William L. Welch

Clarabridge, Inc. provides intelligent customer experience management solutions. It enables businesses to intelligently listen to, analyze, operationalie, and measure multi-source customer feedback through intelligent sentiment and text analytics. The company enables organizations to create a universal understanding of its customers, partners, and employees; make actionable business decisions with measurable ROI; and collaborate on those decisions both internally with stakeholders and externally with customers. Its products include CX Analytics, CX Social and CX Survey. The company was founded by Siddhartha Banerjee, Nithi Vivatrat, Gene S. Sohn and Justin Langseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Adwerx, Inc. provides advertising services for real estate. The firm offers digital marketing tools for real estate, mortgage and insurance. The company was founded by Jed Carlson in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Dispatch Technologies, Inc., Youreka Labs, Inc. is a company that offers the Youreka product, which allows enterprises to create and complete forms at scale, run analytics and workflow, all without leaving the comfort and security of their Salesforce environment. The company is based in Baltimore, MD. The Youreka product is trusted by leading enterprises worldwide and is built for enterprises who run on Salesforce. It offers guided safety checklists, real-time verification processes, health, safety, and environmental compliance forms, and allows users to put organizational knowledge to work even without wifi. The company was founded in 2008 by Thomas Boosinger and Dan Bergner, and the CEO is Bill Karpovich. Youreka Labs was acquired by Dispatch Technologies, Inc. on April 26, 2022.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Association represents private equity and venture capital companies. The private company is based in Timonium, MD. The company was founded by Charles W. Newhall.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

HelloWallet LLC provides online financial guidance services. The firm is an independent financial management and guidance website which helps its members to take control of finances. The company was founded by Matt Fellowes in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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.

Pet Screening, Inc. provides end-to-end pet screening solution to apartment and rental industry. The company was founded by John R. Bradford III and is headquartered in Cornelius, NC.

Rent Ready Holdings, Inc. is a real estate firm. It delivers an end-to-end make-ready service for apartment communities. The company was founded by William P. Brugh, Jr., Ryan C. McMillan, and Jonathan E. Kite and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Boulder Ventures Ltd (Boulder Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Kyle Lefkoff. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with an additional office in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Carolinas Fintech Management LLC (CFV Ventures) is a venture capital arm of RevTech Labs LLC founded in 2017 by Daniel J. Roselli and Nathaniel Clarkson. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

XOEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of firmware and software solutions for wearable devices. It provides energy-efficient HVAC systems and comprehensive building solutions for the commercial and industrial facilities. The company was founded by Aaron Salow and Chris Salow in 2010 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Passport Labs, Inc. provides cloud-based parking management solutions. The firms products include parking, transit, permits, enforcement, and gateway. It serves government, transit agencies, campuses, private operators, and business program. The company was founded by Charlie G. Youakim and Robert Youakim in 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

ICX Media, Inc. develops a digital media software platform which provides comprehensive insights into how videos are performing. It specializes in media, content creators, online video, video, insights, data science and brand content. The company was founded by Michael B. Avon, Steven McCord, Joey McCord and Thomas MacIsaac and is headquartered in Washington, WA.

Payzer Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of Information Technology services. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

LivingSocial, Inc. operates an online local marketplace platform. The firm’s products and programs include local, escapes, shop, events, coupons, and at home. It provides fun and leisure, kids activities, sightseeing and tours, sports and outdoors, tickets and events, beauty products and spas, and food and drinks. The company was founded by Aaron Batalion, Valeriy Aleksenko, Edward Pyle Frederick, and Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Ceterus, Inc. provides accounting and book keeping services. It offers Ceterus edge and tax solutions. The company was founded by Levi Morehouse in 2008 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

SyncApp, Inc. provides an open messaging platform. Its product, Snycapp, offers exchange of real time structured data and controls visibilty and privacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Payzer LLC operates a mobile and cloud based financial technology platform. Its product allows clients to accept payments, provide instant credit, make payments, control information securely, and control purchases by giving employees visa debit purchasing cards rather than a company credit card. The company was founded by Joseph A. Giordano and Douglas Little in 2012 and is headquartered in Waxhaw, NC.

Micro Focus (US), Inc. develops implements and supports proprietary, mixed source and open source software. Its solutions include visual cobol, terminal emulation, borland, corba and mainframe solutions. The firm helps to organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Attachmate Corp. provides software used to manage access to enterprise applications and databases, including information stored on main frames and other legacy systems. Its products include desktop management software, development tools, and connectivity hardware. The company also provides a variety of services, including consulting, maintenance, and custom software development

Viador, Inc. provides web-based business intelligence software solutions. It offers business intelligence query and reporting analysis, SQL, OLAP, and Ad-Hoc with a web portal interface for distribution of reports and documents. The company focuses on open, secure, integrated data analysis, and reporting solutions. Viador was founded by Ben Connors and Stan Wang in 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Personal, Inc. develops web and mobile platform that helps people take control of and benefit from their data. The firm is available through subscription and companies and organizations that provide vaults to their customers and members, frequently pre-populated with information that is instantly useful and able to be shared privately. The company was founded by R. Shane Green, Edin Saracevic, Tarik Kurspahic, Douglas B. Wheeler, Jennifer Devereux and Jennifer O'Keefe in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Part of Gen Digital Inc., Da Vinci Systems Corp. is a software development company. The company is based in Raleigh, NC. The company was founded by William Charles Nussey. Da Vinci Systems was acquired by On Technology Corp. on June 06, 1994.

Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc. Provides pharmaceutical management services. Its services include electronic order entry, medication and treatment administration, and management and reporting, in-house pharmacy, car coded med-pass packs, and pharmacy response. The firm also offers transition services such as data transfer, training, and installation and se-up. The company was founded by Gary Duty, Lena Sturgeon, and William J. Gatti in 2001 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Metron Aviation, Inc. provides air traffic flow management, advanced research services for global aviation industry. It offers Metron Harmony, an integrated air traffic flow management solution that improves aviation operations by using up-to-date flight information to anticipate future traffic demand and strategically controlling aggregate flows of flights; airspace design tool for multi-dimensional data integration, visualization, and design simulations; airspace sectorization tool for modeling and optimizing by algorithmically partitioning airspace into favorable sectors; and various environmental tools to estimate noise and emissions impact at a macroscopic and detailed analysis levels. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dulles, VA.

Observatory Capital Management LLC (Observatory Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

eMinor, Inc. operates an online music platform, which provides networking and music-discovery tools for artists and fans. It offers ReverbNation, an online music community that features networking and music-discovery tools for artists, fans, and people who love music. The company was founded in by Michael Doernberg, Jed Carlson, Lou Plaia, Robert Hubbard, Steven Jernigan, and Scott Egbert in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

TerraGo Technologies, Inc. provides mapping and geospatial software solutions. It develops location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection solutions that help the defense and intelligence departments, government agencies and commercial enterprises achieve mission success. The firm has locations in Arlington, Atlanta and Perthshire. The company was founded by George Demmy and Alan Stewart on June 30, 2005 and is headquartered Sterling, VA.