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Bluestem Capital Co. LLC (Bluestem Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by Steve T. Kirby. The firm is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Polycera, Inc. operates as a polymeric material platform. It offers a range of ultrafiltration performance beyond conventional ceramic and polymeric membranes. The company was founded by Eric Hoek and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Avera Health provides healthcare services. Its services include management and consultation, educational programs, employee benefit programs, insurance coverages, legal services, medical record coding and consultation services. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Marquette Bank operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It offers lending, home financing, financial education, and financial management services for personal and business accounts. The company was founded by John F. McCarthy on May 12, 1945 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Great Western Bank operates as a financial services organization that provides a comprehensive and integrated financial products and services. It specializes in personal banking, business banking, wealth management, agribusiness banking, mortgage and cash management. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Foremost Farms USA Cooperative engages in the provision of dairy products. It offers cheese, butter, and milk. The company was founded in January 1, 1995 and is headquartered in Baraboo, WI.

BrightPlanet Corp II, Inc. designs and develops search, harvest and document federation technology. The firm's technology allows a user to search huge databases hidden under the surface. The company was founded by Patrick J. Yam in 2009 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Neurolens, Inc. is a company that commercializes breakthrough technology to improve vision care. The company's patented contoured prism technology provides visual comfort for the nearly 65% of US adults who complain of headaches, neck/shoulder pain, and eyestrain when using digital devices, reading, or doing detail work. The company is based in Coppell, TX. Inspired by a breakthrough discovery linking optometry and neurology, Neurolens is unlocking a new dimension of vision care. The Neurolens contoured prism design helps the eyes work together comfortably, bringing the eyes into alignment to relieve painful symptoms. The technology is only available to independent eye care providers. The company was founded in 2012 by Davis Corley, and Pierre Bertrand has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Noteswift, Inc. engages in the development of health information technology solutions. It offers Samantha, an electronic health record (HER) real time transcriptionist, which enables providers to dictate the narrative of a patient encounter and parse the text into usable and valued structured data for patient outcomes. The company was founded by Chris Russell in 2008 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Pelstar LLC manufactures weighing scales. Its products include physician and primary care, acute care and hospital, long term care, stand-on, wheelchair, chair, bariatric, neonatal and pediatric, professional home care scales. It distributes the brand Health o meter® Professional. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in McCook, IL.

Kirby Capital Corp. provides alternative investment management services. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Virtual Incision Corp. engages in the development of miniaturized surgical robots. It offers MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical robotic platform. The company was founded by Shane M. Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov in 2006 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Western Surety Co. provides surety and fidelity bond insurance products. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

eGistics, Inc. provides a scalable data archival solution for the financial services and healthcare industries. The company was founded by Bryan A. Bruton in 1994 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes provides sports coaching services. It offers coaches and athletes for the professional, college, high school, junior high, and youth levels. The company was founded by Don McClanen in 1954 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.