Abby Adlerman

Graftech International Holdings, Inc. manufactures carbon and graphite materials. It offers graphite electrodes, advanced carbon, and flexible graphite. The company was founded on December 8, 1988 and is headquartered in Parma, OH.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

Purple Wave, Inc. operates online assets auction services. The company specializes in sales of agriculture, construction, industrial and government assets. Purple Wave was founded by Aaron McKee and Suzy McKee in October 2000 and is headquartered in Manhattan, KS.

SA Ignite, Inc. develops and delivers software solutions that streamlines, automates and tracks. It offers MU Assistant, an enterprise platform for the automation of MU monitoring, management, reporting and attestation. The firm serves large medical groups, health systems, academic medical centers, care organizations, and EHR consultancies. The company’s MU Assistant helps medical groups to accelerate MU compliance and reduce staff burden and meaningful use audit risk by automating the meaningful use reporting and attestation process. SA Ignite was founded by Tom S. Lee in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Quivers, Inc. develops software for e-commerce solution that allows brand manufacturers to partner with their retailers for selling online. The company was founded by Jason Linker, Ruben Martin and Brant Berger in 2012 and is headquartered in Sandy, UT.

Truedata Solutions, Inc. develops mobile data platform for app publishers to publish advertisements. It provides publishers with the infrastructure to safely generate an incremental revenue stream while delivering mobile marketers the mobile data available. The firm also provides big data, mobile advertising, and data management platforms. The company was founded by Elliott Easterling in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Voyager Capital LLC (Voyager Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Enrique Godreau, William H. McAleer and Tony Audino. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm is founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP provides legal services. It offers services in education, aviation, communications, consumer and retails, corporate and securities, hospital and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Financial Technology Ventures Management Co LLC (Financial Technology Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Jim Hale, Bob Huret and Richard Garman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Lucile Salter Packard Children''s Hospital at Stanford engages in the provision of hospital services. It focuses on the obstetric and pediatric areas: brain and behavior, cancer, heart, pregnancy and newborn, pulmonary, and transplant. Its practices and services include anesthesia, cancer and blood diseases, cardiology, cardiovascular intensive care, dialysis, labor and delivery, neonatology, perinatal diagnostic center, pharmacy services, pulmonary function laboratory, radiology, rehabilitation services, social services, speech and language, and before and after surgical care. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering provides college scholarships for underrepresented minorities pursuing degrees at schools of engineering. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco provides and organizes educational, social and fitness programs. The company was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The American College of Trial Lawyers is an organization of trial lawyers dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, professionalism, ethics, and the administration of justice. The non-profit company is based in Irvine, CA. The company has foundations in the US and Canada and offers opportunities for law students to get involved. The company offers resources such as learning and resource centers, journals, and podcasts. The company also has committees and task forces that focus on mentoring, amicus briefs, and awards and competitions.

Quatrex Capital LLC provides investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Brightpoint Security, Inc. operates as a threat intelligence command platform. It delivers predictive insight and prescriptive response to protect businesses from cyber threats. The firm also enables secure community-based threat intelligence sharing to achieve the visibility and awareness of current and emerging threats across digital ecosystems and infrastructures. The company was founded by Joseph Eandi and Andreas Haugsnes in May 17, 2011 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Gainsight, Inc. engages in the provision of customer success management solutions in software-as-a-service model to enterprises. Its products include customer success, product experience, customer experience, customer data platform, and revenue optimization. The company was founded by Sreedhar Peddineni and James A. Eberlin in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Full Circle Insights, Inc. delivers marketing performance management solutions. It offers lead and response lifecycle systems, marketing performance management, analytics, metrics and automation, demand generation waterfall, funnel metrics, campaign influence and attribution. The company was founded by Dan Appleman, Andrea Wildt and Bonnie Crater in 2011 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Aligned Partners Venture Services LLC (Aligned Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Jodi Sherman Jahic and Susan Mason. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Auth0, Inc. engages in the provision of universal authentication and authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications. It serves the financial, healthcare, media, retail, and real estate industries. The company was founded by Matias Woloski and Eugenio Pace in 2013 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Segment.io, Inc. provides customer data hub. It develops data application which is related to men's fashion, book subscription, food delivery, music streaming, banking, and women's fashion. The company was founded by Ilya Volodarsky, Peter Reinhardt, Calvin French-Owen, and Taylor Ian Storm in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Onfido Ltd. engages in the provision of background checking services. It offers biometric and document verification, and authentication solutions. The firm serves the financial, marketplaces and communities, gaming, transport, and retail and commerce industries. The company was founded by Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy and Ruhul Amin in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Cloudlex, Inc. develops and operates applications to understands litigation and the needs of trial lawyers. It offers proactive matter management, firm level calendaring, document management and storage, and management reports and dashboard. The company was founded by Devendra Shrotri and Sudhir Shrotri in March 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Puloli provides Network as a Service (NaaS) for wide area wireless connectivity and enables non-Telco players to directly reach end-consumers bypassing legacy. The company was founded by Kethees Ketheeesan and Kevin Koehler and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zero Point Five Therapeutics, Inc. is a drug development company that focuses on neglected tropical diseases and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. The company is based in Baltimore, MD. The company was founded by Helen S. Pentikis, Joseph L. Amprey. Joseph L. Amprey has been the CEO since incorporation.