Shawn C. Lese

The Urban Land Institute operates as a non-commercial research organization. It provides leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. The company was founded on December 14, 1936 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Nuveen LLC provides investment services. It provides its services to institutional investors, intermediaries, plan sponsors, investment and pension consultants, financial advisors, and individual investors. The invests in public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nuveen Real Estate Ltd. provides rela estate services. The company was founded on June 11, 2013 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Atavium, Inc. provides data management and storage services. The company was founded by Ed Fiore, Mark Bakke, Mike Klemm and Marc Olin on April 28, 2017 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors provides professional excellence in its membership through education, accreditation, publication, and other services. The non-profit company is based in London, UK, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. Justin Young has been the CEO of the British company since 2023.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

myCFO, Inc. provides wealth planning and investment management services. The private company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company was founded by James H. Clark.

Betterment Holdings, Inc. provides financial, technology, trading, law, and marketing services. It offers financial planning, retirement, IRAS, Trusts, and tax loss harvesting. The company was founded by Eli David Broverman and Jonathan Babcock Stein in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Happy Money, Inc. provides online debt settlement services. It offers a free, web-based service that allows consumers to view all of their financial information in one place. The firm encourages users to set personal financial goals, and offers motivational strategies and rewards when they make progress. It also offers a social platform that helps users manage their way out of debt. The company was founded by Ralph S. Saunders III and Eden Warner in 2009 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

Apex Technology Acquisition Corp. II is a blank-check company. It aims to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 6, 2021 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

AvePoint, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise-class management, governance, and compliance software solutions for next-generation social collaboration platforms. The firm offers citizen services, backup and data protection, operations management and control, storage optimization and management, and governance automation. The company was founded by Xun Kai Gong and Tian Yi Jiang in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Janrain, Inc. provides customer identity management technology services. It offers a customer identity management platform that helps companies to build a unified view of their customers across all devices by collecting accurate customer profile data to power personalized marketing. Its platform includes social login, registration, customer profile data storage, customer insights, single sign-on, and user-generated content. The firm serves consumer brands, entertainment, insurance, media, nonprofit and education, retail, and technology customers. The company was founded by Larry Drebes in 2002 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Webtrends, Inc. offers web analytics and online marketing solutions. The firm is a customer intelligence company that turns online and offline data into understanding, which help organizations, realize a competitive advantage by providing insight-driven optimization of their digital channels. Its products and solutions enable web-smart organizations to optimize their digital marketing programs from visitor acquisition to customer retention. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

EarthLink LLC provides Internet services. It empowers customers with managed information technology services including cloud computing, data centers, virtualization, security, applications and support services, in addition to nationwide data and voice IP services. The company was founded by Sky D. Dayton in February 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Mindflash Technologies, Inc. develops learning management solutions for employee and customer training. Its platform allows companies to share knowledge and train employees. The firm also offers learning courses that automotive product and service retailers can take. The company was founded by Donna C. Wells in 1999 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Total Expert, Inc. provides software as service solutions to the real estate vertical. Its solutions include CRM, marketing, c0marketing and compliance. The firm services industries include banking, credit unions, mortgage lending and, wealth managemnt The company was founded by Joe Welu in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Rally Ventures Management LLC (Rally Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Charles D. Beeler and Jeff James Hinck. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Brainyak, Inc. provides an online agile market research solution. The company was founded by Matthew Warta on March 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Cyneta Networks, Inc. provides wireless internet network infrastructure services. It focuses on delivering products and solutions to service providers that optimize wireless IP communications in substantial ways. The company was founded by Jogen Pathak and Shridhar Krishnamurthy in January 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

HiveIO, Inc. provides public cloud solutions with the security control and governance of the private cloud for enterprises and SMB customers. Its products include software infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual server. The company was founded by Joe Makoid, Ofer Bezalel, and Kevin McNamara and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Foodsby, Inc. operates as an online platform that enables restaurants to deliver food or lunch to offices. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta, Kansas City and Charlotte. The company was founded by Parag Shah and Ben Cattoor in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Cloud Elements, Inc. provides cloud application program interface (API) integration platform. Its platform enables developers to publish, integrate, aggregate, and manage all of APIs through a unified platform. The company was founded by Vineet Joshi, Gary Gaessler, Atul Barve, and Mark W. Geene in October 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Crowdstreet Opportunity Zone Portfolio LLC provides investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Right Team, Inc. engages in the development and operations of resourcing, forecasting, and analytics platform for digital agencies and software consultancies. The company is headquartered in Edina, MN.

SyncApp, Inc. provides an open messaging platform. Its product, Snycapp, offers exchange of real time structured data and controls visibilty and privacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.