Peter Karnig

Granite Ventures LLC (Granite Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Jackie Berterretche, Sam D. Kingsland and Chris B. Hollenbeck. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Salon.Com LLC operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Icehouse Ventures Ltd. (Icehouse Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Auckland and is wholly owned subsidiary of The Icehouse Ltd.

Mixamo, Inc. is a holding company that provides three-dimensional (3D) animation services though an online platform. It allows animators, game artists, and 3D professionals to customize and create character animations, and bring those animations into their games or applications. The firm specializes in the development of character centric applications and games for mobile and social network platforms. The company was founded by Stefano Corazza and Nazim Kareemi in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Digital Fountain, Inc. develops and licenses advanced forward error correction coding technology. The firm's technology is used in military and consumer devices enterprises. The company was founded by Michael G. Luby in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Virage, Inc. provides media communication and content management software solutions for video production, internet publishing, and web casting. The company was founded by Bradley J. Horowitz in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Concord Holding Corp. is a mutual fund concern. The company is based in New York, NY. Concord Holding was acquired by The BISYS Group, Inc. on March 29, 1995 for $120 million.

Made2Manage Systems, Inc. provides intelligence and ERP software solutions. Its products include M2M ERP, SCM, CRM, BI, VIP and EDI-XML. It provides services such as education, customer support, consulting and development services. The company's partners include AutoDesk, Inovis, LiveVault, Microsoft and Powerway. Made2Manage Systems located in Indianapolis, IN.

Wind River Systems, Inc. provides embedded and mobile software solutions. It offers operating systems, Wind River Helix Chassis, intelligent device platforms, network infrastructure, and Wind River Helix cloud. The company was founded by Jerry L. Fiddler in 1981 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Part of Kollective Technology, Inc., Kontiki, Inc. is a cloud-based and software-defined enterprise content delivery company. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Kontiki was founded by Wade Hennessey, Mike J. Homer, John Wainwright.

Trovix, Inc. provides human resource software solutions and services. The company provides technology solutions to employers & professionals for employee and career search. It offers Trovix Recruit, an enterprise product with an applicant tracking system that enable companies to identify, approach and hire the professionals. Trovix was founded by Earl Rennison & Jeff Benrey in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA

Smule, Inc. develops interactive sonic media applications for the iPhone. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Smith and Alex Rae in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

HyTrust, Inc. provides cloud security automation solutions. It offers HyTrust CloudControl, a control point that adds critical authentication, authorization and auditing for administrators of virtual infrastructure. The firm’s solution simplifies compliance and provides control and visibility into private clouds. It also offers HyTrust DataControl, a solution that provides strong encryption for virtual machines in any public or hybrid cloud, along with easy to deploy key management. The firm offers compliance, private cloud controls, virtual machine encryption and HyTrust boundary controls. The company was founded by Renata Budko, Eric Chiu, Boris Strongin and Boris Belov in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SellPoints, Inc. provides e-commerce optimization platform that enables brands to engage, inform, and inspire their customers. It offers brand optimization, enhanced brand content, creatives, and data and analytics solutions. The company was founded by Thomas Fristoe in 2001 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

StepUp Commerce, Inc. helps retailers use the Internet to display their in-store products. It exposes local inventory information from retailers of all sizes to consumers wherever they are browsing products online. StepUp Commerce was founded by Kendall M. Fargo in February 2004 and is located in San Francisco, CA.