Michael J. Schnaus

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Espial Group Ltd. provides information technology consultancy services. The company was founded by David Fell in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

iovation, Inc. provides online fraud management and device authentication solutions. It also provides protection from Internet fraud and abuse through its products including ClearKey, LunchKey, FraduForce and SureScore to customers in online industries including financial services, retail, travel, gaming and virtual worlds, online casinos, dating sites and social networks. The company was founded by Greg Pierson, Jon Karl & Molly O'Hearn in 2004 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Focus IP, Inc. offers brand protection, domain name registration and management solutions to protect corporate brands in the mobile apps, marketplaces, and domains. It provides discovery, monitoring, enforcement and data analytic systems address, among other issues, trademark and copyright infringement, piracy, phishing, and counterfeiting violations. The company was founded by Faisal M. Shah and Christopher Joseph Bura in 2012 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Thales Reading 1 Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture and supply of hardware and software solutions. The company was founded by Nicko van Someren and Alexander Rupert van Somersen in 1996 and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.

Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd is an independent venture capital firm is founded by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser in 1997. The firm is headquartered in London, UK.

element 14 Ltd. is a developer of high-port density, low-power Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) chipsets, software and communications processor technology. It is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Pennant Foods Co. produces baked goods and confectioneries. Its products include bakery items such as cakes, dough, frozen fillings, cookies, croissants, cinnamon rolls, muffins, frozen bakery goods and other sweets. The company is headquartered in Northlake, IL.

GE Healthcare Financial Services, Inc. provides financing to a number of different sectors, including healthcare providers, senior housing, medical offices, drug companies and medical-device makers. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Solutionreach, Inc. engages in the provision of patient relationship management solutions for healthcare providers. Its solutions include patient appointment reminders, patient recall messaging, patient education, patient payments, phone systems, two-way text messaging, online patient scheduling, patient caller ID, patient intake, surveys and patient satisfaction, patient reviews and reputation management, and patient referrals and marketing. The company was founded by Jim Higgins and Kurt Haug in 2000 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

The Investment Group, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Louisiana.

The Northern Trust Co. provides investment management, asset, fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

CommonBond Communities, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization that provides homes with on-site resident services. It offers after-school enrichment for children, employment preparation, and placement for working age adults, and independent living services for seniors and people with special needs, housing development services, and property management services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

XANT Inc. engages in the provision of lead management tools. It offers e-mail, fax and sales work-flow management built into contact management software. It also provides implementation, certification, training, consulting, customer support, and custom development services. The company was founded by David R. Elkington and Kenneth Krogue in November 2004 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association is a Non-Profit Organisation. It supports entrepreneurship and investment throughout the rocky mountain region. The company is headquartered in Erie, CO.

Gravit, Inc. engages in the provision of employee advocacy and social selling platform. It offers EveryoneSocial platform to marketing, sales, communications, human resources, and frontline and retail sectors. The company was founded by Cameron Brain and Eric Roach in 2010 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

aiHit Ltd. provides business information services and solutions. It develops and operates search engines. The firm's engine automatically identifies corporate web-sites and extracts structured data from sites to create a profile including a description of the organization, the names and titles of key executives, contact information, clients, and investors. The company was founded by Alan David Hambrook and Eric Sandler on June 22, 2007 and is headquartered in Staines-upon-Thames, the United Kingdom.

Antidote Technologies, Inc. provides online search and referral engine for clinical trials. The firm transforms clinical trials by directly connecting patients with research organizations to make new treatments available. It provides clinical trials information in the areas of Alzheimer's, asthma, bipolar, breast cancer, COPD, depression, diabetes, HIV, leukemia, lung and prostate cancer & rheumatoid arthritis. The company was founded by Jessica Mann, Pablo Graiver and Eithan Ephrati in 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Marketware, Inc. operates as a physician relationship management software and business intelligence consulting firm. Its solutions by products include Ascend, Scout and Centric. The firm’s solutions include referral development, market insight, and patient acquisition. The company was founded by Bob Bartel and Bryce Bartel in 1986 is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, UT.

Arizona Founders Fund LLC (Arizona Founders Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Romi S. Dhillon. The firm is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

VNDLY, Inc. operates as a technology platform and marketplace which designs for hiring managers at mid-large corporations and vendor account management teams. Its features include contingent workforce management, total talent acquisition and statement of work. The company was founded by Shashank Saxena and Narayana Surabhi and is headquartered in Mason, OH.

Fullcast, Inc. develops and operates sales planning platform. It specializes in sales planning, sales operations, corporate planning, go to market planning and sales ops. The company was founded by Dharmesh Singh and Bala Balabaskaran in 2015 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

CIONIC, Inc. engages in the provision of wearable solutions that provide comprehensive analysis and precise augmentation. The company was founded by Jeremiah Robison and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RedCircle Technologies, Inc. develops a podcast hosting and cross-promotion platform. It improves the experience of the podcast creator. The company was founded by Michael Aaron Kadin and Jeremy Lermitte in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Juvo Ventures LLC (Juvo Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Western Governors University. The firm is founded in 2018 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Shardsecure, Inc. provides data protection services. It offers secure cloud storage and cloud enablement solutions. The company was founded by Bob Lam, Jesper Tohmo, Christer Roslund, Lou Steinberg, and Lou Steinberg and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Invest Southwest is an organization that connects investors with emerging growth companies in the region. The private company is based in Phoenix, AZ. The company provides valuable information on topics important to the investment community and offer year-round opportunities for investors to connect with these companies. The company's signature event, Venture Madness, is a competition presented in partnership with the Arizona Commerce Authority where thoroughly evaluated emerging companies compete against each other to be crowned the champion of champions.

SewerAI Corp. engages in the development of artificial intelligence software company that is optimizing the inspection and analysis of sewer systems. It offers AutoCode, AI inferences, cross bore audit, and Inspection Mgmt Platform solutions. The company was founded by Matt Rosenthal and Bill Gilmartin in February 2019 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

Moki Mobility, Inc. operates a cloud-based mobile device management platform. Its platform manages, monitors, and secures tablets and smart phones. The firm delivers customer facing devices like digital kiosks, mobile point of sale (mPOS), digital signage, and headless devices. The company was founded by Eric Johnson, Thomas Karren and Ty Allen in 2012 and is headquartered in Alpine, UT.