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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital provides venture capital funding to founders of startups who want to turn business ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of nVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube and Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit www.sequoiacap.com

Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture and growth equity investment firm that manages more than $3.7 billion in capital. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India, Herzelia, Israel and Hong Kong. NVP makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: information technology, business services, financial services, infrastructure, technology enabled services and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years and has funded over 500 companies since inception. For more information, visit www.nvp.com.

JAFCO Ventures

Based in Palo Alto, California, JAFCO Ventures is an independent venture capital partnership focused on companies that are emerging leaders in the software, semiconductor and communications industries. JAFCO Ventures was formed in 2003 and currently manages $200 million in capital. The fund's charter is to invest in venture opportunities with true "breakout" potential where JAFCO Ventures can meaningfully add value with capital, the experience of seasoned venture capital investors, and the deployment of our Asia business development (ABD) team. The role of the ABD team is to help JAFCO's portfolio companies generate revenue from customers in Japan and other parts of Asia. Visit JAFCO Ventures at www.jafco.com

SVB Capital

SVB Capital is the private equity arm of SVB Financial Group and is an integral part of the Group's strategy to create value within the venture capital and private equity communities. SVB Capital also establishes and strengthens strategic business relationships with the private equity community.

SVB Capital Partners, the unit's fund management group, invests in private equity funds as well as directly into portfolio companies on behalf of SVB Financial Group and its other investors. The SVB Capital family of funds exceeds $1 billion and includes fund of funds, co-investment funds, venture debt funds and special debt funds invested primarily on behalf of endowments and foundations.

Venture Exchange provides emerging companies with the information and access needed to raise funding from venture investors. Visit SVB Capital at www.svb.com/svbcapital

DAG Ventures

DAG Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980's in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow's leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors.

DAG Ventures invests in companies with proven technology, from the prototype stage onward. Visit DAG Ventures at www.dagventures.com

Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers innovative businesses a high-performance network infrastructure to help them create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. The top 40 service providers, 93 of the Fortune 100, and large government agencies and institutions are among the many demanding businesses that rely on Juniper Networks to quickly meet their high-performance business requirements. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Juniper Networks is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol JNPR. Visit Juniper Networks at www.juniper.net

Four Rivers Group

Four Rivers Group is an expansion stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth, market leading technology companies globally. Founded with the needs of the entrepreneur in mind, we provide custom, flexible financings. We lead small or large rounds and have no minimum threshold for check size or ownership percentage. Sample investments include Aerohive, Availink, Carbonite, FireEye, GameFly, Sabrix (Thomson Reuters), Return Path, and Vidyo.