Brian Samelson

Waterbear Ventures is a venture Capital firm founded in 2022 by Jonathan Taylor and Kyle Samelson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

3VR Security, Inc. engages in providing video intelligence solutions. It offers financial services, retail, and critical infrastructure solutions. The firm also provides video management software, hybrid and network video recorders, video analytics, customer insights, crimedex, and third-party integrations. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mocana Corp. develops security software solutions. It mobilizes enterprise data and protects millions of the smart connected devices that comprise the Internet of Things. The firm’s enterprise mobile app security platform provides organizations with an easy way to deliver business-critical mobile apps, with a end user experience, tap-and-go simplicity and strong security, for internal and external users. It also unlocks the extended mobile enterprise and simplifies wide-scale deployments by securing apps automatically, in seconds. The company was founded by Adrian Turner and James Andrew Blaisdell in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Borland Software Corp. designs open application lifecycle management solutions. The firm's products include required management, change management, software testing, test management, automated testing and performance testing. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Part of Open Text Corp., WebGain, Inc. develops and provides e-business automation software solutions. The company is based in Morgan Hill, CA. WebGain was acquired by TogetherSoft Corp. on August 12, 2002.

eFunds Canada, Inc. develops electronic payment software. The company provides platform payment software solutions for card issuers, card acquirers, processors, and payment networks. Its clients include ABN AMRO, American Express, Citibank, Credicard or Redecard Brazil, and Diners. eFunds Canada was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Zend Technologies USA, Inc. provides software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP. It provides server, studio, guard, developer suite, cloud solutions, PHP debugger, and development tools. It also offers training and support services. The company was founded by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in 1999 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

eVariant, Inc. is a healthcare consumer and physician engagement company, which engages in the development of software for data analytics. It combines digital marketing solutions, big data and analytics into a unified platform and this allows healthcare organizations to identify opportunities, measure marketing campaigns against reportable ROI and improve patient, physician and employer engagement. Its services include project planning and management, system configuration and deployment, process improvement and re-engineering, healthcare data migration and conversion, reporting, and optimizations and enhancements. The company was founded by William Moschella, Ryan Hubbard and A. Robert Grant in October 2008 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Part of Tenneco, Inc., Peabody International Corp. is a company based in Galion, OH.

Cenzic, Inc. provides software, managed service and cloud security products. It focuses on Web application security, automating the process of identifying security defects at the Web application level where more than 75% of attacks occur, help customers in remediating those defects, manage risk and get compliance with regulations such as PCI. The company was founded by Penny C. Leavy and Gregory M. Hoglund in June 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

eMaint Enterprises LLC provides computerized management software services. Its services include training, implementation, consulting, and technical services. The firm serves in the area of manufacturing, facilities, services, transportation, fleet, oil and gas, warehouse and DCs, food and beverages, government, healthcare and education. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Marlton, NJ.

West Ridge Insurance Agency, Inc. designs and develops cloud-based workforce management platform. The firm offers strategic group employee and executive benefits plan development, financial analysis of existing and future employee benefits plans, benefits vendor assessment and suitability, and evaluation of benefits-related products and funding alternatives. The company was founded by Peter Yozell in 1960 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Mayflower Advisors LLC is an independent investment and financial advisory practice that offers unbiased, comprehensive, and customized goal-based guidance to individuals, companies, and non-profit organizations. The private company is based in Boston, MA. Mayflower Advisors recently launched as an independent registered investment advisor (RIA) to affirm its autonomy and position the team to best meet clients' financial and service needs with a flexible, scalable infrastructure and custom planning solutions. The company was founded in 2002 by Lloyd Glazer, Lawrence Glazer, and Steven Dimitriou.

Philly Seafood, Inc. is an American family-owned shrimp distribution company that supplies shrimp to grocery retailers and restaurant distributors. The private company oversees the marketing and sales of their family's shrimp production and pride themselves on superior customer service, integrity, and healthy shrimp.

Cloud Physics, Inc. designs and develops datacenter analytics and management software. The firm offers solutions for modeling and simulation, storage administration, customized reporting and health checks and troubleshooting. The company was founded by John Blumenthal, Irfan Ahmad, Jim Kleckner and Xiaojun Liu in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Scanbuy, Inc. provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions. Its Mobile Engagement Platform helps companies to generate, manage and measure intelligent barcode campaigns. The firm’s other products include mVision Insights, mPromo Coupons, mTargeting for Advertisers and mPackaging. It operates through its locations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded by Didier Paul Frantz, Olivier Attia and Avi Chai Outmezguine in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Home Value Protection Inc. provides home insurance services. The company was founded by Eric Hutchinson, Daniel P. Sanford and Craig Schmeizer in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Epoch Partners, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., is a technology-enabled investment bank focused on high-growth companies and electronically connected institutional and individual investors. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.