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.
Around is video calling reimagined for the 21st century, with lean, elegant design and proprietary technology perfect for 1:1s, team syncs and on-the-fly collaborations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with outposts in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, Around is backed by leading investors including Credo Ventures, Floodgate, Initialized Capital and Naval Ravikant.
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.
Druva delivers Data Protection and Management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva is trusted worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud. Druva is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Viking Global Investors, Tenaya Capital, Riverwood Capital and Nexus Partners.
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.
Kloudio delivers data access for everyone: the data you need in the tools you love—no code required. It connects applications to any data source, on-premises or in the cloud, so you can update records, build reports and test new ideas, all from your favorite spreadsheet, without bothering IT.
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.
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.
Based in Seattle, Shujinko is building a complete cloud compliance solution to enable enterprises to construct multiple cloud environments in an automated, repeatable, and compliant manner. Shujinko makes it fast and easy to deploy, maintain, and update compliant cloud environments. Shujinko is the only software platform that is a complete solution to your IT compliance pain. From implementing security controls to helping you prepare for your audit, Shujinko solves for it all!
Ushur’s Intelligent Automation platform uniquely combines conversational AI and process automation to transform digital journeys for employees, partners and customers. Ushur believes the experiences of customers, employees and partners will be transformed when we remove friction and tedium from everyday tasks.
Using artificial intelligence and bots, Ushur’s visual, drag and drop tools automate front and back-office work across virtually any channel; text, web, voice, social, email and machine-to-machine. Working with existing backend systems, these end-user driven, intelligent automations augment your existing workforce, reduce process times from weeks to hours and elevate the customer experience.
Vivun is the creator of the world’s first software for Presales, Hero by Vivun, which transforms the way B2B tech companies go to market. Hero by Vivun unlocks the strategic potential of Presales by keeping product and sales teams aligned, improving product-market fit, accelerating deals in flight and capturing dormant sources of revenue. Vivun is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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