Marcia J. Hooper

Silverstorm Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures networking hardware and software products that are designed to improve cluster performance and scalability. The firm also designs and manufactures an InfiniBand based set of solutions that address the unique performance and input/output requirements of data center environments that utilize clustered topologies. Its solutions are used in high performance business computing, database clustering, and grid utility computing applications. The company was founded in June 2000 and is located in King of Prussia, PA

Hangout Industries provides virtual reality technology services. It provides a safe, secure, immersive and entertaining online environment for friends to hang out and have fun together. The company allows teens and young adults to create and customize their own virtual rooms featuring real brand-name products. It was founded by Pano Anthos, David L. Brock in March 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA

Advent International LLC provides risk capital and investments. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Iontera, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It provides transdermal drug delivery patch which is used in curing cancer therapeutics, neurology, and diabetic medications. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Warwick, RI.

Groupvisual IO develops tools for visual analytics solutions. It builds custom business reporting, dashboards, and analytics applications typically sitting on top of data warehouses and BI implementations. The firm works with technology and software companies for whom they design new UI and navigation frameworks around data and workflows and develop reporting and analytics modules. The company was founded by Mark Schindler and Angela Shen-Hsieh in 1999 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Aumnidata, Inc. provides information technology services. The private company is based in Long Lake, MN.

Yummly, Inc. operates as a recipe search engine. It enables its users to search for recipes by ingredient, diet, allergy, nutrition, taste, calories, fat, price, cuisine, time, course, and source. The company was founded by Dave Feller, Vadim Geshel and Lisa Oda in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Crowdly, Inc. develops enterprise marketing software for converting fans into advocates. It offers a social advocate management platform for Facebook that allows brands to find and rank their top advocates, more effectively engage them, and motivate them into action. The firm’s advocate marketing platform includes advocate and influencer identification, segmentation, activation, automated audience and creation, and advanced audience insights. The company was founded by Daniel M. Sullivan and Scott Segel in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ampersand Management LLC (Ampersand Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Richard A. Charpie. The firm is headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Castile Ventures Management Co., Inc. (Castile Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nina F. Saberi. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Bowside Capital LLC (Bowside Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Christian H M Albert. The firm is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

Branch Venture Group LLC (Branch Venture Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Lauren Abda and Marcia Hooper. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

SALT Venture Partners LLC (SALT Venture Partners) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Pete R. Pizarro and Eric Wenke. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.