Francis X. Speiser

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc. engages in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel carbohydrate-based products for the prevention and treatment of infectious disease. It develops a novel class of immune modulation pharmaceutical products composed of complex carbohydrates and is discovering and developing new anti-fungal diagnostics and drugs. In addition, Alpha-Beta has developed a rapid in vitro diagnostic to detect and monitor systemic fungal infections and has an anti-fungal research program to discover direct inhibitors of fungal cell wall synthesis. It is in the development stage and is devoting substantially all of its efforts toward product research and development, raising capital, marketing products under development, clinical trials and manufacturing. The Company was founded on March 2, 1988 and is headquartered in Worcester, MA.

Masthead Venture Partners LLC (Masthead Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Expo Communications, Inc. provides consumer-generated video product reviews. It distributes informative video content for digital points of purchase viewable at expotv.com, retail websites, youtube, facebook, manufacturer sites. The company was founded by Daphne Kwon and William Hildebolt in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. operates as a state chartered commercial bank. The firm provide banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and commercial financial services. It also provides cash management, digital banking, business financing, treasury management and merchant services. The company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Pictela is a global platform for distributing definition brand content. The platform reaches over 120 million consumers worldwide and supports 1 billion impressions per day. With Pictela, brands can deliver high definition video, photos, text and more. Since launching in 2009 with Disney and American Idol, Pictela has experienced rapid growth with clients across retail, CPG, automotive and entertainment categories. Pictela technology has been certified by Time Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Scripps Networks, Glam Media, Hearst, Rodale, Undertone and Thomson Reuters, among others. Pictela is based in the Flatiron District of New York City, the heart of the New York tech sector. The company is led by senior media and technology executives and backed by prominent venture capital investors.

Backupify, Inc. provides online backup solutions. Its products include google apps backup, office 365 backup, salesforce and social media backup, pricing and cloud to cloud backup. The company was founded by Vikram Chadha, Robert May and Dharmesh Shah in November 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CrowdTwist, Inc. provides omni-channel loyalty marketing and data solutions. It provides marketers with a true 360-degree view of their customers across their digital, social, mobile, and transactional channels. The firm offers a loyalty technology that is capable of aggregating cross-channel and first party data which could then be attributed back to individual customers. The company was founded by Josh Bowen, Irving Fain, Deborah A. Farrington and Michael C. Montero in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Redbooth, Inc. provides platform to share tasks, discussions, files, group chat and high definition video conferencing. It provides Teambox, a work management solution for freelancers, self-employed, small business owners, and large teams that allows individuals within and outside of an organization to work together in a social setting. The company was founded by Pablo Villalba Villar in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Avalon Ventures Management LLC (Avalon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Kevin J. Kinsella. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Fairhaven Capital Management LLC (Fairhaven Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Paul Ciriello, Jim Goldinger, Rick Grinnell, and Dan Keshian. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

New England Venture Capital Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which operates as a catalyst, and advocate, and a resource for the innovation economy. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Celtra, Inc. provides a platform for agencies, advertisement networks, and publishers to create, distribute, and measure rich media mobile display advertising across native applications and the mobile web on the device platforms. It offers AdCreator, a self-service mobile rich media platform for creating, optimizing, and tracking rich media advertising and analytics on an array of HTML 5 enabled mobile devices around the world. The company was founded by Michael Mikek, Matevz Klanjsek and Maja Mikek in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Carolus Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. It company focuses on therapeutic strategies to noninvasively monitor and disrupt proinflammatory interactions of chemokines, and prevent or reverse inflammation associated with an array of human diseases, including atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, sepsis, organ transplantation, and cancer. The company was founded by Jay Lichter, Jürgen Bernhagen, and Christian Weber in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, Inc. operates internet business and marketing association. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SocialFlow, Inc. provides social marketing optimization technology. It operates as a software company that increases the distribution of owned and earned content across social media platforms. The company was founded by Frank Speiser, Jr. and Michael Perrone in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Getabl, Inc. provides consumer-to-business texting services. It is a service that replaces the phone conversation with a universal chat utility that allows consumers to send text messages to businesses and the business to reply by text message in real-time. The company was founded by Milenko Beslic, Bryan Lennett and Mark Slater in May 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Watson Technology Group LLC provides investment services. The company was founded by Matt Watson in 2003 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Zylotech, Inc. provides self-learning customer analytical services. The company was founded by Abhi Yadav and Iqbal Kaur in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Joy Life, Inc. provides wedding website and application. Its website and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colours and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information and send messages. The company was founded by Michael Dorian Bach, Vishal Joshi and Kaiwalya Kher in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Glasswing Ventures LLC (Glasswing Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Rudina Seseri and Rick Grinnell. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CHAOSSEARCH, Inc. operates as a cloud-based service for storing, searching, querying, and visualizing historical log and event data. Its features include SaaS, S3 data fabric, data management, data refinery, live data pipelines, API extensions and kibana integration. The company was founded by David Noblet, Thomas Hazel and Les Yetton in 2017 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

JDRF T1D Fund (JDRF T1D Fund) is a venture capital subsidiary of JDRF International founded in 2011 by Sean Doherty. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Autit LLC provides software that allows manufacturing companies to optimize the inventory and procurement of indirect MRO parts in their facilities. Its solutions include manufacturing, suppliers and distributors. The company was founded by Paul J. Noble and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Inrupt, Inc. is a company that produces and supports a production-grade solid pod server and software. The company is based in New Castle, DE. The company's solutions are designed to help governments and enterprises drive the next era of the web by reconnecting data to the people they are trying to serve. Inrupt's team of experts and visionaries has helped craft solid-based solutions in verticals such as healthcare, finance, telecommunications, government, and media. The company was founded by Tim Berners-Lee and John W. Bruce, with John W. Bruce serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Plannuh, Inc. is a cloud-based system for building and managing marketing plans and budgets. Its services include marketing plan and budget assessment, quarterly health check, and Plannuh admin and user training. The company was founded by Peter Mahoney in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cloudtruth, Inc. provides development of cloud based services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Glasswing Ventures Special Opportunities Fund LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the field of artificial intelligence, enterprise saas, frontier technologies and cyber security. It provides financing for pre seed, seed and early stage capital requirements.

Glasswing Ventures Inr LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the field of artificial intelligence, enterprise saas, frontier technologies and cyber security. It provides financing for pre seed, seed and early stage capital requirements.

Kinvey LLC provides a Backend as a Services platform for mobile apps. The firm offers Kinvey that enables developers and IT with the next generation platform for delivering enterprise applications; and mBaaS, a mobile health solution for healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical/biotech and life sciences companies for its mobile and responsive web applications. The company was founded by Sravish Sridhar and Morgan Bickle in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.