James B. Kuppe

Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

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.

Dust Networks, Inc. provides embedded wireless sensor networking services. The company was founded by Kristofer Pister in 2002 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Mirics Ltd. develops silicon and software solutions. The company was founded in April 2004 and is headquartered in Princes Risborough, the United Kingdom.

Greystripe, Inc. provides mobile advertising services. The company was founded by Andrew C. Choi and Michael M. Chang on September 9, 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TextDigger, Inc. provides semantic search, navigation and optimization solutions. It provides its solutions for content creation, curation platform, ad networks, delivery agents, content networks, publishers and content aggregators. The company was founded by Timothy E. Musgrove in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Phoenix Biomass Energy, Inc. produces natural gas.

FastCAP Systems Corp develops nanotube-enhanced ultra capacitors. The firm offers the technology for battery and ultracapacitor electrodes. The company was founded by John Cooley and Riccardo Signorelli in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

WaterSmart Software, Inc. engages in the development of water use information and management software solutions. The firm specializes in the development of information technology and data management platforms with focus on the improvement of municipal water efficiency and conservation programs. The company was founded by Robert B. Steiner and Peter Yolles in November 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Part of Paramount Global, GolfWeb is a company that provides Internet golf information services. The company is based in Cupertino, CA. GolfWeb was acquired by CBSSports.com on January 30, 1998.

Part of Kforce, Inc., The Huntington Group is a company that provides information technology specialists on a contract basis. The company is based in Trumbull, CT. The company was founded by Ravi Ganesh Krishnan. The Huntington Group was acquired by Hall, Kinion & Associates, Inc. on November 19, 1998 for $8.10 million.

Part of ManpowerGroup, Inc., BAL Associates, Inc. is a company that provides a range of information technology staffing services and software development services. The company is based in Los Altos, CA. BAL Associates was acquired by Venturi Partners, Inc. on December 01, 1997.

Part of Corporate Realty Partners, Inc., Bay Logics, Inc. develops real estate asset management software. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Bay Logics was acquired by Corporate Realty Partners, Inc. on June 23, 1999.

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

Outlook ventures LLC (Outlook Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Alamo, California.

Sand Hill Angels Inc (Sand Hill Angels) is an angel investment firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Part of The Needham Group, Inc., Needham Holdings LLC provides securities brokerage services. The company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is George Austin Needham.

Solar Junction Corp. manufactures solar cells and receivers for the terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic market. Its products include triple junction solar cells, four junction solar cells. The firm engages in developing and manufacturing next-generation solar cells for space power applications. Solar Junction was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Convergence Partners Investments Pty Ltd., Covergence Wireless Networks is a South African investment company with interests in the telecommunications sector.

MP2 Capital LLC owns and develops solar projects. The firm develops, finances, owns and operates solar projects throughout the U.S. and sells electricity to commercial, government and utility customers under power purchase agreements and feed-in tariffs. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MMTG Labs, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers AppBistro, an application marketplace for Facebook pages, and AppGalleries, which is a white-label app store platform. The company was founded by Ryan Merket and Nalin Mittal in May 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Callisto Media Inc. provides platform to raise funding for charities and sports clubs. The company was founded by Benjamin Wayne and Matt Oesterle in 2011 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Revel Systems, Inc. provides iPad point of sale systems software for restaurants, grocery, and retail industries. It integrates inventory management, employee management, sales reporting into a single platform. The company was founded by Lisa Falzone and Christopher Ciabarra in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Crosscoin Ventures LLC provides investments services. The firm funds technologists and entrepreneurs who are passionate about using the Ripple protocol to make a difference in the payments, transactions and currency markets. The company was founded by Gary Kremen, Steve Bennet, Adam Marsh and Ryan Orr in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rollbar, Inc. collects errors that occurs in applications, notifies and analyzes them so that it can be debugged. The company was founded by Brian Rue and Cory Virok in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Appstores.com develops a platform for mobile applications.