Michel Safars

Advent Capital Management LLC (Advent) is a privately-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Tracy V. Maitland in 1995 as a division of Utendahl Capital Management LP and became independent in 2001. They manage assets across several traditional and alternative strategies on behalf of both institutional investors and private clients. Advent is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and supporter of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Ginger.io, Inc. operates as a behavior analytics company using big data. It offers tailored technological platform for effective workflow integration. The firms continuous data collection approach detects symptom flares more precisely than regular clinic visits. The company was founded by Karan Singh, Anmol Madan and Alex Pentland in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SRI International provides contract research and development services. It is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

SAP America, Inc. provides enterprise application software solutions. Its products include SAP HANA platform, SAP Cloud platform, SAP Commerce Cloud, and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Its offers innovation services and solutions; advisory services; implementation services; sloud services; and support services. The company was founded by Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector on April 1, 1972 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.

Elaia Partners SAS (Elaia) is an independent French private equity boutique which was founded in 2002. Named after the Greek word for olive tree, the symbol of resilience, longevity and prosperity, Elaia focuses on software technology companies. The firm is headquartered in Paris and manages Elaia Ventures, a French FCPR fund backed by financial institutions, industrial investors and family offices.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

INRIA Participations SAS provides management consulting services. The company was founded on April 16, 1998 and is headquartered in Le Chesnay, France.

TechFund Capital (TechFund Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Kurt A. Keilhacker. The firm is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional office on Paris, France.

Sense Networks, Inc. provides online advertising technology services. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Romulus Capital Management LLC (Romulus Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Anantshree Chaturvedi, Cankut Durgun, Neil Chheda, and Krishna Gupta. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Antelink SAS specializes in software life cycle management. It focuses on open source detection, software quality, software development, risk management, license compliance, open source software development and multi-source tracking. The company was founded by Guilaume Rousseau and Stéphane Bagnier in 2009 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Xfund Management Co. LLC (Xfund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Hugo van Vurren. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cogito Corp. provides software services for phone professionals. It offers technology, computer software and engineering services. The firm engages in the conversation and analyses human behavior through the smart phone. The company was founded by Vikram Sheel Kumar, Joshua Feast, Ali Azarbayejani and Alex Paul Pentland and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sociometric Solutions, Inc. develops people analytics technology platform. The firm offers teamwork and engagement, process optimization and space planning services. The company was founded by Ben Waber, Taemie Kim, Daniel Olguin Olguin and Tuomas Jaanu in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Endor Software Ltd. operates predictive software platform. The company was founded in May 2014 by Doron Alter, Stav Grinshpon, Alex Pentland and Yaniv Altshuler and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Part of LivePerson, Inc., LivePerson Germany GmbH provides software development services. The company is based in Mannheim, Germany. The CEOs of the German company are Norman Masanobu Osumi, John D. Collins.

Akoya LLC operates as data delivery platform. It specializes in credit card processing, brokerage, insurance, and data security. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sila, Inc. develops secure and scalable API platform for banking services. The company was founded by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska-Wilson, Isaac Hines, and Alex Lipton in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

FortifID, Inc. offers two products: fid apply and fid insights. Fid apply is a white-labeled, digital-first, easy, and efficient turnkey solution designed for customers' frictionless onboarding experience. Fid insights is a one-stop-shop identity, biometrics, employment, income, and device verification and authentication solution without storing additional data. FortifID's ion platform allows only insights to travel, minimizing an individual's data footprint. The American company was founded by Alex Paul Pentland.

Riff Learning, Inc. engages in the provision of individual behavior and team dynamics insights through its platform. The company was founded by Beth Porter and David Shrier and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

MIT Connection Science provides information technology services.