Matt McIlwain

ExtraHop Networks, Inc. designs and develops cloud-native network detection and response platform for the hybrid enterprise. The firm offers ExtraHop Reveal(x), Reveal(x) Cloud, ExtraHop for application and network performance, threat detection and response, customer experience monitoring, and SDN and virtualization. The company was founded by Raja Mukerji and Jesse Rothstein in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Optify is the leading provider of marketing software and services for the Real Time Web. Optify's hosted, easy-to-use platform enables businesses and online publishers to generate leads and more traffic through organic search and social media, create and manage social media campaigns, prioritize visitors and leads, and track and share results with simple but powerful enterprise scale reporting. Optify was founded in 2008 by Brian Goffman and Erez Barak and is funded by Madrona Venture Group, Triangle Peak Partners and prominent angels. They are located in Seattle, Washington with offices in Silicon Valley and Israel. They have a superstar team with experience at top companies including Microsoft, HP, Amazon.com, Zillow, Whitepages.com, and many others.

Appature, Inc. provides cloud-based marketing solutions. It offers enterprise marketing management software and web applications that identifies and maintains customer information sources. The company was founded by Kabir Shahani and Christopher Hahn in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

2nd Watch, Inc. provides public cloud workload management services. The firm offers cloud migration services, such as cloud readiness and optimization assessment, security assessment, migration strategy, and roadmap; total cost of ownership; proof of concept; consulting services; new build, virtualization, hybrid, and physical implementation; application re-platform implementation; and reference architecture catalog creation. It also provides a managed cloud platform service, such as day-to-day cloud operations for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment; conducts cloud training sessions and workshops; and offers lifecycle engagement services, including assessment, design, deployment, management, optimization, and destruction of cloud infrastructure. The company was founded by Jeff Aden, Kris Bliesner and Brett Turner in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Qumulo, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise data storage platform. It helps application owners and information technology teams store and manage all the data. The firm serves to animation, broadcast, gaming, research computing, government healthcare, video surveillance and data analytics industries. The company was founded by Neal Fachan, Peter Godman and Aaron Passey in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

Madrona Venture Group LLC (Madrona Venture Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Tom A. Alberg, Paul B. Goodrich and Jerry Grinstein. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Performant, Inc. develops performance optimization, testing, tuning, and problem recreation solutions to enable companies optimize the performance and reliability of business-critical applications. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc. provides investment banking services. It offers securities underwriting, trading, mergers, acquisitions advice, research, private equity investment, derivative and risk management products. The company's services include private banking and asset management. Credit Suisse First Boston USA is headquartered in New York, NY

Washington Policy Center promotes sound public policy based on free-market solutions. It improves lives of Washington state’s citizens by providing research for policymakers, the media and the general public. The firm also publishes studies, sponsors events and conferences and educates citizens on the vital public policy issues facing in the region. Its focus areas include education, environment, health care, small business and agriculture. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is a non-profit organization which provides research and testing services. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Apptio, Inc. enagages in the provision of technology business management solutions. It offers software-as-a-sevice applications including cost transparency, information technology planning and benchmarking, business insights, and bill of information technology. It operates through the following geographic areas: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific (APAC). The company was founded by Sunny Gupta, Kurt Shintaffer and Paul McLachlan on October 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Mixpo, Inc. provides video marketing and analytics platform. Its solutions include brand advertisers, local station creative services, national network and syndicators, agencies, local media sales, national media sales, and ad networks and exchanges. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

The Washington Technology Industry Association, founded by Lawrence I. Lerner, is a platform for security experts to network, practice thought leadership, and work together to overcome common challenges. The non-profit company is based in Issaquah, WA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company hosts fullcontech, a non-typical conference with speakers and leaders to hear from, to be inspired by, and to learn from. Additionally, the company offers the WTIA CISO Peer Group, which is committed to serving the needs of security executives. The company also provides benefits programs for companies to build their benefits program. The CEO is Michael T. Schutzler.

