Alexander K. Schowtka

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Digitas, Inc. provides digital and interactive marketing services to the Internet-based and e-commerce companies. The company also provides cross-channel communications to clients. Its services include customer acquisition, cross-sell, loyalty, affinity and customer care operations. The company was founded by Robert L. Cosinuk in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sigma Prime Ventures LLC (Sigma Prime Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by John Mandile, Paul Flanagan. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nasuni Corp. provides cloud-integrated storage solutions. Its solutions include unified file storage, backup, disaster recovery, data archiving, global file share, scale out storage and storage virtualization. The firm offers nasuni file services, the nasuni filer, nasuni management console, nasuni operations center, and cloud storage products. The company was founded by Andres I. Rodriguez and Robert S. Mason, Jr. in 2009 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

WordStream, Inc. develops online marketing software. Its products include WordStream advisor, a pay-per-click (PPC) software that allows to create, optimize, manage, and measure high-performing PPC and social advertising campaigns. It offers free keyword tool, online marketing tools, and search marketing fundamentals. The company was founded by Larry E. Kim and Gerard Escalante in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Prospectiv is an online performance marketing pioneer with an expertise in connecting women to brands. With trusted experience and proven success in consumer acquisition, Prospectiv helps create true brand engagement that results in qualified marketing leads for advertisers and incremental revenue streams for Web publishers. The company offers a suite of innovative products and advanced proprietary technology that are customizable, flexible, measurable and analytical to help achieve campaign goals. The company works with the world's leading brands from Fortune 1000 companies such as Procter & Gamble, Pfizer and Disney, as well as leading Web publishers that include Publishers Clearing House, IAC and WhitePages. Founded in 1999, Prospectiv is privately-held and is based in Wakefield, MA

Part of Corning, Inc., Lasertron, Inc. is a company that makes optical components. The company is based in Burlington, MA. The company was founded by Jorge M. Fernandes. Lasertron was acquired by Oak Industries, Inc. on 1995-09-07 for $112.0 million.

Sigma Partners (Sigma Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by J. Burgess Jamieson and C. Bradford C. Jeffries. The firm is headquartered in Danville, California.

SEMrush, Inc. engages in the development of research and business intelligence software. It provides a digital marketing toolkit for SEO, PPC, and content marketing professionals worldwide. The company was founded by Oleg Schegolev and Dmitri Melnikov in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, PA.

Rethink Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for production and research environment. The firm introduces robotics into processes that uses common sense to perform tasks and vastly improve productivity and one that safely works side by side with its human counterparts, who are able to train it with no programming or engineering expertise. The company was founded by Rodney Allen Brooks and Anne Whittaker in July 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Mass Technology Leadership Council, Inc. is a technology association based in Massachusetts. The American company's mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and the development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in the region. The non-profit company connects people from across the technology landscape, provide access to industry-leading content and ideas, and offer their members visibility and a platform to advance their collective interests. The company was founded by David Solomont and the CEO is Sara Fraim.

Cimpress USA, Inc. provides printing services. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

NSONE, Inc. provides domain name system and traffic management services. Its NS1 solution offers anycasted network, filter chain, geographic routing, load shedding, and linked zones and records. The company was founded by Kristopher Beevers, Alex Vayl, and Jonathan Sullivan in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Coherent Path, Inc. engages in the provision of solutions to retailers for understanding and connecting with their customers. The company was founded in 2012 by James Glover and Gregory Leibon and is headquartered in Arlington, MA.

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

Wavecrest Management Co LLC (Wavecrest Growth Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Deepak Sindwani and Valibhav Nalwaya. The firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

PadinMotion, Inc. provides a platform that allows healthcare facilities to engage, educate, and connect with patients to improve health outcomes. The company was founded by Gabe Vorobiof and Nir Altman and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Volante Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of payments and financial messaging solutions. The firm offers VolPay, Volante Designer, message validation services, and open banking. The company was founded by Vijay Oddiraju, Uday Thakur, and Venkat Malla in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Augmented Reality Concepts, Inc. provides automated 360 content creation tools for mobile devices and the web. It develops and markets proprietary, patent-pending software for creating, enriching, and publishing photorealistic 360 content. The company was founded by Devin Daly and Michael Quigley in 2011 and is headquartered in Syracuse, NY.

Ladders, Inc. provides online and mobile job-matching services. It helps professionals find the jobs and meet the employers that are right for their career goals. The firm serves professionals in marketing and media, healthcare, technology, consumer goods, industrial, and service sector in the United States. The company was founded by Marc Cenedella, Andrew Koch and Alexandre Douzet in July 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Payward, Inc., also known as Kraken, is a cryptocurrency platform that offers spot trading, staking, regulated derivatives, and index services. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and has subsidiaries in Australia, United Kingdom, and United States. Kraken's mission is to accelerate the adoption of crypto to achieve financial freedom and inclusion. The platform is trusted by over 10 million individuals, traders, and institutions worldwide, and offers professional 24/7/365 client support. Kraken has set the industry standard for transparency and client trust, and was the first crypto platform to conduct proof of reserves audits. The company was founded in 2011 by Karsten Nilsen and Jesse William Powell, and the CEO is David Ripley.

GoldenSource Corp. provides enterprise data management software. The firm provides preconfigured connectivity and data integration interface which applies into EDM applications. It also provides solutions for the derivatives and fixed income markets. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Contently, Inc. operates an online digital marketplace for writers and publishers. It offers enterprise software, patent pending analytics and content distribution solutions. The company was founded by Joseph Coleman, David T. Goldberg and Shane Snow in January 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.