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Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Proxy, Inc. develops mobile application for unlock doors. Its solution includes enterprise, commercial real estate, and small business. The company was founded by Simon Ratner and Denis Mars and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Proterra Operating Co., Inc. designs and manufactures zero-emission battery electric transit solutions. It offers solutions to the public transit, commercial transit, airports, universities, and schools industries. The company was founded by Ryan Popple and Dale Hill in January 2004 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

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.

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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

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.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Wildlife Conservation Society operates as a non-governmental organization aiming to save wildlife. The firm saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. It protects animals like gorillas in Congo, tigers in India, wolverines in the Yellowstone Rockies, and ocean giants. The company was founded on April 26, 1895 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engages on research of environmental studies, nanoscience, and quantitative biology, physics and nuclear energy. The lab is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University of California. It was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Ocean Conservancy, Inc. engages in the provision of wildlife services. The firm protects the ocean from global challenges. It creates science based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

True Software Scandinavia AB develops mobile applications to search and find people. It offers Truecaller, a mobile application that enables users to identify the person or company calling, block unwanted calls or hidden numbers and make calls and see when their friends are available. The company was founded by Alan Kurdo Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in 2009 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Altamont Capital Management LLC ( Altamont Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by Jesse T. Rogers, Randall Eason and Keoni Schwartz. The firm headquartered located in Palo Alto, California.

BMW i Ventures Inc (BMW i Ventures), a venture capital subsidiary of of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Stripe, Inc. is a technology company, which builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. The firm offers services that enable platforms and merchants to run businesses, and to safely conduct online payment transactions. Its products include payments, billing, connect, payouts, atlas, radar, issuing, terminal, corporate card, capital, SaaS platforms, marketplaces pricing, and global guides. The company was founded by John Collison and Patrick Collison in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Element Analytics, Inc. provides industrial analytics software. It also provides actionable insight and foresight into daily operations. The firm offers solutions to a variety of industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, utilities, diversified, and more. The company was founded by Sameer Kalwani and David Mount in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Solar Service Experts LLC owns and operates distributed generation solar and residential energy assets. It offers a suite of residential solar finance products, includes solar leases, loans, power purchase agreements and PACE products, as well as financing for complementary and stand-alone water-saving and energy efficiency home improvements that helps customers reduce their utility bill spend on power, water and heating and cooling. The company was founded in December 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GSB Impact (Venture Capital) (GSB Impact) is a venture capital subsidiary of Stanford University founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Stanford, California.

Dapper Labs, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in making blockchain-based collectible cats. The company was founded by Benny Giang on February 2, 2018 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

BorderX Lab, Inc. has developed a personalization and logistics platform to create the cross-border shopping experience. Its technologies includes machine learning and artificial intelligence bots to make global commerce automatic and interactive. The company was founded by Xuehua Shen, Chengdu Huang, Jun Liu, and Jonathan Qiang Li in September 2014 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Baron App, Inc. a platform where users can request personalized video shoutouts from their favorite influencers, athletes, and celebrities. The company was founded by Steven Galanis, Devon Spinnler and Martin Blencowe and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MakerSights, Inc. provides product development software for consumer brands. The company was founded by Dan Leahy and Matt Field in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sheertex, Inc. manufactures and sells pantyhose. The company was founded by Katherine Homuth and is headquartered in Bracebridge, Canada.

Locus Robotics Corp. engages in the development and innovation of mobile robots for warehouse operations, e-commerce volume growth, and seasonal peaks. It offers LocusBots, LocusServer, LocusView, and LocusManager. The company was founded by Bruce E. Welty in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Turvo, Inc. operates and develops a collaborative logistics platform. Its technology unifies data set for all operations and analytics, while eliminating redundant manual tasks and automating workflows. The firm offers solutions to the shippers, logistics providers and carriers. The company was founded by Jeff Dangelo, Eric Gilmore, and Sai Rajkiran Nagboth and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Fictiv, Inc. specializes in providing engineering services with rapid prototyping to the manufacuring and hardware industry. It offers 3D printing, urethane casting and injection molding services. The company was founded by Nathan Evans and Dave Evans in March 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

N3TWORK, Inc. develops mobile games. The company was founded by Steven B. Detwiler, Alan Yu, Neil Young, Robert Stevenson and Erik Lammerding in December 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Niantic, Inc. operates as an augmented reality (AR) and mobile real-world company. Its platform, Niantic Real World, manages shared state, communication, security, mapping, and AR functionality. It powers the AR games Pokemon GO, Ingress, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The company was founded by John Hanke and Phil Keslin in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.