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Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Tagkast, Inc. operates a social photo-advertising platform for live events. The firm amplifies social events through its patented tablet technology. It turns photos of consumers at live events into advertising by placing display overlays on the images and sharing them with the consumer’s social network. This creates a social branding opportunity along with an analytics of consumer information. The company was founded by Joseph A. Matthews and Sean Strother in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Hireology, Inc. provides a web-based hiring management software platform to source, engage, and hire performers for businesses. Its features include Applicant Tracking System, Search and Organizational Tools, Candidate Communication, Candidate Verifications, Background Checks, Digital Onboarding, Employee Scheduling, HR Analytics and Reporting and Payroll & HR Administration. The company was founded by Adam Robinson, Michael Krasman and Jeffrey Ellman in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Fooda, Inc. provides food technology platform that connects restaurants to people while at work. The firm has a network of local businesses and provides its services to groups such as schools, corporations, organizations and residential communities. Fooda offers its services via on-site locations as well as mobile and web-based technology. The company was founded by Orazio Buzza and Vip Sandhir in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Starbelly.com, Inc. engages in the provision of custom-decorated merchandise through the Internet. The company was founded by Bradley A. Keywell and Eric Paul Lefkofsky on April 29, 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL

Part of Kantar Group Holdings Ltd., Market Track LLC is a data and tech company that provides 360-degree consumer understanding for the market research industry. The company blends first-party data from over 1 million US households with advanced technology to offer unparalleled insights into modern consumer shifting behaviors. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Market Track has 2,000 employees worldwide, and 80 of the top 100 CPG brands’ manufacturers are its clients. The company's brand insights platform provides on-demand, omnichannel consumer insights and data, enabling businesses to answer their questions at any hour of the day. Market Track's measurement consumer panel provides purchasing data from over a million contributors, enabling new use cases like omnichannel share measurement, demographic share measurement, opportunity sizing, and more. The company was founded in 2004 by Dan Fitzpatrick, and Eric D. Belcher has been the CEO of the company since 2019. Market Track was acquired by The Kantar Group Ltd. on July 06, 2021 for $1,500 million.

MediaBank, LLC is a leading provider of integrated procurement technology and advanced analytics to the advertising industry. The cornerstone of MediaBank's solution is the MediaBank O/X platform, offering buying, financial, and workflow tools across all media types.

First Round Capital (First Round Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Josh M. Kopelman. The firm is headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Corporate Edge, Inc. provides advertising solutions to businesses. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

manroland, Inc. manufactures and sells printing systems. It offers sheet fed offset, web offset, and flexographic newspaper presses. The firm serves commercial printers, newspaper publishers, and distributors of print-related equipment. The company is headquartered in Westmont, IL.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago offers exhibitions of art. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Its programs include Dance, Live Art, Music, Screenings, Theater and Workshops. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Watermelon Express, Inc. engages in the development of digital learning programs. It offers admissions test prep; certification prep; continuing education; self-assessments and question bank; lifelong learning; corporate training; and blended and live online training. The company was founded by Ashish Rangnekar and Ujjwal Gupta in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Mediaocean LLC engages in the development and provision of advertising software and computing services. It offers planning and reporting, digital media buying, traditional media buying, ad sales and operations, time and cost, block chain for media, API platform, and local television media management. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BodyShopBids, Inc. develops and operates an online and mobile platform for car appraisal and insurance services. Its products include Snapsheet Appraisal, Snapsheet Transaction, Snapsheet Rental and Asset Management Platform, and Snapsheet Software platform. The company was founded by Brad Weisberg and C. J. Przybyl in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Bowery Capital Management LLC (Bowery Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Michael Charles Brown, Keegan Forte and Nic Poulos. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Lightview Capital LLC (Lightview Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Conor Mullett and Rich Erickson. The firm is headquartered in Summit, New Jersey.

