We present you si100 2012. This is the 15th year that si100 companies are being selected and honored! si100 is an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. The si100 not only represents the continuing rise and glory of Indian entrepreneurship in high-tech but also recognizes companies impacting the market place. A distinguished panel comprising accomplished Indian CEO's & CIO's of public companies, VC's, analysts, founders of other VC funded companies including siliconindia editorial board decided on the top 100 companies listed below. |
Top 5 Networking companies
Name | Founders | Founded | Description |
Aryaka Milpitas, CA aryaka.com |
Ajit Gupta CEO |
2008 | A cloud based WAN Optimization company solving application and network performance issues faced by the distributed enterprise. Investors- Nexus Venture Partners, Interwest Partners, Presido Partners, Trinity Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures; Fund raised: $49.5 Million |
Aspen Networks Santa Clara, CA aspen-networks.com |
Sajit Bhaskaran Chairman & CEO |
2006 | Develops and markets network appliances that integrate into a company's existing network to enhance Internet availability and application performance. |
Pronto networks pleaston, CA Prontonetworks.com |
Nandu Desai President & CEO | 2001 | A carrier-class operations support systems (OSS) that enables network operators to deploy and manage large Public WLAN networks. The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement issues. |
Exinda Boston, MA exinda.com |
Michael Sharma CEO |
2002 | A global supplier of WAN Optimisation and application acceleration products. The optimization aims to enhance the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs. Investors- Greenspring Associates, OpenView Venture Partners; Fund Raised: $18 Million |
PLUMGrid Sunnyvale CA plumgrid.com |
Awais Nemat CEO |
2011 | A network infrastructure software vendor, selling network virtualization solutions to companies building and managing data centers.PLUMgrid’s software runs on standard hardware moving packets. Investors: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, US Venture Partners; Fund Raised: $10.7 Million |