Jim Parks

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

NYC Seed LLC (NYC Seed) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Carolinas Fintech Management LLC (CFV Ventures) is a venture capital arm of RevTech Labs LLC founded in 2017 by Daniel J. Roselli and Nathaniel Clarkson. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Task Force X Capital Management LLC (Task Force X Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Brandon Shelton. The firm is headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

J2 Software Solutions, Inc. provides software and technology services for public safety. It offers J2 dispatcher, fusion systems data replication, J2 civil and jail manager. The company was founded by Jerry Wright 2007 and is headquartered in Tullahoma, TN.

Rho Capital Partners, Inc. (Rho Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Joshua Ruch. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Pet Screening, Inc. provides end-to-end pet screening solution to apartment and rental industry. The company was founded by John R. Bradford III and is headquartered in Cornelius, NC.

LivingSocial, Inc. operates an online local marketplace platform. The firm’s products and programs include local, escapes, shop, events, coupons, and at home. It provides fun and leisure, kids activities, sightseeing and tours, sports and outdoors, tickets and events, beauty products and spas, and food and drinks. The company was founded by Aaron Batalion, Valeriy Aleksenko, Edward Pyle Frederick, and Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Payzer Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of Information Technology services. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

ICX Media, Inc. develops a digital media software platform which provides comprehensive insights into how videos are performing. It specializes in media, content creators, online video, video, insights, data science and brand content. The company was founded by Michael B. Avon, Steven McCord, Joey McCord and Thomas MacIsaac and is headquartered in Washington, WA.

Ceterus, Inc. provides accounting and book keeping services. It offers Ceterus edge and tax solutions. The company was founded by Levi Morehouse in 2008 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

Part of Dispatch Technologies, Inc., Youreka Labs, Inc. is a company that offers the Youreka product, which allows enterprises to create and complete forms at scale, run analytics and workflow, all without leaving the comfort and security of their Salesforce environment. The company is based in Baltimore, MD. The Youreka product is trusted by leading enterprises worldwide and is built for enterprises who run on Salesforce. It offers guided safety checklists, real-time verification processes, health, safety, and environmental compliance forms, and allows users to put organizational knowledge to work even without wifi. The company was founded in 2008 by Thomas Boosinger and Dan Bergner, and the CEO is Bill Karpovich. Youreka Labs was acquired by Dispatch Technologies, Inc. on April 26, 2022.

Rent Ready Holdings, Inc. is a real estate firm. It delivers an end-to-end make-ready service for apartment communities. The company was founded by William P. Brugh, Jr., Ryan C. McMillan, and Jonathan E. Kite and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

HelloWallet LLC provides online financial guidance services. The firm is an independent financial management and guidance website which helps its members to take control of finances. The company was founded by Matt Fellowes in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Adwerx, Inc. provides advertising services for real estate. The firm offers digital marketing tools for real estate, mortgage and insurance. The company was founded by Jed Carlson in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Contactually, Inc. develops Web-based customer relationship management software and contact management solutions. Its solutions provide teams with insights and analytics from the team dashboard and summary of a team's activity, connect personal buckets to team buckets so that contact records are up-to-date, facilitate to assign contacts to team members and allow to create shared team buckets and link personal ones. The firm's solutions also allow individuals to focus on right contacts, follow up consistently, find business opportunities in their network and work across their team. The company was founded by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella in October 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

XOEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of firmware and software solutions for wearable devices. It provides energy-efficient HVAC systems and comprehensive building solutions for the commercial and industrial facilities. The company was founded by Aaron Salow and Chris Salow in 2010 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

SyncApp, Inc. provides an open messaging platform. Its product, Snycapp, offers exchange of real time structured data and controls visibilty and privacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Payzer LLC operates a mobile and cloud based financial technology platform. Its product allows clients to accept payments, provide instant credit, make payments, control information securely, and control purchases by giving employees visa debit purchasing cards rather than a company credit card. The company was founded by Joseph A. Giordano and Douglas Little in 2012 and is headquartered in Waxhaw, NC.

