Paul Botts

Portage Venture Partners LLC (Portage Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Edward Chandler and Judy Meyer. The firm is headquartered in the Northfield, Illinois.

Greater Chicago Food Depository operates as a nonprofit food distribution and food center providing food for hungry people. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to adults and children in Cook County every year. The Food Depository's programs and services for children, older adults and the unemployed and underemployed address the root causes of hunger. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Motorola (China) Technology Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. It primarily engages in software development. The company was founded in June 2004 and is headquartered in Beijing, CN.

Box of Rain Water delivers safe water for drinking and cooking. The American company was founded by John Robinson and Kevin Sofen.

Mazarine Ventures LLC (Mazarine Venture) is a venture capital firm founded by John Robinson in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Prairie Capital Management LLC (PCM) is a wealth management firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded in 1995 and was acquired by UMB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: UMBF) in 2010. PCM provides wealth management and investment consulting services to high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, family offices, foundations, endowments, and other institutions across the US through offices in the Kansas City, Chicago and Dallas metropolitan areas.

Naurex, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage company, which develops therapies. The firm offers therapies for depression and other disorders in the central nervous system based on a mechanism of action for modulating the NMDA receptor (NMDAR). It offers a line of chemical drug classes, such as glycine-site functional partial agonists, which modulate the receptor in a different way than existing NMDAR agents. The firm provides GLYX-13, an NRX-1050 small molecule series and additional compounds for treatment-resistant depression. The company was founded by Joseph R. Moskal in 2006 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Taraval Associates LLC (Taraval Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by George Murphy. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Aleri Group, Inc. develops and provides information processing software solutions. It offers market data analysis, real time trading, risk management and liquidity management system. The company was founded by Eric Sandler and Alan David Hambrook in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

ViaCyte, Inc. develops a stem cell-derived islet replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes. Its development portfolio includes VC-01 product candidate, a cell replacement therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Mandarin provides internet access services. The Italian company was founded by John Robinson.