Joe Welu

KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies.

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

SportsEngine, Inc. engages in the provision of sports technology and media platform. The firm represents soccer, football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, rugby, softball, baseball, wrestling, and volleyball. It offers registration software, sports websites, league, member and team management solutions. The company was founded by Justin Kaufenberg, Carson Kipfer and Greg Blasko in 2008 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

250ok, Inc. provides email management software for businesses. It offers email marketing and email operations. Its products include 250ok Inbox, 250ok Reputation, 250ok DMARC, 250ok Design, and 250ok Analytics. The company was founded by Greg Kraios and Ryan Seth Pfenninger in 2011 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Emergence Equity Management, Inc. (Emergence Equity Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Jason Green, Gordon Ritter and Brian Jacobs. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Piper Sandler & Co. operates as an investment company, which engages in the provision of securities brokerage and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

AnyRoad, Inc. provides an online platform that connects tourists and professional tour guides. It is a curated marketplace for niche and specialized tours around the world. The firm's online platform connects local and independent tour guides with tourists from around the world while benefitting the local community. The company was founded by Jonathan Yaffe and Daniel Yaffe in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cloud Elements, Inc. provides cloud application program interface (API) integration platform. Its platform enables developers to publish, integrate, aggregate, and manage all of APIs through a unified platform. The company was founded by Vineet Joshi, Gary Gaessler, Atul Barve, and Mark W. Geene in October 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Stream.io, Inc. provides newsfeed, cloud hosting, big data development and management services. It offers a hosted API based on cloud and big data best practises, which enables developers to add social functionalities to its apps in hours instead of months. The company was founded by Thierry Schellenbach and Tommaso Barbugli in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Justifi Technologies, Inc. provides end-to-end embedded payments and finance solutions for vertical SaaS platforms. Justifi Technologies is based in St. Paul, MN, and the CEO of the company is Joe Keeley. The company accelerates the potential of these platforms through payments and embedded fintech, allowing them to participate in the economics of funds flow. Justifi's payments API was built specifically for platforms to maximize monetization opportunities while achieving the lowest costs. The company also offers embedded finance solutions such as lending, instant payouts, card issuing, and insurance offerings.

PureSpectrum, Inc. provides research automation services. The company was founded by Michael McCrary in 2015 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Mezmo, Inc. is a log management company, which automates and personalizes email marketing for eCommerce. Its solution, PushMarket, analyzes consumer behavior on email, website and purchase history. The company was founded by Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Coalesce Automation, Inc. helps businesses with their data needs. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company offers a demo to connect with one of their data experts. The CEO of the company is Armon Petrossian.

SoundCommerce LLC provides an operations data platform for consumer brands and retailers. It connects data between systems and partners, monitors operations, enables business intelligence, and drives machine learning-enabled predictive decisioning. The firm’s platform is integrated with commerce systems including Amazon.com, Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, StitchLabs, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, ReCharge and Salsify. The company was founded by Eric T. Best and Jared Stiff and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Watchtower Technologies, Inc. operates as a digital platform which provides employee benefit services. The company was founded by Shaheeb Roshan, Ryan Sachtjen and Richard Perrott in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Project44, Inc. is a supply chain of the future through global, on-demand connectivity and visibility. It products include supply chain APIs, LTL APIs, truckload APIs, intermodal APIs, and drayage APIs. The company was founded by Jett McCandless and Wally Ibrahim in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J Weber, Robert J Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Foodsby, Inc. operates as an online platform that enables restaurants to deliver food or lunch to offices. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, Kansas City and Charlotte. The company was founded by Parag Shah and Ben Cattoor in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.