LeBlanc had known members of Foundation for five years before approaching them for HotLink funding, and Leapfrog was an early investor in FastScale, the first company LeBlanc and her team founded.

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HotLink, a Silicon Valley startup that has developed a platform for heterogeneous and hybrid computing infrastructure, has the CIOs of Facebook, Clorox, Citrix Systems, BMC Software, Flextronics, and Electronic Arts on its advisory board.

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