Stephen Allen

UltraCell Corporation (Livermore, CA) was founded in 2002 to commercialize an advanced Reformed Methanol Micro Fuel Cell (RMFC) technology invented at the U. S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This technology enables a breakthrough in micro fuel cell performance. UltraCell is the first to commercialize RMFC technology to provide clean renewable energy to power portable electronics. UltraCell's XX25™ micro fuel cell system is leading the industry with its ultra-compact size and light weight. The XX25 is the only system in its class to have undergone extensive Military Specification qualification testing and field trials. UltraCell¹s team has extensive experience in all aspects of fuel cells, including research, product development, manufacturing and customer applications. The company has developed new technologies and intellectual property in the field of methanol-based fuel cells and continues to innovate in this rapidly emerging field. UltraCell has an exclusive license with LLNL for micro fuel cell technology based upon reforming methanol into hydrogen reformate using proprietary technology in the fuel reformer and hydrogen fuel cell stack. With the July, 2007 opening of the UltraCell manufacturing plant in Vandalia, Ohio, UltraCell now offers the first volume-production micro fuel cell facility in North America. This plant applies advanced manufacturing techniques while leveraging the extensive local area supply chain and automotive quality methods to enable rapid response to growing customer needs. Its location at the Dayton International Airport free trade zone enables the company¹s products to be readily available to customers worldwide. With it¹s two U.S. locations, and partners in Asia and Europe, UltraCell is prepared to support customer¹s needs around the world.

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.

Presto Engineering, Inc. provides outsourced operations for semiconductor and internet of things device companies. It designs and develops industrial solutions for radio-frequency, analog, mixed-signal, optics, sensor network, payment systems, and secured applications. The firm offers asic and turn-key solutions The company was founded by Michel Villemain and Frank Sauk in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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.

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.

Blue Pillar, Inc. provides power and energy management solutions. It offers its service to the healthcare, commercial, industrial and manufacturing, military, government, higher education, datacenters and telecommunications sectors. The firm's application suite lowers enterprise energy spend and increases critical energy asset security, management, compliance and new energy market cash flows from programs like demand response. The company was founded by Brad Witter, Joe Scoufis, and Eric D. Reichel in 2006 and is headquartered in Frederick, MD.

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.

RedWave Energy, Inc. develops technology to convert industrial waste heat to electricity. It provides energy harvesting, detection, cleantech, waste water, and solar services. The company was founded by Jim Nelson and Patrick K. Brady in 2011 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

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.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ultra Communications, Inc. supplies robust photonic components for harsh environment applications. It products including, fiber optic transceivers with integrated OTDR, compact embeddable transceivers, and RF ASICs. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Vista, CA.

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.

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.

TD Security, Inc. provides mobile security software solutions. It serves the financial, government, healthcare, education, and large enterprise markets. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

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.

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.

Northwater Capital, Inc. provides asset management to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. The company 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.

Mercantile Capital Corp. provides commercial real estate loans and mortgages. It specializes in one thing, and that thing is the SBA 504 loan program, plain and simple. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Active-Semi, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. It is emerging power management IC and intelligent digital motor drive IC markets. The company's portfolio of analog and mixed signal SoCs (systems-on-chips) are scalable core platforms used in charging, powering and embedded digital control systems for end applications such as industrial, commercial and consumer equipment. The firm offers power application microcontrollers, DC/DC, AC/DC, and PMU that significantly reduces solution size and cost while improving system-level reliability. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Edblox, Inc. operates as an edtech firm. It provides Elevate K-12 which offers live online instruction classes. The company was founded by Shaily Baranwal in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.