Ian Sugarman

Singularity Education Group provides education services. The company was founded by Peter H. Diamandis and Raymond C. Kurzweil in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. develops social payment solutions for point-of-sale services, mobile orders, and peer payments. The American company was founded in 2021 by Thomas Lapham, Jim Castillo, and Jake Stone. Thomas Lapham has been the CEO since 2021.

The Riveter, Inc. engages in developing, constructs, leases and operates co-working office space for working women. It empowers women, professionally and personally, through events that celebrate and connect its members. The company was founded by Amy Nelson and Kim Peltola in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Soda Media, Inc. is a private company based in Redmond, WA. Soda Media, Inc. was founded by Anthony Bontrager.

Qorus Software, Inc. offers document automation software solutions. The firm offers Qorus DocGeneration, a solution that adds document automation features to Microsoft SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint for the automatic or manual creation of customized client documents; and enables users to customize and generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, such as sales proposals and presentations, financial reports, contracts, and advisory reports. Its solutions include proposal & RFP management, pitch and experience management, accelerate sales and marketing and document generation. The company was founded by Raynard Stephen Meiring, Lee John Child and Stephanie Laurent in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

JJT, Inc. provides digital imaging and database system sale services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Tagboard, Inc. provides social media software. It is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. The company was founded by Jenni Hogan, Josh Decker, Tim Shimotakahara and Sean Sperte in 2011 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Eta Kappa Nu owns and operates a non-profit public-service organization. It operates as a electrical and computer engineering honor society of the IEEE. The company was founded by Maurice L. Carr in 1904 and is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ.

Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC (Energy Innovation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jeffrey Clark. The firm is headquartered in Orinda, California.

PTO, Inc. engages in the development and operation of software platform for education. Its platform enables employees to personalize workplace benefits by converting unused paid time off to tangible goods and services such as vacations, retirement funding, student loan debt payments, and charitable donations. The company was founded by Robert Whalen and Todd Lucas and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

Igneous Systems, Inc. provides unstructured data management as-a-service solution. Its products include DataProtect, DataDiscover and DataFlow. The firm’s business includes both the raw boxes of hard drives a business buys to store data and the software needed to manage it. It also provides cloud infrastructure to change the enterprise landscape. The company was founded by Kiran Bhageshpur, Byron Rakitzis and Jeff Hughes in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Wicket Labs, Inc. engages in the development of audience insights platform for media and entertainment companies. The company was founded by Ian Blaine, Eric Knutson, and Marty Roberts in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

TableSafe, Inc. designs, builds and sells hardware and software products to eliminate credit and debit card information theft. The firm specializes in secure pay at the table transactions, marketing and guest communication opportunities, increased wait staff efficiency, custom applications, back of house labor and hard cost savings and faster table turns. The company was founded by Pope Andrew and Joseph Snell in 2010 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Voyager Capital LLC (Voyager Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Enrique Godreau, William H. McAleer and Tony Audino. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Acumatica, Inc. develops cloud accounting software and enterprise resource planning solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Its product includes acumatica cloud ERP, extension catalog, and acumatica xRP. The firm offers services to retail and ecommerce, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and software and technology. The company was founded by Mikhail Chtchelkonogov, Serguei Beloussov, and John S. Howell, Jr. in 2008 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Boys & Girls Clubs of King County is a non-profit organization that provides innovative and culturally responsive programs to empower youth to excel in school, become engaged leaders, and lead healthy, productive lives. The American company offers hundreds of programs throughout the greater Seattle area for every child and teen. The organization prioritizes the safety of their youth members and has youth development experts trained in social-emotional learning and trauma-informed care. The private company has innovative safety policies that protect the physical and emotional well-being of young people. Boys & Girls Clubs of King County creates youth-centric club experiences through culturally relevant, inclusive, and diverse programming. The company offers core programming for preschool, elementary, youth before & after school programs, youth summer programs, teens & young adults, athletics, and youthforce teen jobs.

Liquor Laboratory operates as a liquor laboratory. The private company is based in Redmond, WA and has subsidiaries in Canada.

The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) is a research organization that helps technology companies achieve profitable growth and overcome their top business challenges. With a membership community of over 40,000 executives from 96 countries, TSIA represents 80% of the Fortune 100 technology companies. TSIA provides world-class business frameworks, best practices, performance benchmarking, peer networking opportunities, and certification and awards programs to technology services organizations of all sizes. The organization serves four major markets: enterprise IT and telecom, consumer technology, healthcare and healthcare IT, and industrial equipment and technology.

She Community AS provides events, information, and business consulting services.

Included, Inc. develops diversity, equity, and inclusion analytics technologies. The American company was founded by Raghu Gollamudi, Chandan Golla, and Laura Close, with Raghu Gollamudi serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Open Systems AG engages in the provision of development and consulting services in the fields of telecommunications and information technology. It operates as a managed security services provider, which offers services and solutions focusing on data security, network traffic usage visibility, bandwidth management, cloud enablement, cyber risk mitigation, and advanced threat protection. The company was founded on October 6, 1999 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

WRG Energy Innovation LLC seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund provides financing for seed stage, early stage, later stage and expansion capital requirements.

Nerdio, Inc. engages in could computing design, deployment and optimization services. The company was founded by Vadim Vladimirskiy in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Women in Technology (WIT) is a non-profit organization with over 18,000 members worldwide, including more than 1,000 members in the local area. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The organization provides leadership development, technology education, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers and for girls interested in STEM. WIT aims to make the state with the highest percentage of women in the STEM workforce by partnering with the community to provide opportunities that champion women throughout their education and career. The company was founded by Gavriella Schuster, Deborah Gore Cassidy.