Lightspeed Venture Partners

Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations.

Hubilo is a comprehensive virtual and hybrid event platform that enhances the event experience by facilitating interactive and engaging online gatherings. The platform is designed for event planners and organizations worldwide, enabling them to reimagine their events and effectively navigate the evolving event landscape. Hubilo allows clients to create, promote, manage, and analyze events from a single platform, fostering meaningful connections among attendees through features like breakout sessions. With a focus on delivering a deeply branded experience, Hubilo is supported by a dedicated customer success team that ensures the flawless execution of events, making it a reliable choice for organizations looking to host impactful virtual and hybrid experiences.

Hubilo is a comprehensive virtual and hybrid event platform that enhances the event experience by facilitating interactive and engaging online gatherings. The platform is designed for event planners and organizations worldwide, enabling them to reimagine their events and effectively navigate the evolving event landscape. Hubilo allows clients to create, promote, manage, and analyze events from a single platform, fostering meaningful connections among attendees through features like breakout sessions. With a focus on delivering a deeply branded experience, Hubilo is supported by a dedicated customer success team that ensures the flawless execution of events, making it a reliable choice for organizations looking to host impactful virtual and hybrid experiences.

Hubilo is a comprehensive virtual and hybrid event platform that enhances the event experience by facilitating interactive and engaging online gatherings. The platform is designed for event planners and organizations worldwide, enabling them to reimagine their events and effectively navigate the evolving event landscape. Hubilo allows clients to create, promote, manage, and analyze events from a single platform, fostering meaningful connections among attendees through features like breakout sessions. With a focus on delivering a deeply branded experience, Hubilo is supported by a dedicated customer success team that ensures the flawless execution of events, making it a reliable choice for organizations looking to host impactful virtual and hybrid experiences.

StacksWare is the premier agentless software asset management (SAM) solution for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

Affirmed Networks, Inc. specializes in mobile content cloud solutions, offering a range of services aimed at enhancing mobile data networks for customers globally. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, the company provides virtualization and network functions that include a cloud-based virtual mobile network, service creation tools, and critical data communication services for the telecommunications sector. Its key offerings include the Affirmed Service Automation Platform, which helps mobile operators reduce time-to-market and operational costs for new services, as well as the Affirmed UnityCloud 5G core, a cloud-native solution designed to facilitate the deployment of 5G networks. By integrating advanced technologies like network slicing and optimized IoT access, Affirmed Networks enables communication service providers to scale efficiently while minimizing capital and operational expenditures associated with complex network infrastructures.

PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

The unstoppable forces of mobile and cloud are transforming IT and making the Internet the new WAN. Pertino enables enterprises to build and manage private cloud networks that overlay the public Internet and extend visibility, security and control to workforces and workloads everywhere. The Pertino Cloud Network Engine platform powers the company's network-as-a-service offering—combining the power and persuasiveness of the cloud with network virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Service Virtualization (NSV). Pertino is an entirely new way to WAN that lets IT organizations build and manage private virtual networks over the Internet, securely connecting people and resources anywhere. IT admins can add virtual network services from the AppScape app store to extend the security, visibility and control of their Pertino cloud networks with just a few clicks. Today, over 5,000 customers have used Pertino's Cloud Network Engine to build cloud networks spanning over 70 countries around the world, from Iceland to Australia. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Pertino is a venture-backed company funded by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Lightspeed Venture Partners and JAFCO Ventures, with private investments from a number of network industry luminaries.

Affirmed Networks, Inc. specializes in mobile content cloud solutions, offering a range of services aimed at enhancing mobile data networks for customers globally. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, the company provides virtualization and network functions that include a cloud-based virtual mobile network, service creation tools, and critical data communication services for the telecommunications sector. Its key offerings include the Affirmed Service Automation Platform, which helps mobile operators reduce time-to-market and operational costs for new services, as well as the Affirmed UnityCloud 5G core, a cloud-native solution designed to facilitate the deployment of 5G networks. By integrating advanced technologies like network slicing and optimized IoT access, Affirmed Networks enables communication service providers to scale efficiently while minimizing capital and operational expenditures associated with complex network infrastructures.

Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

The unstoppable forces of mobile and cloud are transforming IT and making the Internet the new WAN. Pertino enables enterprises to build and manage private cloud networks that overlay the public Internet and extend visibility, security and control to workforces and workloads everywhere. The Pertino Cloud Network Engine platform powers the company's network-as-a-service offering—combining the power and persuasiveness of the cloud with network virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Service Virtualization (NSV). Pertino is an entirely new way to WAN that lets IT organizations build and manage private virtual networks over the Internet, securely connecting people and resources anywhere. IT admins can add virtual network services from the AppScape app store to extend the security, visibility and control of their Pertino cloud networks with just a few clicks. Today, over 5,000 customers have used Pertino's Cloud Network Engine to build cloud networks spanning over 70 countries around the world, from Iceland to Australia. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Pertino is a venture-backed company funded by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Lightspeed Venture Partners and JAFCO Ventures, with private investments from a number of network industry luminaries.

PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.

Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

Embrane is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in the design and development of solutions for the delivery and management of network services in data centers. Founded in 2009, Embrane focuses on simplifying the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for both service providers and enterprise customers. The company offers a range of application-centric virtual network services, including firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, and SSL offload engines, aimed at enhancing network efficiency and flexibility.

IO Turbine, Inc. is an early-stage company based in San Jose, California, focused on developing innovative data storage software. The company aims to resolve input/output bottleneck issues by implementing Flash technology directly within VMware server environments. Through its software solution, IO Turbine enhances data processing efficiency, making it a valuable resource for organizations looking to optimize their storage systems and improve overall performance.

Nicira Networks is focused on transforming data center infrastructure for cloud computing through innovative software solutions that virtualize networking. Founded by experts in networking research from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, the company specializes in developing a Network Hypervisor, which allows for the logical reproduction of network services. This service enables the management and control of virtual networks, facilitating more flexible and scalable data centers. Nicira Networks is led by experienced entrepreneurs in the fields of networking, security, and virtualization, positioning the company as a leader in the shift toward cloud-based infrastructure.

Aprius is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in developing rack I/O gateway systems designed for enterprise data centers. Their innovative solutions focus on intelligent I/O virtualization and resource sharing, enhancing operational efficiency. Aprius offers high-bandwidth server interconnect systems, including an I/O Gateway that facilitates the virtualization of PCI Express resources. This capability enables resources to be provisioned, managed, moved, consolidated, and virtualized as a unified pool. Additionally, the company provides Computational Acceleration systems that create a resource pool of PCI Express-based compute acceleration cards, allowing allocation to server hosts within a cluster.

ScaleMP, Inc. specializes in virtualization solutions tailored for high-end computing. The company's flagship product, the vSMP Foundation, allows users to transform multiple standard x86 servers into a single virtual high-end system. This innovative approach enables organizations to optimize resource utilization through shared and distributed-memory workloads. ScaleMP also offers various modes, including Memory Expansion for applications requiring significant memory capacity and System Expansion for compute-intensive tasks. Its solutions cater to diverse sectors such as life sciences, manufacturing, higher education, energy discovery, and financial services, enhancing performance while reducing costs. Founded in 2003 and based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, ScaleMP delivers its products through channel partners and regional sellers both domestically and internationally.

Aprius is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in developing rack I/O gateway systems designed for enterprise data centers. Their innovative solutions focus on intelligent I/O virtualization and resource sharing, enhancing operational efficiency. Aprius offers high-bandwidth server interconnect systems, including an I/O Gateway that facilitates the virtualization of PCI Express resources. This capability enables resources to be provisioned, managed, moved, consolidated, and virtualized as a unified pool. Additionally, the company provides Computational Acceleration systems that create a resource pool of PCI Express-based compute acceleration cards, allowing allocation to server hosts within a cluster.

Calista Technologies does desktop virtualization and focuses on low user cost and normal desktop feel.

Aprius is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in developing rack I/O gateway systems designed for enterprise data centers. Their innovative solutions focus on intelligent I/O virtualization and resource sharing, enhancing operational efficiency. Aprius offers high-bandwidth server interconnect systems, including an I/O Gateway that facilitates the virtualization of PCI Express resources. This capability enables resources to be provisioned, managed, moved, consolidated, and virtualized as a unified pool. Additionally, the company provides Computational Acceleration systems that create a resource pool of PCI Express-based compute acceleration cards, allowing allocation to server hosts within a cluster.

Marathon Technologies Corporation specializes in fault-tolerant and disaster recovery software solutions for both physical and virtual servers. The company’s product lineup includes everRun VM, which safeguards against outages and data loss in Citrix virtual server environments, as well as everRun HA and everRun FT, designed to provide component-level and system-level fault tolerance for Windows server applications, respectively. Additionally, Marathon Technologies offers everRun SplitSite, which ensures geographic fault tolerance to mitigate risks from localized disasters, and everRun CDP & DR, a disaster recovery planning tool that captures and replicates application data to guard against catastrophic failures. Beyond its software offerings, the company also provides consulting, training, and technical support services. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts, Marathon Technologies serves a diverse clientele, including broadcast networks, corporate organizations, pharmaceutical companies, casino properties, and midsized businesses.