Gilbert Bickel

Part of Innovate St. Louis, ITEN is a company that develops and manufactures eco-friendly solid-state lithium-ion SMD micro batteries. The company is based in St. Louis, MO. These batteries are rechargeable in a few minutes and can deliver power over a wide operating temperature range. The company is used in various applications such as back-up power supply, powering autonomous sensor nodes, tracking and monitoring solutions, sensor data loggers, beacons and RF tags, smartphone peripherals, medical devices, home and building automation, smart cities, wearables, and e-textiles.

Capital Innovators LLC (Capital Innovators) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Judy Sindecuse. The firm is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Denim Software, Inc. engages in the provision of technology services. The company is headquartered in Saint Louis, MO.

Prosper Capital LLC /Missouri/ (Prosper Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Prosper Women Entrepreneurs founded in 2014 by Jennifer Ehlen. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., AI Software LLC (Missouri) is a private company that builds landing pages for social media campaigns to track conversions from social publishing and advertising efforts. The company, based in St. Louis, MO, is a social media management company that provides publishing, advertising, and compliance for financial services companies. The company offers social media marketing for insurance companies with scheduling content curation, advertising, and built-in social media compliance. The company was founded in 2011 by Bryan Bell and Gregory Bailey, and the CEO is Douglas Wilber. AI Software LLC (Missouri was acquired by Ai Software LLC on August 30, 2023.

Prosper Women Entrepreneurs operates as an advocacy company for the woman entrepreneurs. It is comprised of two separate divisions: Prosper Institute, a non-profit organization that helps growth-seeking women entrepreneurs advance their businesses to create economic prosperity, and the Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator, a for-profit organization focused on increasing women entrepreneurs' access to growth capital and the number of women investing in early stage capital markets. The company was founded by Mary Jo Gorman, Maxine Clark, Peter Finley, Carol Matthews, Hal Gentry, and Jennifer Ehlen in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

aisle411, Inc. provides mobile in-store location services platform for retailers. Its platform allows shoppers to map products, offers, and lists by aisle location, as well as discover information based on a shopper’s in-store location; and enables retailers to reach shoppers at the shelf with context and location relevant information that enhances the shopper experience. Its indoor retail mapping and location service, and mobile platform allows shoppers to navigate through retail stores to find exactly what they want by collecting, organizing, and monetizing retailers’ product inventory, location data, and enterprise software space planning systems and store maps. The company was founded by Matthew Kulig and Nathan M. Pettyjohn in April 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Technology For Energy Corp. designs and manufactures diagnostic instruments. It operates through four divisions that include Aviation, Materials Testing, Nuclear Power, and Electric Power or Powermetrix. The company was founded by Ronald Nutt in 1975 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.

Since 1870, the Humane Society of Missouri has been providing a haven to all animals that have been abused, neglected or abandoned. Their mission is to end the cycle of abuse and pet overpopulation through their rescue and investigation efforts, spay/neuter programs and educational classes. They create relationships between people and animals through their adoption programs. They also provide veterinary care, pet obedience and behavior programs. The organization is headquartered in St. Louis, MO and has centers in Chesterfield Valley and Westport Area.

Warson Capital Partners /Private Equity/ (Warson Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Warson Capital Partners LLC founded in 1994 by Mike Thaman and Lori Thaman. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Purina Mills LLC produces and markets animal nutrition products. It manufactures and supplies livestock feed and pet food offering information concerning their products. The firm provides its products for commercial livestock and poultry, horse, bird, fish, zoo and pet industries. The company was founded on October 11, 2001 and is headquartered in Clayton, MO.

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