Michael Witte

Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

D. E. Shaw & Co. LP (DESCO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Elliot Shaw. DESCO serves as the managing member, manager and/or investment advisor of certain entities in the D. E. Shaw Group and provides investment advice to several affiliated hedge funds and other entities. The investor base of the funds includes institutional investors and other highly sophisticated, high-net worth participants.

Spinnaker Exploration Co. was an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It was headquartered in Houston, TX.

Ebyline, Inc. provides news content information to news publishers and producers. Its platform is designed to help manage content creation from start to finish. The company was founded by William Momary and Allen Narcisse in August 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Epic Ventures (Epic Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Threshold Ventures Inc founded in 1994 by E. Nicholaus Efstratis and Kent Madsen. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Competitive Power Ventures Holdings LLC operates as an electric power generation development and asset management company. Its capabilities include asset management, natural gas generation and renewable energy generation. The company was founded by Doug Egan and Gary Lambert in 1999 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MA.

Part of Betr Holdings, Inc., Lotus Software, Inc. is a company that develops software that helps to create interactive demos. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1982 by Chris Schilling, Harrison Johnson. The CEO is Harrison Johnson. Lotus Software was acquired by Chameleon Intelligent Tech, Inc. on May 29, 2024.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Spectraseis, Inc. provides geophysical surveys and data processing services to oil and gas companies. It provides services to oil and gas exploration and production firms, including a growing customer base among North American unconventional resource operators. The firm provides its customers cutting-edge innovations in surface and borehole passive seismic monitoring, data processing and imaging services. The company was founded by Martin Wagen in 2004 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Cranbrook Educational Community is a leading center of education, science, and art that was founded in 1904 by philanthropists George and Ellen Scripps Booth. The non-profit company is based in Bloomfield Hills, MI. It is comprised of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, Cranbrook House & Gardens, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Schools, and Horizons-Upward Bound. Cranbrook Academy of Art is a top-ranking art school that specializes in graduate education on the subjects of art, architecture, craft, and design. Aimeclaire Roche has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Surveyor Capital Ltd. is a hedge fund seeding platform headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Citadel LP, which is owned by GFH HFEVA LLC. Surveyor Capital manages capital exclusively for Citadel’s multi-strategy funds and its positions are consolidated in Form 13F filed by Citadel Advisors LLC.

XANT Inc. engages in the provision of lead management tools. It offers e-mail, fax and sales work-flow management built into contact management software. It also provides implementation, certification, training, consulting, customer support, and custom development services. The company was founded by David R. Elkington and Kenneth Krogue in November 2004 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Horizon Capital Group provides securities brokerage services.

Leaflink, Inc. operates a business-to-business wholesale order management platform for the cannabis industry. Its software platform is designed to support participants in a B2B supply chain, providing basic tools designed to save money for retailers and allow producers to get better pricing for their product. The company was founded by Ryan Smith and Zach Silverman in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Power Factors LLC provides portfolio performance software and services for the wind and solar industries. The company founded by Steve Scales and Steve Hanawalt and is headquartered in Larkspur, CA.

Persona Identities, Inc. engages in the provision of identity verification solutions. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Datagration Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of data analysis, benchmarking, and internal collaboration platform for organizations. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Part of International Environmental Standards PBC, Project Canary PBC is a company that specializes in data analytics and emissions monitoring for the energy sector. The company is based in Denver, CO. Project Canary PBC was acquired by Independent Energy Standards Corp. on August 05, 2020. The company's services include MRV, source attribution, total site emissions, and climate attribute data. The company provides ESG data analytics and monitoring for emission-intensive companies through their Project Canary Sense platform and TrustWell by SaaS emissions tracking. The company was founded by Christopher Romer, Anna Scott, and William Foiles, with Christopher Romer serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Carbon Direct LLC provides scientific advisory services and investment capital to the carbon removal and utilization ecosystem. The American company's advisory business works for clients to fulfill their carbon removal and utilization commitments, while its investment business makes direct investments into leading carbon removal and utilization companies. Carbon Direct was founded in 2019 by Jonathan Goldberg and has offices in an undisclosed location. Jonathan Goldberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Denham Sustainable Performance Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company. It aims to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ripple Labs, Inc. engages in the development of virtual currency and open source payments systems. The firm offers blockchain technology for payments. The company was founded by Christopher A. Larsen, Arthur Britto, and Jed Mccaleb on December 21, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.