John Cowan

3com Megahertz Corp. provides voice and data networking products and services. The company was founded by Robert M. Metcalfe, Howard S. Charney and John P. Marshall in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Artemis International Software Corp provides project portfolio management solutions. Its produces are Artemis Views, 9000, and 7. The company's services include solution implementation, project management office, process assessment, education, and training. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

MessageOne, Inc. provides disaster recovery and crisis communication solutions. Its email management service provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-discovery with the total continuity and recovery only available from a managed service. The company was founded by Adam R. Dell and Satin H. Mirchandani in 1998 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Basho Technologies, Inc. develops non structured query language (NoSQL) database technology. It offers Riak, an open-source distributed database used to power scalable, data-intensive web, mobile, and e-commerce applications; and Riak CS, an open source storage software built on top of Riak that can be used to build public or private clouds, or as storage to power applications and services. The company was founded by Earl P. Galleher, Jeffrey M. Hoffman and Antony P. Falco in January 2008 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

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.

Digital Research Inc. is a market research company based in Portland, Maine. The American company provides qualitative and quantitative research services to help businesses grow and enhance their brand.

N-able Technologies, Inc. provides information technology services for managed service providers. It provides network monitoring and remote systems management software. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Calera Recognition Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in magnetic ink recognition devices. The company is based in Allentown, PA. Calera Recognition Systems was acquired by Caere Corp. on October 18, 1994 for $42 million.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

HexaTech, Inc. designs and manufactures aluminum nitride single crystals. It offers aluminum nitride substrates, and technology development. The company was founded by Raoul Schlesser and Zlatko Sitar in 2001 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Omni Group, Inc. is an electronic security company. The private company is based in Greensburg, PA. The company was founded by Delano Seymour.

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.

Capgemini America, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions. It offers outsourcing, consulting, and digital transformation. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Syngenta Ventures is a venture capital firm in Switzerland. The firm was founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Switzerland.

Wheatsheaf Investments Ltd (Wheatsheaf Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Grosvenor Group Ltd. founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Palo Alto.

Neverfail Group Ltd. engages in the development and distribution of business continuity software solutions. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

Cloudsoft Corp. Ltd. specializes in automated multi-cloud application management. The firm provides open source application management solutions and supports open source projects like Apache Whirr, Jclouds and its own Brooklyn project which enables enterprises to develop, manage and provide large-scale distributed applications at lower cost, complexity and risk. The company was founded by Duncan Johnston-Watt, Alex Heneveld and Derek Gray in 2009 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom

College Possible National provides education services. It makes college admission and for low-income students. The company was founded by Jim McCorkell in 2000 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Agworld Pty Ltd. farm management solutions. It offers crop production plans, geospatial data interrogation, agronomist recommendations, and financial and crop performance reporting. The company was founded by Matthew Powell, Doug Fitch and Chris Ramsey on December 8, 2009 and is headquartered in West Leederville, Australia.

PrecisionHawk, Inc. engages in the provision of drone-based solutions. It offers training services, drone technology consulting services, and global flight servicing. The company was founded by Ernest Earon and Christopher Dean in 2010 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

TemperPack Technologies, Inc. manufactures packaging solutions for temperature sensitive goods. It specializes in sustainable packaging, cold chain shipping, e-commerce food, and life sciences shipping. The company was founded by Brian Powers, Charles-Alexandre Vincent, and James McGoff in 2015 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Spotlight Equity Partners LLC (Spotlight Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Jeremy Burr, Philip Hall and Suken N. Shah. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AstrumU, Inc. designs and develops machine learning solutions to help students find careers. The firm offers AstrumU platform. The company was founded by Adam Wray in 2017 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Aclate, Inc. engages in the acquisition of companies that offer software solutions. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Meati, Inc. engages in the provision of plant-based meat alternatives. Its products include fungi-based steak and fungi-based chicken. The company was founded by Tyler Huggins and and Whiteley Justin and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

EDJX, Inc. operates as a computing platform company. It offers server less edge and edge infrastructure. The company was founded by John Cowan and James Thomason in 2018 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Buymie Technologies Ltd. develops mobile application for groceries. The application gives convenience, personalized, cashless, and fast delivery. The company was founded by Artavazd Sokhikyan and Devan Hughes in February 2016 and is headquartered in Tallaght, Ireland.

Shared-X LLC provides access to modern technology and specialty markets for smallholder farmers to encourage a culture of innovation. The company was founded by John Denniston and Tony Salas in 2015 and is headquartered in Woodside, CA.