Rishiraj Das

Vanguard Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Dr. Jack Gill in 1981. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

Yapta, Inc. develops and provides online travel management services. The firm specializes in airfare price tracking, hotel price tracking, dynamic price tracking technology, airfare and hotel rates and travel spend analytics. The company was founded by Brett Allsop, Thomas G. Romary, Ryan Allsop, Amy Terrell, Eric Anderson and Aaron Hill in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

High Gear Media, Inc. provides online information about automative products and news. It owns and operates car shopping and automotive news Websites that publishes automotive content to connect car-seeking audiences with content and tools on desktop and mobile devices. The company is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

TechStyle, Inc. operates an online fashion shopping and styling portal. It offers innovative technology, personalization, and data driven platform. The firm's product range includes shoes, handbags, jewelry, sunglasses and denim jeans. Its service areas also encompass personal style consulting, gift card packages, membership, and shipping and delivery. The company was founded by Adam Goldenberg and Donald Ressler in February 2010 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Highspot, Inc. provides sales engagement software. The firm helps organizations close the loop across marketing, sales, and the customer. Its sales enablement platform connects sales teams to relevant content for each situation, provides ways to present content to customers, and delivers real-time visibility into whether customers find the content engaging. The company was founded by Robert Wahbe, Oliver Sharp, David Wortendyke, and Scot Gellock in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Accel Partners LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson. The firm is headquartered in California, the US.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Part of Paramount Global, GolfWeb is a company that provides Internet golf information services. The company is based in Cupertino, CA. GolfWeb was acquired by CBSSports.com on January 30, 1998.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Riverdeep Group Plc, Creative Wonders LLC is an American company that develops entertainment and educational software. The company was founded by Timothy Jenkins. Creative Wonders was acquired by The Learning Co., Inc. from The Walt Disney Co. on December 11, 1997 for $35 million.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Level Equity Management LLC (Level Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Benjamin Levin, George W. McCulloch and Sarah Sommer. The firm is headquartered in New York.

GoFundMe, Inc. provides online fundraising services. The company was founded by Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Built Technologies, Inc. develops draw management tool for construction lenders. It offers consumer and commercial lending; document management; and inspector mobile application. The company was founded by Chase Gilbert and Adam Serbert in 2014 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pango, Inc. develops privacy and security products. It offers hotspot shield, 1password, robo shield, and identity guard. The company was founded by Sujay Jaswa in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Twingate, Inc. secures and manage technology resources. Its resources include documentation, setup guide, okta configuration, and G suite configuration. The company was founded by Tony Huie, Alex Marshall, and Lior Rozner in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

99designs, Inc. provides online graphic designs services. The firm’s design services include design contests, 1-to-1 projects, pricing, agencies, 99designs studio, 99designs select and API integrations. The company was founded by Patrick Llewellyn, Matt Mickiewicz, Leni Mayo, Andrew Walsh and Mark Harbottle in 2008 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Groupon SA provides online marketing services. It includes negotiation of discounts from popular businesses, both nationally and on a city-by-city basis. The firm daily deals consist of restaurants, spas, massages, theaters, hotels, and a whole lot more, in dozens of cities across the country. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.

Trulioo Information Services, Inc. provides an online portal for identity verification services. It identifies user behavior analysis from sources including social login providers, ad networks, mobile applications, e-commerce websites, social networks, and customers. The company was founded by Stephen Ufford and Tanis Jorge in 2009 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Intercom, Inc. provides an integrated customer communications platform. It offers a simple, personal messaging service for Internet businesses and their customers. The firm also provides a single, integrated platform for the whole company to use for support, marketing, product, and sales communication. The company was founded by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, David Barrett and Ciaran Lee in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Twistlock, Inc. provides enterprise container security services. It offers Twistlock, a technology that enables developers and security operations teams to keep container-based applications safe; Twistlock Trust that scans images and registries to detect vulnerabilities in the code, as well as configuration errors; and Twistlock Runtime, an automatic, real-time active threat protection and policy enforcement for containerized applications. The company was founded by Ben Bernstein and Dima Stopel in 2015 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

BambooHR LLC provides tools that power the strategic evolution of HR in small-to-medium-sized businesses. Its solutions include applicant tracking system, employee database, employee onboarding, HRIS software, HRMS software, and performance management. The company was founded by Ryan Sanders and Ben Peterson in 2008 and is headquartered in Lindon, UT.

InVisionApp, Inc. engages in the design of prototyping tool. It is a platform that enables companies of all sizes to create product development and make a common design language among both business and design teams. The company was founded by Clark Valberg and and Ben Nadel in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.