James Franklin

BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc. develops biosensor for detection of bacteria and viruses. Its product 404pi offers scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of bio-molecular interactions an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument. The company was founded by Misha Plam, Slava Petropavlovskikh and Oyvind Nilsen in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

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.

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

Dharmacon, Inc. engages in the research and development for ribonucleic acid synthesis. Its products are gene editing, RNA interference, cDNAs and ORFs, transfection, and viral packaging. The company was founded by Stephen Scaringe in 1995 and is headquartered in Lafayette, CO.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

EDV Management Co (El Dorado Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Kalbach. The firm is headquartered in in Menlo Park, California.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Colorado BioScience Association operates as an association for life sciences. The non-profit company is based in Denver, CO. The company was founded by Steve A. Orndorff. Jennifer Jones Paton has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Auth0, Inc. engages in the provision of universal authentication and authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications. It serves the financial, healthcare, media, retail, and real estate industries. The company was founded by Matias Woloski and Eugenio Pace in 2013 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

ServiceTitan, Inc. provides mobile cloud-based business management software solutions. It offers services for residential plumbing, HVAC, and electrical, and hom services companies in United States and Canada. The company was founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in June 2008 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.

Foodsby, Inc. operates as an online platform that enables restaurants to deliver food or lunch to offices. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, Kansas City and Charlotte. The company was founded by Parag Shah and Ben Cattoor in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Total Expert, Inc. provides software as service solutions to the real estate vertical. Its solutions include CRM, marketing, c0marketing and compliance. The firm services industries include banking, credit unions, mortgage lending and, wealth managemnt The company was founded by Joe Welu in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Atavium, Inc. provides data management and storage services. The company was founded by Ed Fiore, Mark Bakke, Mike Klemm and Marc Olin on April 28, 2017 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ribometrix, Inc. develops small molecule drugs that target functional RNA structures to create new avenues to treat human disease. The company was founded by Kevin Weeks and Katie Warner and is headquartered in Greenville, NC.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J. Weber, Robert J. Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Attentive Mobile, Inc. engages in the development of mobile messaging platform for e-commerce and retail brands. The firm serves to retail, E-commerce, food and beverage, entertainment, media and publishing, travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded by Brian Culbertson Long, Andrew Jones, and Ethan Lo in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Right Team, Inc. engages in the development and operations of resourcing, forecasting, and analytics platform for digital agencies and software consultancies. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Part of GSK Plc, Elsie Biotechnologies Inc. is a private biopharmaceutical company dedicated to unlocking the full potential of oligonucleotide therapeutics. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Elsie Biotechnologies integrates discovery, development, and delivery to increase potency, decrease toxicity, and optimize delivery of oligonucleotide therapeutics. The company's platform accesses the entire oligonucleotide chemistry space to optimize gene silencing and splice switching, and develops novel oligonucleotide therapeutics that are more potent, safer, and easier to deliver to target tissues. Elsie Biotechnologies is focused on unlocking the full potential of RNA therapeutics to treat undruggable diseases. The company was founded in 2021 by Phil Baran and Philip E. Dawson. The CEO is Kevin Green. Elsie Biotechnologies was acquired by GSK Plc on June 06, 2024 for $50 million.