Tom Houlihan

Azure Capital Partners, Inc. (Azure Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Cameron Lester, Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris and Paul Weinstein. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jacobs Capital Group LLC (Jacobs Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1989 by Alex Suh, William Hanna and Dr. Joseph Jacobs. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Telesoft 2020 LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund target companies operating in the fields of technology and energy value chain companies. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.

Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. provides music education services. The firm's services include, chamber, opera, contemporary music, master classes, orchestral concerts and lectures. The company was founded by Walter Paepcke and Elizabeth Paepcke in 1949 and headquartered in Aspen, CO.

SalesHood, Inc. engages in the development of sales enablement platform. It offers learning, coaching, selling, analytics, sales process, onboarding, and partner enablement. The company was founded by Elay Cohen and Arthur Do in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Advanced Energy United, Inc. engages in provision of energy solutions. It offers power and transportation electrification. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO.

Tektronix, Inc. provides test, measurement and monitoring solutions. It provides services for the communications, computer, semiconductor industries, as well as for the military, aerospace, consumer electronics and education sectors. The firm also assists its clients in designing, building, deploying and managing global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The company was founded by Melvin Jack Murdock, Glenn Leland, Miles Tippery and Charles Howard Vollum in 1946 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. provides environmental protection services. It provides solutions to environmental threats such as acid rain, dying rivers, over-logged forests, and ozone depletion. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MarketWatch, Inc. provides business news, personal finance information, real-time commentary and investment tools and data. The firm offers subscription products including The Hulbert Financial Digest, Retirement Weekly, The Technical Indicator and Reality Check. The company was founded by Lawrence s. Kramer and Thom Calandra in October 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ablexis LLC develops next-generation platform for antibody drug discovery. It develops the AlivaMab Mouse, an innovative, next-generation transgenic mouse platform intended to enable the efficient discovery and development of the next generation of human therapeutic antibodies. The company was founded by Green L. Larry and Hiroaki Shizuya in December 2009 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

OrthAlign Corp. engages in the provision of precision alignment technology and products. It offers orthopedic services. The company was founded by Pieter Wolters and Curt Stone in 2008 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

California Technology Ventures LLC (California Technology Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Jacobs Capital Group LLC founded in 1999 by Alex B. Suh. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Cooking.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer of cooking products. The company was founded by Tracy Randall in March 1998 and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, CA.

Julep Beauty, Inc. provides beauty care products. It offers nail polishes, gift sets and foot care products. The firm services include shaping, cuticle grooming and facials, waxing and relaxing reflexology massage treatment. The company was founded by Jane Park and Kate MacDonald in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

TravelMuse, Inc. provides planning and traveling services. It provides online travel merchandise and travel booking, travel content services, such as photography, written travel articles, and city guides. The company also provides air, hotel, car rental, package, and cruise options; and booking engine services. TravelMuse was founded in May 2007 by Kevin Fliess & Eric Wood and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Openroad Integrated Media, Inc. operates as an digital publisher and multimedia content company. It markets ebooks through an online promotion platform which uses video content and social media. The firm creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media. The company was founded by Jane Friedman and Jeffrey Sharp in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.