Michael Avon

ExecOnline, Inc. provides interactive online executive education programs. It offers instructional design and online course development, executive engagement platform and enterprise and user-level service and support solutions. The company was founded by Stephen Bailey in April 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SquadLocker, Inc. provides athletic apparel. It offers apparel for baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse. The company was founded by Gary Goldberg and is headquartered in Warwick, RI.

Salient Global is a group of experts and partners who are passionate about enabling their clients' businesses and their people to flourish. The private company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company offers data-driven, creative solutions that fuel growth through meaningful human experiences. The company's model unites expert talent around a data science, digital experience, and strategic advisory model. Salient Global operates at their highest individual levels in expert disciplines, each with its own promise, culture, and identity, but tethered to their suite of proprietary data products - Salient Synapse - as well as a range of other growth platforms and tools. The company was founded by Bryan Specht, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Viventium Software, Inc. engages in the development of cloud-based human capital management solutions. Its software features applicant tracking, onboarding, time and attendance, business intelligence, and payroll. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

IgnitionOne, Inc. provides cloud-based digital marketing technologies. The firm offers a proprietary platform and expert services to improve digital marketing performance. Its integrated Digital Marketing SuiteSM (DMS) empowers marketers to centralize, manage and optimize digital media across search, display, social and mobile and understand cross channel attribution, while helping to optimize conversions on a marketer's website through marketing automation. The company was founded by Roger James Barnette, Jr. and Will Margiloff in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Defy Media LLC creates and distributes digital content. It offers videos in the areas of comedy, entertainment, gaming and lifestyle. The company was founded by Matthew C. Diamond, Richman Keith and James K. Johnson, Jr. in October 2013 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

FactorTrust, Inc. provides underbanked consumer data, analytics, and risk scoring solutions. It helps lenders manage the credit lifecycle of underbanked consumers using alternative credit information. It offers data on credit risk and compliance, and bank account and ID verification. The company was founded by Gregory John Rable and Christopher Scott Amato in 2006 and is headquartered in Roswell, GA.

MediaGlu, Inc. develops mapping applications for the advertising industry. The company was founded by Sundar Nathikudi, Stephen Williams and Justin Musterman and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

QED Investors LLC (QED Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Frank Rotman, Caribou Honig and Nigel William Morris. The firm is headquartered in Virginia, US.

Founderfuel (Founderfuel) is a venture capital subsidiary of Real Investment Management, Inc. founded in 2011 by Alan M. MacIntosh, Ian Jeffrey and Jean Sebastien Cournoyer. The firm is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Vubiquity, Inc. provides multiplatform content video services. Its services include subscription gaming, digital storefront, metadata management, provisioning, content licnsing and aggregation, media analytics and intelligence, bandwidth optimization, and localization. The company was founded by Ramanarayan V. Potarazu in 1988 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Founded in 2007 by Julius Genachowski, Sean Greene and John McKinley, LaunchBox Digital LLC is a business incubator and venture capital firm located Durham, North Carolina.

Jam City, Inc. designs, develops, and publishes social and mobile games. The firm offers games such as fluff friends rescue, jewels of the amazon, bubble atlantis, skies of glory, fast, mindJolt and lil flippers. The company was founded by Chris DeWolfe, Josh Yguado, Haroon Mokhtarzada, T. J. Murphy, Shervin K. Pishevar, Haroon Mokhtarzada and Aber Whitcomb in 2007 and is headquartered in Culver, CA.

Webs, Inc. operates an online marketing platform. The firm offers templates and website builders allow users to build their own professional websites for small businesses, personal blogs, and hubs. The company was founded by Haroon Mokhtarzada and Zeki Mokhtarzada in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

GoAhead, operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired GoAhead Software in 2011. The company provides carrier-grade and mission critical systems software that speeds the time to market and reduces the cost and risk of services for different industries including telecom, aerospace and defense, and media equipment manufacturers in the U.S. and globally. GoAhead Software Inc. was founded in 1993 by Mr. Michael O'Brien & Peter Gravestock. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

FOLIOfn, Inc. provides brokerage and investment solutions to investors. Its services include e-mail alerts, reports delivered online and direct deposits. The company was founded by Kathleen M. H. Wallman and Steven M. Wallman in 1998 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.