Chris Gottschalk

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Hudson's Bay Co. is a holding company, which engages in the business of operating investments and businesses at the intersection of technology, retail operations, and real estate including majority ownership of iconic ecommerce companies. Its portfolios include The Bay, Hudson?s Bay, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks OFF 5TH stores, and HBC Properties and Investments. The company was founded in 1670 and is headquartered in Brampton, Canada.

Upgrade, Inc. operates as an online lending platform that combines personal loans with free credit monitoring. It has offices in Phoenix and San Francisco. The company was founded by Renaud Laplanche, Jeff Bogan, Tim Bogan, Matt Wierman, Visar Nimani, Adelina Grozdanova and Soul Htite and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Blumberg Capital LLC (Blumberg Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by David Blumberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GHBC Groupe, Inc. operates a shopping website which provides merchandise, clothing, home decor, food and travelling services. It offers furniture, sports sedans, bedding, rugs, lighting, décor, kitchen and dining products. The firm also provides redeem points to its customers. The company was founded in November 2007 by Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Michael Bryzek, Alexis Maybank, Dwight A. Merriman, Phong Nguyen and Kevin P. Ryan and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PlayPhone, Inc. provides mobile media entertainment services. It promotes social gaming that allows a group of people to compete, collaborate, chat, invite, buy and gift virtual goods while engaging with a portfolio of popular social games. The company was founded by Ron Czerny and Takahito Yasuki in 2003 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Lendio, Inc. operates as an online loan application and lending platform. It provides information on business loan types such as acquisition loan, business financing, cash advance, commercial real estate, equipment financing, microloan, franchise loan, start-up loan and business loans for women. The company was founded by Brett Child, Brock J. Blake, Levi King and Trent Miskin in 2005 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.