Western Digital Capital

Developer of a transaction programming language designed to track and optimize bitcoin transactions. The company's programming language is based on proofs of time and storage, harnesses cheap and abundant unused storage space on hard drives and uses proofs of work to verify the blockchain, enabling bitcoin miners and traditional financial institutions to purchase and deploy a cryptocurrency.

Provider of cloud-based storage services intended to serve enterprises.

Developer of a data storage device designed to store data in DNA formats.

Qumulo is the leader in universal-scale file storage. Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) gives data-intensive businesses the freedom to store, manage and access file-based data in the data center and on the cloud, at petabyte and global scale. Founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, Qumulo serves the modern file storage and management needs of Global 2000 customers.

ScyllaDB is an open source NoSQL database that enables developers to build mission critical applications at light speed throughput and ultra low latency. Leveraging a low latency and C++ powered drop-in Apache Cassandra replacement, ScyllaDB offers a consistent, high throughput, highly available, and highly scalable NoSQL database, and is trusted by companies such as IBM, AppNexus, Investing.com, mParticle, and many others.

Excelero enables enterprises and service providers to design scale-out storage infrastructures leveraging standard servers and high-performance flash storage. Founded in 2014, the company has designed a software-defined block storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications. With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers can build distributed, high-performance server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.

WekaIO helps companies manage, scale and futureproof their data center so they can solve real problems that impact the world. WekaIO Matrix™, the world’s fastest shared parallel file system and WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering simplicity, scale, and the best performance density per U, for a fraction of the cost. In the cloud or on-premises, WekaIO’s NVMe-native high-performance software-defined storage solution removes the barriers between the data and the compute layer, thus accelerating artificial intelligence, machine learning, genomics, research, and analytics workloads.

Gobbler is the cloud collaboration platform for music creatives. Gobbler allows creatives to efficiently collaborate on, manage, and organize their audio projects so that they can focus on their creative work. Gobbler works with all major DAW music software, freeing musicians and producers to focus on their music, not their files. The Gobbler community includes over 150,000 users in 120 countries, and includes some of the biggest names in music, such as Dr. Luke, John Legend, Jared Leto, and Ryan Tedder. Founded by people who love music and technology, Gobbler pulls expertise from companies such as Google, Apple, Adobe, and Avid. Its world-class technology team has spent the last decade developing best-selling creative software and super-scaled cloud architectures.

Magisto is the world’s most popular smart video storytelling application that uses Emotion Sense Technology, a patented story detection that automatically analyzes and edits raw video footage and photos into movies, making video storytelling for consumers and businesses easy to share. Magisto is available for iOS, Android, PC and the Web.

Blade was created in 2015 to design and develop the PC of the future, with a simple vision: free users from the constraints of physical hardware by giving them access to a powerful, cloud-based computer. Blade’s first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PC based entirely in the Cloud. This groundbreaking service provides access to a fully featured high-end Windows 10 computer, via any internet-enabled device, including a laptop, tablet and smartphone. Today, Shadow targets one of the most demanding types of PC users: gamers. Blade’s goal is to meet gamers’ expectations as proof that its technology can be adapted to virtually every PC need and usage.

Esperanto develops high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions based on the open standard RISC-V ISA. We are a founding member of the RISC-V Foundation and have a passionate belief in both open instruction sets and high performance computing solutions. With many decades of processor design and architecture experience among our founding team members, we see that the changing computing workloads of the Machine Learning era mandate a new clean sheet solution that doesn't carry the baggage of existing legacy architectures.