Richard J. Chidester

Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc. develops power converter chips. The firm's product roadmap focuses on power conversion for LED display backlighting and powering microprocessors and memory for mobile applications such as smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks. Its products include LED backlight boosts and buck regulators for computing. The company was founded by Nadia Shalaby and David Giuliano in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Texas Instruments Northern Virginia, Inc. develops and supplies semiconductor and battery management integrated circuits for portable consumer, commercial, and military applications. The firm's products include indicator integrated circuits and modules, single chip battery management, off the shelf energy management IC architecture and software suites for measurement, monitoring and analysis. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

ThinkVine Corp. provides strategic marketing and decision support services. It offers marketing mix modeling software and services that enable agile planning, attribution, forecasting and optimization across various marketing tactics, such as online, offline, digital, and traditional. The firm serves consumer packaged goods, retail, financial services, travel and entertainment and household goods sectors. The company was founded by Damon J. Ragusa and Debra Patek in 1999 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

R3 Fusion, Inc. operates as global water purification company. The firm's patented R³EVAP technology provides produced water reduction & recovery, RO Reject recovery, micro desalination and other water purification solutions. The company is headquartered in The woodlands, TX.

GEN3 Capital I LP seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in Russia and Israel. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of wireless communications, energy storage, and non-invasive medical device. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements with an investment size up to $1 million.

SuperTurbo Technologies, Inc. provides fuel efficiency services. It engages in the design, development, and production of fuel efficiency technology products for the automotive, trucks, fleet, off highway and motorsports markets. It develops SuperTurbochargers that utilize waste exhaust heat and drive train torque to spin the compressor. The company was founded by Ed VanDyne and Kevin Stover in 2009 and is headquartered in Loveland, CO.

Lake Bridge Capital (Lake Bridge Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Apropos Technology, Inc. develops and markets multi-channel interaction management application. The company provides software that manages and monitors customer interaction through communication media such as e-mail, web and voice. Its software is used by customer service call centers, sales and marketing communications and combines internet and telephone functions to let customer service representatives communicate by telephone, email, fax and web. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

Northwater Capital, Inc. provides asset management to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

ECI Telecom, Inc. supplies network infrastructure. It designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital telecommunications and data transmission systems for carriers and service providers. The firm offers planning, implementation, operation and maintenance and optimization services. Its products include XDM, BG, and ST series. The company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

GEN3 Partners, Inc. provides world-class product, process and packaging innovation services. It is a technical innovation solutions provider that focuses on product, process, and packaging innovation for many of the largest and most respected industrial, consumer goods, and medical device companies in the world. The firm specializes in technical innovation consulting, training, product portfolio diagnosis, benchmarking, roadmap development and IP strategy. The company was founded by Michael Treacy, Simon S. Litvin and James K. Sims in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ioxus, Inc. manufactures ultra capacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets. It designs and manufactures smaller, lighter weight iMOD modules and the new iMOD X-Series family of module systems. The firm also provides individual cells, pre-packaged modules, and system integration services. The company was founded by Chad Hall, Michael Pentaris and Thor Eilertsen in 2006 and is headquartered in Oneonta, NY.

American EPAY, Inc. provides web based payroll services. Its services include wireless time and attendance devices, toll free time keeping solutions with text to speech, and voice matching technologies. The firm also provides web based solutions such as web timesheets, scheduling, job costing and budgeting for labor tracking and management. American EPAY was founded by Ben Aissa in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GEN3 Ventures, Inc. (GEN3 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by James K. Sims. The firm is headquartered is in Boston, Massachusetts.

Legend3D, Inc. provides image processing technology services. The firm specializes in theatrical feature conversion and have also provided stereoscopic consultation for films shot in native 3D that contained some material needing conversion. It also offers conversion of motion pictures, television shows, advertisements and other visual entertainment assets produced in 2D into 3D. The company was founded by Barry B. Sandrew in 2001 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Brightvolt Solid State Batteries provides embedded power solutions. It also develops custom solid state thin film batteries and power solutions for client’s IoT devices; flexion solid state thin film lithium polymer batteries; and thin micro electronics. The company was founded by Robert Singleton and Craig Nelson in 2001 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

OneChip Photonics, Inc. develops and manufactures optical transceivers. Its PIC-based Passive Optical Network Bi-directional Optical Sub-Assemblies and transceivers will help system providers deploy Fiber-to-the-x and meet consumer and business demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services. The company was founded by Valery Tolstikhin and Trevor J. Hall in 2005 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Carbonfree Chemicals Holdings LLC develops a proprietary technologies that capture flue gases that would otherwise release carbon dioxide into the environment and transform into solid carbonate materials. It has three primary technologies include: SkyMine, SkyScraper, and SkyCycle a processes require less energy to remove harmful pollutants and safer ways to store carbon. The company was founded by Joe Jones in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Arsenal Venture Partners Inc (Arsenal Venture Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by John Trbovich, Rottenberg Jason and Fountas Christopher. The firm is headquartered in Winter Park, Florida.