Jon Erdtsieck

Freeman Spogli & Co Inc (Freeman Spogli) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Bradford M. Freeman and Ronald Paul Spogli. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and their offices in New York.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Agilence, Inc. develops cloud-based data analytics for store operations. It offers data analytics for retail, pharmacies, and restaurants. The company was founded by Robert W. Klemme, Thomas Bernetich, and John Sullivan in September 2006 and is headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ.

Keyedin Solutions Holdings, Inc. operates as an international business software company. The company was founded by Lauri Klaus and Brad Klaus and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Natural Food Works LLC operates as a full-service operational partner for natural and organic food brands. The firm's services include Granola, Cereals and energy bars, hot filling bottling, high pressure processing and snacks and frozen food. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

The RAND Corp. engages in conducting research and analysis to improve policy and decision-making. Its services include benchmarking, case study analysis, cost analysis, economic analysis, modeling, simulation, and optimization, performance measurement and measurement development, policy analysis, program evaluation, risk assessment and analysis, strategic planning, survey research, and technology assessment and development. The company was founded on May 14, 1948 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Valyant AI, Inc. provides technology services. It offers artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computer vision and machine learning. The company was founded by Robley Theron Carpenter II in 2017 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Part of Hengan International Group Co., Ltd., Hengan Pharmacare Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Embotics Corp. provides enterprise-class cloud management software. Its products include vCommander, vCommander architecture and ecosystem integrations. The firm’s solutions include applications/PaaS, cloud governance, cloud expense management, DevOps automation, lab automation, Microservices and containers. The company was founded by Jay Litkey on March 2006 and is headquartered in Kanata, Canada.

Samantha Brands Group Management LLC (Samantha Brands Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Michael Silverman. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Drake Star Partners Ltd. provides investment services. It focuses on the technology, media and communications sectors. The firm has offices in New York, London, Paris, Munich, Los Angeles, Berlin, Amsterdam, Geneva and Tokyo. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Sourcepoint Technologies, Inc. provides compensation platform for premium publishers. The firm offers CMP, consent vault, strategic services, declared data capture, altpay, altad and ad block management. The company was founded by Geir Magnusson, Jr., Brian Kane, Benjamin Barokas, Joseph P. Carlucci, Max Newbould and Jeroen Seghersand in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ICIX International, Inc. engages in connecting, sharing data and managing the performance and risk of global supply chains. The company’s network and risk management applications enable trading partners to connect and collaborate in order to verify and monitor business-critical information on products, trading partners and facilities. The company was founded by Matthew J. Smith and Tim Marchington in 2004 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Firstup, Inc. develops workforce communications applications. It offers email, mobile app, modern intraneet and microsoft 365 services. The company was founded by Nicole Alvino and Jim Larrison in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ServiceAide, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology (IT) service management solutions. It offers the Luma Digital Labor Product Suite, which applies breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural langue processing to deflect requests, incidents, and user inquiries. The company was founded by Wai M. Wong in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Appvance, Inc. develops mobile web applications performance solutions. It offers training and support, application performance certification, integration development, and on-site and online training services to large enterprises worldwide. The firm's solutions include performance & load testing, app pen testing and IoT services testing. The company was founded by Frank Cohen in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Sivers Semiconductors AB, Sivers Wireless AB is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets millimeter wave products such as converters, transceivers, radar systems, and signal sources. The company is based in Kista, Sweden. The Swedish company was founded in 1951. Harish Krishnaswamy has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

MixComm, Inc. manufactures semiconductors for transformative wireless solutions. The firm is a fabless semiconductor company developing transformative solutions for emerging wireless applications and markets. The company was founded by Harish Krishnaswamy and Frank Lane in 2017 and is headquartered in Chatham, NJ.