Natalie Cartwright

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Interac Corp. is a payments and digital information exchange, which engages in the provision of debit payments system. Its services include cash, debit, flash, e-transfer, online, mobile payment solutions, and international services. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Phaidra, Inc. provides information technology services. The company was founded Jim Goa and Katie Hoffman and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

TrojAI, Inc. is a Canadian company that provides an AI/ML risk management and security platform for enterprises. The company's focus is on helping businesses manage and secure their AI and machine learning systems.

Variational AI, Inc. is a company based in Vancouver, Canada that has developed an AI-based discovery engine for drug development. Variational AI's discovery engine uses state-of-the-art generative machine learning to rapidly generate novel and optimized small molecules for unmet medical needs across disease areas. The engine performs multi-property molecular optimization to reduce the time to discover high-quality drug-like molecules with a higher probability of success in clinical trials. Variational AI's focus is on discovering novel drug-like small molecules with optimized properties for defined targets. The Canadian company was founded in 2019 by Handol Kim and Jason Rolfe, with Handol Kim serving as the CEO since then.

Ydata - Unipessoal, Lda. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Sever do Vouga, Portugal. is a data platform that offers a free trial of their YData Fabric, which provides data profiling, exploratory data analysis, and synthetic data in a data-centric AI workflow. The platform is designed to empower healthcare and pharma organizations to leverage AI for better insights and outcomes. YData allows Data Scientists to build and deploy better AI solutions with synthetic and high-quality data.

Flying Fish Management LLC (Flying Fish Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Geoff Howard Harris, Heather Ann Bell Redman and Frank zhi-wei Chang. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Nicola Wealth Management Ltd. (Private Equity) is a Private Equity, a subsidiary of Nicola Wealth Management Ltd. founded in 2012 by John Michael Nicola. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, the United States.

Heritage Education Funds, Inc. (Canada) engages in group Registered Education Savings Plans. The plan it offers are heritage plan, impression plan, and group/employee plan. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Knowledge First Foundation is an investment fund manager, administrator, and distributor of education savings plans. The private company is based in Mississauga, Canada. Andrew Lo has been the CEO of the Canadian company since 2023.

Knowledge First Financial, Inc. operates as an investment fund manager, administrator and distributor. It offers Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP) and financial services. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Equifax Canada Co. provides information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services. The firm comprehensive insights including scores, risk analysis and market share analysis to the mortgage ecosystem. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Yaletown Venture Partners, Inc (Yaletown Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Mike Satterfield and Hans Knapp. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Coconut Software Corp. develops an enterprise solution to manage online appointment scheduling for companies in North America. Its customers include the banking and financial, telecommunications, and retail industries. The company was founded by Katherine Regnier in 2007 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

Payments Canada provides clearing and settlement infrastructure, processes and rules essential to transactions. It offers Canada’s national payments systems. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Foodee Media, Inc. provides an online service for the group ordering of food from local restaurants. It creates playlists for weekly events at the office that keep employees looking forward to their next meal; and coordinates alcohol and birthday cake deliveries to cover users’ special occasion office needs. The company was founded by Boris Wertz, Lenonard Brody, Debbie Landa, Jason Bailey and Jon Cartwright in 2011 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

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.

Invoke Media, Inc. specializes in Internet marketing, website development, branding and online business strategy services. It serves national, international and Fortune 500 companies including Wells Fargo, Viacom, PBS, ESPN, State Farm and HISTORY, to name a few. The firm offers custom development on the web, mobile, facebook and other social platforms, servicing clients like dawn soap and the Onion. The company was founded by Dario Meli, David Tedman and Ryan Holmes in 2000 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Bolt Technologies, Inc. operates online platform for self storage units. The company was founded by David Ang, Heindrik Bernabe, Mark Ang and Zachary Fejes in 2017 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Columbia Green Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of green and stormwater management solutions. It offers green roof or amenity deck system. The company is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA