Jonathan Ord

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Luxul Wireless, Inc. provides wireless products and solutions. Its products include wireless controllers, dual-band access points, wireless broadband routers, wireless range extender, wired routers, AV managed switches, POE managed switches, antennas and signal boosters. The company was founded by Douglas C. Hewitt Sr. in 2000 and is headquartered in Draper, UT.

Planful, Inc. provides corporate performance management solutions for manufacturing, retail, healthcare, technology, financial, and entertainment industries. It offers budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting, and analysis. The firm also offers classroom training, virtual classes, recordings, certification, and training guides. The company was founded by James A. Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni in May 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Tegile Systems, Inc. provides flash-driven storage arrays for databases, virtualized server and virtual desktop environments. Its products include IntelliFlash, IntelliCare, Hybrid Array and All-Flash Array. The firm offers server virtualization, desktop virtualization and database solutions. The company was founded by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Alok Agrawal and Justin Cheen in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Snaps Media, Inc. develops mobile platform with a GPS-enabled virtual camera. It provides a photo driven ad-platform that transforms traditional digital media placements into shareable GPS-linked virtual photobooths. The company products include Imessage Stickers, Chat Bots, Branded Keyboards and Track & Update. The firm offers an augmented reality application for mobile devices that places GPS-linked virtual objects in real-world places and enables users to share photos on social networks. The company was founded by Vivian Rosenthal in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Shape Security, Inc. engages in the provision of website security solutions. The firm offers Shape Defense, Shape Enterprise Defense, BlackFish, API defense, and manual-attack defense. The company was founded by Derek Smith, Justin Call, and Sumit Agarwal in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Hit Labs, Inc. develops software for organizing photo library application. It engages in education, hospitality, real estate, retail, food, home services, manufacturing, and direct sales. The company was founded by Shane Bills, Chris Finken, and Zachary Mangum in 2014 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Part of Triple Reach, Inc., Various, Inc. (Japan) designs and produces educational DVDs and software. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. Various, Inc. (Japan was acquired by Triple Reach, Inc. on September 14, 2004 for $8.14 million.

Solutionreach, Inc. engages in the provision of patient relationship management solutions for healthcare providers. Its solutions include patient appointment reminders, patient recall messaging, patient education, patient payments, phone systems, two-way text messaging, online patient scheduling, patient caller ID, patient intake, surveys and patient satisfaction, patient reviews and reputation management, and patient referrals and marketing. The company was founded by Jim Higgins and Kurt Haug in 2000 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Meritech Capital Partners (Meritech Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Mike Gorden, Paul Madera and Rob Ward. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Trinsum Group, Inc. provides management consulting services. It provides services in the areas of strategy, execution, organic growth, growth through acquisition, productivity and risk management. The company was founded by James M. McTaggart in 1978 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Real Estate Equity Exchange Inc. provides home finance and real estate investment services. It offers services to homeowners, financial advisors, realtors, insurance agents, and charitable organizations. The company was founded by Thomas Sponholtz and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

At Smarterville, they believe that every child loves to learn, so they focus on nurturing that thirst for knowledge with products that are fun, effective, and easy to use. They respond to a child's natural curiosity and support families and teachers as they help children improve reading, math, and study skills. They celebrate every success so learning becomes a positive cycle that kids will love to repeat again and again. They meet all children at their level, engage their imaginations, and help them climb to the next level step by step. Every achievement ends in a celebration of success, an elevation of confidence, and an increase in self-esteem. As children master reading and math skills, they also lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning. It's their goal to make a difference in children's lives by making learning fun and easy. That's why they have brought together a dedicated team of parents, leading educators, interactive designers, writers, and artists. By collaboration, research, and testing, they continually develop innovative products and systems that teach children not only to learn but also to love learning. Smarterville is backed by Sterling Partners, a leading private equity firm with over 25 years of experience partnering with companies to build market-leading businesses and generate superior returns. With approximately $4 billion of assets under management, Sterling invests growth capital in industries with positive, long-term trends and provides ongoing support to management through a dedicated team of industry veterans, operators, strategy experts and human capital professionals. Sterling Partners is a leader in education, healthcare and business services and is co-headquartered in Chicago and Baltimore.

DealerSocket, Inc. creates and delivers a technology platform to the automotive industry. Its products include marketing, sales, service, customer experience, data mining and dealer fire. The company was founded by Jonathan E. Ord and Brad Perry in 2001 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

WildWorks, Inc. develops video games. Its products include Animal Jam, AJ Classic, Tag with Ryan and Dash Tag. The company was founded by Clark Stacey, Kris Johnson and Jeff Amis in 2003 and is headquartered in Draper, UT.

RMG Networks, Inc. provides away-from-home video, entertainment, news, and information. The firm e Company owns, operates, and powers out-of-home television and video networks, as well as offers design and consulting, content for digital signage network, technology, monetization, media and network operations, and deployment. The company was founded by David W. Liu in 2005 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association is a Non-Profit Organisation. It supports entrepreneurship and investment throughout the rocky mountain region. The company is headquartered in Erie, CO.

Qubole, Inc. develops a cloud-based data platform for analyzing and processing data sets. It offers technical support, education and training, and product and documentation. The company was founded by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Scoop Technologies, Inc. develops and operates application for carpooling and transportation. Its application allows users to schedule morning and afternoon commutes with nearby co-workers and neighbours; and tailors a custom carpool based on route, employer, and traffic. The company was founded by Jonathan Sadow and Robert Sadow in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Eastwind Networks, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based network breach detection systems. It offers smart real time alerts, installation, big data machine learning and network monitoring services. The company was founded by Paul Kraus and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Bark Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of software to help parents facilitate safe online interactions for their children. Its tool reviews online interactions on websites or social media sites; and communications. The company was founded by Brian Bason and Brandon Hilkert in 2015 and is headquartered in Richmond Hill, GA.

Backbone PLM, Inc. operates as a workflow solution that streamlines the complex manufacturing process for consumer goods companies of all sizes. It develops and designs application for file management, storage and collaboration solutions for teams and suppliers. The firm offers automated data importing from clients? own systems and complete onboarding, training and client support. The company was founded by Andrew David Klein and Mathew Lawrence Klein in 2014 and is headquartered in Greeley, CO.

Kinetica DB, Inc. develops solutions that tracks and analyze terrorist and other national security threats in real time. Its product, GPU database, provides a range of methods such as write queries in SQL, use with popular BI tools, full text search, user defined functions, geospatial operations, and visualization pipeline to perform analytics with large datasets on a single converged platform. The company was founded by Amit Vij and Nima Negahban in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fairygodboss, Inc. provides social platform for women for company ratings, job listings, discussion boards, and career advice. The company was founded Georgene Huang and Romy Newman in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TMD Ventures LLC (TMD Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bookclub.com, Inc. provides book discussions lead by the authors. The company was founded by David Blake and Eric Sharp and is headquartered in Alpine, UT.