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BAMCO, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1987 by Ron Baron and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baron Capital Group, Inc. (BCG). BAMCO provides advisory services to investment companies, the Baron Collective Investment Trusts, UCITS funds, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Chestnut Securities, Inc. provides financial advisory and investment services. The private company is based in Boston, MA.

Liquid Machines, Inc. provides enterprise rights management solutions. The company was founded by James Schoonmaker and Mike D. Smith in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Terrafugia, Inc. provides personal aviation solutions. It develops the transition to provide pilots a dual-purpose vehicle. Its design allows the transition to fold its wings and drive on any surface road with a modern personal airplane platform. The firm offers TF-X, a plug-in hybrid-electric flying car with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities and computer controlled flight. The company was founded by Carl Dietrich, Anna Mracek Dietrich, Samuel Schweighart, Arun Prakash, and Alex Min in 2006 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

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.

North American Media Engines, Inc. engages in the provision of end-to-end eBusiness enablement solutions. The firm services include business process reengineering for Internet deployment, systems integration for content management, eBusiness strategy, technical and project architecture, front-end design, and networking solutions. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Colt Lux Group Holding SARL, Fast Engines is a company that delivers and distributes application server acceleration and spelling software. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Semyon Dukach. Fast Engines was acquired by Adero, Inc. on March 13, 2000.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., Clear Software, Inc. produces flow-chart and process-management software. The company is based in Newton, MA. Clear Software was acquired by SPSS, Inc. on September 26, 1996 for $4.50 million.

The MAC Group, Inc. engages in the sales and marketing of photographic equipment and products. It supplies the professional photographers, filmmakers, educators, and students with image-making tools. The company was founded by Jan Lederman, Paul Klingenstein and Henry Froehlich in 1988 and is headquartered in North White Plains, NY.

FurnitureFan, Inc. provides information about furniture available online. It manufactures american leather, banner mattress, magnussen home and vaughan furniture. The company was founded by Gary Chase in 2000 and is headquartered in Sudbury, MA.

TechStars Central LLC (TechStars) is an Independent Accelerator Incubator firm founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in the US..

Part of Clear Secure, Inc., Secure Identity LLC is a company that offers CLEAR Plus, a service that uses biometrics to confirm a person's identity instead of traditional ID documents. The company is based in New York, NY and has millions of members and over 100 partners across the country. The company's mission is to enable frictionless and safe journeys using a person's identity. CLEAR transforms a person's biometrics into an encrypted code and matches it to their unique code every time they check in. The CLEAR app helps users find their nearest CLEAR locations, manage their membership, link their accounts, and experience the latest technology. The company was founded in 2010 by Caryn Seidman-Becker and Ken Cornick, with Caryn Seidman-Becker serving as CEO since then.

Yottaa, Inc. operates a cloud-based automation platform. Its products include site acceleration, cloud based firewall, web performance monitoring, content delivery network, global DNS and performance testing and troubleshooting. The firm provides a performance analytics service that collects data from thousands of web sites, analyzes their performance and identifies potential problems. The company was founded by Robert Buffone and Coach K. Wei in 2009 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

GottaFlirt, Inc. operates as an online dating game for MySpace generation. The firm also operates as an entertainment web site for dating and flirting and meets people online with its dating service. The company was founded by Semyon Dukach, Mitchell Russo, and Vadim Yasinonvsky in 2006 and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Baron Capital Management, Inc. (BCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Ron Baron in 1982 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baron Capital Group, Inc. BCM provides advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, wrap fee programs, and other entities. The firm also offers several comingled strategies.

Libboo, Inc. operates a social publishing platform. Its instafreebie platform enables users to create and distribute copies of their books direct to their readers. The company was founded by Fernando Albertorio, Richard Hawthorn, and Chris Howard in 2008 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

One Way Ventures Management PBC Inc. (One Way Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Massachusetts, Boston and additional office in San Francisco, California.

Independent Sports & Entertainment, Inc. operates as a representation, management, and marketing agency for talents, brands, and properties. Its services include strategic guidance, contract negotiation, brand creation and management, integrated marketing, and global partnership development. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.