Keith Chen

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

Task Force X Capital Management LLC (Task Force X Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Brandon Shelton. The firm is headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Carolinas Fintech Management LLC (CFV Ventures) is a venture capital arm of RevTech Labs LLC founded in 2017 by Daniel J. Roselli and Nathaniel Clarkson. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

NYC Seed LLC (NYC Seed) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Rho Capital Partners, Inc. (Rho Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Joshua Ruch. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Delfin Midstream, Inc., Attitude Network Ltd. is a company that publishes entertainment Web sites. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by David B. Aronoff. Attitude Network was acquired by theglobe.com, Inc., part of Delfin Midstream, Inc. from December 31, 2017 on April 12, 1999 for $55.18 million.

Part of Gen Digital Inc., Da Vinci Systems Corp. is a software development company. The company is based in Raleigh, NC. The company was founded by William Charles Nussey. Da Vinci Systems was acquired by On Technology Corp. on June 06, 1994.

Micro Focus (US), Inc. develops implements and supports proprietary, mixed source and open source software. Its solutions include visual cobol, terminal emulation, borland, corba and mainframe solutions. The firm helps to organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Association represents private equity and venture capital companies. The private company is based in Timonium, MD. The company was founded by Charles W. Newhall.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

LivingSocial, Inc. operates an online local marketplace platform. The firm’s products and programs include local, escapes, shop, events, coupons, and at home. It provides fun and leisure, kids activities, sightseeing and tours, sports and outdoors, tickets and events, beauty products and spas, and food and drinks. The company was founded by Aaron Batalion, Valeriy Aleksenko, Edward Pyle Frederick, and Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Payzer Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of Information Technology services. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Personal, Inc. develops web and mobile platform that helps people take control of and benefit from their data. The firm is available through subscription and companies and organizations that provide vaults to their customers and members, frequently pre-populated with information that is instantly useful and able to be shared privately. The company was founded by R. Shane Green, Edin Saracevic, Tarik Kurspahic, Douglas B. Wheeler, Jennifer Devereux and Jennifer O'Keefe in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

ICX Media, Inc. develops a digital media software platform which provides comprehensive insights into how videos are performing. It specializes in media, content creators, online video, video, insights, data science and brand content. The company was founded by Michael B. Avon, Steven McCord, Joey McCord and Thomas MacIsaac and is headquartered in Washington, WA.

Ceterus, Inc. provides accounting and book keeping services. It offers Ceterus edge and tax solutions. The company was founded by Levi Morehouse in 2008 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

Part of Dispatch Technologies, Inc., Youreka Labs, Inc. is a company that offers the Youreka product, which allows enterprises to create and complete forms at scale, run analytics and workflow, all without leaving the comfort and security of their Salesforce environment. The company is based in Baltimore, MD. The Youreka product is trusted by leading enterprises worldwide and is built for enterprises who run on Salesforce. It offers guided safety checklists, real-time verification processes, health, safety, and environmental compliance forms, and allows users to put organizational knowledge to work even without wifi. The company was founded in 2008 by Thomas Boosinger and Dan Bergner, and the CEO is Bill Karpovich. Youreka Labs was acquired by Dispatch Technologies, Inc. on April 26, 2022.

Rent Ready Holdings, Inc. is a real estate firm. It delivers an end-to-end make-ready service for apartment communities. The company was founded by William P. Brugh, Jr., Ryan C. McMillan, and Jonathan E. Kite and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Pet Screening, Inc. provides end-to-end pet screening solution to apartment and rental industry. The company was founded by John R. Bradford III and is headquartered in Cornelius, NC.

Adwerx, Inc. provides advertising services for real estate. The firm offers digital marketing tools for real estate, mortgage and insurance. The company was founded by Jed Carlson in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Contactually, Inc. develops Web-based customer relationship management software and contact management solutions. Its solutions provide teams with insights and analytics from the team dashboard and summary of a team's activity, connect personal buckets to team buckets so that contact records are up-to-date, facilitate to assign contacts to team members and allow to create shared team buckets and link personal ones. The firm's solutions also allow individuals to focus on right contacts, follow up consistently, find business opportunities in their network and work across their team. The company was founded by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella in October 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Intellinote, Inc. provides multi-platform software applications. Its products include video conferencing, real time messaging, task management, file sharing, note tasking, mobile, desktop apps, notifications and platform. The company was founded by Anthony Lopresti, William L. Welch and Gene S. Sohn in January 2013 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

