Justin Smollar

SpiderOak, Inc. engages in provision of cloud-based data management software. Its products include One, Groups, Enterprise, Semaphor and Encryptr. The company was founded by Alan Fairless and Ethan Oberman in 2007 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

Part of DXC Technology Co., SBB Services, Inc. is a company that develops online negotiation techniques for supply chain management. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by Alan Buxton, Chirag Shah, Dave Bowen. The CEO is Dave Bowen. SBB Services was acquired by Xchanging, Inc. on September 20, 2013 for $22 million.

BW Financial Services LLC (BW) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Brian Washkowiak and William Wolf in 2011. BW provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors.

CityBase, Inc. develops online payment software. Its software is used in utility payments, county and citywide payments, government building re openings, property taxes and services. The firm serves the municipalities, agencies, and utilities based on their proprietary academic research, design, and data-driven analysis. The company was founded by Michael Duffy in 2016 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Lifespan Brands LLC manufactures and distributes motion lamps. It offers glitter lamps, party lights, and accessories and bulbs. The firm also offers products online and through resellers in the U.S. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, IL.

Mindcrest, Inc. (Illinois) engages in the provision of legal solutions by integrating technology and process. Its practice areas include contracts management; compliance; legal analytics; and litigation and investigations. The company was founded by Ganesh Natarajan, George Hefferan, and Rohan Dalal in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Rippleshot, Inc. provides financial technology services. Its solutions enable card issuers, processors, and merchants to monitor suspicious activities and implement fraud risk management strategies when breaches occur. The firm offers Rippleshot Community, an offering for credit unions and banks to spot local and national breaches affecting communities; Rippleshot National, an additional tool for fraud analysts at banks to supplement current card re-issuing strategies; Rippleshot Merchant that enables store owners to detect and monitor data breaches by providing access to a portal to review breached locations color-coded by severity; and Rippleshot ISO, which enables acquirers to detect and monitor merchant data breach threat levels for their merchants on a daily basis. The company was founded by Canh Tran, Yueyu Fu and Randal Cox in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

NexLP, Inc. develops cognitive computing platform. Its solutions enable the users to do data source agnostic, smart search, scalability, and interactive visualizations. The company was founded by Jay Leib, Dan Roth, Kit Mackie, and Ye Chen in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Databook Labs, Inc. operates as customer intelligence platform to improve enterprise sales performance. It specializes in intent dashboard, real-time insights and sales decks. The company was founded by Anand Shah and Alex Barrett in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Simfoni, Inc. engages in the provision of spend analytics and spend automation products. It offers Virtuosi, VItesse, and Sourceforce. Its products employ machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate key aspects of the procurement process. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Highground Enterprise Solutions, Inc. develops human resource solution software. It offers real time performance management, employee recognition and rewards, and pulse surveys and polls. The company was founded by Vipon Sandhir in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Avendus PE Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd. (Avendus PE Investment) is a private equity subsidiary of Avendus Capital Pvt Ltd. founded in 2009 by Gaurav Deepak and Ranu Vohra Rajkumar. The firm is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Chicago Child Care Society provides innovative, community-based education and social service programs that address the current and emerging needs of vulnerable children and their families. Chicago Child Care Society has been serving children and families since 1849, Located in Hyde Park, CCCS is the oldest existing child welfare agency in the state of Illinois.

Forevercar Holdings, Inc. operates as an online car service contract platform. It enables consumers to purchase extended vehicle service contracts directly. The company was founded by Dave Forman, Mark Hodes and Russ Carpel in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wellright, Inc. provides wellness programs. It offers health risk assessment, group challenges, personal challenges, life coaching, claims data analysis, biometrics, reporting, university, and rewards engine. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

BW Financial Services (BW Financial Services) is a private equity subsidiary of BW Financial Services LLC founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Red Rock Insurance Services Ltd. operates as a Lloyd's Managing General Agent (MGA) that underwrites Trade Credit, Political Risk, and Terrorism Insurance products. Its products include trade credit, political risk and terrorism insurance. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

E-Zassi, Inc. provides management solution for internal and external crowdsourcing. It offers innovation management software, technology scouting, ideation collaboration software, robust innovation management flow, differentiators and competitive insight. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

Mantis Innovation Group LLC engages in the provision of software and data analytics for facility performance improvement. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

KGC Capital LLC (KGC capital) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Richard Kiphart and Christopher Capps. The firm is headquartered in Chicago.

Advanced Biotherapy, Inc. operates as a development stage company. It focuses on the acquiring revenue generating companies or development stage companies through an asset acquisition or other financing. The firm is a subsidiary of Lime Financing Co. The company was founded on December 2, 1985 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J Weber, Robert J Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Recsolu, Inc. provides software-as-a-service solutions for recruiting college talent. Its platform automates key choke points in the recruiting process, including collecting candidate information and resumes, marketing job openings to prospective hires, scheduling and conducting interviews, aggregating and sharing evaluations. The firm provides event-based recruiting space, with a mobile solution that allows employers to seamlessly manage the entire process of recruiting talent from colleges and universities. The company was founded by Dan Bartfield and Jason Weingarten on August 1, 2008 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Bitewell, Inc. is a healthy food marketplace that was founded in 2020. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company works directly with employers to provide food health benefits, reducing insurance premiums and improving health for users. Bitewell's platform utilizes food experts to make healthy eating simpler and smarter by applying a customized food health score to the foods users are eating. The company's digital food farmacy is a food-as-medicine care-extender platform that offers personalized, condition-based support that aligns with recommendations and advice. Bitewell's food-as-medicine marketplace makes the healthy choice, the easy choice - at mealtime and beyond. The company was founded by Samantha Citro Alexander and Chris Fanucchi. Chris Fanucchi has been the CEO since incorporation.

Sandalphon Capital LLC (Sandalphon Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ellis. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Beuerlein TB Verwaltungs GmbH provides administrative and management services. The private company is based in Marktbreit, Germany. The German company was founded in 1994 by Jonathan Ozeran.

Niche Interactive Media, Inc. provides SaaS solutions for organizations. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Benefunder, Inc. engages in the provision of funding channel for research and commercialization promotion. It offers solution to financial advisors for targeted philanthropy and donors. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Inhabitr, Inc. engages in provision of furniture rental. It offers furniture sets, bedroom, living room, dining, and home office. The company was founded by Ankur Agrawal and Pratiksha Agrawal and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Peanut Butter, Inc. administers student loan assistance programs. It develops a platform to help companies companies create, manage, and track the impact of loan repayment plans. The firm offers benchmarking, plan design and analysis; enrollment, loan verification and support; payment management and reporting; refinancing marketplace; debt counseling; and advice and insights. The company was founded by Dave Aronson and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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

Good Growth Capital Management LLC (Good Growth Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Capital A Partners LLC founded in 2017 by Amy Salzhauer and Maureen Stancik Boyce. The firm is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

Plural Policy, Inc. develops computer software and applications. The firm offers legislative workflow tools. The company was founded by Damola Ogundipe, Yemi Adewunmi, Shawntera Hardy, and Ken Thompson in 2015 and is headquartered in Mounds View, MN.

Singular Labs, Inc. provide mobile marketing solutions. The firm offers SaaS platform enables mobile marketers to unify, analyze and optimize all of their marketing channels through a single dashboard. The company was founded by Gadi Elishayov, Kuo Susan and Eran Friedman in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Pangea Universal Holdings, Inc. provides money transfer services. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.