Jennifer Walsh

Crystal IS, Inc. manufactures ultraviolet light emitting diodes. Its products include TO-39 ball lens and flat window. Its LEDs are integrated into customers’ products to sterilize and disinfect water, air and surfaces in a variety of applications. The company was founded by Leo Schowalter and Glen Alfred Slack in March 1997 and is headquartered in Green Island, NY.

Lux Research, Inc. provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. Its products include subscription intelligence, market data products and consulting projects. The firm's solutions include understanding emerging technology markets, technology scouting and open innovation, formulating market entry strategies, evaluating technology companies, performing due diligence, market sizing and forecasting, establishing technology adoption roadmaps, driving economic development from emerging tech and understanding China innovation. The company was founded by Eric Greenberg, DeSoto S. Jordan, Ken Allard, Francis Mark Modzelewski and Matthew M. Nordan in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Collective, Inc. operates as a data-driven and programmatic advertising company. It connects brand marketers to audiences with personalized ad experiences across screen and formats. The firm offers VISTO and Audience Engine solutions. The company was founded by Joseph Apprendi and Jerome Fitzgibbons in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nielsen Entertainment LLC is located in the US. Part of The Nielsen Company (US) LLC, Nielsen Entertainment LLC is an American company that provides information and media services.

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.

Kurion, Inc. offers nuclear waste management technologies. The firm has developed technological solutions to access, separate, and stabilize nuclear and hazardous wastes. The company was founded by John Raymont and Husain Amir in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of Virtu Financial, Inc., Arbitrade Holdings LLC is a company that markets options on individual equities, equity indices, fixed income instruments, and certain commodities. The company is based in Minnetonka, MN. The company was founded by Ephraim F. Gildor. Arbitrade Holdings was acquired by Knight Capital Group, Inc. on January 12, 2000 for $439.24 million.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Lux Capital Group LLC (Lux Capita Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Peter Hebert and Josh Wolfe. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional office in Menlo Park, California.

SiteAdvisor, Inc. provides web security services. The company protects Internet users from web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, fraud, and identity theft. It was founded by Tom Pinckney, Douglas Wyatt, and Christopher Dixon in April, 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BuzzFeed, Inc. operates as a social news and entertainment company. It offers an online service that keeps track in real-time and highlights new content. The firm provides information in the categories of culture, movies, music, television, celebrity, style, food, politics, business, sports, and science and technology. The company was founded by Jonah H. Peretti and John S. Johnson III in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Open Education LLC operates and manages an online language school in Latin America. It offers live sessions, study advisors, personalized interactive content, progress tracking, fluency calculators, and academic checkpoints. The company was founded by Wilmer Sarmiento, James Pickell, E. Andres Moreno, and Nicolette Moreno in 2007 and is headquartered in Coconut Grove, FL.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

