Cliften D. Beer

Ioxus, Inc. manufactures ultra capacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets. It designs and manufactures smaller, lighter weight iMOD modules and the new iMOD X-Series family of module systems. The firm also provides individual cells, pre-packaged modules, and system integration services. The company was founded by Chad Hall, Michael Pentaris and Thor Eilertsen in 2006 and is headquartered in Oneonta, NY.

Carbonfree Chemicals Holdings LLC develops a proprietary technologies that capture flue gases that would otherwise release carbon dioxide into the environment and transform into solid carbonate materials. It has three primary technologies include: SkyMine, SkyScraper, and SkyCycle a processes require less energy to remove harmful pollutants and safer ways to store carbon. The company was founded by Joe Jones in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

GEN3 Partners, Inc. provides world-class product, process and packaging innovation services. It is a technical innovation solutions provider that focuses on product, process, and packaging innovation for many of the largest and most respected industrial, consumer goods, and medical device companies in the world. The firm specializes in technical innovation consulting, training, product portfolio diagnosis, benchmarking, roadmap development and IP strategy. The company was founded by Michael Treacy, Simon S. Litvin and James K. Sims in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

GEN3 Ventures, Inc. (GEN3 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by James K. Sims. The firm is headquartered is in Boston, Massachusetts.

American EPAY, Inc. provides web based payroll services. Its services include wireless time and attendance devices, toll free time keeping solutions with text to speech, and voice matching technologies. The firm also provides web based solutions such as web timesheets, scheduling, job costing and budgeting for labor tracking and management. American EPAY was founded by Ben Aissa in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GEN3 Capital I LP seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in Russia and Israel. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of wireless communications, energy storage, and non-invasive medical device. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements with an investment size up to $1 million.

New Science Ventures LLC (New Science Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Somasundaram Subramaniam and Tom J A Lavin. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional office in London.

Sensor Platforms, Inc. develops algorithms and software platforms that enable smart phone and tablet apps to understand user contexts and intents. Its FreeMotion Library makes sensor fusion and user context awareness available in smartphones and tablets to combine and process data from installed sensors and microprocessors to better interpret users movements and situations and infer their intents. The company was founded by David M. Traversi, George Hsu and Herbert M. Dwight Jr. in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Ferric, Inc. develops integrated circuits and integrated inductors in CMOS technology for use in on-chip voltage regulators. Its products include chips and circuit IP, power management IC, packaged integrated voltage regulators and stack integrated voltage regulators. The firm offers power converters utilizing inductors. Its technology can be applies across a broad spectrum of power electronics ranging from full scale servers to the chip level. The company was founded in 2011 by Noah Sturcken, Maurizio Arienzo and Kenneth Shepard and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets nonvolatile memory solutions. It supplies flash memory semiconductor devices for the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and the Internet computing markets. The firm produces and sells semiconductor products, including flash controllers and controller-based modules, smart card integrated circuits and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency devices and modules. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Lightwire, Inc. manufactures optical networking equipment. Its products include optical transceiver modules and ethernet optoelectronic interconnects. The company was founded by Kalpendu Shastri in 2002 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.

Trellis Bioscience, Inc. is discovers and develops novel human antibody therapeutics. It provides the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies from human B cells. The firm develops the CellSpot antibody discovery platform, which enables the identification of antibodies directly from human blood. The company was founded by Lawrence Kauvar and Stote Ellsworth in 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Resolve Therapeutics LLC operates as a biotechnology company. It engages in the development of biotechnology drugs. The firm specializes in treatment of debilitating autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematous and Sjogren’s syndrome. The company was founded by James Posada in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

