Colin Sharp

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

Butler Manufacturing Co. produces and markets building systems and components for nonresidential structures. It designs, manufactures and markets metal building systems for commercial construction. The firm provides its services to commercial, community, industrial and agricultural markets. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides technical and scientific research services. The firm performs basic and applied research in principal areas such as neutron science, energy, supercomputing, advanced materials and national security. It also has research programs in nuclear and atomic physics, nuclear fusion, and microscopy. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN.

Ankyra Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The National Academies of Sciences provides advisory services in the areas of science, technology, and health policy.

Flex Logix Technologies, Inc. provides software services. Its products include embedded FPGA, SOC applications and EFLX compiler. The company was founded by Cheng Wang, Fang-Li Yuan and Geoffrey Tate in March 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

AppDirect, Inc. develops end-to-end commerce platform for selling, distributing, and managing cloud-based products and services. It offers AppMarket, AppReseller, AppBilling, and AppDistribution. The company was founded by Nicolas Desmarais, Andy Sen, and Daniel H. Saks in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Oklo, Inc. constructs reactor and distributes power. The company was founded by Jacob DeWitte and Caroline Cochran and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Helion Energy, Inc. manufactures power generation technology. It develops power plants that would produce electricity by running a nuclear-fusion reaction whereby atoms merge at extremely high temperatures. The company was founded by David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl and George Votroubek in 2009 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

BlackSky Global LLC develops satellite-imaging-as-a-service software. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon provides health insurance services. The firm provides life, disability and short term medical insurance services to members in Idaho, Utah and Washington. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

v2 Ventures Group LLC provides on-line advertising services. It offers ad formats, data analysis, targeting algorithms and creative approaches, providing advertisers with leads from hard-to-reach places on the web across multiple channels, including social networks, display, games, mobile, apps and email. The company was founded by David E. Zinman, Thi Thumasathit and Scott W. Lynn in 1999 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Part of Grey Orange Pte Ltd., Grey Orange International, Inc. is a company that provides technology related services. The company is based in Roswell, GA. The CEO of the company is Samay Kohli.

Mithril Capital Management LLC (Mithril Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Peter Andreas Thiel and Ajay Royan. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions provides pay-per-click advertising solutions. The company was founded by Bill Gross in 1996 and is headquartered in Burbank, CA.

Atomico (UK) Partners LLP (Atomico (UK) Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Mattias Ljungman and Niklas Mårten Zennström. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kinghdom with additional offices in Sau Paulo and New York.

Bohemian Wrappsody AB develops application that gives rewards to customer whenever they use their credit card. It engages in marketing solutions via customers’ transaction data. The firm operates an online platform that offers a way to target customer based on actual purchase behavior or individual transaction data. The company was founded by Leo Michele Giertz, Andreas Olof Ehn, Folke Hjalmar Birgersson Winbladh, Aurore Belfrage, Karl-Aage Reerslev, Carl Gustav Fritjofsson, Mans Fabian Månsson, and Magnus Oiof Lorentz Hultby in 2011 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Founded in 1985, Part of Bain & Co., Inc., Bain & Co., Inc. (London) is a British company that provides management consultancy services. The company is based in London, UK.

OST.com Ltd. develops meta-blockchains and scales Ethereum applications. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The Chinese company was founded in 2017 by Benjamin Bollen, Jason Goldberg, Chris Dark, Sunil Khedar.

OpenST Ltd. is a non-profiy organization, which engages in the provision of support for the community and ecosystem. It offers OpenST Protocol, it enables building scalable block chain token economies through the transposition of tokens via gateways between Ethereum and utility block chains. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Avitide, Inc. develops affinity purification solutions. Its technology enables development of chromatography resins via chemical synthesis which are not based on costly recombinant proteins. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson, Warren Kett, Tillman U. Gerngross, Kevin Isett and Jonathan Sheller in 2012 and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

DoubleDutch, Inc. develops mobile engagement applications for events, conferences, and trade shows. It offers platform, integrations, security, and live engagement marketing. The company was founded by Lawrence Stockton Coburn, Mathew Spolin, and Pankaj Prasad in January 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Thiel Foundation awards grants to groups that empower people to improve their lives, champions organizations and individuals who expose human rights abuses and authoritarianism. It programs include The Thiel Fellowship, Breakout Labs and Imitatio. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SilverRail Technologies, Inc. provides technology solutions for the distribution of train tickets and other rail-related products. It offers SilverCore, a global rail distribution platform that brings railways and travel retailers together. The firm also offers SilverAPI that provides end-to-end booking services that comprise search, book, cancel, payment, and ticketing, SilverAgent Lite, a Web-based application that delivers travel management companies’ access to live reservations made through its online booking tool partners, and SilverAgent Pro, a Web-based application for travel professionals that provide staff with a Web interface to search, book, pay, ticket, and modify company global rail content. The company was founded by Aaron M. Gowell and William D. Phillipson in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Adimab LLC provides human therapeutic antibodies. The firm has discovered antibodies for a wide variety of therapeutic targets within many disease areas, including oncology, immunomodulation, inflammation, neuroscience and pain, cardiovascular and metabolic disease and infectious disease. The company was founded in 2007 by Tillman Gerngross, Dane Wittrup and Errik Anderson and is headquartered in Lebanon, NH.

Auris Health, Inc. develops robotics technology for medical applications. The company was founded by Frederic H. Moll, Hariharan Sundram and Christopher J. P. Velis and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Blacksky Holdings, Inc. provides integrated space products and services. The firm offers satellite design, rideshare launch management, global communications networking, and a geospatial intelligence service to support a new era of global awareness. The company was founded by Jason Andrews and Marian S. Joh in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment LLC owns and operates theme parks. It is the owner and operator of the Sea World and Busch Gardens theme parks and has a portfolio of 10 parks across the U.S. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Adknowledge, Inc. operates as an advertising network for social media. The company is based in Kansas City, MO.

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Ltd. (FMR Japan) is the wholly-owned Japanese investment management subsidiary of Fidelity Management & Research Co., ultimately held by FMR LLC in the US. Headquartered in Tokyo, FMR Japan provides investment advisory and discretionary investment management services to investment companies in the Fidelity family of mutual funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers.

Iinu Ltd. is a British company founded in 2017 that offers Jelly, an all-in-one kitchen management app. The company is based in London, UK. The app is designed to be easy to use and is built specifically for kitchens. Users can sign up for a free trial.

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.