Vinod Mahendroo

zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric™ interposer, and manufacturing partnerships with world-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs.

NGX Bio is a platform for executing next-generation sequencing projects. We make sequencing simple by connecting our customers to the world class genomic resources helping researchers complete sequencing projects in a single transaction. We streamline the projects and make them cost-effective by sourcing the best providers with available capacity.

Flock, a Paychex company, simplifies the complexity of benefits administration and delivers a world class benefits and HR experience. Our goal is to delight our users with a simple and beautiful solution that takes the stress out of Benefits and HR tasks. We are consistently ranked #1 by clients. Find out more and say hello at www.helloflock.com or www.paychex.com

Life Science Angels (LSA) is the premier angel investing organization in the US, focused on investing exclusively in the life sciences. Since 2005, LSA has invested in 100+ companies in medical technology and biotechnology investment opportunities.

zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric™ interposer, and manufacturing partnerships with world-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs.

NGX Bio is a platform for executing next-generation sequencing projects. We make sequencing simple by connecting our customers to the world class genomic resources helping researchers complete sequencing projects in a single transaction. We streamline the projects and make them cost-effective by sourcing the best providers with available capacity.

Flock, a Paychex company, simplifies the complexity of benefits administration and delivers a world class benefits and HR experience. Our goal is to delight our users with a simple and beautiful solution that takes the stress out of Benefits and HR tasks. We are consistently ranked #1 by clients. Find out more and say hello at www.helloflock.com or www.paychex.com

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valleys oldest seed funding organization. We are a formal group of more than 150 former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies. Weve seeded over 277 companies in our history with 61 profitable M&A exits and 11 IPOs. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit. The Band meets monthly to formally consider three startups selected from among the more than 50 that are screened each month by the Band Deal Selection Process. Entrepreneurs can expect a thorough examination and, occasionally, an investment from some of Silicon Valleys most accomplished entrepreneurs.