Tom Wendt

Allen & Co., Inc. engages in private placement, underwriting and brokerage services to entertainment and media companies. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

TechnoCom Corp. provides products and services to enable wireless location solutions for enterprises, wireless carriers, and service providers. It provides cross-carrier platform for local, hyper-local and context-aware application development. It serves the call centers, roadside assistance, transportation, MRM, proximity marketing, financial services, mobile gaming and information technology security industries. The company was founded by Khaled Dessouky, Mario Proietti and Masoud Motamedi in 1995 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based data protection solutions. Its products include product architecture, scalability, data deduplication, and supported backup applications. The firm combines SATA drives compression and byte-level data reduplication for reliable backups and restores. The company was founded by James Pownell and David James Therrien in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

Jacket Micro Devices, Inc. designed, manufactured and assembled a range of modules, components, filters and microelectronic packages for the wireless, semiconductor, and specialty product markets. The company was founded in 2002 and was headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

ThinkEngine Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells voice processing systems, consisting of media servers and application servers, for use in telephone networks, audio call conferencing networks, and cable and non-cable VoIP networks. Its products are utilized in order to implement network announcements, interactive voice response, intelligent peripherals, audio conferencing, intelligent call routing, pre and post-paid calling cards and automatic speech recognition. The company was founded in January 1962 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Acronis AG engages in the acquisition, holding, management, and disposal of participating interests in firms, particularly in the data protection and cybersecurity sectors. It also provides management and financing services to its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Serguei Beloussov, Max Tsypliaev, Yakov Zubarev and Stanislav Protassov and is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Clarabridge, Inc. provides intelligent customer experience management solutions. It enables businesses to intelligently listen to, analyze, operationalie, and measure multi-source customer feedback through intelligent sentiment and text analytics. The company enables organizations to create a universal understanding of its customers, partners, and employees; make actionable business decisions with measurable ROI; and collaborate on those decisions both internally with stakeholders and externally with customers. Its products include CX Analytics, CX Social and CX Survey. The company was founded by Siddhartha Banerjee, Nithi Vivatrat, Gene S. Sohn and Justin Langseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Semprius, Inc. develops transfer printing technology for manufacturing semiconductor devices. Its products include photovoltaic solar modules. The company was founded by George M. Whitesides, Etienne Menard, Ralph G. Nuzzo and John A. Rogers in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

simplifyMD, Inc. operates as a healthcare information technology company with a software-as-a-service product focused on medical practice automation. The company was founded by Matt Ethington, Jeffrey B. Lamkin, and Shadid Shah on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Row Sham Bow, Inc. publishes and distributes traditional and on-line interactive software games. The company was founded by Nicholas Gonzalez and Philip Holt in 2011 and is headquartered in Altamonte Springs, FL.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Gryphon Investors,LLC (Gryphon Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by R.David Andrews. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LLR Management, LP is a private equity firm founded in the year 1999 by Howard Ross, Ira Mark Lubert and Seth Lehr. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hitachi Consulting Corp. provides business and Information Technology consulting services to the aerospace, communications, industrial and financial sectors. It offers solutions for strategy, organization, business intelligence, performance management, corporate management, strategic technologies and outsourced product development. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

AFS Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions for the food and beverage industry. It offers sales agency management, direct store delivery, electronic proof of delivery, warehouse management, retail execution and order management system. The company was founded by Pamela Brunke in 1985 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

The SAVO Group Ltd. provides sales enablement software solutions. The firm offers financial, life sciences, technology and manufacturing solutions. It also offers smarter content, execution, engagement products. The company was founded by John Aiello and Drew Larsen in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs Growth Partners LP is an investment management company. The company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Holger Staude.

NewSpring Growth (NewSpring Growth) is a private equity division of NSV II Management Co. LLC founded in 1999 by Michael A. DiPiano and Marc R. Lederman. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Biosynthetic Technologies LLC is a company based in Indianapolis, IN. The company specializes in manufacturing a new class of biobased synthetic compounds called estolides, which are made from organic fatty acids found in various bio-derived oils. The company offers a range of products including food grade, industrial, marine, metalworking, personal care, and more. Biosynthetic Technologies is committed to sustainability and social responsibility and holds appropriate certifications and registrations to ensure their products are compliant with national and international requirements. Mark Miller has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Florida Venture Forum, Inc. is a non-profit organization, which provides educational and networking opportunities for Florida-based entrepreneurs and private companies. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Part of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton International, Inc. provides management consultancy services.

Biosynthetic Technologies, Inc. manufactures biobased synthetic molecules from organic fatty acids found in plant oils. It offers biosynthetic base oil, passenger car motor oil and cocoestolide. The company is founded by Jakob Bredsguard in 2004 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

HG Ventures LLC (HG Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Heritage Group, Inc. founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

First Manhattan Consulting Group LLC provides omni-channel marketing services. Its services include small business and consumer direct mail campaigns, digital marketing campaigns, and intellectual property and data assets. The company was founded by James M. McCormick and Robert M. Tetenbaum and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in New York, NY.

Egnyte, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise file sharing services. Its products are Egnyte Connect a secure file sharing solution and Egnyte Protect, a content governance solution. Its content intelligence platform delivers content collaboration and governance in the cloud or on-premises. The company was founded by Rajesh Ram, Kris Lahiri, Amrit Jassal, and Vineet K. Jain in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.