Nick Martineau

Upfront Ventures Management LLC (Upfront Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Steven J. Dietz and Yves B. Sisteron. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calirfornia.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Cougar Capital LLC (Cougar Capital) is a venture capital and private equity firm, a subsidiary of Brigham Young University founded in 2005 by Scott White. The firm is headquartered in Provo, Utah.

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.

University of Utah /Venture Capital/ (University Venture) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of David Eccles School of Business founded in 2001.The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sorenson Capital (Sorenson Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Fraser Bullock and Mika Ronald. The firm is headquartered in Lehi, Utah.

SpringTide Capital Management LLC (SpringTide Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Austin Walters, Daniel Lambert and Yiannis Monovoukas. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GSV Ventures Management LLC (GSV Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of GSV Asset Management LLC founded in 2016 by Moe Michael Cohn. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1969, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) Inc. is an SEC-registered brokerage firm and registered futures commission merchant located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc. (NYSE: HBC). HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) is a member of FINRA, the NYSE and the SIPC. Their securities and annuity products are provided by registered representatives and insurance agents of HSBC Securities (U.S.A.). In California, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) conducts insurance business as HSBC Securities Insurance Services. Insurance products are offered through insurance agents of HSBC Insurance Agency (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank U.S.A. NA and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company also engages in investment banking underwriting, dealing and brokering of debt and equity securities and futures contracts and is a primary dealer in U.S. Government and federal agency securities.

Kickstart Capital LLC (Kickstart Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Gavin Christensen. The firm is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.

Pelion Venture Partners (Pelion Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Jim C. Dreyfous and Joel D. Kellman. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City. Utah.

Tower Arch Capital LLC (Tower Arch Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Rhett Neuenschwander, David Parkin, Ryan Stratton and David Topham. The firm is headquartered in Draper, Utah.

Sandlot Partners LLC (Sandlot Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2020 by David Jensen and Casey Baugh. The firm is headquartered in Orem, Utah.

Morningstar, Inc. (Research) is the investment research arm of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), an American financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Joseph Mansueto in 1984 and provides independent portfolio information offering star ratings and analysis of managed funds. They also provide economic commentary and asset allocation information based on qualitative research.

Tamarak LLC (Tamarak) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Brent Hatch and Keaton Hatch. The firm is headquartered in Springville, Utah.

The Lek/Alcar Consulting Group, Inc. provides business strategy consulting services. It offers strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, and transaction services including business unit strategy, brand management, pricing, alliances and joint ventures, product development, corporate transformation, and operations design. It serves the defense, energy, health, building and construction, aerospace, media, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Andrew Kutter in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Evergreen Coast Capital Corp (Evergreen Coast Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Elliott Management Corp founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Building Hope provides students in Washington, DC, access to public charter schools. Its services include hurricane relief, facility financing program, charter school facility development, incubator space, back-office business and financial advisory services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

BV Investment Partners LLC (BV Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Roy F. Coppedge and Anthony J. Bolland. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

SIRIS Capital Group LLC (SIRIS Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Frank Baker, Peter Berger and Jeffrey Hendren. The firm is headquartered in New York, the United States.

Schola, Inc. is an educational software company. It offers Marketing for Schools, Enrollment Boosting, and School Matching for Parents. The company was founded by Jaime Martinez and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Invest Southwest is an organization that connects investors with emerging growth companies in the region. The private company is based in Phoenix, AZ. The company provides valuable information on topics important to the investment community and offer year-round opportunities for investors to connect with these companies. The company's signature event, Venture Madness, is a competition presented in partnership with the Arizona Commerce Authority where thoroughly evaluated emerging companies compete against each other to be crowned the champion of champions.

Checketts Partners Investment Management LLC (Checketts Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Sepio Capital LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm was founded in 2017 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sepio Capital Holdings LLC. Sepio Capital offers investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals, families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, businesses, institutional investors and pooled investment vehicles.

Stance, Inc. designs and manufactures socks for men, women, and kids. It offers performance, casual, artist, snow and santigold socks for men; tomboy, invisibles, boot socks and anklets for women; and everyday, artist and snow for kinds. The firm offers its products online, as well as through dealers in Brooklyn, Monrovia and San Clemente. The company was founded by Aaron Hennings, Ryan Kingman, Taylor Shupe, Richard P. Alden, Jeffrey Kearl and John Wilson in 2009 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Peterson Partners LLC (Peterson Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Joel Peterson. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

TownSquare Capital LLC (TownSquare) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Provo, Utah. The firm was founded by Kurt Brown in 2017 and was acquired by Orion Advisor Solutions, Inc. from Foundry Partners LLC in 2022. They are ultimately owned by GT Polaris Holdings LP. TownSquare offers investment advisory services to wealth advisory firms and institutions such as family offices, corporations, endowments, foundations and governments.

State Street Corp. (Fund Distributor) is a fund distributor located in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of State Street Corp. ((NYSE: STT)

Mellon Investments Corp. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon Corp.) (NYSE: BK). In 2018, two other indirect subsidiaries of BNY Mellon Corp., the Boston Company Asset Management LLC (TBCAM) and Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, merged into Mellon Capital Management Corp. and the firm was renamed BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. In 2019, BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. was renamed Mellon Investments Corp. Mellon Investments provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to both individual and institutional clients.

Sorenson Communications LLC provides communications products and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Its offerings include Sorenson video relay service, the highest-quality video interpreting service; the Sorenson ntouch VP videophone, designed especially for use by deaf individuals; ntouch PC, software that connects users to SVRS by using a PC and webcam; ntouch for Mac, software that connects users to SVRS by using an Apple computer; ntouch Tablet, which turns the Apple iPad with a front-facing camera into a larger-screen mobile VP; and ntouch mobile, an application empowering SVRS communication via mobile devices. The company was founded in March 24, 2000 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Kenzie Academy, Inc. operates technical and software coding schools. It provides Butler Kenzie joint certificates, software engineer, UX designer, and digital marketer programs. The company was founded by Leang Ooi Chok, Rehan Hasan, and Courtney Spence and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

OpenView Investments LLC (OpenView Investments) (OpenView Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Scott Maxwell. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.