Gary Gatton

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.

Rudolf Steiner Foundation, Inc. provides financial investment services. The firm specializes in investing, lending and giving, sustainable food and agriculture, ecological stewardship, education and the arts. The company was founded by Mark A. Finser, Siegfried Finser, Ann Stahl, Philip Mees and John Alexandra in 1936 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Trailhead Capital Management LLC (Trailhead Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Alfalfa's Markets, Inc. provides coffee, juice, and organic salad bar services. The private company is based in Boulder, CO. The company was founded in 1979 by Mark A. Retzloff and Shahid M. Hassan. Mark A. Retzloff has been the CEO since 1979.

Mad Agriculture is a non-profit organization that helps farmers across the country transition to and thrive in regenerative organic agriculture. The company is based in Boulder, CO and was founded in 2016 by Philip Taylor and Nicole Brinks. The company provides financial, strategic, connective, and creative support to farmers through their four core branches: Mad Capital, Mad Lands, Mad Markets, and Mad Media. Mad Agriculture's mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture and help farmers thrive in sustainable and organic farming practices.

R. Torre & Co., Inc. manufactures flavored syrups and sauces. Its products include Italian syrups in flavors such as amaretto, butterscotch, cheesecake, chocolate, French vanilla, strawberry, and peppermint which are used to flavor coffee drinks, sodas, and teas. The firm also produces dessert sauces, smoothie bases, frozen beverage mixes, and sugar-free syrups. The company was founded by Rinaldo Torre and Ezilda Torre in 1925 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Partnership Capital Growth LLC (Partnership Cap Growth) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Tripp Baird, Brian Smith and Brent R. Knudsen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, 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.

Partnership Capital Growth Advisors LLC operates as an investment banking firm. It provides full-service merger, acquisition, financing, and capital raising services to middle market companies. The company was founded by Brent R. Knudsen on December 9, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Horizon Organic Dairy LLC manufactures and distributes milk products. Its products include Organic Milk with DHA Omega-3, Single Serve Milk, Lactose-Free Milk, Shelf-Stable, Shredded Cheese, Cheese Slices, Cheese Shapes, Heavy Whipping Cream, Deluxe Mac and Protein Mac. The firm distributes its dairy products through food retailers and supermarkets in the U.S. The company was founded by Mark A. Retzloff, Marcus B. Peperzak and Paul B. Repetto in 1991 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Fred Alger Management LLC (FAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1964, the firm is wholly-owned by Alger Group Holdings LLC, which is wholly-owned by Alger Associates, Inc. FAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors through separate accounts, US and foreign registered and privately offered funds, as well as through third-party sponsored funds and bank sponsored collective investment trusts; and to retail investors through wrap programs and US and foreign registered funds.

North Castle Partners LLC (North Castle Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Chip Baird. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Faraday Bicycles, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells electric bicycles. The firm offers its products online and sells through bike dealers in North America. The company was founded by Adam Vollmer in July 9, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mpowerd, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets transformative energy products. Its products include micro solar lantern and task light, and inflatable LED solar lantern. The company was founded by John Salzinger, Jason Alan Snyder, Jacques-Philippe Piverger, Jill Van den Brule, Charles Andrews and Steven Gundersen in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Builders Fund LP provides investment services. The firm invests in sustainable food and agriculture, health and wellness, resource, and human elevation sectors in North America. The company was founded by Tripp Baird and Mike Dutton and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Urban Remedy, Inc. provides pressed juices, nutrition-based drinks, snacks and meals. It offers certified organic, raw ready-to-eat meals and snacks, cold-pressed juices, health and wellness education. The company was founded by Neka Pasquale in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

MG Restaurants, Inc. operates restauranets. It offers salads, sandwiches, grain bowls, drinks and treats. The company was founded by David Silverglide, Andrew Swallow and Leslie Silverglide in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tran Capital Management LP (TCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Rafael, California. Formerly Lateef Investment Management LP, the firm was founded by Khateeb A. Lateef in 1974 as Lateef Management Associates LP. TCM offers investment advice to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, academic endowments, corporations, a registered investment company and other business entities through separately managed accounts. The firm provides investment management services as an adviser to the TCM Fund, a registered investment company.

Buck Institute for Research on Aging operates independent research institute for connection between aging and chronic disease. The company is headquartered in Novato, CA.