WiserTogether, Inc. offers a shared decision support platform. It provides treatment decisions on musculoskeletal, pregnancy, cardiovascular, mental health, diabetes, and respiratory issues. The firm sells online and mobile health-decision-support platform to consumers, employers, health plans, payers, and providers. The company was founded by Shub Debgupta, Robert Proctor and Praveen V. Mooganur in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Royalty Exchange, Inc. operates an online platform for the valuation and sale of music royalties. It provides a platform where all types of royalty assets, such as music, television and film or patents, intellectual property, and mineral rights, can be bought or sold in an effort to bring value to both the investor and seller. The company was founded in 2011 by Sean C. Peace, Reggie Calloway and Wilson Owens and is headquartered in Lakewood, CO.

Workspace.com, Inc. provides online project workspace services. Its services include collaboration, reporting, dashboards, custom fields, security, user management, and search. The company was founded by Chris Childers, Greg Heard, Paul Martin, Jeff Mason, and Mark J. Wesker in 2001 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, MD.

Invoca, Inc. provides call performance marketing solutions. Its products include call intelligence suite, integration partners and cloud infrastructure. The firm offers solutions to agencies, consumers, business-to-business, search and performance marketers. Invoca was founded by Colin D. Kelley and Jason S. Spievak in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

JumpCloud, Inc. manages and connects user identities to their systems, applications, data, and networks securely. It provides access to cloud and on-prem resources such as Office 365, G Suite, AWS cloud servers, Salesforce, and Jira among thousands of others. The firm also offers replace active directory, manage cloud users, device management, password complexity, connecting Saas Apps and replaceLDAP solutions. The company was founded by Rajat Bhargava, Christopher Marie, David Campbell and K. C. Berg in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Pyramid Analytics BV provides business intelligence and analytics platform. The firm serves the retail, consumer product, manufacturing and distribution, insurance and underwriting, healthcare, education and banking and finance industries. It operates through its offices located in Amsterdam, Bellevue, Hook and Ramat Gan. The company was founded in 2009 by Avi Perez and Omri Kohl and headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Telecheck International, Inc. provides check guarantee and information processing services. Its services include check acceptance and verification for transactions that occur at the point of sale for merchants and financial institutions. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

First Data Merchant Services Corp. provides electronic payment solutions. It provides services to businesses and financial institutions. The company enables merchants to accept various forms of payments, such as credit cards, electronic benefits transfers, online debits, offline debits, wireless transactions, smart/chip, stored-value and private label cards. First Data Merchant Services was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

iPayment Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of credit and debit card payment processing services to small merchants. It is also involved in providing debit cards, checks, gift cards, and loyalty programs in traditional card-present, swipe transactions, and card-not-present transactions such as those conducted over the phone or through the internet. The company was founded by Carl A. Grimstad and Gregory S. Daily on February 23, 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Fiserv, Inc., Bank of America Merchant Services LLC is a finance company. The company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Amplifier Management LLC (Amplifier Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jonathan Aberman. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Clarabridge, Inc. provides intelligent customer experience management solutions. It enables businesses to intelligently listen to, analyze, operationalie, and measure multi-source customer feedback through intelligent sentiment and text analytics. The company enables organizations to create a universal understanding of its customers, partners, and employees; make actionable business decisions with measurable ROI; and collaborate on those decisions both internally with stakeholders and externally with customers. Its products include CX Analytics, CX Social and CX Survey. The company was founded by Siddhartha Banerjee, Nithi Vivatrat, Gene S. Sohn and Justin Langseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Bright Hub, Inc. provides business infra structure to software developers. Its focus areas include computing, education, mobile, science, environment, electronics, multimedia, Internet, business, finances and engineering. The company was founded by Robert Smith, Joshua Andeson McWilliam and William P. Phelan in 2006 and is headquartered in Troy, NY.

Booker Software, Inc. provides software for management, booking and marketing services. It enables businesses to provide online services through website and a network of partner sites and apps. The company was founded by Joshua McCarter and Daniel Lizio-Katzen in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.