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Viewlocity, Inc. develops supply chain management software. It provides sense, respond and measure solutions to support the following business processes: supplier management, service management, mobile-asset management, logistics management, production management and distributed order fulfillment. Viewlocity was founded in July 1986 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Greenspring Associates Inc is a venture capital subsidiary of StepStone Group, Inc. founded in 2000 by C. Ashton Newhall. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Share Our Strength, Inc. runs a national campaign for eradicating poverty and hunger. It offers school break fast, summer and after school meals, food skills education and advocacy solutions. It runs No Kid Hungry, is a national campaign to solve problems of childhood hunger. The company was founded by Billy Shore and Debbie Shore in 1984 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Echoing Green, Inc. provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs with ideas for social change. The firm offers a fellowship program that provides seed funding to emerging social entrepreneurs; open society black male achievement fellowship, a program for improving the life outcomes of black men and boys in the United States through social entrepreneurship; and works on purpose, a career training program. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

MK Level Playing Field Institute provides STEM education programs. The non-profit company is based in Oakland, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Freada Kapor Klein.

Linqto, Inc. develops an online communication application that allows banks and credit unions to brand new software and use it with their customers. It provides financial services and educational verticals with software and engineering services. The company was founded by Vicki Lawrence Sarris and Bill Sarris in 2010 and is headquartered in Pacific Grove, CA.

Kanarys, Inc. engages in the provision of social enterprise technology platform that aims to foster collaboration between companies and employees on diversity. Its product feature include demographic statistics, employee reviews, and D&I news. The company was founded by Mandy Price, Star Carter, and Bennie King in April 2018 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

All Star Code, Inc. is a non-profit company that aims to shape the future by teaching young men of color how to code, providing them with financial independence and social mobility. The company is based in New York, NY and was founded by Christina Lewis. The company's goal is to prepare the next generation of visionaries as technology continues to shape our world.

African Diaspora Network, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization that aims to harness and engage the intellectual, financial, philanthropic, and entrepreneurial capacity of African diaspora and friends of Africa in support of economic and social development across Africa. Since 2010, the organization has been collaborating with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and African diasporans to uplift its local community towards the benefit of Africa. African Diaspora Network provides virtual and physical forums to accelerate access to resources that foster partnership, knowledge sharing, and advance investment opportunities. The organization is dedicated to sustaining its constituencies, marketplace, and partners by engaging the African diaspora through an ethics of care, enhancing their well-being in their adopted homelands, and facilitating their strategic involvement in the development of Africa and the communities in which they live.

Part of Santa Clara University, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship is a university-based social enterprise accelerator that has accelerated over 1,000 social enterprises since 2003. The center leverages its location in Silicon Valley and Jesuit ambition to end poverty and protect the planet. Miller Center also helps transform social ministries to more sustainable social enterprise models and engages Santa Clara University students in field research to support social entrepreneurs. With an emphasis on climate resilience and women's economic empowerment, Miller Center accelerates social entrepreneurship to eliminate poverty. The center has served more than 1,300 social entrepreneurs, engaged 162 SCU students in field research, and currently works with more than 300 business leaders from around the world who participate as mentors in the center's programs. The social enterprises accelerated by Miller Center have collectively improved, transformed, or saved the lives of over 400 million people in 100 countries.

Zeal Capital Partners LLC (Zeal Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Nasir Qadree. The firm is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

WOCstar Fund (WOCstar) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne and Pialy Aditya. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Alao AG is a Swiss company that provides a fast and easy way to switch to a new mobile phone and internet subscription. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Customers can choose their subscription and the company takes care of the rest, including free activation and consultation. The company was founded by Walter Salchli and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Growth Factory(Growth Factory) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Monique Brown and Souhail Khoury. The firm is headquartered in California.

The Veteran Fund Manager LLC (The Veteran Fund Manager) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Ryan Micheletti and Justin Nahama. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Qubits Ventures Management Company LLC (Qubits Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Nardo Manaloto. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Ecosphere Ventures LLC (Ecosphere Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Adil Jafry. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Vilcap, Inc. operates as non-profit organization. It also operates business development programs for early-stage entrepreneurs in agriculture, education, energy, financial inclusion, and health. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.