New Relic is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered observability platform that gives engineering teams a single place to see everything running in their software - from application code and infrastructure to logs, user experience, and AI models. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, it helped popularize application performance monitoring (APM) and later coined much of the modern 'observability' category. After going public in 2014 and being taken private in a $6.5 billion deal in 2023, New Relic now serves thousands of companies with usage-based, consumption pricing and a strong bet on AI and agentic observability.
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.
ControlUp is a digital employee experience (DEX) and autonomous endpoint management platform that helps IT teams see, score, and fix problems on every desktop, virtual session, and SaaS app before users start filing tickets. Born in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers and was named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEX Tools.
Jonathan Trevor is a Co-Founder of Observe, Inc., an AI-powered observability platform built on a streaming data lake that unifies logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster. He came to Observe from Wavefront (now VMware Tanzu Observability), where he served as Frontend Lead, and before that led frontend engineering at Shocase. Trevor holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University. Observe - co-founded with Jacob Leverich (ex-Splunk), Jon Watte (ex-Roblox), and Philip Unterbrunner (ex-Snowflake) and incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures - raised $156M in Series C funding in July 2025 before Snowflake announced its intent to acquire the company for approximately $1 billion in January 2026, its largest acquisition to date.
Theo Schlossnagle is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and investor who has spent three decades pushing the edges of distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. Founder of OmniTI (1997), Circonus (2010), and General Partner at L42 Ventures, he is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, an IEEE member, co-chair of ACM's Queue Magazine, and the author of 'Scalable Internet Architectures'. Beyond software, he runs a butcher shop in Maryland, maintains a farm retreat in West Virginia, and has left Twitter for greener (and more federated) social pastures.