Adam Ward

ECO2 Plastics, Inc. produces recycled plastic flake for manufacturers. It operates plastics materials recycling plants in the United States. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Riverbank, CA.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Webs, Inc. operates an online marketing platform. The firm offers templates and website builders allow users to build their own professional websites for small businesses, personal blogs, and hubs. The company was founded by Haroon Mokhtarzada and Zeki Mokhtarzada in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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.

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.

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute is a non profit organization that provides healthcare plans and services. It focuses on total health of its members and guided by personal physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Its expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, care delivery, and chronic disease management. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

White Mountains Reinsurance Co. of America provides property and casualty insurance services. The company operates in Chicago, Greenwich, Miami and Toronto. It was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Risk Management Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of software and information services to the insurance industry. The firm offers technology and services for the management of insurance catastrophe risk associated with natural perils such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and windstorms, and products for weather derivatives and enterprise risk management. The company was founded by Hemant H. Shah in 1989 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

The Toa Reinsurance Co. of America provides reinsurance underwriting services. Its products include property, casualty, casualty facultative and clash cover professional liability, and agricultural reinsurance. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Stone Point Capital LLC (Stone Point Capital) is a Private Equity firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. provides underwriting of residential and commercial earthquake insurance services. It seeks to increase the number of options for homeowners and businesses seeking earthquake insurance. The company was founded by David McDonald Armstrong in February 2014 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Jam City, Inc. designs, develops, and publishes social and mobile games. The firm offers games such as fluff friends rescue, jewels of the amazon, bubble atlantis, skies of glory, fast, mindJolt and lil flippers. The company was founded by Chris DeWolfe, Josh Yguado, Haroon Mokhtarzada, T. J. Murphy, Shervin K. Pishevar, Haroon Mokhtarzada and Aber Whitcomb in 2007 and is headquartered in Culver, CA.

Thompson Hutton LLC is a private company that specializes in building innovative companies in the fintech and insurtech sectors. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company serves as investment managers and advisors for venture capital and private equity investment funds, as well as leading private companies in the industry. George Thompson Hutton has been the CEO of the company since 2000.

EatLime, Inc. operates as a web-video discovery platform. It offers Telly, a solution to share and discover videos; and Telly Plus, a premium content service that allows users to stream movies and television shows to their iOS and Android mobile devices, and computers. The company was founded by Mohammad Al Adham and Adil Lalani in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francis, CA.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Machine Zone, Inc. develops games and applications for mobile and social-networking platforms. It focuses on creating free-to-play mobile social games. The company was founded by Michael Sherril, Halbert Nakagawa, and Gabriel Leydon in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Application Corp. provides online communication and collaboration solutions industry. Its applications HyperMobile for push email and mobile messaging and HyperBase for online database management and web forms. The company was was founded by Farzin Arsanjani, Shervin K. Pishevar and Drew Morris in 1998 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Social Finance, Inc. engages in the provision of loan refinancing services. It offers mortgage loans, personal loan and wealth management services. Its products include student loan refinancing, medical resident refinancing, mortgage loans, mortgage refinancing, personal loans, parent loans, parent PLUS refinancing, asset management, wealth management, and life insurance. The company was founded by James Robert Finnigan, Andrew Carra, Daniel Macklin, Michael Scott Cagney, and Ian Brady in August 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ACME Capital (ACME) is a venture capital firm. The firm was founded in 2013 by Shervin Pishevar, Scott Stanford and Hany Nada. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Advantage Insurance Holdings Ltd. provides customizes insurances services. Its services include life insurance and business insurance. The company was founded by Ian Kilpatrick in 1993 and is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

XL Innovate LLC (XL Innovate) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tom Hutton. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Wag Labs Inc. develops a mobile dog walking application. Its platform Wag! finds dog walkers through mobile phones. It offers dog sitting, and dog boarding services. The company was founded by Joshua Viner and Jason Meltzer in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Quip NYC, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells oral health care products. It offers electric toothbrush, toothpaste, and refillable floss. The company was founded by Simon Enever and William Thomas May and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Ever/Body, Inc. provides cosmetic dermatology services. It offers botox & wrinkle relaxers, dermal fillers, facials and laser hair removal treatments. The company was founded by Karen Castelletti, Maggie Lu and Kate Twist and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SoLo Funds, Inc. operates as a mobile peer-to-peer lending exchange for the underbanked population that provides affordable access to low-value funds. The company was founded by Travis Holoway, Rodney Williams, Jarrel Carter and Taylor Conophy and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Straight Up Insurance Services LLC, also known as fairmatic, is an insurtech company that provides data-driven fleet insurance. Fairmatic is based in San Francisco, CA. The company uses AI-powered technology and telematics data to create cost savings for fleets, safer roads, and a profitable business model. Fairmatic has raised a total of $42m from various investors and is expanding its team. The company offers an auto insurance option that empowers fleets to lower premiums every month by proactively optimizing safety scores and driving performance. Jonathan Matus has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Portag3 Ventures (Portag3 Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Sagard Private Equity founded in 2015 by Paul Guy Desmarais III and Adam Felesky. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.