Hans A. Ronnevik

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative produces and markets beet sugar. It offers sugar beet molasses, pulp pellets, and pressed pulp. The firm also markets sugar to confectioners, breakfast cereal manufacturers, bakeries, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The company was founded on August 30, 1972 and is headquartered in Wahpeton, ND.

Kionix, Inc. engages in the manufacture of inertial sensor. Its products include accelerometers, gyroscopes, 6-axis and 9-axis solutions, and sensor fusion. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

Arbor Vita Corp. engages in discovery and developing of drugs. It targets cellular regulators, PDZ proteins, to accelerate the discovery and development of human therapeutics, and diagnostics. The company was founded by Peter S. Lu in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Novariant, Inc. provides pre-eminent precision steering solutions. It offers precision steering and controls, positioning and vision sensors, human machine interface, communications, software data services and vehicle interface. The company was founded by Glen Sapilewski, Clark E. Cohen, Avi Gross, Lars G. Leckie, Kurt Zimmerman, Dave Lawrence, Gregory Gutt, Michael Eglington, Stewart Cobb, Tom Bell, Paul Montgomery and Michael O'Connor in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Part of VMware, Inc., CloudVolumes, Inc. provides real-time application delivery technologies. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Henrik Rosendahl, Matthew Conover, Matthieu Bapthiste Suiche. CloudVolumes was acquired by VMware, Inc. on August 20, 2014 for $45 million.

Clearstone Venture Management Services LLC (Clearstone Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by William Elkus. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Part of Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc., North American Special Risk Associates, Inc. is a specialized agency that provides occupational accident coverage for the transport industry. The company is based in Northbrook, IL. The company was founded by George A. Mellon. North American Special Risk Associates was acquired by HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., part of Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. from October 27, 2015 on November 27, 1996 for $34.70 million.

Intermec Technologies Corp. designs and manufactures solutions for automated data collection and mobile computing systems. The firm's products include bar code scanners, computers, applications and software. It also provides professional, support and education services and financial solutions. The company is headquartered in Everett, WA.

United Sugars Corp. markets industrial and consumer sugar. Its products include granulated, powdered, brown, and liquid sugars. The company was founded in January, 1994 and is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Quantros, Inc. provides data management and quality improvement solutions. It offers software and services for healthcare quality and safety performance. The firm’s solutions include safety and risk management, regulatory reporting management, safety Rx, licensing quantos technology, quantros patient safety center, accreditation and compliance excellence, IRIS and data assets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Greenville, SC.

The Indus Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization. It provides mentoring, networking, education and funding to entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, Minn-Dak Yeast Co., Inc. is a company that manufactures and wholesales yeast products. The company is based in Wahpeton, ND. Minn-Dak Yeast Co. was acquired by Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative on April 30, 2006 for $2.77 million.

Sandalwood Partners (Sandalwood Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2006 by Bob Kondamoori. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Midwest Agri-Commodities Co. distributes sugar beet.

Excelan, Inc. manufactures computers and related equipment. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Vish Mishra.

Prudential Life Insurance provides life insurance services. The private company is based in Newark, NJ.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an organization that works with the government to implement the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in government schools and government-aided schools in order to eliminate classroom hunger. The program has resulted in increased school attendance, enrollment, concentration, and reduced class drop-out rates. The non-profit company is based in Bangalore, India. The foundation has been dedicated to feeding nutritious meals to school children for 22 years and complies with international financial reporting standards to maintain transparency. The foundation was founded by Mohandas Tellicheery Pai after Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada witnessed children fighting with street dogs for scraps of food.

Velocita, Inc. operates a SaaS-based, social, referral and loyalty marketing platform. Its products include Refer-a-Friend, Photomonials, Customer Loyalty, Social Login, Share-a-Purchase, Get-a-Fan, Share-and-Save, Viral Offer Sharing, and Viral Flash Sale. It also offers software development and managed online marketing services. The company was founded by Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar in 2010 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Hubbard Prairie Bean Corp. is a private company that wholesales grain products. The company is based in Park Rapids, MN.

Farm Credit Services of North Dakota, ACA is an agricultural credit institution. The private company is based in North Dakota. The CEO of the American company is Gordon Hanson.

Gradient Investments LLC (GI) is an independent, privately-owned, fee-based, SEC registered investment advisor headquartered in Arden Hills, Minnesota. The firm was founded by Charles E. Lucius in 2006. GI provides professional money management services to individuals, employer-sponsored pension plans, foundations, endowments and corporations primarily through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and individual equities within separately managed accounts.

TiE Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs and executives of South Asian origin. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding programs and activities. TiE events bring together the entrepreneurial community to learn from leaders and each other. The economic value enabled through TiE's entrepreneurial endeavors is estimated to exceed over time.

North Dakota State University Development Foundation engages in the provision of educational services. It operates as a non-profit, collecting donations and raising funds in support of University operations. The company is headquartered in Fargo, ND.

Glassbeam, Inc. operates as a machine data analytics company. It serves manufactures of products such as servers, storage, networking, software, telecom and medical devices. The company was founded in 2004 by Kumar Malavalli and Puneet Pandit and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Fabric LLC (The Fabric) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Rajan Raghavan, Prabakar Sundarrajan and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The Hive LLC (The Hive) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by T.M.Ravi and Sumant Mandal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

TADA Cognitive Solutions LLC operates as a cloud-based platform which delivers business solutions. The firm serves the manufacturing, materials, insurance, healthcare, and financial services industries. The company is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Feuji, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers salesforce consulting, supply chain management, managed services, BPO services and strategic staffing. The firm’s practices include salesforce clouds implementations, app exchange development, salesforce CPQ and contracts life cycle, salesforce E-Commerce, data migration and integrations, and training and support. The company was founded by Manohar Reddy and Ruchi Bindra in 2014 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Aparna Systems, Inc. develops cloud storage and networking applications. Its µCloud and µServer products provide a high density, high performance and high availability Cloud-in-a-Box solution for edge applications ranging from hybrid cloud gateways to edge artificial intelligence applications. The firm’s products include µCloud 4015 Open Edge System and µServers. The company was founded by Sam S. Srinivasan and Alex D. Henderson on February 13, 2013 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Youplus, Inc. develops and operates a search platform. It offers Video Opinion Search Engine (VOISE). The company was founded by Shaukat Shamim and Bharat Vijay in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bluevine Ventures LLC (BlueVine Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in silicon valley, California.