Networking, communication, Telecom systems and security startups

Headquartered in North Carolina’s high-tech center, Research Triangle Park, Overture Networks has assembled a veteran team with extensive experience delivering edge solutions to carriers—experience rooted in IP, Ethernet, and TDM technologies and the specific problems metro carriers face in a hybrid TDM/packet world.

Fortify Software products protect companies from today’s greatest security risk: the software applications that run their businesses. Nearly every application deployed today contains vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause considerable loss or business interruption. This has attracted hackers, criminals, and discontented insiders who attack business applications for malice and profit. In fact, 75 percent of hacks occur at the application level (Gartner).

The 41st Parameter is revolutionizing the way businesses think about - and employ - effective Internet security. We specialize in providing expert solutions for identifying and preventing online Internet fraud for online merchants and banks. Using our advanced Internet fraud prevention solutions, we help protect online businesses against fraud threats with expertise and technology that can identify legitimate versus suspect devices with unprecedented accuracy.

Peermeta is an exciting new venture backed startup founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record of successful exits. The team brings together a diverse set of expertise from such companies as ArrowPoint, Cisco, IBM, Airvana, Nokia, Tatara Systems, Avid Technology and Sycamore Networks. The company was founded in January 2007 and is backed by venture capital firms Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners.

ArcSight is a leading provider of security and compliance management solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate business risk for enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies. Designed with the needs of highly complex, geographically dispersed and heterogeneous business and technology infrastructures in mind, ArcSight provides the industry’s only vendor-neutral solution for intelligent identification, prioritization and network response to external security attacks, insider threats and compliance breaches.

Bit9's application control and device control solutions provides the easiest and most effective way for IT professionals to achieve Windows desktop lockdown and business-friendly whitelisting. By centrally controlling which applications and devices can and cannot operate, Bit9 drastically reduces the volume of desktop support calls, thereby maintaining the highest levels of manageability, compliance, and security.

IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. is the leader in delivering carrier–grade messaging and multimedia solutions over IP, TDM and enterprise networks. The company’s unified communications framework brings together messaging services and rich media distribution to users across disparate networks and devices. IP Unity Glenayre offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of applications, including voicemail, unified messaging, conferencing, SMS, MMS, text to speech, speech recognition, fax, IVR voice portal, color ringback tones, prepaid billing, video portal, video conferencing, video mail and video gaming, all built using open standards based technologies such as VoiceXML.

LifeLock is the industry leader in the rapidly growing field of Identity Theft Protection. We are based in Tempe, Arizona. Our company is led by experienced and successful entrepreneurs and industry experts. We are backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the world. We serve tens of thousands of consumers in every state of the union, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Mu Security helps service providers and their diverse product suppliers build and operate higher quality, more reliable and robust networks. Customers need their IP networks to be robust, available and secure to support their mission-critical applications.

Securify delivers a continuous, real-time view of who is doing what and where on the network from the moment a user logs on, without difficult and costly integration of data from many application and network tools. Securify's unified view of what business users are actually doing across complex infrastructures ultimately enables IT operations and security teams to reduce reactive workload, re-gain control of complex projects, and reduce risk.