Meredith Lawrence

Foundry Group LLC is a venture capital firm, founded in 2007 by Bradley Feld. The firm headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

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

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers operates as an auction house. It specializes in asian works of art, furniture and decorative arts, 20th century decorative arts, fine silver and objects of vertu, fine art, fine books and manuscripts, fine jewelry and timepieces. The company was founded by Leslie Hindman in 1982 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The University of Chicago Endowment (UCE) manages the endowment of the University of Chicago, a private research university headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They are responsible for overseeing the investment of the University's investment assets including the endowment, pensions, and other related assets. The University of Chicago’s endowment supports the fundamental mission of the institution—to produce a caliber of teaching and research that regularly leads to advances across the sciences, medicine, law, business, the arts, and humanistic inquiry. The endowment provides a permanent source of income to these endeavors by supplementing the operating budget of the University.