Participating Company Profiles - Day Two
Identity-as-a-service. A universal identity platform designed to reduce the complexity and cost of integrating and maintaining authentication and authorization for enterprise applica- tions, APIs and IoT devices.
10900 NE 8th St., Suite 700 Bellevue , WA 98004
Company Representative: Jon Gelsey, Chief Executive Officer
Jon Gelsey is CEO of Auth0. He previously spent 13 years in various M&A, investment and strategy roles at Microsoft and Intel. Jon started his career as a supercomputer designer at Convex Computer Corporation (acquired by HP).
Ayla Networks is the number one platform for manufacturers, providing the industry’s first Agile IoT Platform, accelerating the development, support, and ongoing enhancements of connected products for IoT. Ayla’s end-to-end software runs across devices, the cloud, and applications to provide secure connectivity, data analytics, and feature-rich user experiences for our customers as well as the end consumer. Offered as a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Ayla’s flexibility and modularity enables rapid changes to be made to any point of the platform at any time. Ayla is an expert in building enterprise-class cloud based software, ena- bling some of the largest companies in the world to turn everyday home controls, HVAC, appliances, lighting, and other devices into intelligent systems that are managed by the cloud and accessible anywhere by great mobile and web applications.
4250 Burton Drive, Ste 100 Santa Clara , CA 95054
Company Representative: Dave Friedman, Chief Executive Officer
David Friedman is the CEO and co-founder of Ayla Networks, a leading end-to- end cloud platform for the Internet of Things. Prior to founding Ayla Networks, David served as Vice President, business development for ZeroG Wireless, a company providing low-power Wi-Fi products to the embedded space. In that role, David forged partnerships with leading micro-controller companies, and built rela- tionships with OEMs serving a variety of markets including health, fitness, home controls and smart energy. Prior to ZeroG, David was an early employee at Matrix Semiconductor, serving in various sales and marketing roles before Matrix was acquired by SanDisk. David has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Colgate University; he holds five US Patents.
Backblaze offers an Internet backup application that automatically finds photos, music, docu- ments, and other irreplaceable files on the hard drive, and compresses and securely en- crypts them. The Company has built the lowest-cost cloud storage platform and offers cloud storage at just $0.005/GB/mo and unlimited cloud backup for just $5/month/computer. The Company stores over 250 petabytes of data and has restored over 20 billion files for custom- ers. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and is based in San Mateo, California.
500 Ben Franklin Ct San Mateo , CA 94401
Company Representative: Gled Budman, Chief Executive Officer
Gleb Budman is CEO and co-founder of Backblaze. Along with his team, Gleb bootstrapped Backblaze to millions in revenue and profitability. The company won the SIIA CODiE for Best Cloud Storage and secured a spot on Deloitte's Fast 500 fastest growing technology companies as a result of its 917% five-year revenue growth. Previously, Gleb led the product teams from pre-funding through acquisition at Kendara and MailFrontier, and founded three prior companies. He received his MBA from Berkeley's Haas School, has been a speaker at events including GigaOm Structure, Massive Storage Systems and Technology, and SNIA; profiled by Inc. and Forbes; and holds 5 patents on security.
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