Mike Klemm

SportsEngine, Inc. engages in the provision of sports technology and media platform. The firm represents soccer, football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, rugby, softball, baseball, wrestling, and volleyball. It offers registration software, sports websites, league, member and team management solutions. The company was founded by Justin Kaufenberg, Carson Kipfer and Greg Blasko in 2008 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Compellent Technologies, Inc. provides network storage solutions. The firm provides Fluid Data storage solutions that automate the movement and management of data at a granular level, enabling organizations to constantly adapt to change, slash costs and secure information against downtime and disaster. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Foodsby, Inc. operates as an online platform that enables restaurants to deliver food or lunch to offices. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, Kansas City and Charlotte. The company was founded by Parag Shah and Ben Cattoor in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Cloud Elements, Inc. provides cloud application program interface (API) integration platform. Its platform enables developers to publish, integrate, aggregate, and manage all of APIs through a unified platform. The company was founded by Vineet Joshi, Gary Gaessler, Atul Barve, and Mark W. Geene in October 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Total Expert, Inc. provides software as service solutions to the real estate vertical. Its solutions include CRM, marketing, c0marketing and compliance. The firm services industries include banking, credit unions, mortgage lending and, wealth managemnt The company was founded by Joe Welu in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Right Team, Inc. engages in the development and operations of resourcing, forecasting, and analytics platform for digital agencies and software consultancies. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

SyncApp, Inc. provides an open messaging platform. Its product, Snycapp, offers exchange of real time structured data and controls visibilty and privacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Contactually, Inc. develops Web-based customer relationship management software and contact management solutions. Its solutions provide teams with insights and analytics from the team dashboard and summary of a team's activity, connect personal buckets to team buckets so that contact records are up-to-date, facilitate to assign contacts to team members and allow to create shared team buckets and link personal ones. The firm's solutions also allow individuals to focus on right contacts, follow up consistently, find business opportunities in their network and work across their team. The company was founded by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella in October 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

EDV Management Co (El Dorado Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Kalbach. The firm is headquartered in in Menlo Park, California.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J Weber, Robert J Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Apkudo, Inc. provides device quality assurance services. The company was founded by Josh Matthews and Ben Leslie in 2011 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

TapInfluence, Inc. engages in the development of a marketing software that automates the creation, management and measurement of influencer content marketing programs. Its software helps manage outreach, scheduling and communication. The company was founded by Rustin Banks and Holly Hamann in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Code42 Software, Inc. engages in the development of data protection and backup software solutions. It offers employee departure, high value data leak, mergers and acquisitions, back up and recovery. The company was founded by Mitch Coopet, Brian Bispala and Matthew Dornquast in 2001 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

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.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

AnyPresence, Inc. operates as an enterprise mobile backend-as-a-service and multi-platform mobile app builder. It offers employee engagement, millennial workforce, and mobile productivity solutions, mobile platform and self-service solutions for utilities serving residential and commercial buildings and a mobile platform for healthcare providers to build and deploy mobile apps for patient and physician engagement. The company was founded by Anirban Chakrabarti, Richard Mendis and Rakesh Rao in 2011 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

NexGen Storage, Inc. operates as a computer data storage company. It offers both Storage QoS for managing performance and Service Levels for critical application performance. The company was founded by John W. Spiers and Kelly C. Long in 2010 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Zonoff, Inc. provides software platform. The Zonoff Connected Home Platform consists of Home, Cloud, and App software and powers from entry-level point solutions to home automation, remote control, energy management, and safety monitoring. The company was founded by Michael R. Harris and Michael Balog in April 2011 and is headquartered in Phoenixville, PA.

Optoro, Inc. operates as a technology company. It offers end-to-end reverse logistics solutions that helps retailers process, disposition, and sell excess and returned inventory. The firm also offers reverse logistics software, direct-to-consumer remarketing, and business-to-business remarketing solutions. he company was founded by Justin Lesher, Tobin Moore, and Adam Vitarello in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

6fusion USA, Inc. develops a Software-as-a-Service based infrastructure metering and management platform. It offers solutions for information technology infrastructure operation and acquisition. The company was founded by John D. Cowan and Delano Seymour in 2010 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

UrbanBound, Inc. engages in the provision of relocation services for newly hired and transferring employees. It is a platform allows employees to educate themselves on their new city; organize and plan their entire move; and get connected to vetted service provider. The company was founded by Jeffrey Ellman and Michael Krasman in January 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Biotix, Inc. develops and manufactures laboratory consumables and liquid handling solutions for life science, clinical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology laboratories. It specializes in pipette tip innovation and engineering tips that improve accuracy, precision, and ergonomics. The firm offers pipettes, tubes, manual and automatic tips for robotic applications, custom engineering, assembly and kitting, reagent reservoirs, and plates. The company was founded by Arta Motadel in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.