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TechStars Central LLC (TechStars) is an Independent Accelerator Incubator firm founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in the US..

B&Y Venture Partners (B&Y Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Abadallah Yafi and Ghaith Yafi. The firm is headquartered in Saint Helier, Jersey.

Machinery Partner, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing top crushing, screening, and material handling brands such as Barford equipment. The company is based in Boston, MA. The company offers a wide range of equipment including excavators, screeners, crushers, and more to help businesses grow their crushing and screening operations. The CEO of the company is Clément Cazalot.

airSlate, Inc. is a SaaS technology company that provides business productivity and automation solutions to over a hundred million users worldwide. The company is based in Brookline, MA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's portfolio of award-winning products includes airSlate, PDFfiller, SignNow, USLegal, DocHub, and Instapage. The company's solutions empower users to digitally transform their businesses to run faster and easier, with features such as PDF editing, e-signature workflow, and business process automation. The company is backed by leading venture capitalists and corporate investors, including General Catalyst, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Highsage Ventures, UiPath Ventures, and Gsquared. airSlate was founded in 2008 by Vadim Yasinovsky, Semyon Dukach, and Borya Shakhnovich, with Borya Shakhnovich serving as the CEO since 2008.

Libboo, Inc. operates a social publishing platform. Its instafreebie platform enables users to create and distribute copies of their books direct to their readers. The company was founded by Fernando Albertorio, Richard Hawthorn, and Chris Howard in 2008 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

North American Media Engines, Inc. engages in the provision of end-to-end eBusiness enablement solutions. The firm services include business process reengineering for Internet deployment, systems integration for content management, eBusiness strategy, technical and project architecture, front-end design, and networking solutions. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Colt Lux Group Holding SARL, Fast Engines is a company that delivers and distributes application server acceleration and spelling software. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Semyon Dukach. Fast Engines was acquired by Adero, Inc. on March 13, 2000.

GottaFlirt, Inc. operates as an online dating game for MySpace generation. The firm also operates as an entertainment web site for dating and flirting and meets people online with its dating service. The company was founded by Semyon Dukach, Mitchell Russo, and Vadim Yasinonvsky in 2006 and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Terrafugia, Inc. provides personal aviation solutions. It develops the transition to provide pilots a dual-purpose vehicle. Its design allows the transition to fold its wings and drive on any surface road with a modern personal airplane platform. The firm offers TF-X, a plug-in hybrid-electric flying car with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities and computer controlled flight. The company was founded by Carl Dietrich, Anna Mracek Dietrich, Samuel Schweighart, Arun Prakash, and Alex Min in 2006 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Solidware Technologies, Inc. provides software assessment and engineering solutions. It offers SWaudit, an assessment solution, which acts as a central collection point for source code analytics and third party data, and also automates quality assessments. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

CIAO Group, Inc. engages in the provision of telecommunications services and products. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

SnapImpact Co. provides golf swing training services. The private company is based in Denver, CO. The company was founded by Richard Grote.

The Application Developers Alliance is a website that provides guides, articles, and news stories on every aspect of app design, from start to finish. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The website covers a range of different topics, including how to structure an app in a way users will find appealing, ways to market an app, and how to monetize apps.

GreatHorn, Inc. provides a cybersecurity platform that detects threats. It offers email security and adaptive threat detection. The firm serves security, machine learning, internet infrastructure, and health care information technology markets. The company was founded by Kevin O’Brien and Ray Wallace in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Smart Vision Labs, Inc. provides technology services for eye care. The company was founded by Marc Jason Albanese and Yaopeng Zhou and is headquartered in New York, NY.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Pana Industries, Inc. engages in the provisiom of travel services. It also provides on-demand travel application for planning and booking travel needs. The firm's application enables users to plan, book, and manage their company’s travel, and solution for finding and booking flights, hotels, cars, and food. The company was founded by Lianne Haug, Sam Felsenthal and Devon Tivona in December 2014 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Simple Energy, Inc. designs and develops an online customer engagement platform that enables customers to assess their energy consumption. Its Software-as-a-Service platform engages customers and delivers energy efficiency, demand side management, and smart grid results. The company was founded by Yoav Lurie and Justin Isaac Segall in June 2010 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Part of CIAO Group, Inc., Ciao Telecom, Inc. furnishes telephone voice and data communications. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Victor Santos, Eugenio Santos, Sara Choi. Eugenio Santos has been the CEO since incorporation. Ciao Telecom was acquired by Specialty Contractors, Inc. (Texas) on April 25, 2014 for $102 million.

Bridgewater Associates LP (Bridgewater) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. They are a subsidiary of Bridgewater Associates Intermediate Holdings LP, which is owned by Bridgewater Associates Holdings, Inc. Bridgewater provides discretionary investment management services to pooled investment vehicles and single investor funds, and managed account clients.

Moderne Capital LLC (Moderne Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Constance Freedman. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Vestwell Holdings, Inc. develops and operates online platform that helps investment advisors evolve their business of retirement investing. It specializes in 401(k) and other defined contribution retirement investment management services. The company was founded by Aaron Schumm in January 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Day One Ventures Management LLC (Day One Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Masha Drokova. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Trusted, Inc. operates as a platform that connects parents seeking child care services with a staff of child care providers in San Francisco. The company was founded by Lennie Sliwinski and Matthew Pierce and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.