Steve Waters

Founded in 2005, Thinktiv Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Austin, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of Thinktiv, Inc.

Founded in 2005, B-Side Entertainment represents the future of film distribution. Like Billy Wilder, they believe the audience is never wrong. That’s why they’ve built a new model for discovering and distributing films that starts with the audience.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

RightNow Technologies, Inc. provides customer relationship management software and services. The company offers RightNow CX, a customer experience suite for consumer-centric organizations to enable interactions across Web, social, and contact center touch points. Its RightNow CX suite includes RightNow Web Experience, which integrates into an existing Web infrastructure to provide an online customer experience providing customer access to Web self-service; RightNow Social Experience that enables organizations to listen and respond to conversations with their consumers on the social Web and to build branded communities to cultivate their own conversations; RightNow Contact Center Experience, which enables organizations to deliver consistent customer experiences across multi-channel interactions; RightNow Engage, which provides horizontal service, sales, and marketing business processes that support, span, and inter-connect the Web, social, and contact center experiences; RightNow CX Cloud Platform that provides a platform for scalability, performance, flexibility, and security; RightNow Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery platform; and RightNow CX Commitment, which describes the way to deliver a customer experience. The company also provides professional services, including project management and consulting services. It serves various industries, such as technology, public sector, retail/consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in September 1997 by Greg R. Gianforte and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

Triology manufactures electronic equipment. Its products include battery chargers, power supplies and converters, telecom battery, switchgear & switchboard apparatus, electrical panels and accessories. The company is headquartered in Auburn Hills, MI.

21st Century Software Technologies, Inc. provides storage and data management solutions. Its products include TSF disk manager, TSF tape manager, TSF HSM manager and TSF automation manager. The company was founded by Brian Tracey and Ron Higgins in 1991 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Firepond, Inc. provides computer-based sales systems. The company provides rapid ROI through improved order accuracy, improved proposal generation time and high user acceptance. The company was founded in August 2005 and is headquartered in Mankato, MN.

BetweenMarkets, Inc. develops software applications for business to business data quality management. Its services include requirements gathering, modeling, auditing, training, and customer support. The company was founded by Erik Huddleston in October 2000 and is headquartered at Houston, TX.