Theodore Christianson

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

SportsEngine, Inc. engages in the provision of sports technology and media platform. The firm represents soccer, football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, rugby, softball, baseball, wrestling, and volleyball. It offers registration software, sports websites, league, member and team management solutions. The company was founded by Justin Kaufenberg, Carson Kipfer and Greg Blasko in 2008 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

APi Group, Inc. engages in the provision of energy, life safety, infrastructure, and specialty construction services. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in New Brighton, MN.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

EDV Management Co (El Dorado Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Kalbach. The firm is headquartered in in Menlo Park, California.

Tingue, Brown & Co. manufactures and distributes products for commercial laundries. It offers flatwork supplies; material handling; and installation, maintenance, and trainings. The company was founded by William J. Tingue in 1902 and is headquartered in Saddle Brook, NJ.

The University of St. Thomas is an institution that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The private company is based in St. Paul, MN. It offers over 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as graduate programs in various fields such as business, engineering, law, education, social work, and arts and humanities. The University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 by John Ireland.

Part of APi Group Corp., Grunau Co., Inc. is a manufacturer of construction materials and flexible heating and cooling air ducts. The company is based in Oak Creek, MN. Grunau Co. was acquired by APi Group, Inc., part of APi Group Corp. from October 01, 2019 on April 03, 2006.

ABE South Dakota LLC Manufactures ethanol products. The company is headquartered in Bloomington, MN.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

PureChoice, Inc. manufactures building performance software for the commercial building industry. It offers solutions to business and property owners/managers, and property stakeholders. The company was founded by Bryan Reichel in 1992 and is headquartered in Burnsville, MN.

Glenn Rieder, Inc. manufactures and installs architectural millwork and related interior finishes. It offers design engineering, consulting, value engineering, project management, production and finishing, installation, and global procurement services. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Nilfisk, Inc. manufactured and supplied floor cleaning equipment. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Health Payment Systems, Inc. develops software solutions that simplify the healthcare payment experience for patients, providers and employers. The company was founded by James A. Brindley in 2005 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

First National Bank of Omaha engages in the provision of corporate banking, investment banking, retail banking, wealth management, and consumer lending services. The company was founded by Herman Kountze and Augustus Kountze in 1857 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Contactually, Inc. develops Web-based customer relationship management software and contact management solutions. Its solutions provide teams with insights and analytics from the team dashboard and summary of a team's activity, connect personal buckets to team buckets so that contact records are up-to-date, facilitate to assign contacts to team members and allow to create shared team buckets and link personal ones. The firm's solutions also allow individuals to focus on right contacts, follow up consistently, find business opportunities in their network and work across their team. The company was founded by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella in October 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Cloud Elements, Inc. provides cloud application program interface (API) integration platform. Its platform enables developers to publish, integrate, aggregate, and manage all of APIs through a unified platform. The company was founded by Vineet Joshi, Gary Gaessler, Atul Barve, and Mark W. Geene in October 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Divine Savior Holy Angels High School operates as a high school. The private company is based in Milwaukee, WI.

Total Expert, Inc. provides software as service solutions to the real estate vertical. Its solutions include CRM, marketing, c0marketing and compliance. The firm services industries include banking, credit unions, mortgage lending and, wealth managemnt The company was founded by Joe Welu in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Atavium, Inc. provides data management and storage services. The company was founded by Ed Fiore, Mark Bakke, Mike Klemm and Marc Olin on April 28, 2017 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J Weber, Robert J Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Right Team, Inc. engages in the development and operations of resourcing, forecasting, and analytics platform for digital agencies and software consultancies. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Great Lakes Roofing Corp. is a private company that aims to be a trusted partner and top choice for roofing solutions. The company is based in Germantown, WI. The company's mission is to work with clients to create solutions that meet their needs.

SyncApp, Inc. provides an open messaging platform. Its product, Snycapp, offers exchange of real time structured data and controls visibilty and privacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.