Erik Brannon

Churchill Management Corp. (Churchill) is an independent, SEC-registered independent investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Fred A. Fern in 1963. Churchill provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, pension plans, investment funds and other types of entities.

Morton Capital Management LLC, dba Morton Wealth (Morton), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Calabasas, California. Founded in 1981, Morton provides customized investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals and families (which include retirement accounts), pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities, and pooled investment vehicles.

Part of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG, Inc. provides audit and accounting services. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is Walter R. Pela.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Misfit Wearables Corp. manufactures and invents wearable computing products. Its product shine, an elegant personal activity tracker that you can instantly sync with customers smart phone by placing the device on the screen. The firm offers products and services in the consumer health and fitness space to develop healthy habits. The company was founded by Sridhar G. Iyengar, Sonny X. Vu and John Sculley III in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Prosper Funding LLC operates as a development stage company that operates a peer-to-peer lending platform. Its platform is an online marketplace that matches individuals who wish to obtain consumer loans with those who are willing to help fund those loans. The company was founded in February 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Arbor Commercial Mortgage LLC provides real estate financing services. It offers fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, senior housing loans, credit facility transactions, and mortgage loan services. The firm was founded by Ivan Kaufman in 1983 and is headquartered in Uniondale, 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.

Prosper Marketplace, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in operating a peer-to-peer online credit platform. The firm through its subsidiary Proper Funding operates an online marketplace that permits the lender members to bid on loan listings and purchases. It handles the funding and servicing of the loan on behalf of the matched borrowers and investors. The company was founded by Christian A. Larsen and John B. Witchel on March 22, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

City National Rochdale LLC (CNR) is the SEC-registered investment management subsidiary of CNR Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSX: RY) in Canada. The firm was created when Rochdale Investment Management LLC was combined with City National Asset Management, Inc. and City National Bank's investment management group, City National Asset Management. Headquartered in New York City, CNR provides portfolio management services to high-net-worth individuals as well as to registered investment companies, a private fund and institutional clients.

I2020 Accelerator (I2020 Accelerator) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Sunrise Mortgage & Investment Co. provides mortgage banking services. The firm specializes in providing financing and servicing for commercial properties. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Rune Labs, Inc. develops a SaaS platform that integrates with neuromodulation therapies to manage data ingestion, labeling, and availability. The company was founded by Brian Marc Pepin in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Capstan Medical, Inc. provides heart valve disease services. The company is based in Santa Cruz, CA. The company was founded in 2020 by Dan Wallace. The CEO is Margaret Marie Nixon.

Nucleus Radiopharma, Inc. is a full-service contract development and manufacturing organization that is dedicated to modernizing the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of radiopharmaceuticals. The company is based in New York. The American company's mission is to ensure that cancer patients have access to potentially lifesaving treatment tools. The company specializes in building reliable clinical and commercial supply chains for targeted radiotherapies. The CEO of the company is Charles S. Conroy.

BrightInsight, Inc. provides digital health technologies. The firm offers biopharma, patient support, medtech and engineering services. The company was founded by Kal Patel, Benjamin Lee and Ferry Tamtoro in January 2019 and is headquartered San Jose, CA.

Syng, Inc. is an audio company that has created a new sound system called cell alpha, which is the world's first triphonic speaker. The company is based in Venice, CA. The company aims to transform the human relationship with sound. The company has also developed the Syng studio app for Mac, which can turn cell alpha into a reference system. The CEOs of the company are Christopher R. Stringer, Charles J. Huebner.

Cellares Corp. operates as a biotechnology company. It provides preclinical and clinical scientists as well as commercial cell therapy manufacturers. The company was founded by Omar Kurdi, Fabian Gerlinghaus and Alex Pesch in 2019 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

SafelyYou, Inc. is a seed-stage company which engages in the development of artificial intelligence tools in memory loss management. Its aims to provide patients, caregivers, and families with a safety system that could adequately identify falls and make daily living safer for those living in memory care. The company was founded by Pulkit Agrawal, Alexandre Bayen, Julien Jacquemot, and George Netscher and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Cycuity provides silicon security solutions. Its products and services include hardware security assessments, secure boot and prospect security verification software. The company was founded by Jason Oberg, Jonathan Valamehr, Ryan Kastner and Tim Sherwood and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc. provides accounting and consulting services. The firm's focus areas encompass assurance, corporate tax, business consulting, and wealth management. Its services include audit and quarterly reviews, internal control, forensic accounting, tax planning, business valuation, cash flow management, tax compliance, charitable giving, stock option planning and financial and retirement planning. It serves clients in the agriculture, automotive, construction, financial, government, real estate, and non-profit sectors. The company was founded by Curtis A. Burr, Henry Pilger, and Steven T. Mayer in 1986 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Brightinsight Holdings, Inc. provides digital health platform for biopharma and medtech. Its products and services include brightinsight platform, starter assets, and standard and certifications. The company was founded by Kal Patel, Ferry Tamtoro and Benjamin Lee and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Spell, Inc. engages in the development of computer software related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. It offers a command-line tool for running code and experiments on remote hardware. The company was founded by Serkan Piantino in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Eclipse Ventures LLC (Eclipse Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Lior Susan. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.