Erik Frederick

Alere, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer and professional medical diagnostic products. It operates through the following segments: Professional Diagnostics, Consumer Diagnostics, and Other Non-Reportable. The Professional Diagnostics segment includes an array of diagnostic test products and other in vitro diagnostic tests. The Consumer Diagnostics segment consists of manufacturing operations. The Other Non-Reportable segment includes Alere Home Monitoring, which distributes PT and INR coagulation; monitors and facilitates the distribution of equipment; and supplies to power and control customers' implanted ventricular assist devices and VADs. It also provides telemonitoring services that allow VAD coordinators to monitor patients soon after discharge and receive alerts when critical patient values fall outside pre-established ranges. The company was founded by Ronald Zwanziger on May 11, 2001 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Nuada Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical company. The private company is based in Durham, NC.

ZyCare has developed an innovative approach utilizing expert systems and the Internet to automate much of the routine decision making involved in remotely managing patients with chronic conditions. ZyCare's 'Direct-to-Patient Expert Systems'™ directly involve the patient in information gathering that drives automated treatment recommendations, while giving physicians a vehicle to closely monitor their patients' progress without random and time-consuming telephone calls and faxes. This approach allows the healthcare system to cost-effectively take advantage of the new home monitoring devices that are being developed and marketed for chronic conditions. The Company believes that its approach gives patients more control over their own condition, and allows medical personnel to focus on those patients needing their attention. ZyCare's technology is protected by patents issued in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia

Eragy, Inc. provides cloud-based energy management solutions for residential and light commercial properties. The private company is based in Durham, NC and was founded by Erik Frederick.

Cofounders Capital Management LLC (Cofounders Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by David Gardner. The firm is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.