Kent Goldman

Yahoo!, Inc. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Catalate Commerce, Inc. sells lift tickets online for ski resorts. Its platform helps ski resorts generate incremental sales through yield management, segmentation, centralized distribution and gives alpine resorts the ability to sell advance-purchase, date-specific tickets, rentals, lessons and more, while still maintaining complete control over both the price and the quantity of items available for any given day. The company was founded by Ron Schneidermann and Evan V. Reece in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mashery, Inc. provided API management services. The company was founded by Oren Michels, Scott Rafer, Kirsten Spoljaric and Clay Loveless in May 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Jelli, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based advertisement platform. Its solutions include RadioSpot and Spotplan, which some of the broadcasters and advertisers in the audio marketplace is using. The company was founded by Michael Dougherty and Jateen Parekh in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Founded in 1998, Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) is a broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Boston, Denver, Colorado and Palo Alto, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWPG), a San Francisco-based investment banking firm. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). TWP's investment banking, brokerage and equity research divisions serve emerging growth companies and institutional investors around the world. They are a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. TWP specializes in the growth sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the consumer, energy, healthcare, Internet, media/telecommunications, metals/mining and technology sectors. Within the consumer sector, the firm focuses on: financial products, gaming/lodging, interactive market services, lifestyles/sports retailers, restaurants and hardlines and softlines retailing. TWP's global energy research is provided by analysts in three countries and covers the following trends: (1) fast-growing oil and natural gas producers in North America and worldwide (2) domestic and international energy service companies and (3) alternative energy technology and resource developers. Within the healthcare sector, TWP focuses on: biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare information technology, pharmaceutical services, life science technology, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals. The firm's interest in the Internet, media and telecommunications sector include: Internet services, media, broadcasting and telecommunications services. Their focus within the metals and mining sector include: base metals, gold, precious metals and uranium. TWP's technology research focuses on: (1) applied technologies (2) communications components (3) core and wireless communications equipment (4) IP networking communications equipment (5) electronic supply chain (6) enterprise hardware (7) information and financial technology services (8) semiconductor capital equipment (9) broadline and specialty semiconductors (10) applications and communications software and (11) infrastructure software. TWP also provides value-added equities analysis across a variety of sectors including: industrials, financials, consumer, technology and healthcare.

Boston-based Fidelity Capital Investors (FCI) is a leveraged buyout subsidiary of Fidelity Research & Management Co.

First Round Capital (First Round Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Josh M. Kopelman. The firm is headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Continuity Engine, Inc. provides regulatory technology solutions that automate compliance management for financial institutions. The company offers regulatory expertise and cloud technology to reduce regulatory burden and mitigate compliance risk at a fraction of the cost. Its solutions are designed to automate all aspects of compliance management, from interpretation of regulatory issuances through intuitive task delegation, vendor management, and board reporting. The company was founded by Andrew Ivar Greenawalt, Michael R. Jennings, and Jim Kisch in 2008 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Threadflip, Inc. operates a social marketplace for buying and selling of clothes and accessories for women. It offers sunglasses, gloves, hats, scarves, wallets, sneakers, pants, skirts, tops, bags, clutches and suits. The firm’s brands include Chanel, Coach, Kate Spade, Michael Kors And Tory Burch. The company was founded in 2011 by Jeff Shiau, Manik Singh and Jacob Honig and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.