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 web application that helps you find your important messages so you can get away from your inbox. When there’s an urgent email, AwayFind will call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.  With AwayFind, you can travel without checking your email...or focus on real work at the office. AwayFind does not require any installation or learning curve, and it supports all major email platforms including Google Apps/Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo Mail, and IMAP.

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

Crowdcast is a SaaS crowd forecasting solution. We enable companies to understand the true state of their business by tapping the wisdom of their employees and partners. For the participants, it's like a game, where they are rewarded for accurately forecasting key events and metrics. For the enterprise, we present a rich source of unbiased insight about what is most likely to happen. With Crowdcast, leaders make better decisions.

Located in San Francisco, CA

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

GenieDB is a revolutionary ‘layered database technology’ that is changing the way we think about scaling the web. GenieDB provides full replication and ‘immediate consistency’ without breaking the laws of physics. It is an engineering solution to one of the oldest problems in computer science. Their innovations are capturing global interest from serious sites looking to scale to forward thinking web service providers, technology integrators and academics alike. GenieDB’s product vision is to make their next-generation NoSQL technology easily accessible through SQL interfaces, providing the best of both SQL and NoSQL worlds.

Located in London, United Kingdom

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

Indicee provides a faster way to create reports for people who are frustrated with cutting and pasting data into spreadsheets. Users with no IT expertise can combine data and set up reports in minutes by accessing Indicee's online service. Others can then easily share and collaborate on the reports using the integrated social framework. With Indicee's online service, there's no software or hardware to install. And because Indicee can combine and make sense of data from multiple sources, there's no lengthy data warehousing project required either. Indicee is fast and highly accessible – it’s the next generation in reporting from the founding team of Crystal Decisions - the creators of today's top business analysis tool.

Located in Vancouver, Canada

Kinamik is a venture-backed software company focused on data integrity. Our mission is to provide an easy answer to a tough question: how do I know the digital records I am looking at are correct? Spun out of university research in late 2005, Kinamik started its activities after recognizing the growing risk of data manipulation, and the absence of adequate solutions for assuring data integrity. Kinamik's innovative solution for this enormous market need, has already had one patent issued, and several more have been filled. Kinamik’s product and vision have also won several prestigious international technology prizes.

Located in Barcelona, Spain

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, Inc., the leading provider of elastic data infrastructure software, provides products that enable customers to dramatically lower costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their web applications. NorthScale is in production behind some of the world's busiest web applications: it is the primary database for the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga; and it provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea's largest web application operator with nearly 70 million unique users. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., NorthScale is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
 
Located in Mountain View, CA

Today's enterprise IT infrastructures are growing in size and complexity accelerated by virtualization and cloud computing. Puppet 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

Cloud9 Analytics is the global leader in on-demand performance management applications delivered directly to line-of-business managers. The Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite enables sales management and operations to more effectively manage their sales pipeline and forecast. The result is a dramatic increase in forecast accuracy, increased win rates and higher CRM adoption.  Powered by patent-pending row-versioning database technology, Cloud9's applications deliver value in just 24 hours and require zero installation, zero maintenance and zero IT support. Cloud9's customers include Covad Communications, Data Domain, Siemens, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, and Thomson Reuters. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California.  For more information, please visit www.cloud9analytics.com

Located in Redwood City, CA

Cloudkick is a management tool and portability layer for cloud based infrastructure. Cloudkick provides a common set of tools, such as performance trending and fault detection, that work no matter what cloud provider you choose. This means companies can run their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc, and never have to worry about what tools are used to manage their infrastructure. Additionally, with Hybrid Cloudkick, companies can to manage their existing non-cloud infrastructure as if it was cloud based. This gives the administrator a unified set of management tools and APIs for cloud and dedicated servers.

Located in San Jose, CA

Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform as a service focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. The San Francisco, CA-based company is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers worldwide have deployed over 53,000 applications to Heroku. For more information, please visit http://heroku.com and http://blog.heroku.com or follow Heroku on Twitter at http://twitter.com/heroku.

Located in San Francisco, 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

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, RightScale offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. With RightScale, you can more easily deploy and manage business-critical applications on the cloud with new levels of automation, control, and portability. To date, thousands of deployments and over 1,000,000 servers have been launched on RightScale for leading companies such as Animoto, Playfish, Sling Media and TC3.

Located in Santa Barbara, CA