Eric Poirier

Oakley, Inc. designs and manufactures sunglasses and accessories. Its optics brand portfolio includes Eye Safety Systems, Fox Racing, Mosley Tribes, Oakley, Oliver Peoples and Paul Smith Spectacles. The company was founded by James H. Jannard in 1975 and is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA.

ditech.com LLC provides direct mortgage & real estate finances. It offers first mortgages, variable equity lines of credit and no closing cost equity seconds. The company is a subsidiary of GMAC Mortgage Corp. ditech.com was founded in 1995 and is located in Costa Mesa, CA.

Hootsuite, Inc. engages in the provision of social media management services. It offers HootSuite, a platform that enables users to stay on top of conversation on key topics, measure and analyze performance on social, create and manage advertising campaigns, review and publish content, and monitor and manage incoming messages. The firm serves the financial services, healthcare, higher education, and government industries. The company was founded by Ryan Holmes, Dario Meli, and David Tedman in November 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Zanbato, Inc. develops and operates proprietary web technology for project finance and infrastructure investment. Its products include professional branding, consolidated marketing, targeted distribution, insightful analytics, efficient execution, and organized recordkeeping. The company was founded by Kevin Leung, Joseph Lonsdale, Ryan J. Orr, Knut Nicolai Sand, Daniel Scott Kline Settel and R. J. Walsh in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

The One-Page Co., Inc. develops branded communication tools for corporations and individuals to write proposals in a one page format. It offers 1-page proposal writer products and also serves health care, food, beverage, technology, financial, staffing, and hospitality industries. The company was founded by Joanna Kidd Riley Weidenmiller in February 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Zone Ventures Management Co LLC (Zone Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park.

Listen.com, Inc. provides on-line music services. The firm integrates and distributes online music products and services across a network of portals and entertainment sites. The company was founded by Robert H. Reid in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MusicMatch, Inc. provides digital audio software and services. It offers MusicMatch Jukebox software, online MusicMatch Radio network, MusicMatch Music Store, song download service and MusicMatch on demand streaming music subscription services. The company's partners include Dell, HP and Creative Labs. MusicMatch was founded in 1997 and is located in San Diego, CA.

Blumberg Capital LLC (Blumberg Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by David Blumberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Aequitas Capital Management, Inc. (Aequitas Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1993 by Robert Joseph Jesenik. The firm is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Valor Management LLC (Valor Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Antonio Jose Gracias. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Radius Intelligence, Inc. provides marketing software solutions. It offers data stewardship, outbound marketing and prospecting, lead-scoring, and account-based marketing. The company was founded by Adrian Druzgalski, T. Noah Hayes, and Darian Shirazi in October 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Malloy & Co. (Malloy) is a private equity firm founded in 1835 by Henry Duncan Malloy. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

CoverHound, Inc. operates an insurance comparison shopping platform. It offers an online automobile insurance comparison and sales platform to consumers. The firm helps people compare rates from numerous insurance carriers and then purchase an insurance policy within minutes. The company was founded by Joel Hayhurst, Basil Enan, and Rory Joyce in May 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

yap.TV, Inc. operates as an interactive design and development agency that designs applications for various brands worldwide. It offers solutions for the entertainment industry, including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone applications customized to user content and audience with local schedules, rich media, sync experiences, and social feeds from Twitter and Facebook. The company was founded by Trevor Stout, Marius Seritan, and Shawn Cunningham on June 28, 2010 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Monedo Holding GmbH develops banking technologies and provides financial services. It uses big data, proprietary algorithms and automated workflows to target customers with products and services through the group's subsidiaries. The firm uses an online platform that offers financial products and personal finance management. The company was founded by Sebastian Diemer, Nils-Holger Henning and Alexander Graubner-Müller in 2012 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Sway Ventures Management LLC (Sway Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Brian Tyler Nugent. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Expansive Ventures LLC (Expansive Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Founder Institute, Inc. founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

True Link Financial, Inc. provides financial services to adults, people with disabilities, and people in recovery. It offers visa prepaid card, and investment management. The company was founded by Kai Stinchcombe and Claire McDonnel in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fetch Robotics, Inc. designs, develops and builds robots for light industrial users. The firm offers fetch cloud robotics platform, virtual conveyor for material transport, data server for data collection and platforms for robotics research services. The freight is a mobile base, and fetch is mobile manipulator, designed to work together and alongside humans for order fulfilment. The company was founded by Steve Hogan and Melonee Wise in August 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Penrose Studios, Inc. engages in the creation of augmented and virtual reality stories. Its creations include planting seeds, allumette, and the rose and I. The company was founded by Eugene Y. Chung and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Project Affinity, Inc. operates a customer relationship management platform built for firms centered around managing complex relationships and deal flow pipelines. It develops applications to analyze and organize professional relationships. The company was founded by Joe Lonsdale, Ray Zhou, and Shubham Goel in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Early Impact Ventures LLC operates as a venture capital firm. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Nex Cubed Investment Management LLC (Nex Cubed) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio, Kip D. Quackenbush and William M. Malloy. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Westcap Management LLC (WestCap Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Laurence A. Tosi. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Model Medicines engages in the drug discovery and development using artificial intelligence. The company was founded by George Nicola and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Safe Securities, Inc. provides a cyber risk quantification platform for enterprises called SAFE. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States and India. The company's ROSI calculator helps adjust and prioritize cybersecurity initiatives to ensure maximum return on investment in real-time. The platform provides continuous, real-time assessment and is the only one to offer dynamic cyber risk and compliance visibility. Molina Healthcare, a Fortune-100 healthcare provider, uses SAFE to secure PHI. The company was founded in 2012 by Viditkumar Baxi, Rahul Tyagi, and Saket Modi, who has been the CEO since 2012.

Neuralight, Inc. was founded in 2021 by Edmund Benami and Micha Y. Breakstone, with Micha Y. Breakstone serving as the CEO since then. The Israeli company is focused on transforming clinical development, diagnostics, and precision medicine in neurology with AI. The company is developing an AI-driven platform to accelerate and improve drug development and patient monitoring, as well as introduce precision care for patients with neurological disorders using oculometric data captured with a standard webcam or smartphone.