TherOx, Inc. operates as a medical device company which focuses on developing and commercializing therapies to treat ischemic and oxygen deprived tissue. Its SSO2 therapy consists of TherOx DownStream system, a mobile hardware device that interfaces with the TherOx DownStream Cartridge that controls cartridge operation wherein SSO2 solution is created and mixed with the patient's blood to create superoxygenated blood for delivery to the coronary arteries. The company was founded by David B. Musket, Paul J. Zalesky and J. Richard Spears in 1994 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Achronix Semiconductor Corp. offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted field programmable gate arrays. Its products include Speedster22i HD, Speedster22i HP, ACE, Boards, Documentation and Video Demos. The firm also offers the Achronix CAD environment (ACE), an easy-to-use, mature, robust design-tool suite for its customers and ACE includes integrated support for industry-standard synthesis tools Synplify Pro and Precision Synthesis. The company was founded by John Lofton Holt, Rajit Manohar, Virantha N. Ekanayake, and Clinton W. Kelly VI in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ProterixBio, Inc. supplies novel protein measurement technology. It manufactures and markets the ViBE platform, enabling highly sensitive, automated acoustic immunoassays to accelerate drug discovery, development and production of biological and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Edward F. Crawley and Mark Lundstrom in 2002 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

BioVex Group, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the development and commercialization of targeted treatments for cancer and the prevention of infectious disease. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures and designs micro controllers, processors and semiconductors. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

ThinkVine Corp. provides strategic marketing and decision support services. It offers marketing mix modeling software and services that enable agile planning, attribution, forecasting and optimization across various marketing tactics, such as online, offline, digital, and traditional. The firm serves consumer packaged goods, retail, financial services, travel and entertainment and household goods sectors. The company was founded by Damon J. Ragusa and Debra Patek in 1999 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Legend3D, Inc. provides image processing technology services. The firm specializes in theatrical feature conversion and have also provided stereoscopic consultation for films shot in native 3D that contained some material needing conversion. It also offers conversion of motion pictures, television shows, advertisements and other visual entertainment assets produced in 2D into 3D. The company was founded by Barry B. Sandrew in 2001 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

OneChip Photonics, Inc. develops and manufactures optical transceivers. Its PIC-based Passive Optical Network Bi-directional Optical Sub-Assemblies and transceivers will help system providers deploy Fiber-to-the-x and meet consumer and business demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services. The company was founded by Valery Tolstikhin and Trevor J. Hall in 2005 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

RedWave Energy, Inc. develops technology to convert industrial waste heat to electricity. It provides energy harvesting, detection, cleantech, waste water, and solar services. The company was founded by Jim Nelson and Patrick K. Brady in 2011 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Northwater Capital, Inc. provides asset management to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

R3 Fusion, Inc. operates as global water purification company. The firm's patented R³EVAP technology provides produced water reduction & recovery, RO Reject recovery, micro desalination and other water purification solutions. The company is headquartered in The woodlands, TX.

KIPP Austin Public Schools operates as a network of 10 college-preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle, and high school students. The company was founded by Jill Kolasinski in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

SuperTurbo Technologies, Inc. provides fuel efficiency services. It engages in the design, development, and production of fuel efficiency technology products for the automotive, trucks, fleet, off highway and motorsports markets. It develops SuperTurbochargers that utilize waste exhaust heat and drive train torque to spin the compressor. The company was founded by Ed VanDyne and Kevin Stover in 2009 and is headquartered in Loveland, CO.

Lake Bridge Capital (Lake Bridge Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Pegasus Capital Advisors LP (Pegasus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Craig Cogut. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Trimaran Capital Partners LLC (Trimaran Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Jay R. Bloom, Andrew R. Heyer and Dean C. Kehler. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Advantage Capital Partners (Advantage Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Steven T. Stull and David W. Bergmann. The firm is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tigerconnect, Inc. provides secure mobile messaging services. It offers secure, real-time mobile messaging for the enterprise, empowering organizations to work more securely. The company serves healthcare, enterprise, personal and developers. The company was founded by Jeffrey Albert Evans, Andrew A. Brooks and Brad Brooks in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Dali Wireless, Inc. provides wireless coverage and capacity solutions. Its products include cellular, public safety, and software. It offers all digital distributed antenna system, dynamic capacity allocation, coverage extension, and radio access network virtualization solutions. The company was founded by Leo K. Wong, Albert S. Lee and Dali Yang in 2006 and is headquartered Menlo Park, CA.