Jeff Mason

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

PayScale, Inc. engages in the provision of online compensation and benefit information software. It offers access to accurate compensation data for both employees and employers. The firm?s software allows users to obtain an unparalleled level of compensation information, providing a precise snapshot of current market pay. The company was founded by Joe Giordano and Douglas Tarr in January 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

FactorTrust, Inc. provides underbanked consumer data, analytics, and risk scoring solutions. It helps lenders manage the credit lifecycle of underbanked consumers using alternative credit information. It offers data on credit risk and compliance, and bank account and ID verification. The company was founded by Gregory John Rable and Christopher Scott Amato in 2006 and is headquartered in Roswell, GA.

Urjanet, Inc. provides online data feeds for company power usage management. The firm provides an energy data platform that collects, reconciles, and analyzes energy and carbon-related data from different sources including smart meters. The company was founded by Sanjoy Malik and Rob Burson in 2009 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Branding Brand, Inc. develops and provides mobile e-commerce sites and applications. It caters to clients from the food and beverage, apparel, cosmetics, technology, and automotive markets. The firm’s products include interactive multimedia catalogs, video libraries, social media integration, and push notifications. The company was founded by Christopher G. Mason, Joey Rahimi, and Christina L. Koshzow in 2008 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York.

LLR Management, LP is a private equity firm founded in the year 1999 by Howard Ross, Ira Mark Lubert and Seth Lehr. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lightyear Capital LLC (Lightyear Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Marron & Associates LLC founded in 2000 by Donald Baird Marron. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Appriss, Inc. engages in the development of data analytics platforms the healthcare, retail, commercial, and government agencies. It offers Appris Health, Appriss Retail, and Appriss Insights. The company was founded by Michael D. Davis and Yung T. Nguyen in 1994 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Workforce Software LLC engages in the provision of workforce management software services for organizations. Its solutions include forecasting and scheduling, time and attendance, crew management, advanced scheduler, absence compliance tracker, analytics, fatigue management, and data capture. It serves energy utilities, financial services, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, K-12 school districts, manufacturing, petrochemical and refining, public sector, and retail industries. The company was founded by Kevin Choksi, Kathy Cannon, and Michael John Knister in 1999 and is headquartered in Livonia, MI.

Achieve3000, Inc. engages in the provision of web-based learning solutions. It offers various solutions such as kidbiz3000, teenbiz3000, empower3000, spark3000 and escience3000. The company was founded by Saki Dodelson and Susan Gertler in 2000 and is headquartered in Red Bank, NJ.

Argus Information & Advisory Services LLC provides information and advisory services to financial institutions. The company was founded by Leonard Laufer and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

Turnitin LLC engages in the development of anti-plagiarism software. Its products include Turnitin feedback studio, revision assistant and scoring engine, iThenticate and writeCheck. The company was founded by John M. Barrie, Max-Emmanuel Briand, Melissa Lipscomb, and Christian Storm in 1998 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Hayneedle, Inc. owns and operates online retail stores of home furnishings and lifestyle products. Its brands include heyneedle.com, specialty stores and plumstruck. The company was founded by Douglas S. Nielsen, Mark D. Hasebroock and Julie E. Mahloch in 2002 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

SMS Assist LLC provides multisite property management services. It offers a suite of property management benefits including leveraged pricing of products and services, risk indemnification, real-time services validation, instant invoicing, automatic service audits, and data analysis. The company was founded by Michael Rothman in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Pluralsight LLC engages in online development and IT training services. Its platform includes browse library, plural Insight IQ, paths, mentoring, mobile apps, and professional services. The firm serves the individuals, small business, academic, federal government, and state and local government. The company was founded by Keith Sparkjoy, Fritz Onion, Keith Brown, Bill Williams and Aaron Skonnard in 2004 and is headquartered in Farmington, UT.

JCJ Capital Partners LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Scottsdale, AZ.

Fullcircl Ltd. provides information about company financials. The firm's solutions include grow revenue, streamline on boarding, collaboration and application programming interface. The company was founded by Peter Damian Kimmelman in April 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Scorenomics, Inc. engages in the provision of a consumer finance platform for identifying and improving personal credit profiles. Its products include extra credit, credit boost, and T1-Minute Credit Clinics. The company was founded by Zaydoon H. Munir in April 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Mission Engine LLC (MissionOG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Kevin O’nell, Eugene Lockhart, George Krautzel, Andrew Kese and Andy Newcomb. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Behalf, Inc. provides an online loan service for SMBs. The company was founded by Benjy Feinberg, Jeremy Esekow and Shai Feinberg and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Oak HC/FT Management Co. LLC (Oak HC/FT Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ann Huntress Lamont, Andrew W. Adams and Tricia F. Kemp. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with additional office in San Francisco.

