David Chen

National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. provides higher education, invention, and entrepreneurship services. It funds and trains faculty and students innovators to create successful and socially beneficial businesses. It offers grants to faculty to start programs in technology entrepreneurship, particularly ones that focused on the development of E-Teams-groups of students, faculty and advisors working to commercialize a novel idea. The company was founded on April 11, 2007 and is headquartered in Hadley, MA.

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network provides investment assistance. The non-profit company is based in Portland, OR and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Fresh Coast Capital LLC develops and finances community green infrastructure. It offers program planning and predevelopment, financing and contracting, designing or building, and operating and maintenance. The company was founded by Nicole Chavas, April Mendez, and Laura Brenner Kimes in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

AppHarvest Operations, Inc. is an applied technology company building some of the world’s largest indoor farms in Appalachia. The company combines conventional agricultural techniques with cutting-edge technology and is addressing key issues, including improving access for all to nutritious food, farming more sustainably, building a home-grown food supply, and increasing investment in Appalachia. The company was founded by Jonathan Webb in February 2017 and is headquartered in Lexington, KY.

GeoTrust, Inc. provides retail and reseller services for secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, website authentication, digital signatures, code signing, secure email, and enterprise SSL products. It offers true businessID with extended validation SSL certificates, true businessID SSL certificates, multi-domain certificates, wildcard SSL certificates, UC and SAN SSL certificates, quick SSL premium certificates, Symantec certified document solutions, and enterprise SSL. The company was founded by Neal Creighton, Charles Jennings, David Chen, and Christopher T. M. Bailey in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.