AllianceBernstein is an international money manager with over $700B in assets under management and one of the world’s top investment research organizations. The firm’s roots in research apply to its venture capital efforts, where high levels of diligence and market knowledge are used to select only the most promising later-stage private companies in the technology, life sciences, cleantech, and digital media spaces.

Essar Telecom USA Limited is a fully owned subsidiary of Essar Global Limited (EGL) which is a diversified corporate group with businesses in the manufacturing and services sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Telecommunications, Shipping, Ports & Logistics, Mining & Mineral Resources, and Construction. EGL has a firm value of approximately USD 50 billion and employs 38,000 people worldwide.  Essar’s telecom related investments include four business segments: Telecom, telecom retail, telecom infrastructure and IT & BPO.  Essar owns India's first national chain of multi-brand and multi-service outlets in the telecom retail space called Essar Telecom Retail which currently runs over 1000 “The MobileStore” outlets. Essar Telecom Infrastructure is one of the largest independent telecom infrastructure service provisioning companies in India.

ONSET Ventures specializes in providing “venture craftsmanship”—an ideal mix of start-up, follow-on, and intellectual capital to entrepreneurs and early-stage technology ventures, to help transform world-class ideas into sustainable and valuable businesses. The firm has backed over 100 companies since 1984 and now has more than $840 million under management. Based in Menlo Park, California, ONSET focuses exclusively on information and medical technology based start-ups, and has a long history of successful ventures in each of these sectors. Visit us at http://www.onset.com.

Qualcomm is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Qualcomm Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm with a mission to accelerate and influence the growth of the wireless market via strategic investments in private companies with innovative technologies, applications and services.

Redpoint Ventures focuses on partnering with and funding innovative companies that have the potential to define, lead, and change industries. Redpoint partners have many decades of experience and success in technology investing; combined with this foundation, the firm is able to leverage a thriving network of entrepreneurs, partners, and industry experts to accelerate building market-leading companies. Redpoint (www.redpoint.com) was founded in 1999 by partners from two of the top firms in the venture capital industry and currently has over $2 billion under management. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, China.

Richmond Management is a New York investment firm with a special focus on early stage investments in the communications and technology-enabled services spaces. Its principals have enjoyed successful public exits in Salesforce.com, aQuantive, Color Kinetics, and private sales in India and China to industry leaders such as eBay. Richmond manages several other funds in global private equity and hedge fund investments. Richmond is currently investing in India, China, and Central Europe.

Founded by James D. Wolfensohn in 2005, Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C. is a private investment firm and an advisor to corporations and governments. With offices in New York, Washington D.C., London, Moscow, and New Delhi, Wolfensohn & Company provides strategic consulting advice to governments and large corporations doing business in emerging market economies. The firm also invests for its own account in private equity transactions. Prior to founding Wolfensohn & Company, Mr. Wolfensohn was President of the World Bank Group from 1995 to 2005.