The Organic Center is a non profit organization that provides information for scientific research about organic food and farming. Its programs include research projects, annual benefit dinner, and Organic Confluences Summit. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Blue Horizon Foods, Inc. supplies branded and private label seafood products. The company was founded by Tim Redmond and John Battendieri in 2005 and is headquartered in Aptos, CA.

Spectrum Organic Products LLC manufactures and markets organic and natural food products. Its products include culinary oils, salad dressings, condiments, and butter-substitutes. It sells its products to the retail and foodservice markets under the Spectrum Naturals, Essentials, and Ingredients brand names. The company was founded by Jethren P. Phillips in 1986 and is headquartered in Petaluma, CA.

MicroBiome Therapeutics LLC develops drug therapies for metabolic diseases. Its microbiome modulators are designed to augment the growth of certain desirable bacterial strains and discourage the growth of others. The company was founded by John B. Elstrott and Dale R. Pfost in 2009 and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. provides funeral, cemetery products and services in the death care industry. It offers a complete line of funeral and cremation merchandise and services, along with cemetery property, merchandise and service. The company operates through three segments: Funeral, Cemetery and Corporate Trust Management. The Funeral Homes segment offers a complete range of funeral services and products, which includes family consultation, worship and funeral services, transportation services, removal and preparation of decedents, online remembrance registries and legacies, caskets, urns and flowers. The Cemetery segment involves the sale of cemetery property and related merchandise, including lots, lawn crypts, family and community mausoleums, monuments, markers and burial vaults. It also provides burial site openings and closings and inscriptions. The Corporate Trust Management segment consists of trust management fees and funeral merchandise and service trust earnings recognized with respect to preneed contracts delivered during the period. Stewart Enterprises was founded by Albert Stewart in 1910 and is headquartered in Jefferson, LA.

Celestial Seasonings, Inc. manufactures and markets tea powder. It offers herb, green, white, black, red, and honeybush teas. The company was founded by Morris J. Siegel in 1969 and is headquartered in Lake Success, NY.

Fraenkel Co., Inc. manufactures bedding and upholstered products. The firm’s products include box, die, leaf and spiral springs, coat racks, and chairs. The company was founded by Albert Fraenkel in 1959 and is headquartered in Ventress, LA.

Laitram LLC manufactures automated shrimp processing, shellfish cooking, and chilling equipment. Its operating divisions include Intralox, Laitram Machinery, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop. The firm’s corporate support group provides professional services to the operating divisions, including information technology services, human resources, legal counsel, accounting, safety, and facilities and maintenance. The company was founded by James Martial Lapeyre in 1946 and is headquartered in Harahan, LA.

Sambazon, Inc. produces and sells organic fruit juices. It produces a?ai based juices and a?ai based products, including smoothie packs, energy drinks, sorbets, and supplements. The company was founded by Ryan Black, Jeremy Christian Black and Ed Nichols in 2000 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Zehnder Communications, Inc. engages in the provision of advertising and integrates technology into advertising campaigns. Its offers advertising, social media, public relations, research, interactive and media related services. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Zehnderin 1999 and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

Source Capital LLC operates as a venture capital and private equity company. The firm specializes in lending investments in start-up businesses, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged management buyouts, business expansion, debt re-financing, equipment purchasing, and working capital for growth companies. The company was founded by Kevin H. Couhig and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

GuideStar Clinical Trials Management LLC provides administrative support services for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and physician practices. Its services include comprehensive site evaluation, resource services, audits, assessment and support. The company is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Concentric Ag Corp. develops and manufactures microbial solutions. The firm develops inocucor garden solution, a live-cell formulation that is fermented from micro-organisms, including yeasts and bacteria to interact with the phyto-microbiome and improve the plant and soil quality, act as a natural growth optimizer and help plants survive extreme weather conditions, such as drought. The company was founded by Margaret Bywater-Ekegard and Ananda Lynn Fitzsimmons in 2007 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Concentric Agriculture, Inc operates as a agri-tech company that develops biological and essential plant nutrient inputs for specialty and broad acre crops. The company was founded by Margaret Bywater–Ekegärd and Ananda Lynn Fitzsimmons in 2007 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Wild Oats Markets, Inc. owns and operates a natural foods supermarket chain. The company was founded in July 1987 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Aurora Organic Dairy Corp. produces organic milk and butter. It offers salted and unsalted organic butter for retailers, as well as bulk organic cream and organic milk powders to manufacturers. The company was founded by Marcus B. Peperzak and Mark A. Retzloff in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.