Kris Hartvigsen

Answers.com Corp. operates as a free, ad-supported Internet search services that supply users with editorial content covering different topics. The firm's platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. The company was founded by Christopher J. Sims, David Karandish, Mark A. Tebbe, and Robert S. Rosenschein in 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

HYPR Corp. engages in the provision of decentralized biometric encryption to secure password-less authentication across multiple platforms. It specializes in cyber security, biometrics, mobile security, infrastructure, data security, hardware, security, software, cloud services. The company was founded by Bojan Simic, George Avetisov, James V. Barcia and Roman Kadinsky in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a private equity firm founded in 1979 by Patrick Welsh, Russ Carson and Bruce Anderson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of AXA SA, Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc. markets life insurance, property, and casualty insurance and also conducts asset management services. The company is based in Chicago, IL.

Dawntreader Ventures LLC (Dawntreader Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1998 by Dan I DeWolf, Ed G. Sim and Robert H. Lessin. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Spark Capital Partners LLC (Spark Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Todd Dagres, Santo Politi, Alex Finkelstein and Paul Conway. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prospect Capital Management LLC(Prospect Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Boldstart Ventures Management LLC (Boldstart Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Penny Black Holdings LLC founded in 2010 by Ed G. Sim. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Chaac Ventures (Chaac Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Luke Armour. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

BigID, Inc. develops software solutions for managing the privacy and protection of personal customer data. It offers subject access, breach response, post DLP discovery, privacy shield, and anonymization and account fraud privacy and protection solutions. The company was founded by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MessageBird BV provides network telecommunication solutions and services. Its services include email, voice protocol, chat, and short message service (SMS). The company was founded by Robert Vis in 2011 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Kustomer, Inc. engages in the design and development of an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The firm offers Kustomer platform. The company was founded by Bradley Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Catalyst Software Corp. develops software platform for complex discovery, regulatory investigations and compliance. The company was founded by Edward Chiu and Kevin Chiu in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Snyk Ltd. engages in the provision of software services. It offer Synk open source, container, infrastructure as code, intel vulnerability, and licensed compliance management. The company was founded by Guy Podjarny, Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.

GoToMeeting is an American company that provides web conferencing services.

Fortressiq, Inc. provides enterprise business automation. It offers replication learning, natural language understanding, computer vision, few shot detection, and imitation learning. The company was founded by Pankaj Chowdhry and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Blockdaemon, Inc. develops a service platform that allows enterprises to manage blockchain applications. It offers custom solutions and blockchain nodes as a service, The company was founded by Konstantin Klaus Philipp Richter and is headquartered in the New York, NY.

Arigato Machine, Inc. develops software solutions. The company was founded by Jevon MacDonald, Ian Livingstone and Jeff Andersen and is headquartered in Halifax, Canada.

MState Co (MState) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ed G. Sim, Eliot T. Durbin and Rob Bailey. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Smartrent Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of a property management software. Its SmartRent platform enables property managers control locks, lights, thermostats, and senors in vacant units and common areas for residents. The company was founded by Lucas Merwan Haldeman in 2016 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

EnvZero, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud management platform. It focuses on providing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks for helping the SRE and DevOps teams. The company was founded by Ohad Maislish and Omry Hay in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Axis Security, Inc. is a security and event staffing company. The company was founded by Dor Knafo and Gil Azrielant and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Dope.Security, Inc. offers a fly-direct secure web gateway (SWG) that eliminates stopovers and outages. The company is based in Mountain View, CA, and the CEO of the company is Kunal Agarwal. The company provides enterprise-grade security checks directly on the endpoint, resulting in stronger privacy, reliability, and performance speeds up to 4x faster. The company's invisible endpoint performs all the necessary functions of an SWG on-device, on every browser, application, and even the Apple M1 silicon. Dope.Security has re-architected the system to provide a cleaner approach to SWG, eliminating the need for a datacenter.

Protect AI, Inc. provides organizations with the ability to manage their machine learning environments end-to-end. The company is based in Seattle, WA, with offices in San Francisco and Raleigh. The company's Radar platform creates a machine learning bill of materials (MLBOM), remediates security vulnerabilities, and detects threats to prevent data and secrets leakages. The company is defining and leading a new market segment within security called MLsecOps. Protect AI is privately held and funded by Acrew Capital, Avisio Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and experienced cybersecurity leaders Shlomo Kramer, Nir Polak, and Dimitri Sirota. Protect AI was founded by AI leaders from Amazon and Oracle, including Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.