Kathy D. Smith

Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC (Charlesbank Capital Partners) is a private equity firm co-founded in 1997 by Michael Eisenson, Kim Davis, Tim Palmer, Michael Thonis, Mark Rosen and Brandon White. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Analyte Health, Inc. provides medical services and information about specific health conditions online. It offers access to healthcare via the phone and the web to a national team of doctors and partner diagnostic labs. The company was founded by Michelle Sobel, John Kawa and Daniel Malven in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

SinglePlatform Corp. helps local businesses manage their online presence. It provides restaurant digital menus and local business storefronts. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ConceptDrop, Inc. operates as a technology platform that offers design projects to businesses. It creates presentations and marketing content. The company was founded by Philip Alexander and Gurmohit Ahluwalia in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

PrintWithMe, Inc. operates printing stations at coffee shops, hotels, residential buildings and co-working spaces. The company was founded by Jonathan Treble and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

CVC Advisers Ltd (CVC Advisers) is a private equity firm founded in 1981 by Bruce Hardy McLain, Rolly van Rappard and Steven Koltes. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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

DFJ Growth Management LLC (DFJ Growth) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Threshold Ventures, Inc. founded in 2006 by Barry Schuler, Randy Glein, John H. Fisher, and Mark Bailey. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

PPC Investment Partners LP (PPC Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Tony N. Pritzker and Jay Robert Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center provides business development advisory services. It helps clients by providing financing, sales and client development, mentoring, peer-to-peer exchange, grant and new ventures accelerating services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CVC Capital Partners Advisory (US), Inc. manages capital on behalf of some 300 institutional, governmental and private investors worldwide. The capital of their investors is committed for ten years or more to closed-end funds that they manage on their client's behalf. In their private equity business, they use these funds to acquire controlling or significant minority interests in European, Asian and North American companies. They buy companies in partnership with their management teams and assist in developing plans to create sustainable long term value. In their private debt business, CVC Cordatus uses its funds to invest in debt instruments issued principally by companies that are owned by private equity funds. The company was established in 1981 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Signal Digital, Inc. engages in the development of customer intelligence platform. It collects, connects, and activates customer data to execute real-time cross-channel marketing campaigns. The company was founded by Eric Lunt, Michael D. Sands, and Marc Kiven in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Graphiq, Inc. operates as a business intelligence portal. Its services include business, education, electronics, health, home and family, motors, software, sports and REC, travel and lifestyle. The firm is a data-driven comparison engine that organizes and presents data for making decisions. The was founded by Scott Leonard, Brayton Johnson and Kevin O'Connor in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

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.

BodyShopBids, Inc. develops and operates an online and mobile platform for car appraisal and insurance services. Its products include Snapsheet Appraisal, Snapsheet Transaction, Snapsheet Rental and Asset Management Platform, and Snapsheet Software platform. The company was founded by Brad Weisberg and C. J. Przybyl in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

WithMe, Inc. operates as an online cloud based central ordering platform for small business owners. It helps small businesses by streamlining their inventory purchasing and giving them discounts by aggregating their volume with other small businesses in the same industry. The firm also builds, manages and tracks purchase orders, communications and payments, to all vendors in one place. The company was founded by Andre Gao, Joanna Hsu, Danielle Jenkins and Jonathan Jenkins in 2011 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Eved LLC develops software solutions for the event and meeting industry. It provides an online marketplace where clients, venue managers, service providers and event suppliers can interact and transact business. The company was founded by Talia C. Mashiach in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Chicago Ventures Fund Management LLC (Chicago Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Stuart Larkins, Kevin Willer and Patrick Ryan G JR. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center /Incubator/ (Chicagoland Entr Center) is a venture capital subsidiary of Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

BentoBox CMS, Inc. engages in the development of a mobile operations platform for restaurants. It offers mobile websites that is hospitality-focused management system, hosting, and customer support. The company was founded by Krystle Mobayeni and Pierre Drescher and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Network Ventures (Network Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Jeff B. Maters. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

The Graide Network, Inc. provide students feedback platform. It offers effective feedback, accurate scoring, and professional learning. The company was founded by Blair Mlnarik Pircon and Elizabeth Nell in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

B Capital Group Management LP is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Howard Lee Morgan, Raj Ganguly, Eduardo Saverin. The firm is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California.

Apartment Jet, Inc. engages in providing traveling services. The company was founded by Andy Hamilton, Eric Broughton and Kevin Koperski and is headquartered in Naperville, IL.

EarlyBird Central, Inc. provides investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

When Insurance Agency, Inc. provides investment services to protect the personal and financial wellness of its clients. The American company was founded by Andy Hamilton and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Autoleap, Inc. provides cloud-based auto repair management software for shop owners to manage and grow their business. The company is based in Toronto, Canada and was founded by Rameez Ansari and Steve Lau, who have been the CEOs since incorporation. The software includes features such as scheduling appointments, managing technicians, generating invoices, and marketing tools to boost brand image and attract new customers. Autoleap's founding team are repeat entrepreneurs who previously launched, scaled, and successfully exited FieldEdge.

Loftium, Inc. engages in offering down payment money and monthly mortgage assistance services. The company was founded by Yifan Zhang and Adam Stelle in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Prototype Capital LLC (Prototype Capital) is a venture capital firm founded by Nandeet Mehta and Rajat Bhageria in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

4degrees AV, Inc. develops customer relationship management software. The company was founded by Ablorde Ashigbi and David Vandegrift on September 22, 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.