Alison M. Pendergast

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cengage Learning, Inc. provides educational technology solutions. It offers personalized services and course driven digital solutions for the higher education and K-12, professional, and library markets. The firm's brands include Brooks, Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South Western, and Wadsworth. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Highmark, Inc., HM Health Insurance Co. provides insurance services. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA. The company was founded in 1954. David L. Holmberg has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

Synaptic Digital, Inc. provides web-based video marketing and distribution services. Its services include satellite media tours, radio media tours, narrative marketing, interactive news releases, public service announcements, media relations and distribution, digital distribution and social engagement. The company was founded by Andrew Heyward and Shoba Purushothaman on April 4, 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hearst Corp. /Venture Capital/ (Hearst Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Gazillion, Inc. develops and publishes free-to-play online games. The firm operates massively multiplayer online games and services for wide audiences. The company was founded by Robert Hutter, Bhavin Shah, and John Romero in 2004 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

BuzzFeed, Inc. operates as a social news and entertainment company. It offers an online service that keeps track in real-time and highlights new content. The firm provides information in the categories of culture, movies, music, television, celebrity, style, food, politics, business, sports, and science and technology. The company was founded by Jonah H. Peretti and John S. Johnson III in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

WideOrbit, Inc. engages in the development of business management software for media companies. It offers different solutions for managing the business of broadcast and cable operations from proposal to order, scheduling to automation, billing and aging. The company was founded by Eric R. Mathewson in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pearson Education, Inc. publishes educational and professional books. Its brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust provides education and community engagement opportunities. The firm also presents arts events and visual arts exhibitions. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Sharecare Operating Co., Inc. provides digital healthcare information services. It provides platform software with a comprehensive and personalized health profile where it connects to the information, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need to live healthiest, happiest, and most productive life. The company was founded by Jeffrey T. Arnold and Mehmet C. Oz in October 2010 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Spartan Race, Inc. organizes obstacle race series. Its races include sprint, super, beast and trifecta. The firm also provides nutrition and training services. The company was founded by Joseph DeSena, Selicia Sevigny, Richard Lee, Brian Duncanson, Mike Morris, Andy Weinberg, Shaun Bain and Noel Hanna in 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsfield, VT.

Science Media LLC (Science Media) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Michael Jones, Peter Pham, Greg Gilman and Tom Dare. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Part of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., Spooky Cool Labs LLC is a company that designs and develops social casino games. The company is based in Chicago, IL. Spooky Cool Labs was acquired by Zynga, Inc., part of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. from May 24, 2022 on June 19, 2013 for $30.60 million.

Definition 6 LLC operates as a full service interactive marketing and ecommerce agency. It offers digital, content distribution, video, entertainment, social, and ecommerce. The company was founded by Michael Kogon in 1997 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Cymfony, Inc. operates as a media measurement, market research and business intelligence company. Its series of solutions are used to measure, analyze and manage global brands and understand perception from both traditional and consumer-generated media including blogs, messages boards, usenet groups and forums. The company was founded by Rohini K. Srihari in 1996 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Boston Academic Publishing, Inc. publishes academic textbooks in print and electronic format. The firm offers various categories of textbooks such as business and economics, mathematics, sciences and professional and applied sciences. The company was founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Carnegie Mellon University (Investment Management) (CMU Investment Office) is the investment management division of Carnegie Mellon University, a private research university headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. CMU Investment Office manages the university's long-term financial resources.

The Pittsburgh Technology Council is an organization that helps tech companies succeed through business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. The council is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and was founded by William R. Newlin. Companies at all growth stages use the council to build new business, connect to capital, grow a workforce, and make headlines. The council sponsors various events, including the Summer Slam and TechFest, where software development professionals from southwestern and surrounding areas convene to explore and elevate through professional development.

Draper Triangle Ventures (Draper Triangle Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Threshold Ventures, Inc. founded in 1999 by Jay Katarincic, and Michael Stubler. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

WISDOM Technologies Corp provides software solutions. It also sells accounting & finance software. Its software allows CFOs to calculate and simulate various financial scenarios to evaluating financial, and investment decisions. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Body Media, Inc. develops, markets, and sells body monitoring products and applications. It offers wearable body monitors that record and transmit physiological data utilized in observing health and wellness conditions particularly weight management. The company was founded by John Stivoric in 1999 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Plextronics, Inc. develops and delivers active layer technology for printed electronic devices. The company was founded on October 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP provides legal advisory services. Its practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate finance, insurance, tax, labor and employment, political law, private equity, corporate, antitrust, white collar crime, international, regulatory, and legislation. The company was founded by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps in 1948 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CardioInsight Technologies, Inc. manufactures and develops electrocardiographic mapping technology. It has developed a novel three dimensional (3D) non-invasive Electrocardiographic Mapping technology platform combining body surface electrical data with heart-torso anatomy to provide single beat epicardial 3D electroanatomic maps of the whole heart. Its ECVUE™ system non-invasively generates real-time, whole heart images of the electrical activity on the surface of the heart by combining body surface electrical data with 3D anatomical data. It then reconstructs and displays 3D maps and other useful measures of cardiac electrical activity as if the measurements were taken directly from the surface of the heart. The company was founded by Charu Ramanathan in 2006 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Bullseye Securities, Inc. provides information-centric data security software services. It also offers file and disk encryption solutions to protect data in laptops, desktops, USB drives and CDs/DVDs, email attachments, storage servers, file shares, and tapes. The firm serves healthcare, retail, education, financial services and legal industries, as well as government institutions. The company was founded by Matthew N. White and J. Patrick McGregor in 2003 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Learning, Inc. provides transformational mathematics education products and services. It offers research-proven mathematics software, textbooks, professional learning, and data analysis services for middle, high school, and college students. The company was founded by Kenneth R. Koedinger, John Anderson, Albert Corbett, William Hadley, and Steven Ritter and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Assurecare LLC provides integrated health management software for healthcare and human services organizations. It offers MedCompass, a health management platform that facilitates real-time care management through a fully integrated database of member and provider information. The company was founded by Thomas M. Mack and Gregory Silence in June 1979 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

uRefer, Inc provides an intelligent referral marketing platform. It provides AMP program builder, which allows users to design, launch, test, run, monitor, and analyze multiple advocacy and nurturing campaigns and AMP advocate database that provides advocates with their individual profiles and data. The firm serves agency partners, travel and entertainment, financial services, and home goods and services. The company was founded by Richard Beedon, Paul A. Vlasic and Jonn Behrman in August 2007 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Thread International PBC, Inc. operates as a fabric store. The company was founded by Ian Rosenberger in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Autobooks, Inc. provides payment and accounting software solutions. It offers services to the financial institutions to help small businesses grow. The company was founded by Vince Thomas, Steve Robert and Aaron Schmid and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

Stimdia Medical, Inc. engages in operates clinics and health care centers. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Arbor Networks, Inc. provides prepackaged software services. It offers Pravail, a cloud-based solution that delivers the situational awareness and security intelligence for enterprise and government networks to detect and mitigate internal and external threats. The company was founded by Farnam Jahanian, Ted Julian, and Robert G. Malan in 2000 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

E&I Cooperative Service, Inc. provides goods and services. It offers sourcing, and consulting services. The company was founded by George Frank, Charles Wilmot and E. E. Thompson on August 2, 1934 and is headquartered in Jericho, NY.