B. John Lackland

Lighter Capital, Inc. provides investment services. It specializes in business lending, revenue based financing, growth capital, startup funding and financing. The company was founded by Andy Sack in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Power Efficiency Corp. provides comprehensive one-stop solutions to address grid stability problems and take advantage of large and actively growing market opportunity for energy storage and demand management. It offers its solutions to grid operators, utilities, and commercial & industrial (C&I) customers. The company focuses on renewable distributed energy resources and battery energy storage systems for grid balancing services to the independent system operators; load shifting for utilities; energy management through storage for C&I customers; and micro grids for energy security. Power Efficiency was founded on October 19, 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The National Bureau of Asian Research offers the Chinese Language Fellowship Program, which provides fellowships for American graduate students to undergo a year of intensive Chinese language training. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA. The program is open to PhD and current or recent MA students.

E8 Management LLC (E8 Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Nate Silverman and Martin Tobias. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.