E. Robert Kursinski

Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Joel Adams. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

Luminescent Technologies, Inc. provides computational metrology and inspection solutions to the semiconductor industry. Its computational metrology and inspection is a set of mathematical approaches designed to improve the resolution, throughput, and accuracy of defect inspection, review and repair in mask shops and wafer fabs. The firm's products include computational lithography and defect management and luminescent automated image processing hub. The company was founded by Daniel S. Abrams, Jack J. S. Herrick, Stanley Osher and Eli Yablonovitch in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Qspeed Semiconductor provides the industry's highest performance silicon power devices to help reduce worldwide energy consumption. Based on proprietary technologies, the company's portfolio includes highly efficient and cost-effective 300V and 600V power diodes for AC-to-DC power supplies, inverters, motor controls and other power applications greater than 150W. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Qspeed has a global sales and distribution network across Asia, North America and Europe.

First Insight, Inc. provides predictive analytic platform that retailers use to select the most profitable new products for improved sales, margins, and inventory turnover. The firm's predictive analytics solution gives retailers guidance for product design, buying, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions. The company was founded by Gregory J. Petro in 2007 and is headquartered in Warrendale, PA.

Hazelcast, Inc. develops, distributes and supports open source in-memory data grid. It provides commercially licensed hazelcast enterprise, management center and professional open source training, development support, and deployment support services. The company was founded by Talip Ozturk, Enes Akar and Fuad Malikov in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Earth Investments LLC operates as an early stage company. The company is headquartered in Golden, CO.

VUV Analytics, Inc. manufactures vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) molecular spectroscopy instruments. It specializes in Gas Chromatography, Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Spectrometry. VUV Analytics'' patented and proprietary technologies create the most exciting advancement in molecular spectroscopy in decades. The company was founded by Sean Jameson and Dale Harrison in 2009 and is headquartered in Cedar Park, TX.

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.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Touchdown Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and supports MEMS probecards. It products include flash, and dram. The firm offers ACCU-TORQ and GIGA-TORQ probecards for testing full pin count NAND and DRAM wafers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Baldwin Park, CA.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Paragon Space Development Corp. manufactures life support and environmental control systems. The firm designs, builds, tests, and operates life support systems and thermal control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers, and other extreme environment adventurers, as well as for unmanned space and terrestrial applications. The company was founded by Grant Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Jane Poynter, Dave Bearden, and Alicia Pederson in 1993 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Mindshare Medical, Inc. develops clinical decision support technology for clinicians and healthcare organizations. The company was founded by Samir Chowdhury, Ilya Goldberg, Michael Calhoun and Jack Kreindler in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

IBM Ventures (IBM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cytegen Corp. engages in the development and discovery of therapies that extend health span. The company is headquartered in Shorewood, WI.

Contract Wrangler, Inc. develops contracts management software. The company was founded by Neil M. Peretz and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

AV8 Ventures (AV8 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.