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Founded in 1924, Saks Fifth Avenue LLC is a subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Co. that sells women's and men's apparel, shoes, handbags, and jewelry through online channels. The company is based in Boston, MA.

Norton Museum of Art Inc. is an art museum. It offers exhibitions, lectures, tours and programs for adults and children's. The company was founded by West Palm Beach in 1941 and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL.

Bush Boake Allen, Inc. was supplying flavors and fragrances. It was supplying its products to the consumer product manufacturing companies for use in foods, beverages, soaps & detergents, cosmetics, toiletries, personal care items & related products. The company's aroma chemicals, natural extracts and essential oils was serving as raw materials for a wide range of compounded flavors & fragrances. Bush Boake Allen was located in Montvale, NJ.

Part of K-5 Ventures LLC, K5 Venture Partners LLC is an American company that provides investment services. The company is based in Newport Beach.

myLAB Box, Inc. provides sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening solutions. It offers STD test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Trichomoniasis, HIV, and Hepatitis C. The company was founded by Lora Ivanova and Ursula Hessenflow in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Kitterly, Inc. offers knitting and crochet kits. It offers kits that include materials and instructions, and are matched to the knitter or chrocheter’s skill level. The company was founded by Mari Bower and Elizabeth Rowen and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

ElderSense.com provides assisted living directory and digital marketing services.

Signature Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of information display and paging systems. The company was founded on January 14, 1985 and is headquartered in Miamisburg, OH.

Xomad LLC is an agency that specializes in community activations for civic engagement and crisis management. The American company works with local and state governments, as well as major brands such as Clorox, L'Oreal, Walmart, and Ocean Spray. Xomad engages with hard-to-reach communities via digital word-of-mouth programs and activates trusted community messengers through a dedicated council platform for insights, innovations, and grassroots social media campaigns. Xomad is paving the way for influencer marketing by forming close relationships with true trendsetters who have special bonds with their audiences and networks.

K-5 Ventures LLC (K-5 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Amir Banifatemi and Ray Chan. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Part of CPL Aromas (Holdings) Ltd., CPL Aromas Spain manufactures perfumes and toilet preparations. The British company was founded in 1971 by Terence Pickthall, Michael Pickthall. Christopher Pickthall has been the CEO of the company since 1988.

CPL Aromas (Holdings) Ltd. is a fragrance-only fragrance house that creates innovative fragrances for various applications, including fine fragrance, personal care, home fragrance, and home care. CPL Aromas has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions and is trusted by top brands to translate their creative vision into beautiful scents. The British company's sustainability vision is to integrate more sustainable, honest, ethical, and responsible working practices into everything they do, which is echoed in their new vision and strategy to lead positive, transformational change. The private company was founded in 1971 by two brothers, Michael and Terry Pickthall, and has since grown exponentially to become the largest fragrance-only fragrance house in the world.

Neiman Marcus Holdings, Inc. retails women and men's apparel in the United States. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Mailpix, Inc. operates as photo-printing and gifting web portal. It offers photography, books, gifts, photos on canvas, digital prints, scanning, online photo printing, greeting cards, facebook printing, instagram printing and custom calendars. The company was founded by Fred H. Lerner and Peter Tahmin and is headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA.

Getthis Corp. operates as a digital commerce platform. It enables to discover articles and trends, shop select shows as you watch, find original items, browse stylist’s picks and affordable alternatives. The firm also combines both editorial and curates e-commerce marketplace, connects audiences with entertainment and the fashion and lifestyle brands. The company was founded by Lisa L. Farris in 2011 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. operates as a non profit organization which encourages, inspires, and stimulates businesses to support the arts in the workplace, in education, and in the community. The company was founded by David Rockefeller in 1967 and is headquartered in Long Island City, NY.

BIM Networks, Inc. operates a payment and commerce platform. The CEO is Adam B. Frisch.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP provides legal services. It is a law firm, which provides transactional and litigation guidance to multinational corporations, investment banks & venture capital firms in the U.S. and abroad. Its practice areas include corporate finance and legal services to financial institutions, energy, financial restructuring, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, and real estate. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tech Coast Angels, Inc. (Tech Coast Angels) is an angel firm founded in 1997 by Luis Villalobos. The firm is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Venture Farm LLC provides investments and execution assistance. The firm provides funding and execution assistance to entrepreneurs and early stage companies. The company was founded by Saeed Mohasseb and is headquartered in San Juan, CA.

Blue Pacific Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. specializes in creating natural flavors using only organic and natural ingredients. The private company is based in City of Industry, CA. Since 1993, the company has developed over 6,000 flavors.

Vigilistics, Inc. operates as a holding company, which engages in the provision of process monitoring, analytics and reporting solutions that reduce the cost of meeting emerging compliance needs and improve process quality. It offers solutions such as Clean in Place, Clean Out of Place, Manual Cleaning Process, Analytics, Traceability, Material Loss, and Material Yield. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Rafael, CA.

Bergdorf Goodman, Inc. operates retail stores. It offers women's collections, shoes and handbags, beauty and fragrances, gift items, compact disc and books, and apparels for men and women. The company was founded in 1899 and is based in New York, NY.

The Howard Hughes Corp. engages in the development and management of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate. It operates through the following segments: Operating Assets, Master Planned Communities, Seaport District, and Strategic Developments. The Operating Assets segment consists of retail, office, hospitality, and multi-family properties along with other real estate investments. The Master Planned Communities segment focuses on the development and sale of land in large-scale, long-term community development projects in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, Houston, Texas, and Columbia, Maryland. The Seaport District operates approximately 453,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, and entertainment properties situated in three primary locations in New York, New York: Pier 17, Historic Area/Uplands, and Tin Building. The Strategic Developments segment is involved in other real estate assets in the form of entitled and unentitled land and residential condominium developments. The company was founded in July 2010 and is headquartered in Woodlands, TX.