Brian Black

AEA Investors LP (AEA Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1968 by Rockefeller, Mellon & Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co, a subsidiary of AEA Holdings LLC. The firm is headquartered in New York.

NetNation Communications, Inc. provides web hosting, server co-location and domain registration services. It offers a wide range of shared web hosting solutions, including starter packages, e-commerce, media streaming, managed hosting, managed services and managed colocation services. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

DFO Management /Private Equity/ (DFO) is a private equity subsidiary of MSD Capital Management LLC founded in 1998 by Glenn Robert Fuhrman and John Cartwright Phelan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Boise Cascade Holdings LLC distributes building products and manufactures engineered wood products. It distributes building materials, oriented strand board, particleboard, and plywood, laminated lumber and general line items, such as framing accessories, composite decking, roofing, siding and insulation. The company was founded on October 29, 2004 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

BWAY Holding Co. manufactures and distributes metal and rigid plastic containers that are used primarily by manufacturers of industrial and consumer products for packaging. It manufacturers general line rigid metal and plastic containers. The company was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Autism Home Support Services, Inc. provides at-home and center-based evidence-based therapy and counseling services. It offers school consulting services such as assessments, consultation, coaching, training and skill development. The company was founded by Steve Kaufman in 2009 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Thoma Cressey Bravo, Inc. is a private equity investment firm. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, formerly known as Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, Inc. The firm was founded in 1997.

Part of Ntirety, Inc. (Colorado), American Digital Network Corp is a company that provides web hosting and custom e-commerce ASP solutions. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Steve Wallace, John Martis.

Hostway Services, Inc. engages in the provision of managed compliant cloud services. It offers web hosting, web design, Office 365 management, Microsoft Exchange hosting, Open-Xchange hosting and Wordpress management services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Aplus.Net provides online advertising and marketing services to small and midsized businesses and individuals. The company's services include domain name registration, e-mail addresses, web site design, site hosting, e-commerce and credit card processing tools. Aplus.Net was founded by Ivan Vachovsky in 1992 and is headquartered in Overland Park, KS.

Madison Dearborn Partners LLC (Madison Dearborn Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by John A. Canning Jr., Paul J. Finnegan, Samuel M. Mencoff, Robin P. Selati, James N. Perry Jr. and Timothy P. Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Smurfit Kappa Group Ltd. manufactures paper based packaging products. Its products and services include containerboard, solid board, corrugated, and packaging services. It focuses on the fruit, vegetable and bag-in-box packaging. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Illinois Venture Capital Association engages in providing services such as education, networking, industry events, roundtable discussions and government lobbying. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Hyde Park Angels Inc. (HPA) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Jeffrey R. Carter. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

OPTO International, Inc. manufactures and markets display systems to the retailers. Its products include fixture inspiration, freestanding, feature and initiative, tables, counters and wall systems. The firm provides retail space evaluation and space planning, fixture and accessory recommendation, vendor fixture development, and store fixture program development services. The company is headquartered in Wood Dale, IL.

Eighth Light Holdings, Inc. is engaged in the provision of software development services. It delivers web, mobile, and embedded projects using variety of programming languages, including Java, Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android. The company was founded by Micah Martin and Paul Pagel in 2006, and is headquartered in Libertyville, IL.

CJM Ventures LLC (CJM Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Christopher J. McGowan. The firm headquartered in Five Points, Alabama.

OPTO Holdings LP is an investment holding American company.

DNS Capital LLC (DNS capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Gigi Pritzker Pucker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Redshelf, Inc. operates as an online store for eBooks, textbooks, academic materials, magazines, documents and other digital content. The firm specializes in digital course materials, secure document distribution, cloud technology, e-textbooks, document security, e-book, html5 conversion, digital content management, online bookstore, e-learning, e-documents, digital content and cloud reader. The company was founded by Greg Fenton and Timothy Haitaian in August 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Bigstep Cloud Ltd. provides information technology services. It offers analytics development platform, running micro service-based applications, database acceleration, large scale and real time data processing solutions. The company was founded on March 31, 2014 and is headquartered in Horsham, the United Kingdom.

Valley Growth Ventures LLC (VGV) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio.

CompanyFirst LLC (Consumer Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2017 by Jason Starr. The firm headquartered in Hinsdale, Illinois.