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State Street Bank & Trust Co. (SSBT) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1792 and is owned by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSBT serves as the administrator, fund accountant and transfer agent for the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund, an exchange-traded fund.

Spectrum Equity Management LP (Spectrum Equity) is an independent Private Equity firm founded in 1993 by Bill Peter Collatos and Brion Blackwell Applegate. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in California.

Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the design and development of semiconductor integration technology. It helps lower manufacturing and packaging costs and as well as increase yield associated with the manufacturing of Backside Illuminated (BSI) CMOS image sensors (IS), high-speed logic, stacked memory and memory-on-processor. Its technologies are enabling the creation of true 3D integrated circuits (ICs) at the gate level by delivering advantages including: reduced silicon cost, size reduction, reduced NRE, shorter time-to-market, lower power consumption, and increased system speed and performance. The company was founded in October 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

iVivity, Inc. engages in the development of storage infrastructure components to computer manufacturers. Its product, iDiSX 2000, is used in current and new storage infrastructure product domains, including intelligent storage network switches. The company was founded in November 2000 by Zulfiqar Qazilbash, Sanjay Sehgal, and Sukha Ghosh and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

SkyeTek, Inc. develops and deploys radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for a breadth of applications across multiple industries. The company was founded by Sean Loving in 2000 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

buySAFE, Inc. offers online shopping services. It enables online merchants to provide a third-party guaranteed shopping programs. The company was founded by Steven L. Woda and Jeffrey E. Grass in 2003 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Collective Intellect, Inc. specializes in software and services in monitoring online conversations. The firm offers applications designed to monitor, understand and respond to consumers’ conversations on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, message boards, and news sources. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

LogRhythm, Inc. provides security intelligence services. It serves the banking and finance, retail and hospitality, energy and utilities, higher education, healthcare and government industries. The company was founded by Christopher L. Petersen and Phillip M. Villella in March 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Voxy, Inc. operates an educational platform which provides language learning solutions. It turns the media that users consume, the conversations that they have and the activities in which they engage into highly effective, contextual language lessons that are available anytime, anywhere. The company was founded by Gregg Carey and Paul Gollash in February 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Lek/Alcar Consulting Group, Inc. provides business strategy consulting services. It offers strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, and transaction services including business unit strategy, brand management, pricing, alliances and joint ventures, product development, corporate transformation, and operations design. It serves the defense, energy, health, building and construction, aerospace, media, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Andrew Kutter in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

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

Roser Ventures LLC (Roser Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Christopher W. Roser. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Hercules Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Scott Harvey, Manuel Henriquez, and Roy Liu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. provides online commentary and news portal services. The firm’s website provides news and features on politics, business, entertainment, media, technology, comedy, sports, style, world, food, living, impact, education, and local events. It also provides information on green living, travel, health, arts, books, and games. The company was founded by Arianna Huffington, Jonah H. Peretti, and Kenneth B. Lerer in May 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Infusion Software, Inc. offers an eMail marketing and sales platform for small businesses. Its software combines contact management, CRM, marketing automation, and e-commerce in a single online system and enables users to keep track of contacts, appointments, tasks, and other things about their business in a single place. The firm also provides training and support services. The company was founded by Clate W. Mask III, Eric Martineau and Scott Joseph Martineau in 2001 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

mPay Gateway provides point-of-service patient payment solution for healthcare providers. The company was founded by Patrick McGuire, Mark Tierny, and Craig Serving in 2004 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

The Hong Kong Canada Business Association is a non-profit organisation. The company expands strategic relationships between Canada and Asia, using Hong Kong as the platform to advance. It facilitates a network for professionals and entrepreneurs to connect and develop high-level business relationships at HKCBA events throughout the year. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association is a Non-Profit Organisation. It supports entrepreneurship and investment throughout the rocky mountain region. The company is headquartered in Erie, CO.

Academic Earth, Inc. provides online education services. It operates an interactive web-based platform for users to engage with free online education resources from the top universities. The company was founded by Richard Ludlow, Chris Bruner, and Liam Pisano in 2008 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kickstart Capital LLC (Kickstart Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Gavin Christensen. The firm is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.

Galvanize, Inc. provides full-time and part-time immersive online boot camps and corporate trainings. The firm offers software engineering immersive, remote software engineering immersive, data science immersive, remote data science immersive, python fundamentals, and NY data analyst training accelerator. The company was founded by Lawrence Mandes, James Deters, and Chris Onan in November 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

FoodMaven Corp. engages in the operation of digital marketplace for dated and perishable grocery items approaching expiration. It also sells food to restaurants and institutions like universities and hotels and donates it to hunger-relief organizations. The company was founded by Patrick Bultema and Dan Lewis in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Arizona Founders Fund LLC (Arizona Founders Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Romi S. Dhillon. The firm is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Learnlaunchx Management LLC (LearnLaunch) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Jean Hammond. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Firsttracks Ventures LLC (FirstTtracks Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. Fiirsttracks Ventures is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Upslope Ventures (Upslope Ventures) is a venture capital firm and a subsidiary of Galvanize, Inc founded in 2014 by Kate Shillo, Lawrence Mandes and James Deters. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

EduLab Capital Management Co LLC (EduLab Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of EduLab Inc founded in 2017 by Liam Pisano. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Uplight, Inc. provides end-to-end customer-centric technology solutions. The firm also leads demand side management, energy analytics, utility marketplaces, utility personalization, and home energy management. The company is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

LawLytics, Inc. provides digital marketing services for lawyers. The company was founded by Dan Jaffe in 2011 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Invest Southwest is an organization that connects investors with emerging growth companies in the region. The private company is based in Phoenix, AZ. The company provides valuable information on topics important to the investment community and offer year-round opportunities for investors to connect with these companies. The company's signature event, Venture Madness, is a competition presented in partnership with the Arizona Commerce Authority where thoroughly evaluated emerging companies compete against each other to be crowned the champion of champions.

A-Street LP (A-Street) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded by Marc Sternberg and Tom Y. Kuo in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Sonoran Founders Fund (Sonoran Founder Fund) is a venture capital firm founded by Romi S Dhillion, Kevin J Groman and Dan Burns. The firm is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.