Alan Mendelson

NovaTract Surgical, Inc. manufactures and develops laparoscopic medical devices. It offers NovaTract, a laparoscopic retractor that addresses the need to increase visibility (by using fewer instruments), improves tissue manipulations, provides angle of retraction modifications and reduces the number of ports and incisions. The firm also offers its intra-abdominal retraction system for use in general, colorectal, gynecology, urology, urogynecology, bariatric, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery applications. The company was founded by Eleanor L. Tandler in April 2010 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA.

LRV Health Ventures LLC (LRVHealth) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by William Cowen and Tripp Peake. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Black Dragon Capital LLC (Black Dragon Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Louis Hernandez. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

CCP Equity Partners (CCP Equity Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Harford, Connecticut.

Part of DXC Technology Co., Vantage Computer Systems, Inc. is an American data processing services company. The company is based in KS. Vantage Computer Systems was acquired by Continuum Co., Inc. from Kansas City Southern on September 01, 1993 for $64 million.

Talon Capital LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Harry Lunenburg and Paul Cole in 2002. Talon Capital manages assets on behalf of institutional clients and private investors.

Payveris LLC provides online and mobile payment solutions. It also offers full service online bill pay and interbank transfer solutions for financial institutions and service providers. The company was founded by Francis P. Duggan and Louis Hernandez Jr. and is headquartered in Cromwell, CT.

Sabre Communications Corp. manufactures communication towers. It provides construction services including structural analyses and tower modifications. The company was founded by David Bailey Aalfs on May 27, 1977 and is headquartered in Sioux City, IA.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. develops high-speed wireless local area network products. The company is based in Akron, OH. Aironet Wireless Communications was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on March 15, 2000 for $1,218.31 million.

Cigna Investments, Inc. (CII) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Formerly known as TimesSquare Capital Management, Inc., the firm was founded in 1982 and is a subsidiary of Cigna Investment Group, Inc., ultimately held by The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), a global health services company. CII provides investment advisory services to institutional clients comprised of Cigna affiliated insurance companies, their respective general and separate accounts, other Cigna affiliated companies, pension plans, charitable organizations and private funds.

Motia is an advanced wireless system company producing both wireless semiconductors and wireless system level products. Motia's beamforming technology is a quantum leap in radio technique. It has the capacity to improve the performance of not only emerging wireless networks but also existing installations. This can be directly translated in to an increase in electronic traffic revenue in a municipal wireless access point and 3 G wireless networks. The beamforming technology is an automatic electronic mechanism which accurately computes signal direction using several antennas. Motia's beamforming allows for immediate or real-time antenna alignment to a radio signal source. It immediately processes the electronic alignment on signal data packet-by-packet bases which means, for example, that it can improve the service to thousands of PC or notebook users over the coverage area of a WiFi, or other wireless system, access points. The company is headquartered in Burlingame California and has operations in Pasadena California and Bristol England.

SS&C Technologies, Inc. develops investment and financial management software solutions. It products and services include asset management platform, genesis, outsourcing, portfolio exchange, advisor ware, agency lenders, Altair, common diamond wealth platform, recon, risk reporting, SVC and Syncova. The firm offers services to the commercial lenders, corporate treasury groups, insurance and pension funds, municipal finance groups and real estate property managers. The company was founded by William C. Stone in February 1986 and is headquartered in Windsor, CT.

Vital Venture Capital LLC (Vital Venture) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vital Financial LLC founded in 2007 by Craig Asher, Nathaniel Brinn and Cyrus Brinn. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

AxioMx, Inc. develops and produces recombinant antibody technologies. Its service offerings include antigen & project design, recombinant antibody development, antibody optimization, and antibody production. The company was founded by Christopher K. McLeod and Michael P. Weiner in 2012 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

Part of Mecalux SA, Sima International is a manufacturing company based in Paris, France. Sima International's main focus is on manufacturing industries not elsewhere classified. The French company was founded by Philippe Baudillon. Sima International was acquired by Mecalux SA on November 01, 1997 for $2.06 million.

seqWell, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. Its products include plexWellTM 96, plexWellTM 384, plexWellTM Plus 24, and plexWell LP 384. The company was founded by Joseph Mellor and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

CaroGen Corp. operates as a vaccine company. It creates and develops virus-like-vesicle based nanoparticle vaccines to address a broad range of infectious and chronic diseases. The company was founded by Bijan Almassian, John Rose, Michael Robek and Valerian Nakaar on November 16, 2012 and is headquartered in Hamden, CT.

