Ashley Kalinauskas

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. provides pet food products and pet care services. It offers products to the breeders, veterinarians, and pet supply retailers. The company was founded by Mark L. Morris in 1939 and is headquartered in Topeka, KS.

CaroGen Corp. operates as a vaccine company. It creates and develops virus-like-vesicle based nanoparticle vaccines to address a broad range of infectious and chronic diseases. The company was founded by Bijan Almassian, John Rose, Michael Robek and Valerian Nakaar on November 16, 2012 and is headquartered in Hamden, CT.

Lawrence Humane Society, Inc. is an organization that focuses on animal welfare. The non-profit company is based in Lawrence, KS. The company provides shelter and care for animals in need and work towards finding them permanent homes.

Wellinks, Inc. provides wearable health technology services. It engages in improving clinical outcomes through education and creation of good habits around treatment. The company was founded by Ellen Su, Sebastian Monzon and Levi Deluke and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

A-Level Capital Management LLC (A- Level Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Elizabeth Galbut and Demi Obayomi. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sogal Ventures LLC (Sogal Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Pocket Sun and Elizabeth Galbut. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Innovation Factory LLC (The Innovation Factory) is an incubator firm headquartered in Duluth, Georgia. The firm is founded by Thomas D. Weldon and Charles E. Larsen in 1999.

Part of Deloitte LLP (New York), Deloitte Consulting Outsourcing LLC provides accounting services. The company is based in New York, NY.

M&M Media, Inc. provides digital media production services. The company was founded by Gary Charles Mekikian and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Convexity Scientific, Inc. provides healthcare services. Its product include flyp nebulizer, Flyp 22mm Mask Adapter, Flyp Care Box, and Flyp Medication Reservoir. The company was founded by Ralph Finger in January 2014 and is headquartered in Fairfield, CT.

Mystic River Ventures LLC (Mystic River Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of University of Connecticut founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Storrs, Connecticut.

I-Bankers Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Santa Monica, California that was founded in 1996. I-Bankers provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. Their focus is to provide small-cap issuers access the capital markets while they enable institutional investors to gain access to choice small-cap investments. Their clients include institutions, private bankers and high-net worth individuals. The firm also manages, underwrites and distributes “blank check” or “SPAC” offerings.

Bactana Corp. develops microbes for animal health. Its products are used to trigger modifications to an animal’s immunometabolism to boost productivity and promoting good health. The company was founded by John A. Kallassy and Rodrigo Bicalho in 2016 and is headquartered in New Canaan, CT.

Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Oil Purification Systems, Inc. manufactures and supplies fluid cleaning products. It provides Eco-Pur System, the first and only supplemental filtration system that uses electronic controls to continuously optimize the cleaning process and remove both solid and liquid contaminants from lubricating oil. The firm’s Eco-Pur is used by hundreds of fleets on thousands of vehicles and generators in trucking, busing, construction, mining and many other applications. The company’s Eco-Pur is also an effective solution for corporate environmental sustainability programs. It serves the trucking, oil and gas, mining and waste management industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Waterbury, CT.

Part of Speedus Corp., Zargis Medical, Inc. develops medical equipment. The company is based in Princeton, NJ.

RemoTV, Inc. provides media streaming services. The company was founded by Christopher Penner and Robert Phan in 2007 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Retail Optimization, Inc. provides merchandising optimization software solutions. Its software platform enables proprietary optimization technology based on calculating the incremental marginal contribution of each individual SKU integrating POS data, rest-of-market data, loyalty data, corporate strategies, shopper insights, and consumer demand. The company was founded by Vaughn D. Roller in 2006 and is headquartered in Gloucester, MA.

Standing Stone,Inc. develops web based applications. The firm's e-suite of applications includes CoagClinic, CholesterolClinic, DMClinic and CHFClinic. Its other applications address diabetes management hypertension, CHF and hematological disease. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Intelligent Clearing Network, Inc. provides digital coupon clearing network services. It operates as an innovative software-as-a-service company that electronically validates and clears paper and digital coupons and other incentives in real time at the point-of-sale in grocery, drug and mass merchant retailers. The firm's single connection to a retailer POS can help solve the problem of mis/malredemption and fraud for the coupon industry. It is a facilitator of real-time, seamless execution for the following types of promotional programs including automating promotion management, managing complex promotions, digital or direct to card programs, fraud prevention, paper coupon validation, and real-time redemption information. The company was founded in January 2008 by Richard B. Thibedeau and Brian Schulte and is headquartered in North Haven, CT.

Precipio Diagnostics LLC operates as a cancer diagnostics reference laboratory. It offers its customers community oncologists and hospitals access to academic institutions and has combined academic-level excellence with the sales and marketing expertise, the proper operational processes and the necessary service level standards required to deliver proper support. The company was founded by Ilan Danieli in 2011 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.