Mark Saffman

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Maverick Capital Ltd. (Maverick) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cohasset Ltd. The firm was founded by Lee Ainslie III in 1993. Maverick provides advisory services to hedge funds, funds of funds, funds making venture capital investments, a private equity fund and related co-investment vehicle, other pooled investment vehicles, and institutional investors.

NanoMech, Inc. manufacturers and distributes nano particle additives, coatings and coating deposition systems. Its products are used in machining and manufacturing, lubrication and energy, adaptive chemistries for advanced textile coatings, indestructible metal surface coatings, biomedical implant coatings, and strategic military applications. The company was founded by Ajay P. Malshe in 2002 and is headquartered in Springdale, AR.

VelociData, Inc. provides data transformation solutions. Its purpose-built appliances radically alter the performance and economics of ETL and other data-related processes essential to analytics and Big Data processing-empowering customers to achieve unprecedented information enablement within their existing resource constraints. The company was founded by Ronald S. Indeck in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

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.

Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Inc. provides wealth management services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Bechtel Corp. operates as an engineering, construction, and project management company. Its portfolio encompasses energy, transportation, communications, mining, oil and gas, and government services. The firm also raises finance from a host of international lenders including commercial banks, multilateral and bilateral lending institutions, export credit agencies, and the capital markets. The company was founded by Warren A. Bechtel in 1898 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The RAND Corp. engages in conducting research and analysis to improve policy and decision-making. Its services include benchmarking, case study analysis, cost analysis, economic analysis, modeling, simulation, and optimization, performance measurement and measurement development, policy analysis, program evaluation, risk assessment and analysis, strategic planning, survey research, and technology assessment and development. The company was founded on May 14, 1948 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Central Intelligence Agency provides national security intelligence to senior police makers. It also offers public affairs, human resources, mission innovation, protocol, congressional affairs, legal issues, information management, and internal oversight. The firm was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The US-China Business Council is an organization that provides information, advisory, advocacy, and program services to its members. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The American company focuses on shaping the relationship between the United States and China. USCBC offers research and analyses on Chinese government personnel, member newsletters, and advisory services to answer sector-specific and general investment questions.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research provides industrial design services. AEI produces articles from economics, law, political science, defense and foreign policy studies, ethics, theology, health care, and other fields. The company was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

MCR-Aerodyne, Inc. provides aeronautical engineering and technical consulting services. It specializes in aeronautical systems, and provides full spectrum technical solutions including program management, aviation integration, testing and certification, training and requirements development, and system life cycle management for manned and unmanned systems. The company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

WANdisco, Inc. provides enterprise infrastructure software. Its products include uberSVN - the new open ALM platform for Subversion, Subversion MultiSite, Subversion Access Control and Subversion Clustering. The company was founded by David J. Richards, James M. Campigli and Yeturu Aahlad in 2005 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Lennox Capital Partners LP provides investment services. The company was founded by Richard Squires on November 6, 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Vserv Digital Services Pvt Ltd. engages in the provision of authentic data platform for mobile marketing. Its solutions include social marketing, applications and sites, and mobile messaging. The company was founded by Dippak Khurana and Ashay Padwal in January 2010 and is headquartered in Mumba, India.

Global Frontier Investments LLC (GFI) is an independent, SEC- registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. The firm was founded by William Grant Dollens in 2010. GFI provides investment advice to private investment funds and separately managed accounts.

Arog Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs to treat unmet medical needs in oncology. It offers clinical trials for Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, and Glioma. The company was founded by Vinay K. Jain in 2010 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

BioCatch Ltd. provides cyber security solutions. It offers behavioral biometric, authentication, and malware detection solutions for mobile and web applications. The firms products include behavioral authentication, remote administration tool detection, and fraudulent and criminal activity detection. The company was founded Benny Rosenbaum, Tal Bakish, Uri Rivner and Avi Turgeman in 2011 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

BlueTalon, Inc. provides unmatched data entitlement solutions. It offers single-click data collaboration and data unification technology. The company was founded by Pratik Verma in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

UniqueSoft LLC provides next generation software development services. Its services include consulting, assessment, legacy modernization services, representative engagements and automated code generation services. The company was founded by Terry Heng and is headquartered in Palatine, IL.

Maverick Capital Ventures LLC (Maverick Capital Ventures) is a global investment firm, a subsidiary of Maverick Capital Ltd. founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Yahoo, Inc. operates as a tech-powered, diversified media company that reaches their users around the world, bringing them closer to what they love from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news with the trusted products, content and tech. For partners, they provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media. Yahoo was originally founded on August 13, 1998 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

York Space Systems LLC develops S-Class platform, a 3-axis stabilized spacecraft. It is designed for mass manufacture and intended for constellations. The company was founded by Dirk Wallinger and Wells Person in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

AEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. It specializes in computer vision, autonomous driving, robotic vision, autonomous vehicles, lidar, sensor fusion, and three dimensional mapping. The company was founded by Luis Dussan, Ranson Wuller, Barry Behnken, and Jordan Greene in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

MIR Ventures LLC (MIR Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Guilherme Freire, John Braze, Jorge Cauz. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.