Scott Sambucci

FreedomPay, Inc. operates a commerce platform that helps merchants in solving complex payment environments. It offers various transaction solutions, including mobile payments, cashless solutions, virtual and remote terminals, payment processing, intelligent analysis, routing of promotions, incentives, and customer relationship management services. The firm also offers incentive management, product mapping, POS integration, analytic tools, and customer segmentation tools, payment Switch solution that streamlines processes and transactions, connects to POS systems and captures detailed data; integrating solutions, security solutions for electronic payments, mobile applications for payments, and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution that includes EMV and NFC compliance. The company was founded by Thomas Durovsik in 2000 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wex Venture Capital (Wex Venture Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Wex, inc founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Maine.

Mithril Capital Management LLC (Mithril Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Peter Andreas Thiel and Ajay Royan. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Quantify Labs, Inc. provides a content and analytics platform and builds software for institutional trading desks. Its solutions include desk analyst, sales, management, research and trading. The firm specializes in institutional finance, technology, capital markets, sell side, buy side and SaaS. The company was founded by Blair Livingston in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Senti Biosciences, Inc. develops novel therapeutics. It specializes in thetic biology, gene therapy and cell therapy. The company was founded by Timothy K. Lu, Wilson Wong, James J. Collins and Philip Lee in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Pango, Inc. develops privacy and security products. It offers hotspot shield, 1password, robo shield, and identity guard. The company was founded by Sujay Jaswa in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Wick News Corp. publishes newspapers. The firm publishes magazines which include advertising, sports news, and internet marketing. The company is headquartered in Sierra Vista, AZ.

Dren Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on protein engineering technologies for depletion of cells, protein aggregates, and other disease-causing agents. The company was founded by John Wesley and Nenad Tomasevic in 2019 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Orca Biosystems, Inc. engages in empowering cell therapies by precisely engineering bone marrow transplants (BMT) using rapid clinical cell sorting of human grafts. The company was founded by Nathaniel fernhoff and Ivan K. Dimov and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Formation8 Partners LLC (Formation8) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo, and Jim Kim. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AppDirect, Inc. develops end-to-end commerce platform for selling, distributing, and managing cloud-based products and services. It offers AppMarket, AppReseller, AppBilling, and AppDistribution. The company was founded by Nicolas Desmarais, Andy Sen, and Daniel H. Saks in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Helion Energy, Inc. manufactures power generation technology. It develops power plants that would produce electricity by running a nuclear-fusion reaction whereby atoms merge at extremely high temperatures. The company was founded by David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl and George Votroubek in 2009 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Pollen, Inc. provides financial services. It provides C2FO market, working capital exchange that allows companies to optimize their working capital positions in a live, bid/ask environment. The firm serves buyers and suppliers who use the market to increase profit and accelerate cash flow between themselves. The company was founded by Alexander C. Kemper and Pete Thomas in May 2010 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Genies, Inc. develops mobile application software and provides social networking applications. Its product, blend is a mobile application which targets college students to share their college pictures and experiences and receive rewards in return. The company was founded by Akash Nigam, Evan Rosenbaum, and Matthew Geiger in 2011 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

AZ-VC LLC (AZ-VC) is a venture capital subsidiary of invisionAZ founded in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Marketcetera, Inc. provides open source platform for trading solutions services. It offers dare order routing engine, strategy studio, and market data nexus. The company was founded by Toli Kuznets and Graham Miller in July 15, 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada

Valar Ventures Management LLC (Valar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Skyline Commercial Interiors, Inc. provides general contracting and commercial construction services. It offers tenant improvement services for interior projects in tech companies, law firms, banks, venture capital firms, schools, restaurants and supports various mission critical facilities, such as data centers, disaster recovery centers, medical facilities, call centers, command centers, telecommunication co-location, POP facilities, server rooms and more. The company was founded by David Hayes in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Arizona Commerce Authority is an economic development agency. It offers marketing, innovation, technology, community, growth, workforce, jobs, aerospace, bioscience and nanotechnology. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Thiel Capital LLC (Thiel Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Peter Andreas Thiel. The firm is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

Wick Communications Co. operates as a media company. The firm also engages in the publication of newspapers and magazines. The company was founded by Milton I. Wick and James I. Wick in 1926 and is headquartered in Sierra Vista, AZ.

Q Bio, Inc. engages in the development of technology that quantifies, digitizes, and simulates human physiology. It features volume of quantitative information, patient ownership, and tools available to doctors. The company was founded by Jeffrey Kaditz, Michael Snyder, and Garry Choy on August 20, 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Halo Investing, Inc. provides investment protection. The company was founded by Biju Kulathakal and Jason Barsema in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

OfferPad, Inc. provides real estate services. The company was founded in 2015 by Brian Bair Coleman and Jerry Coleman and is headquartered in Gilbert, AZ.

Paradox, Inc. operates recruiting platform. It offers candidate and employee care, interview scheduling, virtual hiring events. The company was founded by Aaron Matos and Olivia Matos in 2016 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Alloy Therapeutics LLC is a biotechnology ecosystem company that democratizes access to tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics. The company's lead offering is the ATX-GX™ platform, a human therapeutic antibody discovery platform consisting of a growing suite of proprietary transgenic mice strains. Through a community of partners across academia, biotech, and the largest biopharma, Alloy is a leader in bispecific antibody discovery and engineering services, utilizing its proprietary ATX-CLC common light chain platform integrating novel transgenic mice and phage display. Founded in 2017 and privately funded by visionary investors, Alloy is headquartered in Hanover, NH, with European labs in Switzerland. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.