Paul J. McWhorter

Instinet LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is the equities execution services arm of the Nomura Group. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Instinet Holdings, Inc., which is ultimately owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Instinet offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, which includes market insights and commentary, full-service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via their array of crossing pools, and a set of workflow solutions.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ometric Corporation provides innovative solutions to embed analytical technology into industrial processes. Ometric's SpectrInline Processware™ utilizes patented Multivariate Optical Computing™ to perform spectroscopy at the speed of light, thus providing real-time, in-line process control and final product testing to a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, food and beverage, pet nutrition, environmental, plastics, oil and gas, and homeland security.

PayDay One Holdings, Inc. provides lending services. It offers fax less cash, payday loans cash advance, online loans and unsecured loans. The company technology enables the company to provide totally automated payday advance via the internet, with no faxing of information or human intervention required to close a loan. PayDay One Holdings was founded in September 2005 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

SynapSense Corp. provides data center infrastructure management solutions. It offers data center optimization platform, environmental monitoring systems, power usage monitoring, active cooling control, data center assessment and thermal mapping and humidity mapping systems. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

LitePoint Corporation designs, develops, and supports wireless testing solutions for developers of wireless devices and consumer electronics, contract manufacturers, and wireless integrated circuit designers. The company offers a range of testing solutions for manufacturing facilities, radio frequency laboratories, and connectivity and cellular chipsets. The company was founded by Benny Madsen, Bouas Spiros and Christian Olgaard in May 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Cell Works Group, Inc. engages in designing therapeutics with engineering precision. It also offers drug development and recycling and repurposing services. The company was founded by Shireen Vali, Pradeep Fernandes and Taher Abbasi in June 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

R2 Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a power management company which specializes in semiconductor chip manufacturing. It develops novel analog semiconductors for applications including mobile devices. The firm also supplies semiconductor devices through wholesale and retail stores. The company was founded by Bret Rothenberg in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Versa Networks, Inc. provides virtualized network functions and services. It develops NFV technology that will allow virtual network functions to run anywhere where compute resources are available on customer premises equipment, in a carrier data center or in the cloud. The company was founded by Kumar B. Mehta and Apurva Mehta in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

SecurityScorecard, Inc. develops software applications which provides threat intelligence and risk awareness services. Its threatscape benchmarking service gives organizations unique visibility into the security posture of their partners and vendors and now companies can collaborate with their partners to close the loop on open security issues, protecting their revenue and brand integrity. The company was founded by Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh in July 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Qwikker, Inc. provides wireless network appliances. It provides solutions for out of home application, such as kiosks, bus shelters and airports; retail application comprising shopping centers, grocery stores, and specialty retail outlets; and event applications, including music festivals, museum openings, sporting games and fashion shows. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Clickatell, Inc. provides mobile messaging services. It offers developers? central, an interface to global short message services (SMS) gateway that allows users to manage various SMS API connections, monitor campaigns, do reporting, make online payments, receive invoices, add sub-users, and more;; provides additional APIs and code scripts for use with various interfaces and support integration with product documents; allows APIs to integrate various systems or applications with global SMS messaging gateway; and adds SMS short codes. The company was founded by Pieter de Villiers, Patrick Lawson, Casper de Villiers and Danie du Toit in June 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Natural Soda, Inc. produces sodium bicarbonate products to the food, pharmaceutical, industrial and animal feed markets. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Rifle, CO.

Think Finance, Inc. develops next-generation financial products for consumers using a technology and analytics platform. Its products bridge the gap between payday loans and credit cards. The firm assists its clients by helping them to offer responsible and transparent credit products and also as a trusted advisor in developing sustainable business strategies. Think Finance was founded by Mike Stinson in 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Part of Nomura Holdings, Inc., Instinet, Inc. provides financial services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Tula Technology, Inc. develops digital signal processing technology. It is a silicon valley based supplier of dynamic skip fire a software enabled powertrain technology that integrates advanced digital signal processing with sophisticated powertrain controls to create the ultimate variable displacement engine. The firm delivers optimal fuel efficiency across a wide range of engine types to the world’s automotive manufacturers, helping them meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates at the lowest cost. The company was founded by Adya S. Tripathi and Chester J. Silvestri in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

OpenDNS, Inc. provides internet security services.It offer Umbrella, an enterprise security product The company was founded by David A. Ulevitch on July 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

C12 Energy LLC develops carbon sequestration technology. Its primary business involves rehabilitating mature fields through gas injection. The firm's technologies separate emissions streams and inject those emissions into geological formations for storage. It also develops, owns, and operates projects that manage industrial carbon dioxide in subsurface geologic structures for enhanced oil recovery and long-term storage. The company was founded by Charles M. Brankman, Justin Dawe and Kurt Zenz House in 2008 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Instinet Europe Ltd. is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of Instinet International Ltd., which is owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Instinet Europe offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, which includes market insights and commentary, full-service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via the firm’s array of crossing pools, and a set of workflow solutions.

Click Security, Inc. provides network security analytics services. It provides services to enterprises, higher education, critical infrastructure and government agencies. The firm’s solutions include unknown threat detection, embedded malware identification, threat prioritization, early warning indicators, attack visibility-application and network perspectives, and broad context data leakage monitoring. The company was founded by Marc Willebeek-LeMair and Brian C. Smith in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Viptela, Inc. provides software-defined wide area network service. It offers secure extensible network solutions. The company was founded by Amir Khan and Khalid Raza in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Members Exchange, also known as memx, is a fast-growing equities exchange founded by members to represent all investors. The private company is based in Jersey City, NJ, and was founded in 2019. The company aims to promote a fair, transparent, and efficient experience for all investors by continuously innovating and listening to their needs. Memx offers a simpler platform and features that benefit both retail and institutional investors, including a limited number of order types to promote simple and transparent interactions, investments in the best and latest technology to deliver fast and efficient execution, and lower pricing on market data, connectivity, and transaction fees. Jonathan Kellner has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Abilita Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering and developing drugs that target challenging human membrane proteins with high medical impact, such as GPCRs, ion channels, and transporters. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company's internal drug discovery pipeline is focused on treating cancer and chronic pain. Abilita Bios EMP™ platform fuels research collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. The company was founded in 2014 by Mauro Mileni, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Two Bear Capital Operations LLC (Two Bear Capital) is venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Mike Goguen. The firm is headquartered in Whitefish, Montana.

Graphiant, Inc. provides cloud connectivity solutions through their edge network, which simplifies provisioning enterprise connectivity solutions with rock-solid security at a fraction of the cost of SD-WAN. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company's agile, elastic network can be a perfect alternative and SD-WAN replacement, with the performance of and low costs of SD-WAN. The company was founded by Khalid Raza, Stefan Olofsson, and Khalid Raza has been the CEO since incorporation.

FYR Diagnostics, Inc. is a healthcare company that is revolutionizing the industry by creating diagnostic solutions that use new understandings of disease to develop the next generation of liquid biopsies. The company is based in Missoula, MT. The company uses extracellular vesicles (EVs) and other innovative biomarkers to bridge the gaps between healthcare, patients, and disease. FYR Diagnostics was founded by Braxton Norwood and David Booth, and the CEO is Chris Booth.