Uptake Technologies, Inc. develops predictive analytics platform. It serves agriculture, aviation, buildings, fleet, manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, energy and mining industries. The company was founded by Bradley A. Keywell and Eric Paul Lefkofsky in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Edmit, Inc. engages in the provision of investment services. It provides personalized insights and advice to help families in smarter college choices. The company was founded by Nicholas Ducoff and Sabrina Manville in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CarCo Technologies, Inc. engaged in automotive dealership. Its solutions include dealership group, single rooftop dealerships, and captive finance. The company was founded by Justin Mahlik in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Lightswitch Holdings, Inc. engages in the production of videos. It offers testimonial videos, profile videos, scripted commercial, recruitment video and animation products. The company was founded on December 14, 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Remote Year, Inc. provides transportation and accommodations for remote job holders. The company was founded by Greg Caplan and Sam Pessin in 2015 and is headquartered in Highland Park, IL.

USAA Ventures (USAA Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of United Services Automobile Association founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Tempus AI, Inc. is a healthcare technology company, which engages in bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to healthcare. It focuses on building platforms for oncology, neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease, and radiology. The company was founded by Eric Paul Lefkofsky in August 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Numerator Technologies, Inc. manufactures chemicals focused on the commercialization of tailor-made breakthrough solutions for the professional turf and agriculture industries. Its products include acidifiers, agricultural spray adjuvants, applicators, media and soil surfactants. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, FL.

Luminary Media LLC develops podcast application. The company was founded by Matthew S. Sacks, Phong Nguyen, and Joe Purzycki in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Billtrim, Inc. provides electronic payment services. The company was founded by Dipesh Desai and Anu Sura and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX.

LeapLife, Inc. provides insurance services. It offers level-term life insurance, decreasing-term, increasing-term, annually-renewable, and return-of-premium term life insurance services. The company was founded by Tom Patterson, Rona Elbaz, Nir Yeffet, and Rajesh Chandran and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tam(Squared), Inc. is the company behind Paceline, a unified wellness platform that incentivizes consumers to live a healthy lifestyle by offering curated health and wellness rewards for achieving fitness goals. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and was founded by Joel Lieginger, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The platform is an integrated system of technology, financial services, and health and wellness brands that become an embedded, yet non-invasive, component of life. Paceline connects customers' physical health to their everyday financial wellbeing, bridging the financial health disconnect.

Sapphire Technologies, Inc. is an American California-based company founded in 2006 with Freddie Sarhan as the CEO. The company specializes in energy recovery systems, particularly the FreeSpin® In-line Turboexpander, which captures energy lost in the pressure reduction process and generates electricity with a low carbon footprint. The company's high efficiency turbine system is designed to convert wasted energy into electric power without interrupting manufacturing or processing activities.

Osmoses, Inc. is an industrial separations company based in Somerville, MA. Osmoses has a breakthrough polymer platform that purifies gases with unprecedented performance and efficiency. The company's mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. The company's target applications include hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas. The company was founded in 2021 and spun out of MIT. Francesco M. Benedetti, Holden Lai, Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, and Zachary P. Smith founded the company, and Francesco M. Benedetti has been the CEO since incorporation.

Vertus Energy Ltd. is a New Zealander company that aims to achieve 100%% renewable energy by utilizing waste as a resource. The company is based in Parnell, New Zealand. The company has developed two technologies that have revolutionized the process of transforming waste into energy. The company was founded by Freddy Gonzalez, Danilo Perez, Benjamin Howard, Santiago de los Reyes.

Furno Materials, Inc. is an American company that aims to revolutionize the cement industry. The company believes that the current process of cement production is inflexible and expensive, and they are on a mission to change that. The CEO of the company is Gurinder Nagra.

Highwood Emissions Management, Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in building emissions management solutions. The company is based in Calgary, Canada, and the CEO of the company is Jessica Shumlich. The company is committed to creating smarter ways to measure, manage, analyze, and report greenhouse gas emissions. The company offers integrated emissions management services that identify the most cost-effective ways to reduce emissions while considering the unique assets, goals, and financial constraints of each client. The company has developed a free tool called "How much gas is that?!" to help put emission rates into perspective. Highwood's mission is to collaborate, innovate, and educate their way to a world with effective and affordable emissions management solutions. The company also provides support for various voluntary emissions management needs and have proposed a standard set of terms and definitions to help industry, regulators, innovators, and academics in different parts of the world speak the same language.