Adrian A. Nazari

The Yucaipa Cos. LLC is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Ronald Wayne Burkle. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

D. E. Shaw & Co. LP (DESCO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Elliot Shaw. DESCO serves as the managing member, manager and/or investment advisor of certain entities in the D. E. Shaw Group and provides investment advice to a number of affiliated hedge funds and other entities. The investor base of the funds includes institutional investors and other highly sophisticated, high-net worth participants.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Globespan Capital Management LLC (Globespan Cap Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Barry J. Schiffman and Andy P. Goldfarb. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides pharmaceutical discovery, development and manufacturing services. Its product Captisol is a polyanionic beta-cyclodextrin derivative with a sodium sulfonate salt separated from the lipophilic cavity by a butyl ether spacer group, or sulfobutylether (SBE). The firm engages in technology with substantial characterization, safety documentation and regulatory review. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

TVM Capital Corp (TVM Capital) is a venture capital subsidary of TVM Capital GmbH founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

ClearCube Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures centralized and virtualized desktop virtualization solutions. Its devices are used by intelligence agencies, military command centers, and high security agencies to consolidate access to multiple classified and unclassified networks in one desktop device. The firm provides installation, integration, training and certification services. The company was founded by Michael Frost, Barry Thornton and Heller Andrew in 1997 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Mint Software, Inc. provides online money management services. It offers debt management, expense tracking, investment and budget management, mutual fund, IRA, and financial planning services. The company was founded by Thomas Aaron Patzer in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Right Hemisphere, Inc. provides enterprise product communication and collaboration solutions. It offers visual enterprise solutions that enable manufacturing companies to unify, synchronize and deliver visual product and business information to optimize global product development, launch and support processes. The company was founded by Mark Thomas in 1997 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

SETI Institute operates as a non-profit organization that provides scientific research, education, and public outreach services. It offers instrument development, outreach programs, research experience for undergraduates, and weekly colloquium. The company was founded in November 1984 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for digital media and communication markets. It provides end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort under its SlimPort brand, including signal conditioners and mobile display controllers such as timing controller solutions. The firm enables mobile devices to display movies, games, and applications on internal system screens, computer monitors, and televisions. The company was founded by Kewei Yang, Ted Rado, and Shuran Wei in March 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Resilinc Corp. provides end-to-end supply chain resiliency solutions. It delivers total resiliency by enabling supply chains to proactively plan for, monitor and mitigate multi-tier disruptions in hours and days rather than weeks or months. The company was founded by Bindiya Vakil in 2010 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Rembrandt Venture Management LLC (Rembrandt Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm which was founded in 1997 by Gerald Casilli. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Causeway Management LLC (Causeway Media Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Wycliffe K Grousbeck, Mark Allen Wan and Bob F Higgins. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TiE Boston is a private equity firm founded by by Desh Deshpande in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bolt Financial, Inc. engages in the development of checkout experience platform. Its product, Bolt, optimizes conversions and manages hundreds of integrations and the rising risk of fraud. The company was founded by Eric Feldman and Ryan Breslow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P is an investment and technology development firm founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of its staff.

AnchorFree, Inc. provides online privacy and security solutions for internet users, advertisers, and publishers. The company was founded by Peter Hoag, David Gorodyansky, and Eugene Malobrodsky in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

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.

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.

Asetek, Inc. provides vapor phase, chamber and liquid cooling solutions. The firm’s products are used for reducing power, greenhouse emissions and lowering acoustic noise. The company was founded by Andre Sloth Eriksen in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Nantero, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor devices. It develops a new generation of memory called NRAM (non-volatile random access memory) that can enable a variety of exciting new features and products in both consumer and enterprise electronics. The company was founded by Thomas Rueckes and Greg Schmergel in March 2001 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Chardan Capital Markets LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Kerry Propper and Steve Urbach in 2003. The firm offers a range of services which include capital raising, merger and acquisition advisory, strategic advisory, equity research, corporate access and institutional trading to institutional clients.