James Kayany

Focus Management, Inc. (Focus Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Steve Bird, Kevin J McQuillan and James Boettcher. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Charter Private Capital Management, Inc. (Charter Private Capital) is a venture capital/private equity, subsidiary of Charter Capital Holdings, Inc. founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Part of AMMB Holdings Bhd., AmResearch Sdn. The company is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bhd. is a Malaysian company that provides investment research.

Michigan Economic Development Corp. provides economic development efforts and policy development and technology development. Its services include business retention and attraction, financial assistance, employee recruitment and training, assistance for providing permits, and site development services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Lansing, MI.

Michigan Rise (Michigan Rise) is a venture capital firm, fully owned subsidiary of the Michigan State University Research Foundation founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan.

Red Cedar Ventures LLC (RCV) is the venture capital subsidiary of Michigan State University Foundation founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan.

Invest Michigan (Invest Michigan) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Northville, Michigan.

Silicon Optix, Inc. provides mixed signal semiconductor solutions. The company was founded by Louie Lee and Paul M. Russ in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Peakview Management LLC (Peakview Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Fordham Foundry is an innovation and entrepreneurship hub at Fordham University that provides a collaborative working environment for students, alumni, faculty, and community members to learn, connect, launch, and grow their business ventures. The Foundry offers curricular and co-curricular offerings, access to an inter-connected network of alumni and faculty, and connectivity with the city start-up ecosystem. It provides mentorship, bi-annual business plan and pitch competitions to provide equity-free startup funding, funding through the Fordham Angel Fund, and working spaces, advisors, mentors, events, and educational programming that help students move from ideation to impact. The Foundry is open to all Fordham students, alumni, and community members, as well as the entrepreneurial organizations they are a part of.

OCA Venture Partners LLC (OCA Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jim A. Dugan, John J. Dugan and Peter A. Ianello. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Focus Opportunity Fund LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of enterprise software, mobile, financial technology, data and ai, internet of things and cybersecurity. It provides financing for early and later stage capital requirements.

Meeder Asset Management, Inc. (MAM) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. The firm was founded by Robert Meeder in 1974 and is a subsidiary of Meeder Investment Management, Inc. MAM provides a wide variety of investment management services to individuals, families, businesses and institutions.