Attachmate Corp. provides software used to manage access to enterprise applications and databases, including information stored on main frames and other legacy systems. Its products include desktop management software, development tools, and connectivity hardware. The company also provides a variety of services, including consulting, maintenance, and custom software development

VGF Advisers (US) LLC, formerly Virgin Fuels, is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Virgin Group Ltd.

Wildcat Discovery Technologies, Inc. provides commercial research and development services. The firm engages in development projects for materials for other applications, including gas storage, carbon capture, thermoelectric, and structural materials. Its products include electrolyte additives such as EM1, CM1, CM2, and EM2. The company was founded by Peter G. Schultz and Robert K. Downs in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Association represents private equity and venture capital companies. The private company is based in Timonium, MD. The company was founded by Charles W. Newhall.

Part of Fiserv, Inc., Bank of America Merchant Services LLC is a finance company. The company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Workspace.com, Inc. provides online project workspace services. Its services include collaboration, reporting, dashboards, custom fields, security, user management, and search. The company was founded by Chris Childers, Greg Heard, Paul Martin, Jeff Mason, and Mark J. Wesker in 2001 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, MD.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Amplifier Management LLC (Amplifier Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jonathan Aberman. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

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.

Clarabridge, Inc. provides intelligent customer experience management solutions. It enables businesses to intelligently listen to, analyze, operationalie, and measure multi-source customer feedback through intelligent sentiment and text analytics. The company enables organizations to create a universal understanding of its customers, partners, and employees; make actionable business decisions with measurable ROI; and collaborate on those decisions both internally with stakeholders and externally with customers. Its products include CX Analytics, CX Social and CX Survey. The company was founded by Siddhartha Banerjee, Nithi Vivatrat, Gene S. Sohn and Justin Langseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Bright Hub, Inc. provides business infra structure to software developers. Its focus areas include computing, education, mobile, science, environment, electronics, multimedia, Internet, business, finances and engineering. The company was founded by Robert Smith, Joshua Andeson McWilliam and William P. Phelan in 2006 and is headquartered in Troy, NY.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Booker Software, Inc. provides software for management, booking and marketing services. It enables businesses to provide online services through website and a network of partner sites and apps. The company was founded by Joshua McCarter and Daniel Lizio-Katzen in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (Virginia Innovation Partnership) is a private equity/venture capital non-profit operating division of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

WiserTogether, Inc. offers a shared decision support platform. It provides treatment decisions on musculoskeletal, pregnancy, cardiovascular, mental health, diabetes, and respiratory issues. The firm sells online and mobile health-decision-support platform to consumers, employers, health plans, payers, and providers. The company was founded by Shub Debgupta, Robert Proctor and Praveen V. Mooganur in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Royalty Exchange, Inc. operates an online platform for the valuation and sale of music royalties. It provides a platform where all types of royalty assets, such as music, television and film or patents, intellectual property, and mineral rights, can be bought or sold in an effort to bring value to both the investor and seller. The company was founded in 2011 by Sean C. Peace, Reggie Calloway and Wilson Owens and is headquartered in Lakewood, CO.

Personal, Inc. develops web and mobile platform that helps people take control of and benefit from their data. The firm is available through subscription and companies and organizations that provide vaults to their customers and members, frequently pre-populated with information that is instantly useful and able to be shared privately. The company was founded by R. Shane Green, Edin Saracevic, Tarik Kurspahic, Douglas B. Wheeler, Jennifer Devereux and Jennifer O'Keefe in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Intellinote, Inc. provides multi-platform software applications. Its products include video conferencing, real time messaging, task management, file sharing, note tasking, mobile, desktop apps, notifications and platform. The company was founded by Anthony Lopresti, William L. Welch and Gene S. Sohn in January 2013 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.