Margaret Atwood

JK&B Capital (JK&B Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by David Kronfeld and George H. Spencer. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Scalent Systems, Inc. is a provider of real-time management and automation software for virtual and physical infrastructure to data centers. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Starfire Systems, Inc. develops silicon carbide ceramic polymers and material systems. It offers ceramic forming polymers, thermosetting polymers, molding compounds, and specialty silanes. The firm serves the aerospace, electronics, friction materials, industrial, military, and nuclear industries. The company was founded by Walter J. Sherwood in 1988 and is headquartered in Glenville, NY.

AlterPoint, Inc. provides network configuration management solutions and information technology services. The company was founded by Michael S. Bennett, Roger H. Castillo and Michael Rovner in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

ClearPoint Metrics is changing the way organizations drive improvement in IT and security initiatives through the use of metrics and scorecards. The company deliver advanced software solutions that enable organizations to constantly measure, actively monitor, and effectively communicate the business impact and effectiveness of IT and security investments. IT and security executives rely on its solutions to answer the critical questions on the state, quality and value of IT and security efforts and provide critical support to their IT and security governance efforts. Its solutions deliver the hard facts and data that organizations require to objectively assess the quality of their IT and security initiatives and assure compliance with industry best practice frameworks and regulatory requirements.

Vormetric, Inc. provides solutions for protecting enterprise information. Its products include data security manager, transparent encryption, live data transformation, docker security, tokenization, application encryption, cloud encryption gateway, key management as a service, thales orchestrator, protection for teradata database and security intelligence. The company was founded by Phil Grasso, Tien Nguyen and Duc Pham in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

CounterStorm, Inc. provides internal network security solutions. The firm offers information assurance, information security, data protection, digital forensics, eDiscovery and incident response. The company was founded by Salvatore J. Stolfo in Augusts 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Baanto International Ltd. offers touch sensing solutions. The firm provides unparalleled touch technology through ShadowSense. Its products include midsized, large format and slim Touch Frames, Christie Interactivity Kit, Teamboard T4, Dashboard and Touch Monitor products. The company was founded by Avanindra Utukuri and Bhupinder Randhawa in 2009 and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Revel Partners LLC (Revel Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Chris Young, Joe Apprendi, John Vincent and Thomas Falk. The firm is headquartered in New York.

SiteWit Corp. provides search engine marketing software solutions and services. It offers pay-per-click campaign management software for optimizing paid search campaigns, predictive analytics derived by data mining that tell how clients interact with business, search engine optimization and social media revenue reports to know how its clients’ organic and social media efforts are performing and weekly Google rankings for top performing natural search keywords. The company was founded by Ricardo Lasa and Donald Berndt in 2010 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Florida Funders LLC (Florida Funders) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by David Chitester. The firm is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

Molekule, Inc. develops and manufactures air purifiers for homes and other buildings. It offers Smart Filters, an air purification for debilitating asthma and allergy symptoms. The company was founded by Dilip Goswami, Jaya Goswami Rao and D. Yogi Goswami in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Homee, Inc. develops home servicing applications that provide access to handymen, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing service providers. The company was founded by Douglas C. Schaedler and David Theus and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Droplit, Inc. engages in providing a modular system of edge-to-app essentials for building internet of things products or launching services that use them. The company was founded by Stephen Westerfield and Bryan S. Jenks and is headquartered in Melbourne, FL.

Veridin Systems Canada, Inc. engages in the provision of security systems. It offers facility access control. closed circuit television, convergence information technology, managed services, VeriSecure, and electronic security systems. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

SecureCo LLC engages in developing software. It provides cyber security for the military, emergency management, law enforcement, telecom, healthcare, pharmacy, financial services and energy sectors. The company was founded by Alexander Harrington and Eric Sackowitz in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Thumbstopper LLC helps brands increase their organic reach by connecting them to their retailers' social media and search destinations. The American company offers a social media management and localization solution called thumbstopper® that amplifies brand content at the local level.

Supply Wisdom, Inc. is a patented solution that transforms the way supply chain, procurement, and third-party risk leaders manage risks and operational resilience. The company delivers continuous third-party and location risk intelligence and risk actions in real-time across the widest risk aperture to minimize the risks of disruption facing businesses, supply chains, and third parties. The company is based in New York, NY, and has subsidiaries in India. Supply Wisdom's full-stack AI-based SaaS products turn open-source data into risk intelligence and are the market's only software to cover all risk domains in real-time: financial, cyber, operational, ESG, compliance, nth party, and location-based risk. The company values diversity with a workforce that is currently 57% female. Supply Wisdom was founded in 2017 by Atul Vashistha, who has been the CEO since then.

VirtualZ Computing Corp. develops a foundational technology platform that allows cloud applications to interact seamlessly with mainframe data and applications. The private company is based in Minneapolis, MN. The company was founded by Vince Re and Jeanne Glass. Jeanne Glass has been the CEO since incorporation.

Nytric Ltd. provides product commercialization consulting services. The private company is based in Mississauga, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Avanindra Utukuri.