Megan Smith

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.

Vorago Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. Its products include RH 8Mb Dual Port SRAM, HT 8Mb Dual Port SRAM, RH 16Mb Asynchronous SRAM and RH 18Mb Sync Burst SRAM. The firm provides radiation and temperature-hardened IC components for the Hi-Reliability marketplace. The company designs and develops high density SRAMs and logic ICs using its patented HardSIL technologies The company was founded by Wesley Harold Morris in 2004 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Center for Strategic & International Studies, Inc. provides strategic insights & policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. Its projects focus on areas such as AIDS, arms control, conflict resolution, NATO, the environment, immigration, intelligence, trade, health care, OPEC, space policy, and terrorism. The company was founded in 1962 by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Riot Games, Inc. develops and publishes video games. It offers competitive, PvP multiplayer online battle arena, and online games. The company was founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill in 2006 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit company based in San Francisco, CA. Open Source Initiative is the steward of the Open Source Definition, which sets the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

Forge Global, Inc. engages in the provision of online trading services. It offers access and exposure to pre-IPO companies shares and enables to sell share ownership. The company was founded by Andrea Lamari, Sohail Prasad, Samvit Ramadurgam, and Gil Silberman in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Relativity Space, Inc. manufactures orbital rockets. The company was founded by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone in 2015 and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA.

Manhattan West Asset Management LLC (Manhattan West) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Lorenzo D. Esparza in 2016. Manhattan West provides investment advisory services to a diverse group of private clients and institutional investors.

Chromatic 3D Materials LLC develops technology for 3D printing. The company was founded by Cora Marie Leibig and is headquartered in North Golden Valley, MN.

Riot Ventures Management LLC (Riot Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Stephen Marcus. The firm is headquartered in Venice, California.

Virgin Orbit LLC manufactures automated flight safety systems and composite structures. The company was founded by Richard Branson in 2017 and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA.

Nauticus Robotics (Texas), Inc. engages in the provision of mechatronics and automation engineering services. It focuses on autonomous ocean vehicle technologies. Its products include the Aquanaut, Commander, and Olympic Arm. The company was founded by Nicolaus Adam Radford and Reginald Bruce Berka and is headquartered in Webster, TX.

Ozone Networks, Inc. provides digital marketplace for crypto collectibles. It buys, sells and discovers digital assets. The company was founded by Alex Atallah and Devin Finzer in January 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Oxide Computer Co. is engaged in developing cloud hyperscale technology. The company was founded by Bryan M. Cantrill and Jessica Frazelle and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Freightweb Services, Inc. provides partial truckload shipping services. The firm specializes in technology, optimization, logistics, partial truckload, and data science. The company was founded by Will Payson, Farah Ali and Marty Sinicrope in 2019 and is headquartered in Mercer Island, WA.

Madrona Venture Labs Inc (Madrona Venture Labs) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Madrona Venture Group LLC founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Subspace, Inc. provides a containerized enterprise ready workspace to enable BYOD for laptops, desktops, and mobile devices. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AboveBoard Solutions, Inc. is an executive hiring platform that connects senior executives with full-time and board roles at leading companies and organizations. The company is based in New York, NY and was founded by Lucinda Duncalfe, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The platform aims to deliver on diversity goals and offers an inclusive approach to executive hiring.

Quantyzd, Inc., also known as Sofy, offers a no-code test automation solution for mobile applications. The company is based in Bellevue, WA and the CEO of the company is Syed Hamid. The company's platform allows for QA tests to be run from CI/CD on real devices, resulting in complete testing in just a few hours.

Kittycad Inc develops advanced hardware design tools and infrastructure, transitioning hardware design from point-and-click software to modular, automated, reusable code. The company is located in the US. The American company was incubated within Embedded Ventures and has additional investors including Venrex Partners, Viterbi School of Engineering, Gaingels, Kelvin Beachum, Matt Terrell, Undeterred Capital, Liquid 2, Tom Preston-Werner's family office, Madrona Venture Group, Bernie Lagrange, and Nat Friedman. Kittycad is led by co-founders Jordan Noone, Jenna Bryant, and Jessie Frazelle.