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Amidzad LLC (Amidzad) is a venture capital subsidiary of Amidi Group founded in 2000 by Pejman Nozad, Rahim Amidi and Saeed Amidi. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Plug & Play LLC is an innovation platform that connects large corporations with startups through industry-focused accelerator programs. The private company is based in Sunnyvale, CA and was founded by Jojo Flores. The company offers an in-house innovation software called Playbook that allows easy tracking of engagement with startups and data-driven decision-making. Plug & Play also provides ebooks, case studies, and webinars on their website. The company has over 60 accelerator programs every year in major industries and cities, and their startup portfolio includes companies in fintech, insurtech, IoT, and more. Plug & Play Ventures is a leading international early stage VC that focuses on backing founders who are creating the technologies of tomorrow.

Plug & Play LLC operates as a investor and technology accelerator that specializes in growing technology startups. The firm specializes in web 2.0, mobile, gaming, cleantech, new energy, semantic, new media, social media, retail, automotive, Bitcoin, Internet of Things, payment security, and connected home. The company was founded by Saeed Amidi and Jojo Flores in 2006 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Amidi Group is a financial conglomerate company. The private company is based in Redwood City, CA and has subsidiaries in Spain, United Arab Emirates and United States. The company was founded in 1980 by Saeed Amidi and Rahim Amidi.

Insead Angels is an alumni club of Insead that helps alumni connect with startups. The club invites alumni interested in angel investments to learn, contribute, and actively participate in discovering promising early-stage startups. Accredited investors are able to participate in investment opportunities, but all alumni are welcome to participate at a level they are comfortable with.

K1 Investment Management LLC (K1 Investment Management) is a venture capital firm founded by R. Neil Malik in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California.

Takenaka Partners LLC provides investment banking and consulting advisory services. The firm offers due diligence, greenfield research, corporate valuation, transaction advisory and global strategy consulting services. The company was founded by Yukuo Takenaka in 1989 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Certinia, Inc. develops software for the financial industry. It delivers Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) at customer speed. The firm?s financial management, human capital management, professional services automation, and supply chain management apps help businesses to increase the speed in which they operate and be more responsive along every touch point of a customer?s journey. The company was founded by Jeremy Roche and Debbie Ashton in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Robin Systems, Inc. operates an online platform for container-based compute and storage virtualization. It offers Robin Cloud Platform which is a container-based, application-aware, compute and storage platform liberates applications from servers, VMs, and storage boundaries. The company was founded by Krishna Yeddanapudi in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

COVU, Inc. is an insurance technology company based in Redwood City, CA. COVU's mission is to help individuals and insurance professionals reduce risk and insure smarter by finding and filling coverage gaps through a combination of AI and human intelligence. The company works with a variety of carriers and independent agents to manage the business side of insurance operations. The company was founded by Anastasios Chatzimichailidis, Amir Kargar, Amin Zarshenas, and Ali Safavi, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

notebooksbilliger.de AG provides computer online retail services. The private company is based in Sarstedt, Germany. The German company was founded in 2002. The CEO is Oliver Ahrens. notebooksbilliger.de was acquired by MEDIMAX Online GmbH.

10x Founders GmbH (10x Founders) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Andreas Etten and Claudius Jablonka. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Vilcap, Inc. operates as non-profit organization. It also operates business development programs for early-stage entrepreneurs in agriculture, education, energy, financial inclusion, and health. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Speaktoit, Inc. develops conversational interface platform application and hardware devices. It enables developers to build online voice and natural language interactions for bots, applications, services and devices. The company was founded by Pavel Sirotin, Artem Goncharuk and Ilya Gelfenbeyn in 2010 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

NextBio Corp. provides a scientific platform to aggregate and interpret quantities of genomic data for research and clinical applications. It offers products for pharmaceutical, bio-tech, academia, and medicine organizations. The company was founded by Saeid Akhtari and Ilya Kupershmidt in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Relief International operates as a non-profit organization that provides emergency, rehabilitation, and development services. It offers programs including health, shelter construction, education, community development, agriculture, food, income-generation, and conflict resolution. The company was founded by Farshad Rastegar in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

American Liquid Packaging Systems, Inc. engages in distribution of 5-gallon bottled water to homes and offices. It is market pioneer in several countries, having the task of introducing and convincing people that having direct delivery of water was convenient, dependable, environmentally friendly and safe. The company was founded in 1996 by Saeed Amidi and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

CaféX Communications, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers CaféX Fusion, a software platform that embeds real-time collaboration capabilities within business applications across mobile and fixed endpoints, such as smartphone, tablet, desktop and other digital channels. The company was founded by David Jodoin and Rami Musallam in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

United Services Automobile Association provides insurance, banking and investment services. Its products include renters insurance, flood and life insurance, checking savings accounts, certificate of deposits, stocks and options, USAA mutual funds, USAA 529 savings plan, mortgages, and individual retirement account. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

AchieveKids is a non-profit organization that offers educational and behavioral health services to children.

Sure Ventures LLC (Sure Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Gopi Rangan. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.