Bud Flagstad

Arbor Vita Corp. engages in discovery and developing of drugs. It targets cellular regulators, PDZ proteins, to accelerate the discovery and development of human therapeutics, and diagnostics. The company was founded by Peter S. Lu in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Novariant, Inc. provides pre-eminent precision steering solutions. It offers precision steering and controls, positioning and vision sensors, human machine interface, communications, software data services and vehicle interface. The company was founded by Glen Sapilewski, Clark E. Cohen, Avi Gross, Lars G. Leckie, Kurt Zimmerman, Dave Lawrence, Gregory Gutt, Michael Eglington, Stewart Cobb, Tom Bell, Paul Montgomery and Michael O'Connor in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Change Healthcare Engagement Solutions, Inc. provides healthcare cost transparency solutions. It offers Healthcare Transparency Index that shows medical procedures with high costs and price variances. The firm’s solutions enable consumers to better understand and utilize their healthcare benefits; make informed healthcare purchasing decisions based on quality, cost, and convenience; and manage out-of-pocket responsibility and realize savings. Its solutions also enable users to engage alerts that show savings opportunities, and help take advantage of company health and wellness programs; educate health plan enrollees; and leverage investment with third-party decision support tools. The company was founded by Christopher Parks in 2007 and is headquartered Nashville, TN.

Part of VMware, Inc., CloudVolumes, Inc. provides real-time application delivery technologies. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Henrik Rosendahl, Matthew Conover, Matthieu Bapthiste Suiche. CloudVolumes was acquired by VMware, Inc. on August 20, 2014 for $45 million.

Clearstone Venture Management Services LLC (Clearstone Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by William Elkus. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Solidus Co (Solidus) is a private equity/venture capital firm is founded in 1997 by E. Townes Duncan. The firm is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

CGN & Associates, Inc. provides business consulting services. The firm offers transformation, advisory and consulting services in the area of manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, automotive, insurance, healthcare, heavy equipment and the public sector. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Quantros, Inc. provides data management and quality improvement solutions. It offers software and services for healthcare quality and safety performance. The firm’s solutions include safety and risk management, regulatory reporting management, safety Rx, licensing quantos technology, quantros patient safety center, accreditation and compliance excellence, IRIS and data assets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Greenville, SC.

The Indus Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization. It provides mentoring, networking, education and funding to entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sandalwood Partners (Sandalwood Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2006 by Bob Kondamoori. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

American Red Cross Central Illinois Chapter, Inc. is a non-profit orengages in the provision of emotional support to victims of disasters. It offers disaster relief, health and safety classes, blood collection, and services to the Armed Forces. The company is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Excelan, Inc. manufactures computers and related equipment. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Vish Mishra.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an organization that works with the government to implement the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in government schools and government-aided schools in order to eliminate classroom hunger. The program has resulted in increased school attendance, enrollment, concentration, and reduced class drop-out rates. The non-profit company is based in Bangalore, India. The foundation has been dedicated to feeding nutritious meals to school children for 22 years and complies with international financial reporting standards to maintain transparency. The foundation was founded by Mohandas Tellicheery Pai after Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada witnessed children fighting with street dogs for scraps of food.

Velocita, Inc. operates a SaaS-based, social, referral and loyalty marketing platform. Its products include Refer-a-Friend, Photomonials, Customer Loyalty, Social Login, Share-a-Purchase, Get-a-Fan, Share-and-Save, Viral Offer Sharing, and Viral Flash Sale. It also offers software development and managed online marketing services. The company was founded by Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar in 2010 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

TiE Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs and executives of South Asian origin. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding programs and activities. TiE events bring together the entrepreneurial community to learn from leaders and each other. The economic value enabled through TiE's entrepreneurial endeavors is estimated to exceed over time.

Jumpstart Holdings LLC (Jumpstart) is a Private Equity firm founded in 2010 by Marcus Whitney & Vic Gatto. The firm is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Naked Energy Ltd. is a supplier of solar thermal and solar pvt for commercial and industrial customers. The company is based in Crawley, UK. The British company provides zero carbon heat and electricity, which helps to cut energy bills, generate energy on site, and achieve energy independence and energy security. The company was founded in 2009 by Christophe Williams, who has been the CEO since 2009.

Glassbeam, Inc. operates as a machine data analytics company. It serves manufactures of products such as servers, storage, networking, software, telecom and medical devices. The company was founded in 2004 by Kumar Malavalli and Puneet Pandit and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Fabric LLC (The Fabric) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Rajan Raghavan, Prabakar Sundarrajan and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The Hive LLC (The Hive) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by T.M.Ravi and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Easter Seals Central Illinois provides healthcare services to people with disabilities and autism. It offers psychiatric rehabilitation, psychosocial therapy, supported employment, comprehensive disability related employment programs, prevocational training, and developmental disabilities social/recreational programs, adult development centers. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Feuji, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers salesforce consulting, supply chain management, managed services, BPO services and strategic staffing. The firm’s practices include salesforce clouds implementations, app exchange development, salesforce CPQ and contracts life cycle, salesforce E-Commerce, data migration and integrations, and training and support. The company was founded by Manohar Reddy and Ruchi Bindra in 2014 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Georama, Inc. operates as an enterprise platform for broadcasting live video on the go. The firm also operates through the offices located in Chicago and India. The company was founded by Neil Feuling and Nihal Advani is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Aparna Systems, Inc. develops cloud storage and networking applications. Its µCloud and µServer products provide a high density, high performance and high availability Cloud-in-a-Box solution for edge applications ranging from hybrid cloud gateways to edge artificial intelligence applications. The firm’s products include µCloud 4015 Open Edge System and µServers. The company was founded by Sam S. Srinivasan and Alex D. Henderson on February 13, 2013 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Secocha Ventures LLC (Secocha Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Sanket Parekh. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Youplus, Inc. develops and operates a search platform. It offers Video Opinion Search Engine (VOISE). The company was founded by Shaukat Shamim and Bharat Vijay in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bluevine Ventures LLC (BlueVine Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in silicon valley, California.

Capella Partners LLC (Capella Partners) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.