Firebrand provides PR, content and digital marketing for tech and health tech startups, primarily in San Francisco and the Bay Area. We have experience across a wide range of sectors including security, analytics, enterprise software/cloud, AI, networking, telecom, mobile and digital entertainment. In healthcare, we’re focused on digital health, specifically neurotech, connected devices and digital therapeutics.
Avi Networks delivers Multi-Cloud Application Services including a Software Load Balancer, Intelligent Web Application Firewall, and Universal Service Mesh. The Avi Vantage Platform ensures a fast, scalable, and secure application experience – delivered with SaaS or customer-managed options. Customers including 25% of Fortune 50 companies enjoy consistency across data centers and clouds, 90% faster provisioning, and 50% lower total cost of ownership. Avi is backed by leading investors including Cisco Investments, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures.
As the world’s first digital medicine company, Big Health automates behavioral medicine programs, thereby making them scalable, accessible and consistent. Big Health’s first product, Sleepio, is a digital sleep improvement program featuring Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, clinically proven to help overcome even long-term poor sleep – without pills or potions. Sleepio is currently available to over 800,000 employees as a health & wellness benefit via their employer.
EMOTIV is a bioinformatics company advancing understanding of the human brain using electroencephalography (EEG). Its mission is to empower individuals to understand their own brain and accelerate brain research globally. Founded in 2011 by tech entrepreneurs Tan Le (CEO) and Dr. Geoff Mackellar (CTO) the company is headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A. with facilities in Sydney, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.
Everlaw is a legal tech company backed by Andreessen Horowitz that applies modern design principles and computer science advances to challenges in the legal industry. The company’s litigation platform replaces antiquated tools to help major law firms and government agencies win in court.
High Fidelity provides a social virtual reality platform for users to create and deploy 3D virtual worlds, and explore and interact together in them. The software is open source, and supports the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. High Fidelity was founded in April 2013 by Second Life founder and former CEO Philip Rosedale. It is backed by Breyer Capital, Google Ventures, IDG Capital, True Ventures and Vulcan Capital.
Mattermost is an enterprise messaging workspace for teams to collaborate securely and effectively. Our scalable private-cloud solution provides a centralized hub for intra-company communications increasing agility, efficiency and innovation. Mattermost’s adaptable, open source platform unifies desktop and mobile messaging, integrating with vital applications to enhance personal productivity, team alignment and organizational competitiveness.
Nexient is the largest domestic pure-play technology services provider, with core strength in Agile software development and transformation at scale. With four delivery centers in the US, it architects and builds solutions that combine Agile expertise with Silicon Valley innovation to help clients be more responsive to their market.
Nuheara is an innovative audio wearables company that has developed proprietary and multi-functional intelligent hearing technology that augments a person’s hearing and facilitates cable free connection to smart devices. It is based in Perth, Australia and has offices in San Francisco and New York, USA. Nuheara was the first wearables technology company to be listed on the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange).
OmniSci (formerly MapD) is the creator of the extreme analytics platform, used in business and government to find insights in big data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. The platform, available in cloud, open source, and enterprise versions, harnesses the massive parallel computing of GPUs for breakthrough performance at scale. OmniSci is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.
PubNub is a global Data Stream Network company that makes it easy to develop and deploy scalable, secure, realtime mobile, web and IoT applications. More than 150,000 developers and 2,000 businesses including Adobe, Logitech, eBay and Samsung trust PubNub to deliver trillions of messages per month, ranging from chat to presence to application alerts to streams of sensor data. PubNub reaches over 330 million devices per month with a 99.999% SLA and robust security and compliance certifications including GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2. It has received nearly $50M in venture funding from investors such as Cisco Investments, Ericsson, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Relay Ventures.
Scylla is the real-time big data database. Fully compatible with Apache Cassandra, Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity as much as 10X that of Cassandra. AdGear, AppNexus, CERN, Comcast, Grab, IBM Compose, Intel, Investing.com, MediaMath, Ola Cabs, Samsung, SAS, and many more leading companies have adopted Scylla to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs. Scylla is available in Open Source, Enterprise and Cloud editions. ScyllaDB was founded by the team responsible for the KVM hypervisor and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Magma Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, TLV Partners, Western Digital Capital, and Wing Venture Capital.
Tascent develops and deploys biometric identity products and solutions that excel in challenging real-world environments. Each year, tens of millions of people rely on Tascent’s biometric technologies for secure, seamless travel, public safety, and commerce. Founded in 2015, Tascent has a strong heritage in iris recognition and multimodal high-throughput and mobile biometrics stemming from its acquisition of AOptix Technologies’ Identity Solutions business unit. Tascent is based in Silicon Valley, CA and supports customers and partners globally with offices in Washington DC, Dubai and Singapore.
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