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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

Liontree Investment Management LLC (Liontree Investment Management) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of LionTree LLC founded in 2012 by Aryeh B. Bourkoff and Ehren Stenzler. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Ridge Ventures is an independent venture capital firm, a subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc founded in 1997 by Alex Rosen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Redpanda Data, Inc. is a global organization that provides a simple, fast, reliable, and unified engine of record for both real-time and historical enterprise data. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and has teams distributed around the globe. The company's breakthrough architecture and disruptive capabilities make it a preferred choice for innovators like Lacework, Jump Trading, Vodafone, Moody's, and Hotels Network. Redpanda is backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack VC. Redpanda is API-compatible with Apache Kafka, but 10x faster, much easier to use, and more cost-effective. The company was founded in 2019 by Alexander Gallego, who has been the CEO since 2019.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Neon Media LLC engages in development of a computer gaming applications. It offers early-stage game and transmedia services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

WaldenVC LLC (WaldenVC) is a venture capital firm founded in 1974 by Art S. Berliner and George S Sarlo. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Supersocial, Inc. operates as an indie games studio. It focuses on creating insanely fun games for the metaverse and players can meet up online and play together in a whole new way. The company was founded by Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Luiza Justus and Pedro Romi and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Indiecade develops games.

NestGSV, Inc. provides full life cycle support for startup companies. It engages a robust ecosystem of startups, corporations, international agencies, mentors, universities, investors, thought leaders, and non-profits. The company was founded by Kayvan H. Baroumand in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Sauce Labs, Inc. provides mobile and web application testing tools for developers. The firm's products include Sauce OnDemand, Sauce Scout, Sauce Builder, and Selenium. It delivers instant cloud infrastructure that enables developers to release software faster across increasingly diverse browsers for the desktop and mobile web. The company was founded by Steven Hazel, Jason R. Huggins and John Dunham in July 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tailscale, Inc. engages in the creation of lightweight encrypted tunnels between nodes in the computer network through the open source WireGuard. The company was founded by Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw, and David Carney in 2019 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

Backtrace I/O, Inc. owns and operates error management platform. Its features include error aggregation, workflow integrations, automated classification, powerful debugging, detailed data faster, cross-platform and golang support. The company was founded by Abel Mathew and Samy Al-Bahra in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Play Labs LLC (Play Labs) is an accelerator/incubator firm founded in 2017 by Rizwan Virk. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Free Range Games LLC develops video games. The company was founded by Chris Scholz and is headquartered in Sausalito, CA.

Tapjoy, Inc. provides social and mobile applications. The firm operates as a mobile performance-based advertising platform that drives deep engagement and monetization opportunities for app publishers, while delivering valuable, engaged consumers to some of the brand advertisers. It has locations in Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. The company was founded by Ben Lewis, Shukla Anu, Lee Linden and Mitch Liu in 2007 and is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

Beamable, Inc. develops online games. It operates as a game company and allows users to access games through social networks, such as Facebook and mobile devices. The firm provides its games through App Store and Google Play. It also offers iPad sleeves, iPad cases, iPhone cases, men’s T-shirts, hoodies, ladies’ shirts, babies’ T-shirts, mugs, stein mugs, travel mugs, and cap trucker hats online. The company was founded by Jonathan Bull Radoff and Angela Bull Radoff in 2010 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Gaingels LLC (Gaingels) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Paul Grossinger and David Beatty. The firm is headquartered in New York.

ARK Ventures (ARK Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of ARK Investment Management LLC founded by Catherine Wood. The firm is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The Web3 Foundation is a technology organization that supports and manages decentralized web software and applications. The foundation's main project is Polkadot. The Swiss company was founded in Zug by Gavin Wood, who is also a co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum. The CEO of the company is Bertrand Perez.

Mythical, Inc. engages in the development of a gaming platform. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Signum Global Advisors LLC operares as an independent advisory firm operating at the intersection of policy and global markets. It provides research and customized advice for an exclusive set of institutions, ultimately helping clients navigate a world of ever-growing political and macro uncertainty. The company was founded by Charles Myers in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Guggenheim Capital LLC engages in the provision of investment advisory and banking services. It offers financing, sales and trading, research, insurance, investment consulting, and institutional finance services. The company was founded by Todd J. Morley and Dominic J. Curcio on August 8, 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 1996, Evercore Partners LLC is a private equity firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Evercore Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Evercore Partners, Inc. (NYSE: EVR), a New York City-based investment banking firm.