Salil Deshpande has invested $125M over 8 years into 26 companies in software infrastructure, open source, and enterprise software, such as Typesafe (the Scala language; Akka and Play frameworks for Java), Redis Labs (the Redis NoSQL database), DataStax (the Cassandra NoSQL database), Aria Systems (ERP for recurring revenue businesses), Hazelcast (in-memory data grids for Java), Iron.io (queues and workers in the cloud), ZeroTurnaround (faster Java redeployments), MuleSoft (integration), Buddy Media (platform for Facebook and Twitter APIs), SpringSource (Java app servers), Dynatrace (Java application performance management), and Lending Club (P2P lending platform). Salil is on the Forbes Midas List in 2013 and 2014.