Denise M. Thomas

NewSchools Venture Fund provides funds to other non-profit organization that improves public education. It provides education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children especially those in underserved communities have the opportunity to succeed. It supports education entrepreneurs, a special breed of innovators who create new nonprofit and for-profit organizations that redefine the sense of what is possible in public education. The company was founded by Brook H. Byers, Kim Smith and Louis John Doerr in and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. develops and commercializes quantitative blood tests for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. It develops quantitative, objective, reproducible blood tests to provide rheumatologists with deeper clinical insight to help enable more effective management of patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Mike B. Centola and Christopher L. Sutton in July 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

International Solutions Corp. provides research, intelligence, and insights about Fortune 1000/2000 companies to help clients increase their top-line growth. The private company is based in Carrollton, TX. The company's approach involves customized analysis for maximum usefulness.

Udacity, Inc. provides online higher educational courses. The firm offers online courses in computer science, mathematics, general sciences, programming and entrepreneurship. The company was founded in June 2011 by Sebastian Thrun, David M. Stavens and Michael Sokolsky and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Muve Health LLC engages in the development, acquisition, and operation of a network of specialty healthcare facilities. It focuses on providing total joint replacement procedures. The company was founded by Jane Falk and Marshall Maran and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Physna, Inc. engages in the development of a geometric search engine that is designed for the development of computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing. It focuses on providing solutions for three dimensional (3D) problems. The firm serves designers, manufacturers, and cyber security. The company was founded by Paul Powers and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Gecko Robotics, Inc. offers robotic inspections for fluidized bed boilers. Its services include UT inspection and visual inspection. The firm develops custom and climbing robots to provide visual inspections during outages, as well as to perform ultrasonic thickness inspections on CFB combustor tubes. The company was founded by Jake Loosararian, Troy Demmer, and Ian Miller in May 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Clinc, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers finie, IVR, platform, and technology solutions. The company was founded by Jason Mars, Johann Hauswald, Michael Laurenzano, and Lingjia Tang in 2015 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

FactGem Holdings, Inc. engages in connecting data from platforms and applications for making effective corporate decisions. The company was founded in 2013 by Clark Richey, Megan Jean Browning Kvamme and Mark David Kvamme, and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Algolux, Inc. develops image signal processing pipeline for next-generation cameras. It specializes in computational imaging, the intersection of photography, image processing, computer vision and graphics. The company was founded by Paul Green, Patrick Arbez, Jonathan Assouline and Daniel Nahmias-Leonard in 2013 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

The Columbus Partnership acts as a non-profit, membership-based CEO organization. It engages in all major projects that need strong civic leadership and intend to enhance the quality of our schools, arts and cultural organizations, or the development of downtown Columbus. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Roadtrippers, Inc. operates as an online booking platform for road trips and car travellers. Its platform is built of powerful mapping tools to make it particularly useful to car travellers. The firm also incorporates social media integration to help it move in step with macro Internet trends. The company was founded by James Fisher, John Lauck, Tatiana Parent and Daniel Nielsen in 2011 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

AgriSight, Inc. develops online and mobile tools for farmers. It offers farmlogs standard, farmlogs advantage, farmlogs prescriptions, and farmlogs flow software tools that offer a range of solutions, such as field mapping, crop health monitoring, rainfall tracking, activity tracking, nitrogen monitoring, scouting and notes, yield maps, soil composition maps, variable rate nitrogen/seed prescriptions, input planning, inventory management, and growth stage analysis. The company was founded by Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch in 2012 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

OptumInsight, Inc. provides healthcare information technology and consulting services. It offers technology services, information, analytics, business services and consulting to help solve the most important problems clients face across the health system. The firm provides solutions for physicians, hospitals, life sciences companies, government agencies and other organizations that comprise the health care system. The company is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Newyu, Inc. provides web-based health information services. It offers implementation, ongoing account management and customer support services. The company serves those monitoring asthma, diabetes, pulmonary disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and congestive heart failure. iMetrikus was founded by William J. Rutter in 1998 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, 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.

Part of AG Partner Investments LP, United States Auto Club operates race tracks. The company is based in Speedway, IN.

Banks Group LLC operates as a private investment company. The firm focuses on internet-related financial services, business-to-business, and media services companies. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Banks and is headquartered in Harrisburg, PA.

Smart TV SpA distributes electronics and multimedia products. The private company is based in Pordenone, Italy and has subsidiaries in Italy.

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.

Lumension Security, Inc. develops, integrates, and markets security software solutions that help businesses protect vital information and manage critical risk across network and endpoint assets. It offers risk evaluations, data protection devices, managed services, technical support, and employee training. The company was founded in 1991 by Kevin Moshir and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Aver, Inc. provides healthcare reimbursement process. It offers avercloud, informatics and formulary and converge. The firm focuses on episode design and flexible data aggregation. The company was founded by Kurt Brenkus and Matt Frohliger in 2010 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Funny Or Die, Inc. operates a comedy video website. It combines user generated content with original, exclusive content. The firm provides celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians, and regular users videos. The company was founded by Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Randy Adams and Chris Henchy in 2007 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

Gild, Inc. provides technology that bringing meritocracy to HR with its innovative recruiting solutions. Its platform is used for automatic interview scheduling and one-click video interviewing. The company was founded by Luca Bonmassar and Sheeroy Desai in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Drive Capital LLC (Drive Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen. The firm is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Part of SmartHealth Diagnostics, Inc., Muse Microscopy, Inc. provides digital microscope and imaging based diagnostics. The company is based in Irvine, CA. Muse Microscopy was acquired by SmartHealth Diagnostics, Inc. on November 09, 2021.

AutoGenomics, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of an automated, microarray-based multiplexing diagnostic platform. The company was founded by Fareed Kureshy, Shailendra Singh, and Ramanath Vairavan in April 1999 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

BioLabs, Inc. provides clinical laboratory services. It offers clinical and anatomical laboratory services to physician offices, clinics, subacute treatment centers, public sector entities and home-bound patients. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

Axela, Inc. develops biosensor technology. It offers next generation, commercial stage, multiplex tools that provide enhanced analysis of proteins, DNA and RNA. The firm’s products include Ziplex System, autograph, metabolic, colon and breast cancer, inflammation Xpress chips, diffractive optics technology and sensors, dotLab mX System and dot-Avidin, Ready and Covalent products. The company was founded by M. Cynthia Goh, Richard Loo, B. Jane Goh and Richard McAloney in 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

American Medical Association engages in promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. It offers services to physicians, residents, medical students, and patients. The company was founded by Nathan Smith Davis in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology operates as a society of pathologists and laboratory professionals. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The College of American Pathologists is the largest organization of board-certified pathologists in the world. The non-profit company is based in Northfield, IL. The company provides laboratory accreditation and proficiency testing programs to promote excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine globally. The House of Delegates represents the voice of CAP membership and is responsible for steering committee, delegate responsibilities, elections timeline, meetings, and more.