs and makes open computer systems including servers and mass storage products. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is an independent community foundation headquartered in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2007, the firm advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems. SVCF engages donors and corporations from around Silicon Valley, the country, and the globe to make the region and world better for all.

Zerostack, Inc. provides turnkey private cloud management platform utilizing intelligent software and cloud-based monitoring solutions. It offers self-service private cloud for information technology and developers that automates infrastructure operations. The company was founded by Ajay Gulati and Kiran Bondalapati in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Vera Security, Inc. develops data-centric security platform. It offers products for data security for files, mail, and business applications. The company was founded by Ajay K. Arora and Prakash Linga in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Stanford Health Care provides healthcare services. It services includes cardiac care, cancer treatment, neurosciences, surgery and organ transplants. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Stanford, CA.

Zerto, Inc. provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software. It offers automated failover testing, offsite backup and data protection, data center migrations, and cross-hypervisor replication. The company was founded by Ziv Kedem and Oded Kedem in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Versive, Inc. provides predictive analytics application services. It offers big data analytical and statistical application. The firm serves the banking and finance, web content optimization and personalization, and online travel industries. The company was founded by Stephen J. Purpura and Christian T. Metcalfe in March 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Clumio, Inc. develops authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. It is a secure, backup as a service for the enterprise that eliminates the complexity of infrastructure management with authentic SaaS. The company was founded by Poojan Kumar, Kaustubah Patil and Woon Jung in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

HeartVista, Inc. develops magnetic resonance imaging applications and development tools to aid in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. It offers HeartVista Cardiac Package that includes RTHawk reasearch, a platform that provides an advanced MRI framework to acquire high-quality images, and used in luminary institutions to develop custom applications, and SpinBench, a software environment designed for the rapid prototyping and analysis of magnetic resonance imaging experiments. The company was founded in 2006 by Juan M. Santos, William R. Overall and Bob S. Hu and is headquartered in Los Altosark, CA.

StratoScale Ltd. operates as a cloud infrastructure company. It offers cloud capacity and cloud services. The firm solutions include public cloud experience, hyperconvergence, openstack cloud, software-defined data center, test environment, big data, and virtual machines. The company was founded by Ariel Maislos in 2013 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

HealthTap, Inc. develops a mobile health platform that connects people with the doctors. It offers an interactive health network and mobile apps which connects doctors with patients in smarter ways and provides education to those who seek it and disseminate trusted, vetted and peer-reviewed health information. The company was founded in 2010 by Ron Gutman, Sastry Nanduri and Geoffrey Rutledge and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ThoughtSpot, Inc. provides search and data analysis software. Its data search appliance enables on-the-fly access and analysis of data at enterprise scale. The firm has developed a relational search engine and in-memory database designed for mid-to-large enterprises with natural language query so that enterprises have a way to search across all numerical data. The company was founded by Ajeet Singh, Amit Prakash, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan, Sanjay Agrawal, Abhishek Rai and Priyendra Deshwal on May 21, 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Veritas Technologies LLC provides security, storage and systems management solutions. Its products include backup and recovery, business continuity, storage management and information governance. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Alluxio, Inc. provides memory-centric storage systems. Its products include Alluxio manager is a web application that offers a user-friendly way of deploying, managing and monitoring Alluxio clusters. is open source under the apache license. The company was founded by Haoyuan Li in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Elevian, Inc. develops medicines that restore youthful regenerative capacity. The company was founded by Mark J. F. Allen, Sebastian Giwa, Peter H. Diamandis, Brock C. Reeve, and Luis Alvarez and is headquartered in Allston, MA.

Juvena Therapeutics, Inc. develops protein-based therapeutics that promotes tissue regeneration in the elderly. The company was founded by Hanadie Yousef and Jeremy O'connell in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Yellowbrick Data, Inc. develops technology that allows enterprises to analyze data faster. It offers speed, simplicity, savings, standards, scability, and success. The company was founded by Neil A Carson, Mark Brinicombe and James Dawson in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

TeleNav, Inc. engages in the provision of personalized mobile navigation and location based platform services. It combined the mobile navigation services business with the automotive business in a single segment. The firm's VIVID Nav application delivers hybrid navigation, which can provide in-vehicle navigation that is cloud connected for real-time traffic and up-to-date destinations search, and also functions when not cloud connected, such as when driving in areas with bad cell coverage. It offers five variations of VIVID Infotainment and navigation software products and services to its OEM and tier-one customers for distribution with their vehicles and systems The company was founded by Robert William Rennard, H. P. Jin, Yi Chung Chao, and Salman Dhanani in September 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Ahana Cloud, Inc. engages in the provision of PrestoDB-focused ad-hoc analytics offerings to market. The company was founded by Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar in 2020 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.