Jamie Carpenter

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Worksoft, Inc. develops and provides platform for automated business process validation. It offers service providers, software integrations, and machine learning solutions to enable automated testing of mission-critical business applications. The firm also provides managed, enablement, and delivery services. The company was founded by G. Linda Hayes, A. Randall Hayes, L. Ron Hayes, R. Gene Jones, F. Daniel Burger, Peter J. Hayes, and Barron Rex Cumming in 1998 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Caringo, Inc. develops diagnostic devices to monitor inflammation and immune status. Its products include Swarm storage software, SwarmNFS, Unified storage software, CloudScaler, FileFly, FileScaler and BlockScaler. The company was founded by Mark D. Goros, Jonathan Ring, and Paul Carpentier in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

SailPoint Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of on-premises service-based access management solutions. The firm offers access certification, access insights, access modeling, access requests, cloud governance, file access manager, pass management, provisioning, and separation-of-duties. The company was founded by Mark McClain and Kevin Cunningham in December 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Spiceworks, Inc. develops and provides software solutions to help businesses manage their information technology (IT) networks and resources. It also runs an online community where IT professionals can share ideas and provide technical support. The company was founded by Scott R. Abel, Jay Hallberg, Francis Sullivan and Greg Kattawar in 2006, and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Virtualcfo Holdings, Inc. provides financial, human resources and systems implementation services. It offers recruitment process outsourcing, contract recruiting and sourcing, accounting and finance professional search and recruitment consulting services and strategic planning, transaction support, financial reporting, operational support and corporate governance services. The firm's services include audit, benefits and compensation, on-boarding, employee training and development and performance management. Virtualcfo Holdings was founded by Ellen E. Wood and Tommy Deavenport in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

UnboundID Corp. provides customer identity and access management software. It offers UnboundID Platform, an enterprise software for identity and preference management, deployed on premises or in the cloud. The firm also offers modernize legacy identity, transition to customer, and customer engagement management, and identity and preference brokering. The company was founded by Steve Shoaff, Don Bowen, David Ely, and Neil Wilson in December 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Primus Capital Partners, Inc. (Primus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Loyal Wilson. The firm is headquartered in Pepper Hike, Ohio.

Sentient Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with an additional office in Village of Palmetto Bay, Florida. They manage the Whitecap Texas Opportunity Fund LP.

DLA Piper LLP provides legal services to clients. It offers services in the areas of corporate and securities, venture capital and emerging companies, litigation. The company was founded in 2005 and it is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Emergent Technologies, Inc. (Emergent Technologies) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by Thomas A. Harlan. The firm is headquartered in Austin. Texas.

University Federal Credit Union (Texas) is a locally-owned financial institution based in Austin, TX. University Federal Credit Union provides a broad range of financial services to the community, including a full-service branch in Austin. The private company was founded in 1936 and is currently led by CEOs Tony C. Budet and Michael E. Crowl.

Entrepreneurs Foundation provides privately held companies expert advice on corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Technology Entrepreneurs' eXchange (texchange) is an organization that fosters an entrepreneurial environment and develops the next generation of executives for technology, bitcoin, and life sciences companies. The private company is based in Austin, TX. The company brings together subject matter experts, industry thought leaders, and proven entrepreneurs for informative and educational discussions on current business topics. The company's monthly events feature nationally known business leaders, such as Steve McKay, the creator of the bitcoin trading robot called Bitcoin Code, and Tim Sanders, the former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, who share insights and lessons that can be applied to businesses today. Texchange currently has chapters in various locations.

The Austin Chamber of Commerce is an organization that helps people in the region achieve greater prosperity by working with businesses looking to create or expand their presence in the Austin region and help them create more jobs. The non-profit company is based in Austin, TX. The company has helped bring more than 400,000 jobs to the region since 2004 and take on the biggest challenges so businesses can focus on growing. Laura Huffman has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Builders Investors Group, Inc. supplies building materials. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Sanford, NC.

PeopleFund provides small business loans. It offers small business loans as well as business assistance and education to people with otherwise limited access to such resources. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Trinity Health Corp., Seton Health is a healthcare and senior care services provider. The company is based in Troy, NY. Seton Health was acquired by St. Peter's Health Care Services on February 25, 2009.

The Southern Funds Group LLC provides investment advice to entrepreneurs and fund managers. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tasktop Technologies, Inc. designs and develops software and delivery tools. Its products include Tasktop Sync, an integration server that provides enterprise-grade synchronization, Tasktop Data, which unlocks software lifecycle data from its application tool silos and Tasktop Dev. The firm also provides consulting, technical implementation, deployment, and software development services. The company was founded by Mik Kersten, Gail Murphy and Robert Elves in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Aceable, Inc. is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating educational content. It offers traffic law and substance abuse education courses for students. The company was founded by Blake Garrett in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Papay Topco, Inc. operates as an early stage company. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Elsewhere Partners LLC (Elsewhere Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Christopher A. Pacitti and John Douglas Thornton. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Ionic Partners LLC is a software industry investment firm with over 50 years of experience in both operations and investments. The private company is based in Austin, TX and has subsidiaries in Canada and the United States. The company, led by Andy Tryba and Donald Park, has invested in businesses at various stages, from start-ups to Fortune 500-scale companies. The company has also provided advisory services to management teams and boards. Andy Tryba and Donald K. Park founded the company, and Andy Tryba has been the CEO since incorporation.