Heather Planishek

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Founded in 2016, Palantir Technologies UK - Eagle Ltd. is a special purpose entity that operates as part of Palantir Technologies, Inc. The company is based in London, UK.

Nylas, Inc. operates as email platform and infrastructure company. It develops a cloud based platform for email, calendars, and contacts. The company was founded by Michael Grinich, Gleb Polyakov, and Christine Spang in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Global Growth Holdings Inc (Global Growth) is a private equity firm founded in 1991 by Greg Lindberg. The firm is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

Beckett Collectibles LLC is an iconic brand that was founded in 1979 by Dr. James Beckett as a pricing guide for classic American sports cards. The company is based in Plano, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company has expanded into several other collectible categories with its signature pricing guidance, grading services, and print and digital tools for enthusiasts and professionals in the hobby. Beckett invests heavily in new digital, subscription, and blockchain technologies, as well as in new verticals and expert talent, to help collectors value, safeguard, and trade their unique items. With over 30 years of experience assembling the industry's most comprehensive collectibles database, Beckett is uniquely positioned to become the world's premier alternative assets platform. The company was founded in 1979 by James Beckett. Kevin Isaacson has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Morrison & Foerster LLP is a law firm that provides legal services on various industries, which include: litigation, financial services, intellectual property and technology, and transactional work, such as corporate, capital markets and real estate finance representations. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RoboteX, Inc. develops, manufactures, sells, and supports robotic platforms. It offers AVATAR line of personal safety robotic operating systems for first responders to inspect dangerous situations; controllers; and accessories, such as command terminals, wheelie rod kits, robot cases, pan-tilt-zoom cameras, manipulator arms, gas/radiation detectors, hitches and trailers, external audio-video receivers, robot batteries, and development backpacks. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jerseyville, IL.

Formation8 Partners LLC (Formation8) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo, and Jim Kim. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Prime Movers Lab LLC (Prime Movers Lab) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Dakin Sloss. The firm is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Part of MK Level Playing Field Institute, The Summer Math & Science Honors Academy (SMASH) is a free, 3-year, intensive STEM-focused college prep program that empowers students to deepen their talents and pursue STEM careers. During the academic year, scholars participate in monthly programming and build relationships with facilitators and STEM professionals that reflect their same demographics. SMASH aims to serve groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields, first-generation college students, and those from low-income families. Founded in 2004 by Freada Kapor Klein, the program immerses scholars in tuition-free studies in partnership with leading universities throughout the country. The CEO is Hassan Brown.

Poly-America LP is a group of privately-held corporations headquartered in Grand Prairie, Texas, that provides integrated waste solutions. The American company has several subsidiaries and divisions, including Carolina Poly, Poly-West, Up North Plastics, and Pol-Tex. Poly-America produces several product lines, all within the polyethylene family, and is committed to understanding and exceeding the needs and expectations of its customers by providing them with competitively priced and top quality products. The private company is also the most technologically advanced and largest recycler and compounder of polyethylene in the world. Poly-America has a track record of continuous improvement based on the pursuit of enhancing customer experience through motivated employees who consistently strive to improve the company and its products.

Pebble Health, Inc. provides intelligent health coverage for startups. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company aims to modernize health coverage and bring it out of the dark ages. The CEO of the company is Manoj Pinna.

Bureau, Inc. provides identification verification services. The American company was founded in 2020 by Ranjan Reddy. Ranjan Reddy has been the CEO since 2020.

SMaSh, Inc. provides mobile application services. It offers menu-driven choices, integration with web-based systems, session management, and transactions. The company was founded by Chanakya Damarla and Eric Boduch in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Goldcrest Advisory LLC (Goldcrest Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Goldcrest Investments Group, founded in 2009 by Daniel Friedland. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Palantir USG, Inc. provides information technology and software related products and services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Auxilius, Inc. aligns clinical operations and financial stakeholders with a solution designed for biotech clinical trial financial management. The company is based in Sacramento, CA. The company offers financial planning and analysis technology solutions for clinical trial finance across biotech and biopharma. Auxilius resources serve biotech and biopharma leaders on topics related to clinical trial finance and planning. The company was founded by Adam Weisman. Adam Weisman has been the CEO since incorporation.

NodePrime, Inc. provides data center management platform. Its platform provides multi-vendor hardware control, high-speed scalable time series data collection, and interface options for datacenter operators and developers. The company was founded by James Malachowski, Alex Moore and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Premise Data Corp. develops applications for real time macro economic data. It builds machinery to global economic transparency and measure with the collective enterprise of the human race. The firm web-scale machine learning infrastructure captures, normalizes and translates massive quantities of unstructured and semi-structured data. The company was founded by David Lawrence Soloff and Joseph Reisinger in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AAF Management Ltd. (AAF) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Kyle Hendrick and Omar Darwazah. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Beckon, Inc. offers omnichannel analytics software. Its software-as-a-service platform integrates messy marketing data and delivers dashboards and scorecards for cross-channel marketing intelligence. The company was founded by Jennifer Zeszut and Jochen Frey in 2011 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Dash Radio, Inc. operates as a digital radio broadcasting platform. The company was founded by Scott P. Keeney, Matthew Michelsen, Ron Goldie and Peter Ferraro on August 19th, 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Algomus, Inc. operates a data analytics platform. It provides machine learning and natural language processing to democratize online semantic data that currently only the tech giants have the infrastructure to support. The company was founded by Matt Michelsen, Aaron Rama, and Evon Onusic in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GothamAlpha LLC provides information technology services. The American company was founded by Matthew Michelsen.

Oro Labs, Inc. is a company that aims to simplify procurement processes for businesses. The company is based in Redwood City, CO. Oro Labs was founded by Lalitha Rajagopalan, Sudhir Bhojwani, and Yuan Tung, with Sudhir Bhojwani serving as CEO since incorporation. The company's automation platform helps manage enterprise spend and supplier relationships. The company offers a supplier management tool that can adapt to changing business needs, simplifies audits, and mitigates bank fraud. Oro's smart workflow uses AI, data, and human input to streamline supplier bank authentication and fraud prevention processes.

Piazza Technologies, Inc. provides an online collaboration platform for students and teachers to communicate about complex problems in real time. The company was founded by Pooja Nath Sankar in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Titan Haptics, Inc. develops advanced haptic motors for smartphones, consoles, and touchscreen devices. The company is based in Mississauga, Canada. The Canadian company's Tachammer developer kit contains everything needed to plug and play and bring advanced haptics to the next project. The company offers downloads, developer kits, datasheets, engineering support, and sample orders for their linear magnetic rams (LMRs), which are wideband voice-coil haptic motors that provide class-leading frequency response, reliability, and strength of haptic output.

Veeve, Inc. engages in the development of visual recognition software for online shopping carts. The company was founded by Shariq Siddiqui and Umer Sadiq on June 20, 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

CubeTree, Inc. provides social business online software internet services. The company was founded by Carlin Wiegner in 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Symantec, Inc. provides computer security services. The private company is based in Burlington, MA.