Animoto, Inc. develops online video applications. It offers creation and sharing of videos using pictures, video clips, words and music. The company was founded by Stevie Clifton, Tom Clifton, Jason Hsiao and Bradley Jefferson in August 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Villa Academy is a private Catholic school located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of [city name not provided]. The school serves students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.

Tier 3, Inc. (Washington) provides enterprise managed services. The company was founded on December 20, 2010 and is headquartered in Olympia, WA.

Placed, Inc. provides mobile analytic software. It offers location-driven insights and mobile advertising intelligence. The firm measures mobile device information, includes location for market research purposes. The company offers Placed Insights, a ratings service for the physical world that enables clients to gain actionable intelligence into offline consumer behavior and competitive trends, grow customer segments, benchmark their business against the competition, and measure the impact of advertising campaigns in driving traffic to their stores. Placed was founded by David Shim in January 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Turi, Inc. operates a platform for building predictive and intelligent applications. It offers GraphLab Create is a machine learning platform that enables data scientists and app developers to easily create intelligent apps at scale. The company also offers data engineering, data intelligence and deployment services. Turi was founded by Joseph E. Gonzalez, Jay Gu, Danny Bickson and Carlos Ernesto Guestrin in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Igneous Systems, Inc. provides unstructured data management as-a-service solution. Its products include DataProtect, DataDiscover and DataFlow. The firm’s business includes both the raw boxes of hard drives a business buys to store data and the software needed to manage it. It also provides cloud infrastructure to change the enterprise landscape. The company was founded by Kiran Bhageshpur, Byron Rakitzis and Jeff Hughes in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Booster Fuels, Inc. engages in developing an app-based service to deliver and pump gas in office parking lots. Its partners include campus-based companies, commercial real estate owners, universities, and commercial fleets. The company was founded by Frank Mycroft, Diego Netto, and Tyler Raugh in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Amperity, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company. It develops enterprise-marketing software. The firm offers customer data strategy, advanced analytics, enablement and data architecture services. The company was founded by Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani in January 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Suplari, Inc. develops business optimization software. It specializes in SaaS software, data integration, machine learning and vendor management. The company was founded by Jeff Gerber, Nikesh Parekh and Brian White in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

XNOR AI, Inc. engages in the development of advanced artificial intelligence programs. It specializes on computer vision, edge computing, internet o things, deep learning, machine learning, and neural networks. It serves global corporations in aerospace, automotive, retail, photography, consumer electronics, and government. The company was founded by Ali Farhadi and Mohammad Rastegari on December 20, 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Terraclear, Inc. designs and builds solutions that control farm costs and automate crop production. It specializes in agriculture, machine vision, neural networks, drone survey, electro-hydraulics and GPS services. The company was founded by Brent R. Frei, Vivek Nayak and Koos Du Preez in December 2017 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

OctoML, Inc. provides artificial intelligence and machine learning services. The company was founded by Luis Ceze and Jason Knight and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

2nd Watch Holding Co., Inc. engages in the provision of managed cloud services. The company is headquartered in Liberty Lake, WA.

Nautilus Biotechnology, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded by Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick in 2016 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Modulus Therapeutics, Inc. is a company dedicated to discovering cell therapy solutions for patients. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company uses rapid prototyping and generative design to accelerate discovery and optimize cell therapies to meet therapeutic design goals. The company's platform offers a unique opportunity to leverage machine learning to maximize efficacy through modular design. Modulus envisions a world where cancer is no longer a life-threatening disease, and they are dedicated to transforming the future of cancer therapy through design-driven therapeutics. Modulus Therapeutics was founded in 2020 by Max Darnell and Bryce Daines. Max Darnell has been the CEO since 2020.

Proof Diagnostics, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing affordable and accessible COVID-19 molecular testing using CRISPR technology. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. Led by world-renowned molecular biologist Dr. Feng Zhang, the company aims to help communities take control of their health. Proof Diagnostics was founded in 2020 by Feng Zhang, Sid Shenai, Jonathan Gootenberg, Omar Abudayyeh. Sid Shenai has been the CEO since 2020.