Christophe Simmer

Invoke Solutions, Inc. develops real-time collaborative research technologies. It is a custom market research provider that combines professional expertise with proprietary research technologies enabling innovative companies throughout the world to gain insight into their brand, product, communication and customer strategies. The firm focuses on every research engagement on driving specific business results by measuring, diagnosing, and prescribing all at the same time. The company was founded by Aharon Ronen Mizrahi and Amir Meir Weisenstern in 1999 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center /Incubator/ (Chicagoland Entr Center) is a venture capital subsidiary of Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Rush University Medical Center engages in the provision of health care services. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

11 Roniin LLC provides business support services. The company was founded by Paul H. Lee in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center provides business development advisory services. It helps clients by providing financing, sales and client development, mentoring, peer-to-peer exchange, grant and new ventures accelerating services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Ounce of Prevention Fund is a non-profit organization, which provides care and education to children who were born in poverty. It offers childhood education, research, and program models that focus on the physical, social, and emotional development of children from birth to age of five. The company was founded by Irving B. Harris in 1982 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Firestarter Fund (Firestarter Fund) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2012 by Matthew Moog, Sam Yagan and Brian Hand. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

LitCharts LLC provides literature guides. Its LitCharts includes a color-coded Themes Key, which assigns a specific color to each theme. Readers can then trace the prevalence of themes throughout the book. The company was founded by Benjamin Florman and Justin Kestler and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Corazon Group LLC (Corazon Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Sam Yagan and Steven M. Farsht. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ShopRunner, Inc. engages in the design, development, and operation of a shopping platform for merchants. The firm offers ShopRunner platform. The company was founded by Michael Golden in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Brilliant Worldwide, Inc. provides online software that connects students to discuss and solve mathematics and physics problems. The company was founded by Sam Solomon, Silas Hundt and Suyeon Khim in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

O'Brien Veterinary Management LLC operates veterinary services clinics. Its practice management and consulting services cover all aspects of animal hospital administration including operations, strategy, human resources, purchasing and vendor management, finance and marketing. The company was founded by Emily O’Brien and Gregory M. O'Brien in 2005 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL.

Grindr, Inc. engages in the operations of a social networking app. The company is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

Part of Elliott Capital Advisors LP, SparkNotes LLC is an American company that operates a platform to assist students in understanding books, writing papers, and studying for tests online. The company was founded by Sam Yagan.

Sparknotes.com provides an academic resource site that features online study guides in a variety of subjects. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, CA.

Xamance SAS provides online document archiving solutions. It offers online cloud system for office documents. The company was founded by Thomas Henry De Biesbach Belleroche and Matthieu Jacquier in October 7, 2004 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Part of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., ADP-GSI SA develops software for human resources. The company is based in Levallois-Perret, France.

Automatic Data Processing Ltd. provides business process outsourcing services. The company is headquartered in Chertsey, the United Kingdom.

Part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Arthur Andersen (UK) is a British company that provides accounting services. The company is based in Reading, UK.

Metaboli SA develops and distributes video games. It offers action, strategic, management, adventurous, and sports games. The firm offers a legal broadband downloading service that gives unlimited access to personal computer games. The company provides gaming components for ISPs, community websites, and media sites. The company distributes video games through its own Website and partners' portals. Metaboli was incorporated on August 8, 2001 by Pierre Forest, Thibaut de Robien and Pierre Goubet and is headquartered in Paris, France.

SpotHero, Inc. provides mobile applications and website for drivers to find reserve parking spot. The company was founded by Mark Lawrence, Jeremy Smith and Lawrence Kiss in 2011 and is headquartered Chicago, IL.

Tinder, Inc. develops online dating applications. It provides a software that can be connected to social media and can be downloaded to mobile phones. The company was founded by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Christopher Gulczynski, Joe Munozm, and Whitney Wolfe in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

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

JEGI Capital Management LLC is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of The Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. founded in 1900 by Wilma H. Jordan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Provista Diagnostics, Inc. operates as a diagnostic company. It focuses on the development and commercialization of proprietary blood based diagnostic, prognostic, and monitoring tests in women's cancer. Its products include videssa breast, ovarian, endometrial, and HPV associated. The company is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Provista is a leading performance improvement company dedicated to helping nearly 70,000 hospitals, medical facilities, universities and colleges, and corporations nationwide improve their financial and operational performance. Through Novation, Provista’s supply contracting company, they provide members with the most competitive, extensive portfolio available. Together, they provide nearly $40 billion in combined annual purchasing power. Through a continuous portfolio review, Provista ensures members constant access to the best pricing on the products and services used daily. Provista is owned by VHA Inc. and their agreements are contracted and managed by Novation, Provista’s contracting services company.

AMB Advisors LLC is an investment banking firm that specializes in advising healthcare companies on mergers and acquisitions and capital formation transactions. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company's services and capabilities are comparable to those of a larger firm, but they maintain the personalized attention and focus of a boutique firm.