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New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Verilink Corp. operates as an exploration stage company. The firm engages in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties. The company was founded by Steven C. Taylor and Leigh S. Belden and is headquartered in Bartlesville, OK.

Entrust, Inc. provides software security solutions. Its products include authentication and identity assurance, public key infrastructure and entrust cloud. The firm’s solutions include Mobile Security, Cloud Services, Strong Authentication, Physical and Logical Access, Certificate Management, Certificate Management, Secure Email and Citizen eID. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Katy, TX.

AVX Antenna, Inc. provides embedded antennas and radio frequency system solutions. The firm's products include active antenna systems, RFIC's, Bluetooth, cellular, industrial handsets, tablets, laptops, net books, portable television, routers, healthcare devices, GPS, WiFi, WiMAX, WLAN, mobile entertainment and unique applications. The company was founded by Laurent Desclos, Sebastian Rowson and Eli Yablonovitch in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

BorderWare Technologies, Inc. provides messaging security solutions. It offers security solutions for defense, government, and commercial markets. The company was founded by Peter Cox and John Alsop in 1994 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Mobile Complete, Inc. provides mobile application development and testing services. The company was founded by Faraz A. Syed and David J. Marsyla in April 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Lucix Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures commercial and military satellite systems. It offers oscillators assemblies, beacons, power monitors, frequency synthesizers, and central power supply units. The company was founded on February 2, 1999 and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Presto Engineering, Inc. provides outsourced operations for semiconductor and internet of things device companies. It designs and develops industrial solutions for radio-frequency, analog, mixed-signal, optics, sensor network, payment systems, and secured applications. The firm offers asic and turn-key solutions The company was founded by Michel Villemain and Frank Sauk in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Vantrix (US) Corp. provides mobile media services solutions. The firm offers live TV, video alerts, user-generated content, video share and any other type of multimedia in mobile and other digital platforms. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc. develops power converter chips. The firm's product roadmap focuses on power conversion for LED display backlighting and powering microprocessors and memory for mobile applications such as smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks. Its products include LED backlight boosts and buck regulators for computing. The company was founded by Nadia Shalaby and David Giuliano in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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

Akana, Inc. provides service-oriented architecture management and governance products. The firm's technology helps businesses to accelerate digital channels with Application Program Interface(API), drive partner adoption, monetize assets and achieve agility across its applications and datacenters. Its services include API Management, Microservices, Cloud Integration and Financial Services. The firm products include API Gateway, API Portal, Lifecycle Manager and API Analytics. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Palisades Growth Capital (Palisades Growth Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Palisades Management LLC founded in 2000 by Anders Richardson and Paul N. D'Addario. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Polaris Wireless, Inc. engages in the provision of software-based location systems to the wireless carrier market. It offers wireless location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement, government agencies, and location-based application companies. The firm's products include omniLocate, a universal location platform that features standard interfaces for interconnection with other network elements and Altus, an intelligent surveillance application providing government agencies with the ability to identify, track targets and suspects. The company was founded Manlio Allegra in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Vantrix Corp. provides mobile video mediation and delivery and encompassing solutions for streaming, browsing and messaging. It provides operators, control, optimization and enhancement capabilities that ensure of their resources. The company was founded by Allan Benchetrit and Jean Mayrand in 2004 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

xAD, Inc. provides marketing and advertising services. It offers a global location marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers with ad targeting solutions focused on driving in-store traffic and sales. The firm focuses on capturing in-store visitation behaviors for ad targeting, insights, and measurement solutions. The company was founded by Dipanshu Sharma, Craig M. Hagopian, Chandra Kholia, and Sunil Kumar in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Language Weaver provides trusted automated translation solutions for high-value, dynamic digital information to improve human communications. Delivering a trusted level of translation quality, Language Weaver ensures that organizations maintain and extend brand voice across global media types and audiences. Built on reliable, statistically based technology, the company's products have been deployed worldwide across numerous industries and levels of government to increase operational effectiveness, improve brand experiences and boost customer engagement. Language Weaver, Inc. was incorporated in January 2002 to commercialize a statistical approach to automated language translation and natural language processing. This breakthrough technology overcomes the weaknesses that have limited commercial success for automated translation in the past. Language Weaver's technology is the result of more than 300 person-years of invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute by Drs. Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, Language Weaver's founders, and their students. Their remarkable successes have made them the world's leaders in statistical approaches to automatic translation and natural language processing. Language Weaver continues to lead the quest for continuous improvements in translation accuracy and more scalable, flexible systems to improve human communications on a new level.

National Academy of Sciences operates as a private, nongovernmental institution that advises on issues related to science and technology. It provides independent, objective analysis and advice and conducts other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The firm also encourages education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science. The company was founded on March 3, 1863 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Imagine Communications, Inc. provides digital video solutions for content providers and system operators. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Optomec, Inc. supplies additive manufacturing systems. It offers aerosol jet printers that enable 3D printing of micron-scale electronics structural use models, such as 3D antennas in mobile devices, and electronic components in 3D IC or PCB applications; and LENS printers for prototyping and production of metal components in military/aero markets, and the repair/replacement of parts requiring metal combination and finishing requirement. The firm serves industrial, research and government organizations in the electronics, energy, life sciences and aerospace industries. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology is a non-profit organization located in La Jolla, CA. The private company focuses on immunology research and aims to unravel the complexities of the immune system to tackle an array of diseases such as asthma, cancer, COVID-19, type 1 diabetes, and Parkinson's. The company is home to three research centers that focus on autoimmune conditions, cancer, and infectious diseases. The company offers various services such as bioinformatics, clinical studies, cryo-em, flow cytometry, histopathology, immunometabolism, microscopy & histology, and next-generation sequencing. The company also provides licensing opportunities and initiatives. The company was founded by Steve Pontell and is currently led by Erica Saphire as the CEO.

Air-Trak provides global positioning system (GPS) tracking solution. Its solutions include GPSConnect, wasteconnect, air-trak marketing resource management (MRM), and mobile fleet manager. The company was founded by Dennis R. Clark and Marc A. Bernard in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Software Engineering Institute provides non-commercial research and development services. Its products and services include SEI training, SEI partner network, SEI certification, tools and methods, research and consulting services. Software Engineering Institute was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Telecommunications Industry Association promotes business environment for companies involved in telecom, broadband, mobile wireless, IT, cable, satellite and communications industry. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Legend3D, Inc. provides image processing technology services. The firm specializes in theatrical feature conversion and have also provided stereoscopic consultation for films shot in native 3D that contained some material needing conversion. It also offers conversion of motion pictures, television shows, advertisements and other visual entertainment assets produced in 2D into 3D. The company was founded by Barry B. Sandrew in 2001 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Aerial Technologies, Inc. engages in a software company. It operates as home automation systems that provide a cloud-based, user-oriented, ambient intelligent platform that recognizes and learns people’s activities. The company was founded by David Grant, Michel Allegue, Jevin Maltais, and Francois Morel in 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Presto Engineering Group SAS provides business and other management consultancy activities. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Meyreuil, France.