Alexandra Farmer

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

InnoPath Software, Inc. provides mobile device management solutions to wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. It offers ActiveCare, which enables operators to update, troubleshoot, configure, and secure phones over-the-air. The company was founded by Stephen Artim in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Compass Point Research & Trading LLC (Compass Point) is a registered broker-dealer and full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Washington, DC. The firm was founded by Scott Dreyer in 2007 and is owned by Sooner Holdings LLC. Compass Point provides investment banking, research, and sales and trading services to institutional investors. Their clients include investment advisors, mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional accounts located in the US, Canada and Europe.

ZeroFOX, Inc. is a social risk management company, which engages in the provision of security technology that enables organizations to detect and prevent social media-based cyber threats. Its solutions include enterprise protection, brand protection, executive protection, domain protection, threat protection, and dark web monitoring. The company was founded by Christopher B. Cullison, Hillary Herlehy, James C. Foster, Evan Blair, Robert Francis, and Neil Smith in January 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

JMI Management, Inc. (JMI Equity) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Harry S. Gruner and Charlie E. Noell. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Catterton Management Co. LLC (L Catterton) is a private equity subsidiary of L Catterton Management Ltd. founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

GTCR LLC (GTCR) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charlie Thomas. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Granite Creek Partners LLC (Granite Creek Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Mark A. Radzik, Brian B. Boorstein and Peter G. Lehman. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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

Flexpoint Ford LLC (Flexpoint Ford) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Donald Joseph Edwards, Ethan Abraham Budin and Charles Earle Glew. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in New york.

Michigan Ross Zell Lurie Institute / Venture Capital/ (Zell Lurie Institute) is a venture capital subsidiary of Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Studies founded in 1997 by Samuel Zell, Ann Lurie and Robert H. Lurie. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Part of Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc., McCann Healthcare LLC is a global health marketing agency with over 45 agencies and 6,500+ employees across six continents. The company is based in New York, NY, and is obsessed with harnessing creativity, technology, and data to inspire behaviors that fuel better health. The company has over 20 full-service agencies and 18+ specialized agencies that focus on creativity, digital channels, technology, and data to help clients accelerate their business and impact lives around the world. The CEO of the company is John Cahill.

Amenity Analytics Ltd. engages in provision of online data processing and information extraction services. It offers financial services, strategic intelligence, and knowledge discovery solutions. The firm also offers machine learning combined with visual pattern recognition, proprietary natural language processing technology, including full grammatical parsing services. The company was founded by Nathaniel Storch, Ronen Feldman and Hedva Feldman in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Verica, Inc. provides reactive tactics like detection, remediation, service degradation and disaster recovery services. It uses chaos engineering to make systems more secure.The company was founded by Aaron Rinehart and Casey Rosenthal and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

Virtue Ventures Management LLC (Virtue) is a venture capital firm founded by Sean Doolan in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Augtera Networks, Inc. engages in the computer networking industry. The company was founded in April 15, 2016 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Fly.io, Inc.operates a platform that helps customer to build and launch applications. The company was founded by Jerome Gravel-Niquet and Kurt Mackey and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Moderne, Inc. offers automated solutions to source code issues, such as refactoring, to effectively manage your software supply chain by wrangling the code, not just libraries. The American company helps you automate code remediation tasks faster and easier, offering insights. The company's services include large scale code analysis and refactoring for dependency insights, framework updates, cve patching for java, spring, yaml, kubernetes, and other iac. The company offers free, SMB, and enterprise tiers, with the enterprise tier including single tenancy, bring your own encryption key, on-prem agent and integrations. Moderne's library of tutorial videos, guides & references can get you started with Moderne SaaS or Openrewrite, whether you're a novice or expert. The company invites you to request a demo or join beta.

OtterTune, Inc. is a database automation and optimization platform that uses machine learning to recommend and deploy configuration settings, improving the performance, uptime, and efficiency of cloud-based PostgreSQL and MySQL databases such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. OtterTune is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, and is funded by leading investors, including Accel. The company's mission is to save cloud costs and create peace of mind by making database management systems autonomous and self-driving. Customers can access the revolutionary database optimization software on AWS Marketplace and online at ottertune.com. The company was founded by Bohan Zhang, Andy Pavlo, and Dana van Aken, with Andy Pavlo serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Perfalytics, Inc. offers a platform that allows users to connect their website or application to over 100 integrations for analytics, advertising, email, warehousing, and more with one click. Perfalytics is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons. The platform automates site instrumentation and tedious integrations, enabling near-instant access to the data needed to grow a business by moving data from any source and making it compatible with any destination. The company's HIPAA compliant analytics and customer data platform collects customer data, manages PHI, and activates 200+ turnkey integrations for analytics and marketing tools.

Basis Set Ventures LLC (Basis Set Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Xuezhao Lan. The firm is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.

SIRIS Capital Group LLC (SIRIS Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Frank Baker, Peter Berger and Jeffrey Hendren. The firm is headquartered in New York, the United States.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

OpenGate Capital Management LLC (OpenGate Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Andrew Nikou. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Paris, France.

Michigan Capital Advisors LLC (Michigan Capital Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Charles G. McClure. The firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan.

Comeback Capital Advisors LLC (Comeback capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.