Andrew Johnson

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.

SportsEngine, Inc. engages in the provision of sports technology and media platform. The firm represents soccer, football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, rugby, softball, baseball, wrestling, and volleyball. It offers registration software, sports websites, league, member and team management solutions. The company was founded by Justin Kaufenberg, Carson Kipfer and Greg Blasko in 2008 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

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.

CrowdStreet, Inc. provides a crowd funding marketplace, which connects investors with institutional-grade real estate investments. It offers CrowdStreet, a cloud-based fundraising and investor relationship management platform that enables real estate operators, funds and private equity companies to raise capital and manage relationships with new and existing investors. The company was founded by Tore C. Steen and Darren Powderly in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

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.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

EDV Management Co (El Dorado Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Kalbach. The firm is headquartered in in Menlo Park, California.

The University of St. Thomas is an institution that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The private company is based in St. Paul, MN. It offers over 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as graduate programs in various fields such as business, engineering, law, education, social work, and arts and humanities. The University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 by John Ireland.

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.

Contactually, Inc. develops Web-based customer relationship management software and contact management solutions. Its solutions provide teams with insights and analytics from the team dashboard and summary of a team's activity, connect personal buckets to team buckets so that contact records are up-to-date, facilitate to assign contacts to team members and allow to create shared team buckets and link personal ones. The firm's solutions also allow individuals to focus on right contacts, follow up consistently, find business opportunities in their network and work across their team. The company was founded by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella in October 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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.

Bugcrowd, Inc. provides crowdsourced security for mobile applications. It offers security testing solutions for Web applications, APIs and Webservices, SaaS applications, various types of Websites, and customer premise products; mobile apps, such as iOS, Android, and more; and charities and not-for-profits. The firm provides security testing solutions through a Crowdcontrol system. The company was founded by Casey Ellis, Sergei Belokamen and Chris Raethke in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AnyRoad, Inc. provides an online platform that connects tourists and professional tour guides. It is a curated marketplace for niche and specialized tours around the world. The firm's online platform connects local and independent tour guides with tourists from around the world while benefitting the local community. The company was founded by Jonathan Yaffe and Daniel Yaffe in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

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.

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.

Kaleidoscope Group PBC engages in designing, building and administering scholarship programs on its cloud software platform. It helps visionary organizations and advocates fund the next generation of leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, coaches, and doctors. The company was founded by Gregory A. Dehn in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

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.

Zingtree, Inc. provides incident management automation and integrates with over 30 tools including PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, and Google Docs. The company is based in Larkspur, CA and was founded in 2014 by Bill Dettering, Thomas Mayes. The company offers a no-code product selector, quote generator, and knowledge base builder to help customers deflect tickets and improve customer satisfaction. Zingtree also provides insurance quote software and benefits administration tools for insurance agents. The company's interactive decision trees guide agents through every call and step of the way, improving call compliance, reducing wait times, and speeding up agent training. Zingtree integrates with any CRM or help desk, including Salesforce, Zendesk, and Freshdesk, and offers competitive pricing options suitable for startups to enterprise organizations. Juan Jaysingh has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Negotiatus Corp. engages in the development of a purchasing software. It offers one cart to place orders, one dashboard to control and analyze spend, and one invoice across the vendors a business purchases from. The company was founded by Zachary Garippa and Thomas Jaklitsch in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J Weber, Robert J Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

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.

Bbot, Inc. offers a configurable solution for restaurants, bars, hotels, cinemas, and other hospitality organizations to create digital menus. The company was founded by Steve Simoni, Luke Allen and Greg Jaworski and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

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.

Justifi Technologies, Inc. provides end-to-end embedded payments and finance solutions for vertical SaaS platforms. Justifi Technologies is based in St. Paul, MN, and the CEO of the company is Joe Keeley. The company accelerates the potential of these platforms through payments and embedded fintech, allowing them to participate in the economics of funds flow. Justifi's payments API was built specifically for platforms to maximize monetization opportunities while achieving the lowest costs. The company also offers embedded finance solutions such as lending, instant payouts, card issuing, and insurance offerings.

Vertical Insure, Inc. is an embedded insurance platform designed for vertical SaaS platforms. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN and has subsidiaries in the United States and Canada. The company provides tailored insurance options that are fully customized for each business and its customers, resulting in increased value and revenue without any additional overhead. The company was founded by Brock Noland, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Kyros Care Pbc provides technology solutions. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN. The CEO of the company is Daniel Larson.