Jay Friedman

Step Ahead Capital LLC (Step Ahead Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Julian Zegelman. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Italy) is an investment holding Italian company. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

Bear Stearns FOF Asset Management (Bear Stearns FoF Asset Management) is a private equity subsidiary of Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Next-Gen Ventures LLC operates as a venture capital firm.

Bright Machines, Inc. develops software for manufacturing industries. It offers cutting edge technology, computer vision, cloud and edge computing, robotics, and machine learning that enables operations more competitive and customer focused. The company was founded by Amarpreet Hanspal in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

The North Carolina Museum of Life & Science, Inc. operates museums and exhibitions. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

The Ketera Network TM transforms business buying and selling by integrating an enterprise-class spend management solution and an active community of 250,000 business buyers and suppliers that have transacted over $4 billion in spend and actively collaborate to improve results. Using the Ketera Network, the procurement organization can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entire source-to-pay process with its enterprise-class spend management capabilities that includes sourcing, contract management, procurement, invoicing and spend analytics. In addition, the Network's supplier discovery and marketing tools help suppliers grow their business and enable buying organizations find better suppliers. Finally, its network-level analytics enable buying organizations and suppliers to benchmark and improve their business strategies. By simultaneously delivering considerable cost savings for buyers and new business opportunities for suppliers, the Ketera Network represents the next generation of business applications that benefit from a strong community multiplier effect. Ketera is located in San Jose, CA. The company has blue chip investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, Integral Capital Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, and American Express.