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Convio, Inc. provides internet software and services. The company was founded by Vinay Bhagat and David Crooke in April 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

GetActive Software, Inc. provides online relationship management software. Its solutions include email messaging, fundraising, advocacy, events, community, and website management. The firm's online database enables organizations to build comprehensive profiles of supporters by tracking online interactions and integrating with offline systems. The company was founded by William Pease, Thomas J. Krackeler, and Sheeraz D. Haji in 2000 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

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.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

FirstMark Capital LLC (FirstMark Capital) is venture capital firm founded by Rick Heitzmann and Amish Jani in 1996. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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

HP Labs, Inc. creates, identifies, and develops novel technologies. It provides research and testing services for its parent company. The firm develops different products such as business software and digital cameras. The company was founded by Bernard M. Oliver, David Packard, and William R. Hewlett in 1966 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Rembrandt Venture Management LLC (Rembrandt Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm which was founded in 1997 by Gerald Casilli. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Mobolize, Inc. is an American software company that provides innovative security, connectivity, and optimization solutions to mobile data experience. The private company's patented data management engine is deployed as an SDK or app, which enables technology providers to extend their cloud solutions to meet the growing demand for extending security and connectivity to mobile endpoints. Mobolize solutions are deployed on Android, iOS, and Chrome OS devices. The company's solutions enable precision control for all data traffic regardless of network and allow recognition of which data needs to be encrypted or which should be sent directly to the destination server.

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.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

AMD Ventures LLC (AMD Ventures) is a Venture Capital subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices Inc founded in 2008 by Ray Schuder. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Cloud Elements, Inc. provides cloud application program interface (API) integration platform. Its platform enables developers to publish, integrate, aggregate, and manage all of APIs through a unified platform. The company was founded by Vineet Joshi, Gary Gaessler, Atul Barve, and Mark W. Geene in October 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Hewlett Packard Ventures LLC (Hewlett Packard) is a venture capital subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Foodsby, Inc. operates as an online platform that enables restaurants to deliver food or lunch to offices. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, Kansas City and Charlotte. The company was founded by Parag Shah and Ben Cattoor in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Total Expert, Inc. provides software as service solutions to the real estate vertical. Its solutions include CRM, marketing, c0marketing and compliance. The firm services industries include banking, credit unions, mortgage lending and, wealth managemnt The company was founded by Joe Welu in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Atavium, Inc. provides data management and storage services. The company was founded by Ed Fiore, Mark Bakke, Mike Klemm and Marc Olin on April 28, 2017 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Better Food Ventures Associates LLC (Better Food Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Rob Trice. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Right Team, Inc. engages in the development and operations of resourcing, forecasting, and analytics platform for digital agencies and software consultancies. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Knoodle San Diego, Inc. engages in the provision of advertising solutions. It specializing in marketing strategy, advertising, public relations, digital media, social media, and interactive services. The company was founded by Rosaria Cain in 1999 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

The Mixing Bowl LLC is an American company that promotes the adoption of IT innovation in the food and agriculture industries. The private company facilitate business-focused dialogue to encourage positive impact in these sectors.

Forte Ventures LLC (Forte Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Tom Hawkins. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.