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University of Utah /Venture Capital/ (University Venture) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of David Eccles School of Business founded in 2001.The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wasatch Advisor Holdings LP (Wasatch) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm was founded by Samuel Stewart and David Wagstaff in 1975. They are a subsidiary of Wasatch Advisor Holdings LP, owned by WA Holdings, Inc. Wasatch provides discretionary investment advice for a variety of clients, which includes mutual funds, collective trusts, separately managed accounts and sub-advised products.

Pelion Venture Partners (Pelion Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Jim C. Dreyfous and Joel D. Kellman. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City. Utah.

MapR Technologies, Inc. develops and runs data applications. Its products and services include MAPR converged data platform, platform services, open source engines, commercial engines, deployment engines, professional services and solutions. The company was founded by John W. Schroeder in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm is founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Forbes Technology Council operates as a community for senior technology executives. The private company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Scott Gerber.

Frost Consulting Ltd. provides investment research. The private company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded in 2009 by Crystal Valentine. The CEO is Stewart Neil Scarth.

Commonfund Capital, Inc (Commonfund Capital) is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary of Commonfund Holding Co., Inc founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut with additional offices in New York, California, London & China.

Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc., an open-ended management investment company.

Strategic Value Partners LLC (SVP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Victor Khosla in 2001 and they are a subsidiary of Midwood LP. SVP provides investment advice to pooled investment vehicles, which include an open-ended hedge fund style structure and a closed-ended private equity style fund structure, as well as managed accounts and funds-of-one.

Kodiak Cakes LLC engages in the sale of whole-grain, protein infused mixes for baking cakes, waffles, and pancakes. It distributes wholegrain flapjacks ingredients. The firm's products include flapjack and waffle mixes, flapjack on the go, minute muffins, granola unleashed, oatmeal unleashed, baking mixes, and gourmet syrups. It offers breakfast and brunch, drinks, lunch and dinner, pre and post workout, desserts and snacks. The company was founded by Joel Clark, Jon Clark and Cameron Smith in 1982 and is headquartered in Park City, UT.

Method Studio, Inc. provides architectural design services.

My Kid's Threads LLC is an online children's consignment website. The American company was founded by Reininger Barbara.

Fort Washington Capital Partners LLC (FW Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Deserve, Inc. provides credit cards and financial products to international students in US. It specializes in determining the creditworthiness of the international students through alternative data like ability to repay and predictive attributes such as education, major, source of initial funding, and future employability. The company was founded by Kalpesh G. Kapadia and Michael Hallinan and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Micro Focus (US), Inc. develops implements and supports proprietary, mixed source and open source software. Its solutions include visual cobol, terminal emulation, borland, corba and mainframe solutions. The firm helps to organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

M-Factor, Inc. provides marketing investment management software solutions. It develops robust software-as-a-service suite that continuously analyzes, forecasts and optimizes marketing investments and trade spend. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, 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.

Mojiva, Inc. provides mobile advertising solutions for advertisers and publishers to buy and sell mobile ads on mobile websites. Its services include mobile ad network for advertising agencies, mobile advertising, app publishing, and mobile web publishing. The company was founded by Miles Spencer, Dan Goikhman and Krishna Arvapally in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Moki Mobility, Inc. operates a cloud-based mobile device management platform. Its platform manages, monitors, and secures tablets and smart phones. The firm delivers customer facing devices like digital kiosks, mobile point of sale (mPOS), digital signage, and headless devices. The company was founded by Eric Johnson, Thomas Karren and Ty Allen in 2012 and is headquartered in Alpine, UT.

Integral Ad Science, Inc. provides a media valuation platform for buying and selling media. Its services include brands, agencies, publishers and AD Tech. The firm serves the advertising industry. The company was founded by Helene Monat, Will Luttrell, Bryan St. John, and Kent Wakeford in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Strix Systems, Inc. designs, develops and markets wireless network systems. It provides one products modular, outdoor, edge wireless, iws indoor, hot zone and mobile wireles systems. The firm offers technical and customer support, training, certification, tools, and methodologies to support deployments. certification, tools, and methodologies to support deployments. Its solutions are deployed in various outdoor and indoor networks for public safety, government, energy, manufacturing, transportation, hospitality, education, enterprises, industrial, municipal utilities, healthcare and residential applications. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Keen.io LLC engages in the provision of cloud data warehouse and analysis platform. It offers customer facing metrics, product analytics, business operations, events-based billing, B2B SaaS, and connected devices and IoT solutions. The company was founded by Jon Kyle Wild, Ryan Spraetz, and Daniel Kador in 2011 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Ayecka Communication Systems Ltd. engages in providing solutions for the delivery of IP and video over satellite links. Its solutions include Interactive TV, Backhaul, Data Casting, SCADA/M2M, IPDSNG, MVDDS, and IP over DBS-S2. The company was founded by Avi Barda on October 31, 2005 and is headquartered in Hod Ha'Sharon, Israel.