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****Top 24 from Group 1 move on to round 2****
Founded: 2015
CEO: Ben Marcus
What they do: They are building the “airspace services platform” to make “drones part of everyday life.”
Founded: 2012
CEO: Satyen Sangani
What they do: Provide a data catalog for collaboration.
Founded: 2011
CEO: Bob DeSteno
What they do: Offer a “managed cloud archive specifically designed for long-term archiving of low-touch and/or legal/compliance data on the Microsoft Azure platform.”
Founded: 2011
CEO: Francisco J. Martin
What they do: Offer a machine learning platform that “can enable developers and analysts to leverage machine learning to transform their data into actionable insights.”
Founded: 2011
CEO: Richard Sexton
What they do: Provide a cloud-based IT ops management solution for vSphere.
Founded: 2014
CEO: Petko Plachkov
What they do: Provide a “platform to help commuters save money on travel.”
Founded: 2013
CEO: Bruce Gregory
What they do: Develop appliances that protect against hyper-scale volumetric DDoS attacks.
Founded: 2014
CEO: Jim Patterson
What they do: Provide a platform for delivering medical marijuana products in 20-30 minutes.
Founded: 2011
CEO: SriSatish Ambati
What they do: Provide an open-source machine learning platform that “makes it easy to deploy smart applications and take them into production.”
Founded: 2014
CEO: Eran Barak
What they do: They “automatically investigates every cyber alert from any detection system, letting scarce security staff focus on more sophisticated threats.”
Founded: 2014
CEO: Ofer Israeli
What they do: Provide agent-less cybersecurity deception technology that “detects, tracks, and contains targeted attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats in its early stages and without disruption to business.”
Founded: 2014
CEO: Roi Abutbul
What they do: Provide endpoint protection of Active Directory
Founded: 2015
CEO: Fred White
What they do: “We make 911 work the way you think it already does.”
Founded: 2012
CEO: Evan Liang
What they do: Provide lead-management software.
Founded: 2015
CEO: Han Jin
What they do: They have developed a low-cost “dual-lens camera with 4K video for each eye that can capture and livestream “in true 180-degree 3D virtual reality.”
Founded: 2016
CEO: Alesiso Mauro
What they do: Provide “a solution that simplifies the authentication interface on mobile application removing the needs of password.”
Founded: 2016
CEO: Mohamoud Jibrell
What they do: They’ve developed “cloud-based cyber-security software that gives you a hacker’s view of your attack surface and prioritizes vulnerabilities based on risk.”
Founded: 2016
CEO: Matt Schlicht
What they do: Provide a platform to build chatbots for Facebook Messenger.
Founded: 2015
CEO: Ben Volkow
What they do: Provide a “central marketplace where car-generated data parameters are packaged into data bundles and offered to the various service provides, providing OEMs with new recurring revenue streams from the collected car data.”
Founded: 2015
CEO: Jay Chapel
What they do: Automate cloud usage and cost optimization.
Founded: 2010
CEO: Roy Leban
What they do: “We’ve built, roughly, ‘Kindle for puzzles.’”
Founded: 2013
CEO: Jack Shannon
What they do: They’re building an “ad-exchange and mobile engagement solution for live events that utilizes technology to identify the best events for brands to attend to accomplish their specific goals.”
Founded: 2015
CEO: Varun Badhwar
What they do: Help organizations “manage security and compliance risks across their public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform).”
Founded: 2015
CEO: Manish Sood
What they do: Provide cloud-based data management services.
Founded: 2012
CEO: Ray Potter
What they do: They “simplify and accelerate FIPS 140-2 validation for encryption so that vendors can enter the federal market.”
Founded: 2013
CEO: John Harper
What they do: Provide “network performance enforcement” software.
Founded: 2014
CEO: Fouad ElNaggar
What they do: Their software “provides employees a quick view into the important information they need to excel at work.”
Founded: 2014
CEO: Yair Finzi
What they do: Use “behavioral biometrics for continuous authentication, strengthening transactional security, and reducing user hassle.”
Founded: 2013
CEO: Art Gilliland
What they do: Provide a “remotely managed platform that establishes a secure enclave for the enterprise’s most critical applications.”
Founded: 2010
CEO: Ami Gal
What they do: Provide a “GPU-powered analytics database designed to handle tens to hundreds of terabytes of data and beyond.”
Founded: 2016
CEO: William Butler
What they do: Offer a way to “secure all your home connected devices in one place.”
Founded: 2014
CEO: Joe Edgar
What they do: Offer rental accounting and management software that helps landlords maximize their returns on rental properties.
Founded: 2014
CEO: Michael W. Wellman
What they do: Provide open-source “cryptographic software building blocks for developers, so they can quickly and easily build and deploy secure products.”
Founded: 2011
CEO: John Ackerly
What they do: Provide software to “encrypt your most important data on the biggest platforms.”
Founded: 2016
CEO: Artem Goldman
What they do: Provide a “cross-platform bot that can do up to 80% of an immigration lawyer’s work.”
****Top 24 from Group 1 move on to round 2****