Standard Chartered Bank (New York) provides commercial banking services. Its products and services include cash management, foreign exchange and treasury products, commodity finance, and structured import and export finance services. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tangen Biosciences, Inc. develops portable instruments and methods for use in molecular diagnostics. Its instrument provides rapid nucleic acid detection, with the specificity and sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction amplification. The company was founded by John R. Nobile and John Davidson in 2013 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

Clinverse, Inc. provides automated financial management technology solutions for clinical trials. The firm’s products include ClinPay, ClinDebit and ClinViz. The company was founded on July 10, 2008 by Stephen Ayala and Tim S. Immel and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance, annuities, and employee benefits programs. It operates through the US, and MetLife Holdings segments. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Nassau Reinsurance LLC, Phoenix Home Life Insurance Co. is a company that provides life insurance. The company is based in Hartford, CT.

The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. provides insurance services. It offers inspection and engineering services to business and industry. The company was founded on June 30, 1866 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Part of Webster Financial Corp., HSA Bank is a trusted leader in consumer-directed healthcare, with a focus on health savings accounts (HSAs) for over two decades. The company is based in Sheboygan, WI and was founded in 1997. HSA Bank offers comprehensive account-based health benefit solutions that include HSAs, flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, commuter benefits, COBRA administration, and HSA retirement solutions. With a reputation for outstanding service and thought leadership in the CDH space, HSA Bank inspires 3 million members and 35,000 employer groups to "own your health" by making it easy to access, understand, and afford healthcare. The company is devoted to delivering an outstanding user experience and its offerings in the healthcare savings space drive down healthcare costs, increase access, and assist with decision-making for individuals, employers, and partners. As of September 30, 2022, HSA Bank had $11.10 billion in total footings comprising $7.90 billion in deposit balances and $3.20 billion in assets under administration through linked investment accounts and is a national leader in health savings accounts.

CD Diagnostics, Inc. provides research and development about joint fluid. It is developing a series of immunoassays to detect the cause of joint pain using joint fluid. The firm's immunoassay is a test that measures the presence of a substance. The company was founded by Carl Deirmengian and Michael J. Behr in 2008 and is headquartered in Claymont, DE.

Enko Chem, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded by Jacqueline Heard and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center provides medical care for children. It is the pediatric primary care service for children between Boston and New York. The neonatal intensive care unit cares for critically ill or premature newborn babies a year and some children who weigh one pound at birth. The hospital was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

454 Life Sciences Corp. engages in the provision of medical testing services to determine the nucleotide sequence of whole genomes. The company was founded by Jonathan M. Rothberg in 2000 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

CuraGen Corp. develops protein, antibody and small molecule pharmaceutical products. The firm focuses on the development of CR011-vcMMAE, a Phase II clinical trial drug for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and breast cancer. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

CyVek, Inc. engages in the development of a novel, platform technology for measuring analytes in biological samples. It is a biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of healthcare by empowering researchers and clinicians with a disruptive technology for performing multi-analyte immunoassays. The firm is a versatile platform that can be quickly and easily configured for diverse applications such as rapid diagnostic tests, multi-sample multi-analyte tests, or routine ELISA-like tests, for use in both research and clinical settings. The company offers an breadth of applications, from life science research to drug discovery, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and point-of-care testing. CyVek was founded by Per J. Hellsund, Rajiv Pandey and Marty Andrew Putnam in 2010 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Retail Optimization, Inc. provides merchandising optimization software solutions. Its software platform enables proprietary optimization technology based on calculating the incremental marginal contribution of each individual SKU integrating POS data, rest-of-market data, loyalty data, corporate strategies, shopper insights, and consumer demand. The company was founded by Vaughn D. Roller in 2006 and is headquartered in Gloucester, MA.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Kemper Financial Services, Inc. is a company that provides insurance, brokerage, and financial services. The company is based in Long Grove, IL.