AppDynamics is a next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) company that delivers rapid problem resolution for highly distributed applications through easy-to-use transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics. Unlike other APM providers, AppDynamics finds the root cause of performance problems without introducing excess overhead or requiring a complex and costly installation. AppDynamics is also the first APM provider to dynamically scale applications in cloud, virtual, and physical environments.

Located in San Francisco, CA

AppFirst delivers the first SaaS-based application performance monitoring product enabling SaaS IT operations to visualize, at a glance, the real time physical reality of applications on infrastructure. It is language agnostic, supporting Windows and Linux servers. Within minutes you can get a view and understanding into your application to drive better performance, cost efficiencies and customer retention. Operational excellence can only be achieved when you have complete visibility into your deployed software.

Located in New York, NY

Aprigo's Data Management Applications delivered via SaaS, enable IT Pros to manage their company's explosive file growth, anywhere. Aprigo provides visibility and control into File Access, File Resources, and File Recovery for all unstructured data or files, on-premise and in the cloud. With no infrastructure to install, and no files opened Aprigo provides actionable results in minutes. Built-in data visualization, analytics, and IT benchmarking allow IT Pros to put out data management fires and keep them out. Aprigo is the only suite of data management apps that provides a holistic view of your company's data without breaking the bank.

Located in Waltham, MA

AwayFind is a powerful web application that finds your most important emails. When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.

Located in College Park, MD

Cloudant is an integrated data management, search, and analytics engine that fundamentally changes the way businesses, from startups to large enterprises, manage and analyze data. Cloudant's platform is built specifically for the distributed environment enabled by cloud computing. Cloudant is grounded in the NoSQL philosophy of databases. Our philosophy is "unifying data storage and analytics by bringing computation to data."

Located in Cambridge, MA

CloudShare’s SaaS platform is a quick and easy way to share copies of your complex IT environments, online, so you can collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues – for Demos, Proofs-of-Concept, Training, or other enterprise applications – without wasting time copying gigabytes of software or shipping machines and people. Going beyond basic webinar or “virtual lab” offerings, CloudShare’s solutions enable users’ extended interaction in dedicated “hands on” production-grade replicas of their existing IT, delivered as cloud-based SaaS. VMware, Cisco, SAP and others have adopted CloudShare as their vendor of choice to extend access to their virtual infrastructure from the Enterprise to the Cloud.

Located in Menlo Park, CA

CloudSwitch delivers the enterprise gateway to the cloud. CloudSwitch’s innovative software appliance enables enterprises to move their existing applications to the right cloud computing environment—securely, simply and without changes. With CloudSwitch, applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business.
 
Located in Burlington, MA

Conformity is the provider of the first enterprise-class management and governance platform for cloud applications. Conformity enables organizations to centrally manage on-demand applications, users and data, reducing security and compliance risks and operational costs associated with SaaS and cloud applications.

Located in Austin, TX

In the last year, the market has seen a dramatic shift towards using social software platforms to transform how a company’s employees, partners and customers connect and collaborate. Platforms like CubeTree are helping companies create connections between employees in unprecedented ways, enable real-time conversations within these employee networks, and enrich conversations with highly relevant content from end users and business systems.

Located in Redwood City, CA

Delphix turns database infrastructure into software that operates in a fraction of the space, while preserving full functionality and performance. With database virtualization, enterprises can reduce complex data refreshes and provisioning tasks from 10 days to 10 seconds and shrink 10 TB into 1 TB. The Delphix team has developed products that have generated billions in revenue, including Oracle RAC, used in over 20% of Oracle deployments, and EMC Avamar, which pioneered data de-duplication, on pace for over a billion in lifetime revenue in 2011. Our board of directors includes founding board members for Oracle, Business Objects, Informatica, Riverbed, and Avamar.

Located in Palo Alto, CA

Fonolo enables large companies to rapidly improve the experience of customers contacting their call centers. By adding Fonolo\'s intelligent caller interface to their website or mobile application, companies remove the annoyances of phone menu navigation, waiting on hold and data entry. Callers simply click or tap the option they want, and Fonolo’s deep dialing technology connects them directly to the right agent. The company\'s award-winning visual navigation service has successfully demonstrated end-user demand and scalability by connecting many thousands of callers since its launch. Fonolo requires no changes to existing infrastructure, enabling companies to quickly leverage the web and the smart phone to optimize customer satisfaction and call center investments.

Located in Toronto, Canada

GoodData is the first business intelligence company born in the cloud. Our Cloud BI Platform encourages companies to take an agile approach to customer analytics by making it easy to access and analyze the data that defines customer relationships across marketing, selling and servicing. It may sound complex, but unlike a lot of business intelligence, GoodData is free to start, simple to use, and costs a lot less than you think.

Located in San Francisco, CA

Layerboom is in the business of cloud creation and management. We are the Barracuda Networks of Virtualization, offering the industry's first virtualization appliance. Enterprises can now implement their cloud strategy in a day, not months. Our appliance, called the "BoomBox" enables you to transform your existing servers into a cloud environment. Combine that with our web based management interface and API means businesses can now choose a complete, easy and affordable cloud strategy.
 
