Michael Lane

Dealer Dot Com, Inc. designs and develops websites and web-based business management tools for the automotive industry. Its products include advertising, websites, managed services and certified services. The company was founded by Mark Bonfigli, Richard Gibbs and Michael Lane in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.

Widewail, Inc. is a private company that provides solutions to the automotive industry, with over 5,000 dealership clients. The company is based in Burlington, VT and was founded by Angela Murray and Matthew Murray, with Matthew Murray serving as CEO since incorporation. The company's suite of solutions leverages automation to manage customer and prospect conversations in consumer reviews, video, and social media. Widewail's trust marketing platform helps businesses capture, distribute, and shape the narrative of their business through the words of their customers, building trust between businesses and the communities they serve. The company's services improve search rankings and help companies understand how their actions affect their customer satisfaction and overall reputation.

Fluency, Inc. operates as a business to business digital advertising platform firm. It allows users to operate allows users to operate digital media portfolios. The company was founded by Michael Lane, Eric Mayhew, Scott Gale and Brian McVey in 2017 and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.

Dealertrack Technologies, Inc. operates as a holding company, which engages in web-based software solutions and services enhance efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive retail industry, including dealers, lenders, OEMs, third party retailers, agents and aftermarket providers. It operates online credit application network in the U.S. and Canada. The company delivers the industry's solution set for automotive retailers, which include Dealer management solutions, The Inventory solutions, Sales and Finance & Insurance solutions, Processing solutions, Digital Retailing solutions, and Interactive solutions and it utilizes the Internet to link automotive dealers with banks, finance companies, credit unions and other financing sources, and other service and information providers, such as the major credit reporting agencies. The Dealer Management solutions provide dealers with easy-to-use tools and real-time data access that will streamline any automotive business. The Inventory solutions provide vehicle inventory management and merchandising solutions to help dealers drive higher in-store and online traffic with state-of-the-art, real-time listings, accelerate used-vehicle turn rates, and increase dealer profits. The Sales and Finance & Insurance solutions enable dealers to streamline the entire sales process while structuring all types of deals from a single integrated platform. The Processing solutions include online motor vehicle registration, lien and titling applications and services, and collateral management services. The Digital Retailing solutions, which integrate advanced vehicle search, pricing and payment tools directly into a retailer's website. The Interactive solutions, which deliver digital marketing and website offerings to assist dealers in achieving higher lead conversion rates by helping optimize the maximum amount of shoppers to their websites. Dealertrack Technologies was founded in August 2001 and is headquartered in Lake Success, NY.

Faraday, Inc. operates a data-driven marketing platform. It provides a customer recruiting platform that empowers users to target, launch, and track experimental marketing campaigns and discover strategies for finding new businesses. The company was headquartered in Tecumseh, MI.

Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (Vermont Center Emerging) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by John Evans. The firm is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont.

OhMD, Inc. operates texting application for doctors and healthcare professionals and patients. The company was founded by Ethan Bechtel and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.