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Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners LLC (Cross Atlantic Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Donald Caldwell and Gerry McCrory. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania with an additional offices in the United Kingdom and Israel.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB provides financial services. It operates as a locally managed community banking institution serving Delaware Valley families and businesses of all sizes. Its subsidiaries or divisions include, cash connect, Christiana trust, Christiana trust company of DE, cypress capital management, powder mill financial solutions, WSFS wealth investments, west capital management and WSFS mortgage. The company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Preferred Sands, Inc. provides sand-based proppant solutions. It operates through the sand and coated technology segments. The sand segment focuses on mining, processing, and distributing frac sand sold under supply agreements to oil and natural gas customers in connection with hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells. The company was founded by Michael O’Neill in 1992 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

Preferred Proppants LLC engages in the provision of innovative solutions to the oil and gas industry. The company was founded by Michael O'Neill in 1992 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

MRO Software provides enterprise strategic asset management software that helps clients make the most of their information technology (IT) assets, production equipment, facilities, fleets and vehicles, and other assets. The company's software tracks spare parts inventories, analyzes equipment failures, schedules maintenance, manages parts sourcing and procurement, and processes work orders. Its IT asset management tools help clients manage hardware and software and ensure licensing compliance. MRO sells to customers in a variety of asset-intensive industries, including oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceuticals, aviation, transportation, and the public sector.

Part of Global Media & Entertainment Ltd., Orchard Media Ltd. is a British company that operates an independent radio station broadcasting under the name of. The company is based in London, UK. Orchard Media was acquired by GWR Group Ltd. /UK/ on January 28, 1999 for $42.90 million.

Mobiquity, Inc. provides enterprise-class mobile solutions and applications. It offers strategy, experience design, product engineering, analytics and cloud services. The company was founded by William A. Seibel, Scott A, Snyder, Joel Evans and Michael James Heffernan in April 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Part of BearingPoint GmbH, KPMG Consulting AG is a German company that provides information technology consulting services. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. KPMG Consulting was acquired by BearingPoint, Inc. from KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AG on August 22, 2002 for $627.12 million.

Gluware, Inc. offers cloud-based network automation services. It automates the configuration and management of complex deployments. The firm's products include Gluware, Gluware control, Gluware lab and Gluware platform. The company was founded by Jeff Gray and Olivier Huynh Van in 2007 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.

Core Security Technologies, Inc. provides information technology security solutions. It offers core security attack intelligence platform, an attack intelligence platform that helps customers to identify the vulnerable areas of their IT environments to improve the effectiveness of remediation efforts and secure the business. The firm services include comprehensive penetration tests, application penetration tests, web services assessments, source code audits and wireless penetration tests. The company was founded by Emiliano Kargieman, Ariel Futoransky, Jonatan Altszul and Ivan Arce in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Meridium, Inc. provides integrated asset performance management software solutions for the manufacturing industry. The firm’s software includes Asset Performance Management, APM Now, and Asset Answers. It also provides solution design, implementation and consulting, and training services. The company was founded by Bonz Hart in 1993 and is headquartered in Roanoke, VA.

Arrowstreet Capital LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Arrowstreet Capital Holding LLC. They provide investment advisory services to a global institutional client base. Arrowstreet Capital is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Hamersley Partners LLC is a private company based in Boston, MA.

Audax Private Equity (Audax Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of 101 Huntington Holdings LLC founded in 1999 by Geoff S. Rehnert and Marc B. Wolpow. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and additional office in San Francisco, California.

Allen & Gerritsen, Inc. is an independent and integrated agency based in Boston, MA and Philadelphia. The company specializes in building a brand's best self through creative platforms, strategic insights, communications planning, customer experience, performance media, public relations, social media, influencer marketing, outcomes-driven analytics, brand integration, and more. The CEO of the company is Andrew Graff.

Audax Strategic Capital (Audax Strategic) is a private equity firm founded in 2022. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Arbinet-Thexchange Ltd. provides voice and internet protocol solutions. The company was founded on June 5, 2000 and is headquartered in St. Albans, the United Kingdom.

Voxware, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and sells voice-based solutions for the logistics, distribution and package sorting industries. Its products include Voice Applications, Voice Toolset, and Voice Architecture. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Hamilton, NJ.

DialogTech, Inc. provides voice-based marketing automation solutions. It offers a suite of applications that enable businesses to connect, measure, and optimize sales and service calls to marketers, salespeople, and support professionals to automate voice interactions, and generate and track leads. The firm offers solutions for call tracking, hosted interactive voice response, call routing, call management, voice broadcasting, real-time reporting, toll-free numbers, SMS notifications, dynamic phone numbers, phone number cleansing, developer APIs, integration, keyword spotting, store locator, virtual receptionist, call recording, call forwarding, and click to call. The company was founded by Irvin M. Shapiro in 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Innovation Philadelphia, Inc (Innovation Philadelphia) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Rich A. Bendis. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

NewSpring Growth (NewSpring Growth) is a private equity division of NSV II Management Co. LLC founded in 1999 by Michael A. DiPiano and Marc R. Lederman. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

NitroSecurity, Inc. develops high performance security information and event management solutions that protect critical information and infrastructure. Its solutions reduce risk exposure and increase network and information availability by removing the scalability and performance limitations of security information management. The company was founded by Paul Whittington, Howard D. Stewart, Terry B. Anderton and Kenneth Russell in 1994 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH.

Smart Destinations, Inc. provides travel packages and services. It offers admission sightseeing passes in North American travel destinations. The company was founded by Cecilia Dahl, Kevin McLaughlin, Tyler Brooks and Ed Kim in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

NSV II Management Co. LLC provides investment management services. It is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investing in growth capital, growth and expansion stage, recapitalization, mid stage, late stage, mezzanine, control buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and management buyouts in middle market companies. The company was founded by Michael A. DiPiano and Marc R. Lederman in 1999 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

Exelate Media Ltd. collects and sells web data on consumers. It gathers consumer data from websites and can determine a consumer’s demographic information and web habits using cookies. The company was founded in December 2006 and is headquartered in Rosh Haayin, Israel.

XOS Technologies, Inc. provides content management solutions and digital coaching technologies. It solution areas encompass digital media services, coaching, and facilities design and integration. The company specializes in designing custom solutions to optimize coaching operations as well as monetization and distribution of digital media assets. The firm’s coaching solution provides software that allows sports teams to acquire, manage, and distribute video for game preparation and analysis, recruiting and scouting activities, and overall team communications. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

eXelate, Inc. provides data technology powering and digital marketing economy. Its products include data management platform, data marketplace and analytics. The company was founded by Meir Zohar and Elad Efraim in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Clutch Holdings, Inc. develops marketing solutions. It offers clutch platform that transform data collection into hyper-personalized, intelligent interaction that increase customer value. It also provides integrated solution such as business to customer CRM, loyalty, gift, and channel marketing. The company was founded by Edmund Moore, Andy O'Dell and Daniel Guy in 2012 and is headquartered in Ambler, PA.