Charlie Wickers

A Place for Rover, Inc. provides an online marketplace that connects dog owners with local dog sitters in cities across the United States. Its services include dog boarding, house sitting, drop-in-visits, doggy day care, and dog walking. The company was founded by Greg Gottesman and Philip Kimmey in 2011 and is headquartered in Olympia, WA.

aQuantive, Inc. designs and develops digital marketing services and provides related online solutions. The company offers services such as online media buying and planning, ad campaign management, e-mail direct marketing, search engine optimization, and data warehousing and analysis. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA

Madrona Venture Group LLC (Madrona Venture Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Tom A. Alberg, Paul B. Goodrich and Jerry Grinstein. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Barking Dog Ventures Ltd. is a British company that provides business support services. The private company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 2014.

drugstore.com, Inc. operates an online drugstore which offers health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy products. It provides medicine cabinet, gifts, oral care, green and natural, diet and fitness, household products. The firm's mail-order pharmacy segment provides prescription drugs and supplies to cash-paying and insurance-covered individuals through mail-order facility. The company was founded by Jed A. Smith in April 1998 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

W Fund Management LLC (W Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mr. Hamburg Robert. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Abnormal Security Corp. engages in the development of a cloud email security platform. Its product and solutions include Microsoft Office365 and G Suite integration. The company was founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar and Evan Reiser in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MealPal, Inc. develops an application for a subscription meal services. It allows users to browse meals available at nearby restaurants, filter meals by cuisine and portion size, and preorder the night before or in the morning, choosing a time to pick up their lunch. The company was founded by Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.

Evocalize, Inc. provides conversations platform software and services. It helps brands to create and sustain conversation with their customers, and then leverage these conversations to customer insights, provide real-time business monitoring, and word of mouth marketing solutions. The company was founded by Kumar Srinivasan and Matthew Marx in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Yieldex, Inc. provides online advertising analytics for forecasting and optimization of premium inventory. It develops decision support services to publishers for sales and operations applications, as well as presents a view of available inventory and revenue forecasting for sellable products and combinations and offer dashboards, analytic reports, and scenario planning services that enable publishers to manage business, as well as to enable publisher departments to manage day-to-day activities, and determine the optimal inventory and order allocation. The company was founded by Thomas A. Shields and Douglas C. Cosman in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aisera, Inc. develops artificial intelligence platform which makes businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

AppDome, Inc. provides mobile application protection platform. It secures enterprise and consumer-facing apps from cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. The firm?s security solutions used by the financial, healthcare and e-commerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance and security for consumers and employees. The company was founded by Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Sonrai Security, Inc. operates as a cloud based security company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Strata Identity, Inc engages in the provision of distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its products include identity fabric, discovery, and orchestrator and connector catalog. The company was founded by Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, and Carl Eric Leach and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Unravel Data Systems, Inc. develops software and data operations. Its solutions include APM for Big Data, resource and cost optimization, and cloud migration. The company was founded by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Yellcast, Inc. engages in developing internet connection engine. The company was founded by Venkat Ganesan, Bill Foster & Richard Wright and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Menlo Special Opportunities Fund III LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of consumer and enterprise technology such as marketplaces, smart cloud infrastructure, SaaS, fintech and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early-growth stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging more than USD 30 million.

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

Dedrone Holdings, Inc. develops identifier of unmanned flying objects. It offers a multi sensor drone detection system, drone tracker, drone software, and applications for drones. The company was founded by Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Ingo Seebach in February 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Dedrone Holdings, Inc, Dedrone GmbH is a German company that develops and manufactures multi-sensor systems for the detection of modern civilian drones. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. The company was founded in 2014 by Ingo Seebach, Jörg Lamprecht, René Seeber. The CEO is Aaditya Devarakonda.

oDesk Corp. develops and manages an online job marketplace. It offers recruitment and job placement services for website developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service representatives, and virtual assistants. The firm offers enterprise solutions, payroll services, and health benefits. The company was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis in 2002 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Amobee, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It provides data driven cross channel digital advertising solutions for agencies, brands, and publishers. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Plaxo, Inc. operates as a cloud-based online address book that synchronizes, updates and unifies the user's contacts across multiple sources. The company was founded by Cameron T. Ring, Sean N. Parker and Todd J. Masonis in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Gild, Inc. provides technology that bringing meritocracy to HR with its innovative recruiting solutions. Its platform is used for automatic interview scheduling and one-click video interviewing. The company was founded by Luca Bonmassar and Sheeroy Desai in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Microsoft Corp. (India) Pvt Ltd. designs, manufactures and markets Microsoft software products. It offers Windows products, including Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer. It also offers server and tool products, such as Windows, SQL, and Exchange servers; Visual Studio, an integrated development environment to create applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as Web applications and cloud services; Microsoft Azure that offers cloud computing platform and services; Windows I tune for mobile device and application management, and PC management from the cloud; and SharePoint, a team collaboration software tools. Microsoft was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mobilewalla, Inc. engages in the provision of comsumer intelligence solutions. It offers data enrichment, analytics, identity, and audience segments. The firm serves a variety of industries such as retail and ecommerce, restaurant and dining, telcommunication and consumer technology, consumer real estate, and market research and consulting. The company was founded by Anindya Datta and Jay D. Clark in 2008 and is headquartered in Dunwoody, GA.