Cheryl Fraser

Companyon Ventures Management LLC (Companyon Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Thomas John Lazay and Parthib Srivasthsan. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Specter Instruments LLC is a company that specializes in industrial alarm notification software. The company is based in Austin, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's software is the top-selling product of its kind in the world, and it sends millions of alarm notifications every day. This helps to reduce downtime, waste, and costs for their clients. The company was founded in 1984, and Greg Jackson has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Social Venture Partners provides social services. It offers nonprofit and collaborative solutions. The company was founded by Kim Sanchez Rael and Margaret Walker and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Augusta, Maine. Since 1942, MainePERS provides retirement benefits for active and retired public employees and their beneficiaries. The System’s contributing members include teachers, state, county, and municipal employees, legislators, judges, and those who work for other public entities. MainePERS also administers Disability Retirement, Group Life Insurance, and MaineSTART, a tax-deferred retirement savings program. Administration of these programs includes financial administration, investment administration, recordkeeping of members’ work and compensation data, and administration of retirement-related services provided to members, employers and retirees.

Tizor Systems, Inc. provides data auditing and protection solutions. The company was founded by Pratyush Moghe in 2002 and is headquartered in Stow, MA.

TAC Partners Inc (TAC Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by James F. Wade and David D. Croll. The firm is headquartered in Boston, California.

EverWatch Capital is a private equity subsidiary of EverWatch Financial Inc. founded in 2004 by Frohman Anderson and Matt Womble. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Florida.

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.

Spotlight Media, Inc. provides advertising services. It also offers unprecedented focus and exclusivity by featuring it across their print, web, mobile, and social platform. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Daily Grommet, Inc. develops an online marketplace and product launch platform for consumer products. Its platform enables customers to launch, discover, share, influence, and buy products online. The company was founded in 2008 by Jules Pieri and Joanne Domeniconi and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Scribd, Inc. operates a digital documents library. It allows users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents in various languages. The firm offers premier subscription book service. The company was founded by John R. Adler III, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam in March 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MDV Management Co. LLC (MDV Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Metaplace, Inc. develops online virtual entertainment products. It enables users to build a network of worlds from community to games to education to business. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

MyHeritage (USA) Inc. engages in the operation of genealogy and social networking website. It manages an online community of casual and expert genealogists working together to create a single world family tree. The company was founded by George Ishii in 2006 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Yammer, Inc. operates online enterprise application for employee communication. It engages in enterprise social networking, providing a secure way for employees to communicate, collaborate, and share information. The company was founded by Adam Pisoni, David Oliver Sacks and George Ishii in 2008 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

CloudShare, Inc. provides information technology services for enterprises. The firm offers cloud computing services which enables individual software developers, consultants, business analysts and IT professionals in small teams or in enterprises to build, manage and share fully functional enterprise business applications using only a web browser. It provides Training & Education, Sales Demos & PoCs and Dev & Test solutions. The company was founded by Zvi Guterman and Ophir Kra-Oz in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Securify, inc. provides identity-based monitoring and verification solutions. Its clients include Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, Guardian Life, VISA - America and EU, Defense Exchange Commissary Agency and Defense Finance and Accounting Service. The company was founded in 1998 by Geoffrey Cooper, Dan Kolkowitz, and Taher A. Elgama and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Csoft, Inc. engages in the development of applicant tracking system and recruiting software for human resources and recruiting agencies. Its product includes CATS pro. The company was founded by Asim Baig in 2005 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Wonder Workshop, Inc. builds robots to teach programming for children. Its dash and dot helps kids to collaborate, create programs, have the robots interacting and see their programs come to life right there in front of their eyes. The company also offers various accessories, such as xylophones, building brick connectors, tow hooks, smartphone mounts, bunny ears and tails, and bulldozer bars. The company was founded by Vikas Gupta, Mikal Greaves, Imran Khan, and Saurabh Gupta in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

PillPack, Inc. operates as an online subscription pharmacy. It receives prescription from doctors and packs medicines as per the prescription and dosage, and delivers it in a dispenser containing PillPack packets. The firm offers vitamins and OTCs, inhalers, cream tubes, testing supplies, and other pharmacy items. The company was founded by Elliot Cohen, Timothy Parker and Brian Hoffer in 2013 and is headquartered in Manchester, NH.

Herophilus, Inc. operates as neurotherapeutics company. It employs phenotypic screening to discover novel drugs for complex neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy, autism, and schizophrenia, disorders for which current discovery techniques have proved least successful. The firm combines cerebral organoid science, systems neuroscience, robotic automation, and advanced data analytics to discover characterizations of disease never before achievable. The company was founded by Frederic J. Kerrest, Sean Escola and Saul Kato and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Glympse Bio, Inc. develops modular nanoparticle sensors to create diagnostics for diseases. It uses engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. The company was founded in 2015 by Sangeeta Bhatia and Gabe A. Kwong and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.