Pluralsight Holdings LLC provides online training for information technology and hardcore software developers. The company is headquartered in Farmington, UT.

Namogoo Technologies Ltd. engages in the provision of cyber security to online retailers and online shoppers. Its products include cyberknight and digitalknight. The company was founded by Chemi Katz and Ohad Greenshpan in 2014 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Workforce Software Holdings LLC provides software services. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Livonia, MI.

First Manhattan Consulting Group LLC provides omni-channel marketing services. Its services include small business and consumer direct mail campaigns, digital marketing campaigns, and intellectual property and data assets. The company was founded by James M. McCormick and Robert M. Tetenbaum and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AU10TIX Ltd. is a leader in identity verification and management, offering age verification as a service. The company is based in Nicosia, Cyprus and was founded in 2002 by Ron Atzmon. The Cypriot company's standalone age verification solution integrates easily with existing KYC platforms and provides multilingual document support to meet KYC and AML requirements. With a focus on identity intelligence and synthetic fraud prevention, AU10TIX has been at the forefront of defining what identity intelligence can be since its founding in 2002. The company's future-proof product portfolio enables businesses to provide frictionless customer onboarding and verification in just 4-8 seconds, while also staying ahead of emerging threats and evolving regulatory requirements. AU10TIX has authenticated billions of identities and prevented over $18 billion in identity fraud. Dan Yerushalmi has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Zyme Holdings, Inc. functions as an investment holding private company. The company is based in Redwood Shores, CA. The CEO of the company is Chandran Sankaran.

Clara Analytics, Inc. develops machine-learning based products. Its products unlock predictive insights from the claims data to provide key signals to the claims team to drive efficiencies and claim outcomes. The company was founded by Jayant Lakshmikanthan in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ZenBusiness, Inc. operates a mobile application enabled platform that continuously monitors the status of business and provides actions to resolve issues. Its services include formation plans, registered agent, worry free guarantee, EIN service, and operating agreement. The company was founded by Ross Buhrdorf, Shanaz Hemmati, James Glancy, Rafael Lopez and Art Floresin 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Property Brands Parent, Inc. provides software solutions and services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Epsilon Group Holdings Ltd. functions as an investment holding British company.

Revere Parent, Inc. operates as early stage development company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Epsilon Group New Holdings Ltd. manufactures a wide variety of goods. The company is headquartered in Saint Helier, the United Kingdom.

InhabitIQ Parent LLC is a software company that serves the residential and vacation property management industries. The company is based in Knoxville, TN. The company was founded in 2016. Lisa Stinnett has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Highnote Platform, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides a modern card issuer processor and program management platform. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2020 by John MacIlwaine and Kin Kee. The platform streamlines the entire card issuance process, from building integration to operating at scale, and offers a white-label solution to build a unique brand experience. Highnote's GraphQL API and capabilities such as notifications and SDKs enable teams to bring a card product to market quickly. John MacIlwaine has been the CEO since 2020.

Justt Fintech Ltd. provides a chargeback mitigation solution that helps merchants recover lost funds. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel and was founded by Ofir Tahor and Roenen Ben-Ami. The Israeli company's solution is efficient, accurate, and user-friendly. Ofir Tahor has been the CEO since incorporation.

Black Ore Technologies, Inc. was founded by Pavel Kapovski and Eyal Shinar, with Eyal Shinar serving as CEO since incorporation. The American company offers an AI tax platform called Tax Autopilot, which provides complete 1040 tax preparation automation to CPAs. This allows tax professionals to focus on growing their firm while the platform handles tax preparation.

Demyst Data Ltd. operates a proprietary technology platform which helps financial institutions tap into the growth of online, social and internal data to make better customer decisions. It offers access to customer information with minimal inputs from applications on the web such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. The firm engages in real-time customer value scoring. The company was founded by John English, Kevin Denberg, Mark Hookey and Oliver Meyrick in June 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Eagle Parent Holdings LLC provides investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.