M13 Ventures Management LLC (M13 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Carter Milliken Reum and Courtney Reum. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Kymeta Corp. engages in the development of broadband satellite connectivity solutions. Its products include portable satellite terminal, aeronautical terminal, fixed satellite terminal, and mTenna core module. The company was founded in by Nathan B. Kundtz in 2012 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Coinbase, Inc. engages in the design and development of a digital currency wallet and platform. It offers coinbase application. The company was founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in June 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Soylent Nutrition, Inc. provides drinks designed to fulfill a person’s nutritional needs. Its first product is Soylent is a nutrition drink with all the essential ingredients the body needs. The company was founded by Robert R. Rhinehart, Matthew Cauble, John Coogan and David Renteln in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Kallyope, Inc. engages in developing drugs and consumer products. Its specialties include biotechnology, gut-brain axis, nutrition, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded by Thomas P. Maniatis, Charles Zuker and Richard Axel in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aira Tech Corp. develops transformative remote assistive technology and services. It offers visual interpretation services for the blind. The company was founded by Yuja Chang, Watson Yim, Sujeeth Kanuganti, and Suman Kanuganti in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Tiplinks, Inc. develops computer software applications. It provides Software as a Service (SaaS) services featuring software for use by hiring managers, recruiters and staffing firms for candidate data and information, allowing professionals to contact employment candidates, suggest suitable candidates, recruiting workflow automation, and ranking of employment candidates. The services may also be used by sales professionals and marketing professionals for providing lead information, lead ranking, and allowing professionals to contact business leads. The company was founded by Andres Blank, Christopher Calmeyn, Javier Castiarena, Santi Aimetta and Genevieve Jurvetson in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Shape Analytics operates as a real-time intelligence and predictive analytics solution for workforce data. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Watt, Inc. develops mobile payment software applications. Its services include focused starter packs; smart payment paycheck budgeting; automation with full control; and chat with personal expert. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sapling Technologies, Inc. develops and operates human resource software. The company was founded by Bart Macdonald and Andy Crebar and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PeopleTech Partners (PeopleTech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Cara Brennan Allamano. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Knoetic, Inc. is a people technology company that provides an all-in-one analytics platform for chief people officers. The company is based in New York, NY and was founded in 2020 by Joseph T. Quan and Marie Dalby Szuts. The company's software offers people analytics and cpohq products that help companies make smarter data-driven decisions about their workforce. With a community of over 2,000 chief people officers, Knoetic's integrated community insights and people analytics software keep teams engaged, retain high performers, and help leaders stay on top of people trends before they become a concern. Joseph T. Quan has been the CEO since 2020.

Lifelabs Learning LLC provides science-backed management, team, and executive training programs to help organizations build passionate and high-performing teams faster. Lifelabs Learning is based in Brooklyn, NY and was founded by Dirk Liedig, LeeAnn Renninger, and Tania Luna. The company focuses on tipping point skills that lead to a big impact and helps organizations shape their culture and systems to make these skills stick. Some of the company's clients include Venmo, BlackRock, Kaiser Permanente, Andreessen Horowitz, Yale, Glossier, and Lyft. The CEO is Priscila Bala.

Ethena, Inc. provides sexual harassment training for employees. It offers educational experience. The company was founded by Roxanne Bras Petraeus and Anne Solmssen in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Urbandoor, Inc. provides real estate services. The company was founded by Erik Eccles, Benjamin Renaud, and Zack Chandler in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Strateos engages in the automation of chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed loop robotic laboratories that support drug discovery programs. The company is headquartered in the Menlo Park, CA.

Variant Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development of new generation of therapeutics. It focuses on traits of medical relevance and using genomics. The company was founded by Akhila Kosaraju, Kaja Wasik, and Stephane Castel in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is a company that is building space factories to revolutionize the production process. The company is based in El Segundo, CA. The company is currently the only company aiming to operate entirely on commercial supply chains and are well positioned to be the worldwide leader in commercial microgravity manufacturing. Using their spacecraft as a manufacturing platform in microgravity, they create game-changing products that defy gravity's constraints on earth. With their economical re-entry capsules, they not only bring these products back safely to earth but also pave the way for life on an orbital manufacturing platform that delivers products back to earth. The company was founded in 2020 by Daniel Marshall, Delian Tihomirov Asparouhov, William Bruey. William Bruey has been the CEO since 2020.

Osmo is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Alex Wiltschko and has been led by him since incorporation. The company fuses machine learning, data science, psychophysics, olfactory neuroscience, electrical engineering, and chemistry to digitize scent. Osmo's work is grounded in digital olfaction research, including two pivotal studies that used graph neural networks to predict the smell of a molecule from its structure and to investigate the biological underpinnings of odor similarity. The company has begun work in the flavor and fragrance market to create a new generation of better, safer, environmentally-friendly aroma molecules. Osmo expects to work in domains such as public health and agriculture on solutions that help humans detect diseases earlier, track pandemics faster, grow more food, catch food spoilage, and ward off insects.