Networking, communication, Telecom systems and security startups

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.

agámi Systems is the leading provider of unified network storage solutions with integrated live file system replication. The agámi Information Server (AIS) provides dramatic benefits in performance, capacity density, power, cooling and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). AIS is the first network attached storage (NAS) solution to break the GB/second performance barrier1 and delivers 4-6x higher performance, 5x better space density, and 50% lower power & cooling demands.

The Aggregate Knowledge Pique Discovery Network is the Internet's first Discovery Network that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Pique technology harnesses the collective behavior of Internet users to drive the most relevant content and product placements on customers' web sites, across multiple network sites and through email and affiliate promotions. Pique offerings help companies improve engagement and conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.

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.

Oakley Networks was acquired by Raytheon Company in October 2007 and renamed Raytheon Oakley Systems, and integrated into the Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems division. The Raytheon Oakley platform combines network observation and threat detection with industry-leading endpoint protection that can be immediately implemented to protect product designs, customer databases, financial plans, and other critical assets.

Service providers worldwide rely on SS8 Networks® to help build unified communication services and to meet government mandated requirements for lawful traffic interception. As a long term supplier of voice messaging solutions, SS8 products can be used as stand-alone service solutions, or as an integral part of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network.

Alacritech, Inc., led by industry visionary Larry Boucher, began in 1997 to provide data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. After conceiving the idea of the SCSI interface and writing its initial specifications, Boucher conducted early work that led to the development of SCSI over Ethernet. When he envisioned the technical and cost advantages of using hardware acceleration for data delivery, he founded Alacritech with a handpicked team of engineers.