Investors
Invested in SolidFire
New Enterprise
Associates (NEA): Is a leading venture capital firm
focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new
enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work
and play. Practicing classic venture capital for over 25 years, NEA
focuses on early stage investments, playing an active role in
assisting management to build companies of lasting value. With $6
billion under management, NEA's experienced management team has
invested in over 500 companies, of which more than 145 have gone
public and more than 185 have been acquired.
Valhalla Partners: Is a trusted
partner and advisor to technology entrepreneurs in their quest to
build world-class companies. Based in Vienna, Virginia, the firm's
management team has made more than 120 investments over the past 20
years and produced almost $1 billion of investment proceeds.
Valhalla prefers investments where the mission of the company is to
innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new
and existing markets. Investments by Valhalla's team include
Advertising.com, BDMetrics, CareerBuilder.com, Clarify,
EnterpriseDB, Epicor, Exchange Solutions, JumpTap, LeftHand
Networks, Mobius, NextLink, Nirvanix, Progress Software, Proxicom,
RealOps, Register.com, Riverbed Technologies, SafeNet, SEPATON,
ServiceBench, Trilogy, and webMethods. Valhalla Partners brings the
full power and network of its experienced team to every investment
it makes, helping companies grow faster and smarter regardless of
size or maturity.
Novak Biddle Venture Partners: Was
established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to
the management of young, information technology companies. NBVP is
backed by a number of the country's most prestigious limited
partners, and has over $580 million under management. We seek
investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars,
experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable
value. While we believe that the vast majority of business plans we
receive have many of the makings of viable companies, we are
looking for additional key features in the businesses in which we
invest.
INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS / ADVISORS
Frank Slootman: Frank brings
25 years of experience as an enterprise software entrepreneur and
executive to ServiceNow. As the CEO of Data Domain, Frank blazed
new trails creating a high-growth enterprise storage company that
went public on NASDAQ in 2007. After Data Domain was acquired in
2009 by EMC, Frank went on to serve for 18 months as a division
executive at EMC. Prior to joining Data Domain in 2003, Frank was
senior vice president of product operations at Borland Software
where he ran the company's engineering and product management
function. Frank also spent seven years at Compuware as general
manager of UNIFACE in Amsterdam and general manager of the
EcoSystems division in Campbell, Calif. He started his career at
Burroughs Corporation in Detroit and holds undergraduate and
graduate degrees from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus
University Rotterdam in his native Holland. Currently, Frank also
serves as a venture partner with Greylock Partners and in an
advisory role with the Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) division of
EMC.
David Schneider: David has
more than 20 years of experience in sales and sales management.
Prior to joining ServiceNow, he was an Executive in Residence at
Greylock and NEA (New Enterprise Associates). Prior to this
David was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at EMC BRS
Division leading a $2 billion business. Before EMC acquired Data
Domain, David served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
where he developed and executed the global sales strategy and
oversaw all sales, pre-sales and professional services. Prior to
Data Domain, David was with TogetherSoft Corporation (later
acquired by Borland Software Corporation) where he was Vice
President of Western United States Sales. From 1999 to 2002, Mr.
Schneider served as Western Regional Manager of Iona Technologies,
Inc. David graduated from the University of California, Irvine.
Greg
Papadopoulos: With more than twenty years'
experience in the technology industry, Greg Papadopoulos has held
several executive positions, most recently serving as Chief
Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, where he directed the
company's $2B R&D portfolio. Along with having been a
practicing engineer with HP and Honeywell, Greg has also help found
a number of his own companies, from video conferencing (PictureTel)
to computational fluid dynamics (Exa Corporation). Greg was also an
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at MIT, where he conducted research in scalable systems,
multithreaded/data flow processor architecture, functional and
declarative languages, and fault-tolerant computing. He holds a
bachelor's degree in systems science from the University of
California at San Diego, as well as master's and doctoral degrees
in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.