Located in Vancouver, Canada

Makara deploys and manages Java and PHP applications on public or private clouds. On the cloud of their choice, business application developers can launch more online services faster.  Without requiring changes to their applications, Makara helps businesses respond rapidly to their customers demand for personalization and access. With a self-service solution for application deployment, business applications teams do more with less. Through upgrades, scaling, monitoring, provisioning test environments and troubleshooting, Makara manages applications so developers are free to innovate for their customers.

Located in Redwood City, CA

MaxiScale’s cloud-scale file serving and storage platform is a breakthrough for Internet data centers and storage infrastructure that fundamentally changes the economics of deploying Web-scale applications. The FLEX Software Platform addresses the unpredictable and expanding data requirements facing companies that deliver Internet applications via public and private clouds. It enables customers to reduce capital and operational costs while improving performance by an order of magnitude over competing solutions. MaxiScale’s innovative Peer Set™ architecture and single disk I/O small file operations allow data centers to linearly scale a single namespace to hundreds of petabytes, eliminate forklift upgrades and reduce disk spindle counts by a factor of 10.

Located in Sunnyvale, CA

As the world of data explodes in both volume and complexity, many applications and databases have increasing difficulties to handle sophisticated queries with high performance. Neo Technology is a Swedish company building the next generation of databases for the next generation of data. Based in the vibrant Southern Sweden city of Malmö and in the San Francisco Bay Area, Neo Technology is leading the emerging category of Graph Databases with the Neo4j open source project. As one of the most mature NOSQL databases in the world, Neo4j has been in 24/7 production since 2003 and is successfully deployed in diverse sectors.

Located in Malmö, Sweden

NorthScale is a stealth-mode software and services startup based in Mountain View, California. Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms, the company is developing solutions to some of the most challenging problems faced by organizations building and operating Web applications. The company was founded by core contributors to leading open source scale-out data projects, including memcached and related technologies, and our team includes other key members of these project communities. We are architects, developers and administrators with deep experience building, using and scaling open source-based Web application infrastructure.
 
Located in Mountain View, CA

Today's enterprise IT infrastructures are growing in size and complexity accelerated by virtualization and cloud computing.  Reductive Labs is the company behind Puppet, the leading open source datacenter automation solution. Puppet enables staff to manage their IT infrastructure through a model–driven architecture, automating the configuration of computing devices through a simple cross-platform interface. Puppet insulates IT staff from differences between platforms making IT more secure, efficient, and scalable. Puppet is broadly deployed at 1,000's of companies world-wide such as Google, the NYSE-Euronext, Twitter, Digg, Yelp, Juniper and JPMorgan Chase.

Located in Portland, OR

RiverMuse is the first open source MoM (Manager of Managers) platform for IT Operations Management that uniquely enables IT organizations to maintain the health of their increasingly complex and adaptive environments so they can optimize service levels, drive down costs, and respond more nimbly to the changing needs of the business. RiverMuse’s open source model allows the global community of IT professionals to effectively collaborate in order to fulfill evolving market requirements with new software economics. The company was founded by the serial entrepreneurs who founded Micromuse and RiverSoft and whose innovations assure a majority of all public and private Internet infrastructures in use today.

Located in Redwood City, CA

SaaSure was started on the premise that businesses need an easier, more cost-effective way to manage their web applications. With the proliferation of online, subscription-based web applications like Salesforce.com and Google Apps, our innovative products turn your various web applications into an intelligent, integrated Cloud Area Network.

Located in San Francisco, CA

SendGrid is an email service that solves the problems faced by companies delivering email. These problems include email deliverability, scalability, metrics, and the time consuming tasks to implement email features such as unsubscribe links, anti-spam regulations, and corporate branding.

Located in Broomfield, CO

Sones is a ground breaking database technology targeted at resolving the increasing challenge of unstructured data – i.e images, videos, user and profile data. Currently financed by Series A funding from T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom, sones is a highly promising software start-up that aims to revolutionise the way the world discovers, stores and shares data.. This cell based cross-linking storage concept is a paradigm shift for the database industry, setting a new standard in regard to scalability and performance in data management.

Located in Erfurt, Germany

Cloudkick is system to manage cloud servers, such as Amazon's EC2.  Cloudkick provides an easy to use monitoring/alerting solution to support your production infrastructure on the cloud.  Cloudkick also gives you a window into your cloud deployment by providing detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing.  Cloudkick's mission is to make cloud servers easy to use, where ever the customer needs them. Since launching on March 16th, Cloudkick has 1200 registered users and 6000 registered servers.

Located in San Jose, CA

New Relic, Inc. offers a SaaS solution called RPM, a web application performance management solution that enables developers to monitor application performance and quickly detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems in real time. New Relic has more than 3500 customers using RPM to monitor and manage production Java and Ruby on Rails applications. RPM Lite is a free, fully supported version for unlimited use. Installation and setup take less than 2 minutes. Investors include Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures.

Located in San Francisco, CA