Jim Udinski

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Horsley Bridge Partners LLC (HBP) is a private equity firm, founded in 1983 by Phillip Horsley and Gary Bridge. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London and Beijing.

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.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

World Wide Packets, Inc. provides Ethernet broadband services. Its services include telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data and internet access services. World Wide Packets was founded in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, NJ.

K2 Software, Inc. engages in the design and development of a software platform for automation processes. It offers consulting, remote, and managed services. The company was founded by Adriaan van Wyk, Lenz le Roux, and Olaf Wagner in 2000 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Blurb, Inc. publishes and sells books. Its customers can design and create their books online and be published by the company. The company was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SOASTA, Inc. provides test automation solutions for web applications and services. The firm’s products include mPulse, CloudTest, TouchTest, DOC and Pricing. Its solutions include web performance testing, real user monitoring, mobile performance testing and mobile test automation. The company was founded by Kenneth C. Gardner, Lisa Bergamo, Mike Hemmert, Craig Powers, Kenneth Holcomb, Kendall Cosby and Tom Lounibos in February 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Vapps, Inc. provides communication services over internet. It offers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) audio conferencing services and systems. The company was founded by Ben Lilienthal and Jerry Norton in 2003 and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.

Virtana Corp. engages in the development of an artificial intelligence for information technology operations (AIOps) providing infrastructure monitoring and artificial intelligence-powered analytics. It offers VirtualWisdom, WorkloadWisdom, and metricly for public cloud products. It also offers hybrid information technology infrastructure management, technology solutions, and storage performance validation. The firm serves the healthcare, government, financial services, retail and marketing, telecommunications and cloud service providers, energy and utilities, and technology vendors. The company was founded by Mark R. Urdahl in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

SilverRail Technologies, Inc. provides technology solutions for the distribution of train tickets and other rail-related products. It offers SilverCore, a global rail distribution platform that brings railways and travel retailers together. The firm also offers SilverAPI that provides end-to-end booking services that comprise search, book, cancel, payment, and ticketing, SilverAgent Lite, a Web-based application that delivers travel management companies’ access to live reservations made through its online booking tool partners, and SilverAgent Pro, a Web-based application for travel professionals that provide staff with a Web interface to search, book, pay, ticket, and modify company global rail content. The company was founded by Aaron M. Gowell and William D. Phillipson in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Stayful.com, Inc. provides travel services. It serves independent, boutique travel world, from the small business owner to the traveler who craves authenticity. The company was founded by Cheryl F. Rosner and Shariq Minhas in July 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Unitas Global, Inc. provides datacentre operations, management and information technology outsourcing solutions. It develops enterprise cloud solutions and services. The company was founded by Grant Kirkwood, Farrah Kashef, Lawrence Lee and Erik Salazar in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Decisionnext, Inc. provides cloud based predictive analytics platform for commodities driven businesses. The company was founded by Mike Neal, Robert Pierce and Graeme Stanway and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Canaan Management, Inc. (Canaan Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Eric A. Young. The firm is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Azure Capital Partners, Inc. (Azure Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Cameron Lester, Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris and Paul Weinstein. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Echopass Corp. provides cloud-based hosted contact center services to the enterprise market. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Salt Lake, UT.

Deloitte LLP (New York) engages in the provision of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory solutions. It offers services relating to tax, consulting, audit and assurance, Deloitte private company services, mergers and acquisitions, risk and financial advisory, analytics, and cloud. The company was founded by William Welch Deloitte, George A. Touche, Charles Waldo Haskins, and Elijah Watt Sells in 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Overtone, Inc. provides customer support software solutions. The firm also develop and market a listening system. The company was founded by Jones Guy in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Fonality, Inc. provides cloud-based business phone and unified communications solutions for small to medium sized businesses. It offers employee presence, drag and drop calls, voicemail to email or text, mobility, chat, click-to-email, screen share, and HD video collaboration solutions for internal communication; and contact center solutions for automatic call distribution, skills-based routing, real-time metrics, unlimited queues, and on-demand call recording, as well as barge, monitor, and whisper. The firm also provides HD video collaboration and screen sharing solutions for video conferencing and online meetings; VoIP, voicemail to email transcription, and paperless fax services; business phone system equipment, including IP phones and servers; and support services. The company was founded by Samy Kamkar, Adrian Otto, Marc Smookler, and Chris Lyman in 2004 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

CFA Institute operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of chartered financial analyst programs. It offers certificate in investment performance measurement program, investment foundations, and scholarship. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

NetFortris, Inc. provides VoIP services to small and medium size businesses. It offers voice services, such as hosted VoIP and session initiation protocol trunking, as well as FlexSmart, a way to streamline communications needs by combining voice and data services onto one single connection via a private network. It also provides broadband solutions which include managed Ethernet, multiprotocol label switching, and T1 Internet access. The company was founded by Brandon Chaney, Anthony Zabit and John Cruz in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA and Plano, TX.

BroadLight, Inc. delivers end-to-end passive optical network technology. The company was founded in June 2000 by Didi Ivancovsky, Raanan Ivry, Haim Ben-Amram and Tan Dror and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

NeoNova Network Services LLC engages in provision of managed internet protocol services. Its services include Google applications for business, Microsoft office solutions for businesses, cloud files solutions, cloud hosting, cloud server solutions, and disaster recovery. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

QuickMobile, Inc. provides mobile applications and solutions for meetings and events. It offers mobileplanner, which allows the user to plan and manage multiple events by collaborating, communicating, and sharing events and meetings across the organization; mobilevenue, a mobile application that displays information about maps, schedules, and directory of on-site and nearby amenities and attractions; and Concerto, a social media tracking and sharing platform. The company was founded by Patrick Payne, Gautam Lohia, and Jim Udall in 2006 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Broadcom Broadband Access Ltd. provides networking and embedded fiber access processors serving broadband telecommunication operators’ fiber access fixed and mobile networks and connected digital homes. The company was founded by Ran Dror, David Levi, Haim Ben Amram, Didi Ivancovsky and Raanan Ivry in 2000, and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

UrbanSitter, Inc. operates a community match service for parents and babysitters who connect online through Facebook and existing networks. Its site enables parents to search, book and review trusted sitters within minutes. The firm helps parents to see profile pictures and video of sitters and availability, hourly rates and typical response times are also outlined. The company was founded by Andrea M. Barrett, Hadar Wissotzky, Lynn Perkins, and Daisy Downs in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Convercent, Inc. engages in the provision of a software-as-a-service platform for corporate compliance and ethics management. It offers ethics and compliance solutions including anti-corruption, board reporting, data privacy, conflicts of interest, and advisory services. The company was founded by Barclay Friesen, Patrick Quinlan, and Philip Winterburn in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Selector Software, Inc. develops operational intelligence digital infrastructure platform. It offers SelectorAIOps that provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud and application operators. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Derive-Ventures Management Co. LLC (Derive Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Tyler Carrico and Mike Scott. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.