Doug Schirle

Dell, Inc. engages in the manufacture of electronic devices. Its products include laptops, desktops, tablets, thin clients, printers, monitors, software, workstations and accessories. The company was founded by Michael Saul Dell on February 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, TX.

NEON Communications Group, Inc. provides internet hosting, network services, and data processing services for enterprises. It offers single-source solution for every Internet need from management of web applications, servers, and databases, to security, streaming, network bandwidth, and collocation facilities. The company was founded in 1989 and is located in Westborough, MA.

Informa Media, Inc. publishes trade magazines. It provides tools and information that help business professionals to do their jobs better. Its products include fleet discovery, aviation week application, delicious living newsletter, and in-article video. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Music Reports, Inc. provides music rights administration services. Its services include rights licensing, administration, royalty accounting, and related SaaS development and hosting. It serves the broadcasters, record labels, digital music services, wireless carriers and consumer products companies. The company was founded by Ronald H. Gertz in 1995 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA.

Aggregate Knowledge, Inc. provides online collective discovery services. delivers the neutral data management platform on which advertisers make their digital media decisions. Aggregate Knowledge was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

RetailNext, Inc. provides in-store analytics solutions. Its products include people counting and conversion, staffing optimization, shopper activity maps, display and window effectiveness, mobile in-store analytics, video management, guest WI-FI and personalization. The firm’s technology delivers comprehensive, real-time analytics that empowers worldwide retailers, shopping centers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexei Agratchev, Marlie Liu and Arun Nair and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

WellAware Holdings, Inc. operates as an industrial internet of things (IOT) data company that engages in the provision of end-to-end solutions for oilfield data collection, storage, visualization, and decision analysis. It offers remote production and genset remote monitoring, chemical injection automation, preventive maintenance, internal corrosion treatment, operator chemical insights, methanol injection automation, and underground injection control solutions. It serves the communications, oil and gas, and industrial markets. The company was founded by Matt Harrison and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

NewStore, Inc. provides software services. The firm provides mobile retail platform that boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. Its solutions include conversion, omni channel, fulfillment, and loyalty. The company was founded by Stephan Schambach in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Questex Media Group LLC engages in the provision of engagement platform which focuses on events and surrounded by data insights and digital communities. It serves hospitality, travel, healthcare, wellness, life sciences, and technology industries. The company was founded by Kerry C. Gumas in 2005 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Upland Software I, Inc. provides project and portfolio management software solutions. The firm combines the robust project and portfolio management (PPM) functionality demanded by global organizations with the cost and speed-to-value benefits of cloud delivery and an unmatched level of flexibility. It offers a web-based tool for project and program management, tracking, reporting, collaboration and quality. The company was founded in 1998 by David Boghoss and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

MidOcean US Advisor LP (MidOcean Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by James Edward Virtue. The firm is headquartered in New York.

InterVision Systems LLC engages in the provision of technology solutions. It offers infrastructure solutions and consulting services on technology implementation for enterprise, technical computing, and information technology infrastructure clients. The firm offers services to the manufacturing, technology, financial services, retail, and health care industries. The company was founded by Jeff Kaiser and Jason Gress in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Inc. is a professional association dedicated to advancing the field of I-O psychology. The Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology is based in Columbus, OH. The American company has over 9,000 members worldwide and offer membership to undergraduate and graduate students interested in I-O psychology. The organization applies research to improve the well-being and performance of people and organizations. The company offers advertising, exhibiting, and sponsorship opportunities at their events and in their publications.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Powerpact Holdings LLC provides marketing and media consulting services. Its products include touchstorm, videoamigo, howdini and veeseo. The company was founded in 1998 by Alison Glander Provost and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fairway Outdoor Advertising LLC provides outdoor advertising services. Its products include Mobile Billboards, Digital Billboards, Bulletins and Posters. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Duncan, SC.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hybris GmbH provides multi-channel commerce and communications software solutions. The firm's product communication platform includes the PIM suite solution that permanently stores product data for various integrated e-commerce applications and print channels, and e-commerce suite and print suite solutions, which generate various sales channels. It has operations in United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. The company was founded by Carsten Thoma, Guenther Lamperstorfer and Moritz Zimmermann in 1997 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

National Center for Arts & Technology is a non-profit organization that operates to assist communities in opening and sustaining local educational organizations. The company was founded by William Strickland in 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

LifeWorks is a world leader in providing digital and in-person solutions that support the total wellbeing of individuals, including mental, physical, financial, and social. The non-profit company is based in Austin, TX. The company delivers a personalized continuum of care that helps their clients improve the lives of their people and, by doing so, improve their business. The company is committed to innovative problem solving, shared accountability, and achieving real, sustainable, and measurable results for the clients they serve. LifeWorks is a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LWRK) with approximately 7,000 employees, 25,000 clients, and serves 36 million individuals and their families in more than 160 countries.

Bolt Financial, Inc. engages in the development of checkout experience platform. Its product, Bolt, optimizes conversions and manages hundreds of integrations and the rising risk of fraud. The company was founded by Eric Feldman and Ryan Breslow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

New Group Holdings, Inc. operates as early stage company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Celect, Inc. develops predictive analytics platform for retail merchandise planning and product assortment optimization. Its solutions include predictive peronalization and markdown optimization. The company was founded by Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., Better Mortgage is a company based in New York, NY. Better Mortgage offers a seamless online mortgage experience with superior customer support. For more information about licensing and disclosure, visit better.com/about-us/licensing-disclosure. The company was founded in 2014 by Vishal Garg, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Zethos, Inc. provides human resource tools that automatically respond to lenders, landlords, and others who need to verify employment. The company was founded by Ryan Sandler, Victor Kabdebon and Ethan Winchell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Deliverr, Inc. operates as an online marketplace. It offers walmart and eBay solutions. The company was founded by Michael Krakaris on August 11, 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gilgamesh Ventures LLC (Gilgamesh Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Miguel Armaza, Andrew Endicott and Sue Choe. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Activant Capital Group LLC (Activant Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino. The firm is headquartered in the Greenwich, Connecticut.