Richard Baier

Nebraska Book Co., Inc. engages in the development and distribution of textbooks, digital books, and book rental programs. Its services and solutions include PrismRBS, college store design, campus store design, and campus advisory services. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Invest Nebraska Corp (Invest Nebraska) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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.

Altaba, Inc. (Investment Company) (Altaba-IC) is the investment management arm of Altaba, Inc. (NASDAQ: AABA), an independent, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company headquartered in New York. The firm was founded in 2017 from the remains of Yahoo! Inc. after Verizon acquired Yahoo's Internet business.

ESS, Inc. is a company that provides sustainable, long-duration energy storage solutions to accelerate decarbonization. The company is based in Wilsonville, OR. The company's technology uses earth-abundant iron, salt, and water to deliver environmentally safe solutions capable of providing up to 12 hours of flexible energy capacity for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications. ESS was founded in 2011 by Julia Song, Craig E. Evans. Eric P. Dresselhuys has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Materials & Machines Corp. provides genetic analysis products to ranches, veterinary offices, and consumers worldwide. The private company is based in Lincoln, NE. The company's products include the BCHF Genotyping System, which detects risks for Bovine Congestive Heart Failure, the Beta Casein Genotyping System, which tests for A2 Beta Casein, and the PRRS Test Kit, which provides accurate on-site population detection. MatMaCorp also offers DNA and RNA isolation kits that can be used in a lab or field environment. The company can create and manufacture custom tests to customer specifications using their in-house technology.

V2Verify is a voice biometric platform that offers simple and secure authentication to protect the world's data. The company is based in Omaha, NE and was founded by Damian de Rozairo, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company helps banks, fintechs, and healthcare companies to improve user security without degrading the customer experience. V2Verify's user authentication solution streamlines validating a patient's identity and data, ensuring that the patient has complete control over who and when their data is accessed.

Brigantine Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on March 1, 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mistico Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank company. Its objective is effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination. The company was founded on March 1, 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Newfold Digital, Inc. provides website hosting, domains, and online services. It offers an array of online services to small- and medium-sized businesses. The firm offers brands, such as Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, BigRock, and SiteBuilder. The company was founded on December 9, 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bio Nebraska Life Sciences Association is a non profit organization dedicated to the development and growth of Nebraska’s bioscience industry. It supports basic research in the life sciences; aides in the development of a highly educated work force; and provides a welcoming environment for attracting new and expanding businesses. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.