Ben Sampson

KAIAM Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures optical communications products. The firm offers 40G-LR4 CWDM4, 100G CWDM4+, 80Ch 50GHz Athermal AWG, and 40Ch 100 GHz Athermal AWG. The company was founded by Bardia Pezeshki in 2009 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Akros Silicon, Inc. provides power management integrated circuits. The company was founded by J. Francois Crepin, Sajol C. Ghoshal and John R. Camagna in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Technology Partners (Technology Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by William Hart. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

DBL Investors LLC (DBL Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Nancy E. Pfund and Ira M. Ehrenpreis. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bridgelux, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state lighting and light-emitting diode components for use in diverse exterior and interior lighting applications. Its products include LED sub-systems are integrated products that deliver world class performance and leading cost while additionally reducing time to market, and LED chips, provides light emitting diode solutions. The firm serves the retail and hospitality, warehouse, exterior, industrial and eco system partners. Bridgelux was founded by Heng Liu in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China.

LatentAI, Inc. engages in the provision of building solutions that enable the adaptive edge to transform AI processing. It involves in the research and development in machine learning AI (lifelong learning), computer vision, embedded systems, IoT applications, and efficient computing. The company was founded by Jags Kandasamy, Sek Chai, and Chloe Chan and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Congruent Management LLC (Congruent Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Joshua Posamentier and Abe Yokell.. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tamr, Inc. engages in the development of a platform for data management and analytics. It offers data mastering, agile customer mastering, procurement analytics, CDISC conversion, Tamr for government, media analytics and solution catalog. The company was founded by Andrew Hunt Palmer, Michael R. Stonebraker, Ihab Ilyas, George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner, and Alex Pagan in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

Purus, Inc. engages in the research and develop environmental technologies and products. It focused its efforts on the development of an adsorptive based technology for the separation of volatile organic compounds from air streams and began to manufacture, market and sell products known as PADRE air pollution control systems. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Morgan Hill, CA.

MTM Metalltechnik Michelau GmbH is a metal technology company that specializes in the production of steel tube frames, office and bay frames, seating, fans, and tables for home use. The private company is based in Michelau, Germany and their CEOs are Niek van der Sluis and Marc van den Berg. The German company also offers services in development, sample production, and series production. The company has decades of experience and committed employees with comprehensive know-how. The company's claim is to provide high-quality products that are cost-optimized. The company uses precision steel and pipe production of metal racks predominantly for the magazine industry. The company has a new bending machine - BLM E-turn 40 with automatic pipe dwelling and left bending in the process up to pipe diameter 40mm. The company also offers consistent application of their qm system according to DIN EN 9000 ff.

Zincfive, Inc. provides energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions. It focuses on uninterruptible power supplies for traffic and data center industries, hardware and software to monitor and control electro-mechanical systems for building energy management systems. The company was founded by Timothy L. Hysell and Dan Sisson in 2016 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, OR.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Fifth Wall Ventures Management LLC (Fifth Wall ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Brad Greiwe and Brendan Wallace. The firm is headquartered in Venice, California.

GE Ventures, Inc. provides cargo loading and unloading services. The company is headquartered in Montebello, CA.

Positive Sum Advisors LLC (Positive Sum) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Sam Cates and James Patrick O'Shaughnessy. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Menlo Microsystems, Inc. engages in the development of an electronic switchsystems. Its products include RF (radio frequency) switches, general purpose switches, and high-power switches. The company was founded by Chris Keimel, Rob Reagan, and Chris Giovanniello in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

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.

Lazard Asset Management LLC (LAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1970 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, ultimately held by Lazard, Inc. (NYSE: LAZ). LAM manages investment portfolios and provides investment advice to institutional and individual investors around the world.

Fir Tree Capital Management LP, do-business-as Fir Tree Partners (Fir Tree), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jeffery Tannenbaum in 1994 and formerly known as Fir Tree, Inc. They are a subsidiary of FTCM GP LLC. Fir Tree manages assets on behalf of endowments, foundations, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.

Svante, Inc. produces technologies for the energy and process industries. It offers technology services for capturing post-combustion carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas streams for use in CO2 enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture and storage. The company was founded by Andre Boulet, Darryl Wolanski, Brett Henkel and Soheil Khiavi in 2007 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

Everactive, Inc. provides technology services. It offers sub-threshold processing and extremely low power RF technology to build the world’s lowest power wireless systems-on-chip. The company was founded by Denton Calhoun, David Wenzloff and Brendan Richaedson in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

GE Ventures LLC (GE Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of General Electric Co. founded in 2000 by James Kim. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

TPG Growth LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 2000 by William E. McGlashan and Michael Guthrie. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, United States with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

3com Megahertz Corp. provides voice and data networking products and services. The company was founded by Robert M. Metcalfe, Howard S. Charney and John P. Marshall in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Novinda Corp. develops non-carbon mercury removal technologies. It offers non-carbon mercury capture reagent, Amended Silicates, a mineral-based product that removes mercury from combustion gases via chemical reaction rather than absorption technologies. The firm’s other products include AS-HgX, AS-HgX-ESP and AS-Ox. Its products help optimize operations and ensure environmental compliance for the operators of coal-fired power plants, industrial boilers and cement kilns. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Accelergy Corp. offers biodegradable specialty products and fuels. It specializes in the production of low carbon synthetic transportation fuels. The company was founded by Jane H. Chuan in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. engages in the development and production of bio-based chemicals and fuels. The company was founded by Ryan T. Gill, Peter Long, and Michael Lynch in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Altira Group LLC (Altira Group) is a venture capital firm is founded in 1996 by Dirk McDermott. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Crosspoint Venture Partners (Crosspoint Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1970 by John B. Mumford. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC (ClearSky) is a private equity/venture capital firm co-founded in 2012 by James Huff and Jay Leek. The firm is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida with offices in New York and San Francisco.

Optium Corp. designs and manufactures optical subsystems for use in telecommunications and cable TV network systems. Its offers transceivers, transmitters, analog RF over fiber products, line cards, circuit packs, and optical add/drop multiplexer products that deliver voice, video, and other data services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.