Rick Thompson

Valor Management LLC (Valor Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Antonio Jose Gracias. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Azumio, Inc. develops health and fitness applications on mobile devices. Its mobile applications include fitness trainer, cardio buddy, sleep time, fitness buddy, instant heart rate, stress doctor, stress check and glucose buddy. The company was founded by Peter Kuhar, Tom Xu and Bojan Bernard Bostjancic in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Paragon Biosciences Qlarity Capital, Inc. provides pharmaceutical services. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

CIRC Biosciences, Inc. is a privately held cell therapy company that focuses on developing treatments for serious diseases with high unmet needs. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company's initial focus is on the eye. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Aronin.

K Health, Inc. develops a personal health application. It allows its users to keep their identities anonymous and is required to type in their gender, age, and symptoms which results in suggesting different types of treatment for those ailments. The company was founded by Allon Bloch in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Eight Sleep, Inc. manufactures non wearable sleep tracker. The firm also provides smart mattress, mattress and bed sheets. It offers purchasing and shipping services. The company was founded by Matteo Franceschetti, Massimo Andreasi Bassi, Alexandra Zatarain and Andrea Ballarini in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quid, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company, which engages in the development of data and information capturing software. Its solutions include agencies, enterprise, consulting, and healthcare. The company was founded by Robert Goodson, Sean William Joseph Gourley, and Charles Cholsoo Lho in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Misfit Wearables Corp. manufactures and invents wearable computing products. Its product shine, an elegant personal activity tracker that you can instantly sync with customers smart phone by placing the device on the screen. The firm offers products and services in the consumer health and fitness space to develop healthy habits. The company was founded by Sridhar G. Iyengar, Sonny X. Vu and John Sculley III in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Affirm, Inc. provides online payment services. It offers reimagining financial services, from credit cards to deposit banking. The firm helps to improve sales conversions and boost basket sizes. It allows online shoppers to pay for purchases in multiple monthly installments with financing costs lower than credit card interest rates. The company was founded by Max R. Levchin, Jeffrey Kaditz, Alastair Rampell, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Postmates LLC operates logistics platform that offers delivery from restaurants and stores previously only available offline. It specializes in transportation, logistics, and local commerce. The company was founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice, and Bastian Lehmann in March 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

LTSE Services, Inc. engages in national securities exchange services. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Founders Fund Growth Principals Fund LP engages in the investment of pooled investment fund and venture capital fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

LTSE Group, Inc. designs securities and exchange commission- regulated national securities exchange that aligns companies and long-term investors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nobl9, Inc. is a service level objective platform that helps organizations set and understand reliability goals by tracking the performance of their systems. The company is based in Waltham, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform allows users to integrate with their existing technologies and manage service levels by defining and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs), tracking latency, and managing SLAs. Nobl9 makes SLOs powerful and easy to use by providing information on platform pricing and options. The company was founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singerman, with Marcin Kurc serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Solugen, Inc. is a venture-backed biotech startup, which focuses in replacing petroleum based products with plant-derived substitutes. The company was founded by Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt in 2016 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Emerald Cloud Lab, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers Emerald Cloud Laboratory, a life sciences laboratory that scientists can remotely access via the internet where automated robotics conduct experiments exactly as specified by the user. The company was founded by Daniel Jerome Kleinbaum and Brian M. Frezza in 2010 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Signia Management Co LLC (Signia Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Sunny Dhillon, Cluss Edward and Fiden Dan. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Paragon Biosciences Emalex Capital, Inc. provides pharmaceuticals services. The company is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

Connector Service Corp. provides electroplating services to the interconnect industry. Its products include ferrous alloy, non ferrous, iron, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, copper, brass and bronze plate. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Elgin, IL.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Astral Brands, Inc. manufactures, markets, and distributes consumer products in the health and beauty category into diverse retail channels. It provides skincare, body care, makeup formulations, as well as mineral-based makeup and skin care products to consumers, dermatologists, aestheticians, and plastic surgeons. The firm also offers seafood, steaks, and gourmet foods, including seafood delicac6ies, crab cakes, gourmet seafood soups, seafood pizzas, and shrimps. The company was founded by Christie Cohen, Margie Kauffman, and Ron Kauffman in 1978 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

The Field Museum of Natural History houses biological and anthropological collections of specimens. It supports both informal and more structured public learning through exhibits and educational programs. Its curatorial and scientific staff conducts research on the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Geology, and Zoology. The Field Museum was founded in 1893 and is located in Chicago, Illinois.

The Commercial Club of Chicago works to shape the future of the region to make it a better place for everyone to live, work, and do business. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The company's civic committee has announced violence reduction goals and commitments to help address public safety.

Part of T & C Medical Science, Inc., MG Capital Ltd. is a Caymanian company that provides investment services. The company was founded by Antonio Jose Gracias. Paul Anthony McGuinness has been the CEO of the company since 2006.

World Business Chicago provides economic data and statistical assistance services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

BitGo Holdings, Inc. provides cryptocurrency custody solutions. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Philogeris Régions SAS operates as a holding company with interest in residential homes. It offers homes and personal care for the elderly people. The company was founded in June 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Premise Data Corp. develops applications for real time macro economic data. It builds machinery to global economic transparency and measure with the collective enterprise of the human race. The firm web-scale machine learning infrastructure captures, normalizes and translates massive quantities of unstructured and semi-structured data. The company was founded by David Lawrence Soloff and Joseph Reisinger in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.