Jason I. Hong

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. designs, engineers, markets and supports network test systems. Its broadband products and solutions enable communication service providers to manage their networks efficiently in an age of continually evolving technology, and ongoing pressure to reduce costs. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Cranberry Township, PA.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Carnegie Speech Co., Inc. is a developer of software for assessing and teaching spoken language skills. It provides language training products, speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and instructions . The company was founded by Jaime Carbonnel in 2001 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

MS Wind Down, Inc. provides personalization solutions for web content, advertising and product recommendations. The company was founded by Dean Thompson, Sean Ammirati and Dave Mawhinney in June 2006 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Brainstage, Inc. provides technologies for healthcare and drug development. It acquires, develops, aggregates, and commercializes technologies within the healthcare field. The company was founded by Anthony A. Florence Jr. and Donald Doherty in 2007 and is headquartered in Carnegie, PA.

Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PEP) is a venture capital subsidiary of Robinson & Engler LLC founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

Voci Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of voice data applications. Its products include speech to text and data security. It serves the following industries: insurance, finance, business process outsourcing (BPO), and healthcare. The company was founded by Anthony J. Gadient, John Kominek, Edward Lin and Rob A. Rutenbar in 2008 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Gigapan Systems LLC manufactures and sells photographic equipment. The private company is based in Portland, OR.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

TriSixty Security, Inc. provides enterprise security solutions. It specializes in endpoint security, hardware-defined security parameter, IDS-intrusion detection, IPS-intrusion protection, forensics, compliance, and remote management. The company is headquartered Denver, CO.

PassGo Technologies Ltd. offers network security software solutions including user verification tokens, password and session management technology. It focuses on developing and marketing web access control solutions. The company also offers design, implementation, security analysis, and training services. The company's products include Defender, Webthority, PassGo SSO, PassGo InSync, UNIX Privilege Manager, and UNIX Resource Manager. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Ilminster, UK.

Linksys Group, Inc. develops wireless, broadband and LAN networking solutions. The firm provides VoIP, wireless and Ethernet networking for home, small office, home office and small business users. It specializes in products and solutions that provide economical sharing of broadband internet connections, files, printers, digital music, videos, photos and gaming over a wired and wireless network. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Ericsson, Inc. develops and markets wireless infrastructure equipment. Its products include antennas, transmitters, switching systems and other gears used to build wireless networks. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Innovation Works, Inc. (Innovation Works) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Ben Franklin Technology Partners founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

WISDOM Technologies Corp provides software solutions. It also sells accounting & finance software. Its software allows CFOs to calculate and simulate various financial scenarios to evaluating financial, and investment decisions. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. provides legal and advocacy services. It offers free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies. The company was founded by John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore in July 1990 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Carnegie Learning, Inc. provides transformational mathematics education products and services. It offers research-proven mathematics software, textbooks, professional learning, and data analysis services for middle, high school, and college students. The company was founded by Kenneth R. Koedinger, John Anderson, Albert Corbett, William Hadley, and Steven Ritter and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of Cornhill Corp. LLP, Marconi Communications, Inc. is a company based in Warrendale, PA.

AT&T Laboratories is the research & development division. The company was founded by Graham B. Alexander and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Summa VentureWorks LLC (Summa VentureWorks) is an venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Ed R Engler. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh.

Summa Technologies, Inc. provides information technology consulting, custom software development and integration and content management. The firm specializes in application modernization, decision management, systems integration, cloud computing, and mobile applications. Its services include strategy and experience design, architect and build, agile transformation, and sales force consulting. The company was founded by Edward R. Engler and Pedro Barelli in 1996 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

JumpStart Wireless Corp. provides wireless data entry services. It builds customized enterprise mobile applications to optimize daily reports and reporting systems. The firm automates the field staff's paperwork including: work orders, time cards, daily reports, punch lists, inspections, sales orders, etc. The company was founded by Jeffrey Bonar in 2000 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

MobileCause, Inc. provides mobile and online fundraising solutions. It offers donor communication and campaign marketing; live and digital fundraising events; online giving and donor engagement; crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising; and credit card processing and merchant services. The company was founded by Daniel Scalisi and is headquartered in Calabasas, CA.

Zipano Technologies, Inc. develops user-controllable privacy technologies. The firm offers Locaccino, a Facebook application that enables users to restrict access to their location based on the day of the week, the time of the day, or where they are when someone is looking for them. The company was founded by Norman M. Sadeh-Koniecpol and Ziv Baum in 2009 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

TekMethods, LLC provides asset management services. The firm offers physical inventory, continual service improvement and tool selection assistance. The company was founded by Lori Sechio in 2000 and is headquartered in Sarasota, FL.

Radiate Media LLC provides traffic reporting services and sells advertising on radio and television stations. The firm offers hyper-local content, traffic information, advertising, and interactive marketplace solutions to television, radio, and print media partners. It provides merchants and national advertisers with an advertising platform to connect them with consumers. The company collects and disseminates traffic information in audio and video formats. It analyzes real-time data from road sensors, traffic cameras, and official accident and incident reports. The company was founded by Christopher M. Rothey and Miles Romney in 2011 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

MomentFeed, Inc. develops location based analytics and campaign management platform for global brands and enterprise marketers. It's solutions include paid media, search and discovery, social media, and customer experience platform. The company was founded by Robert David Reed in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

HackEDU, Inc. provides interactive secure coding training online to help software developers lower the risk of vulnerabilities in code. The company is based in Santa Monica, CA and has subsidiaries in United States. The company's offensive + defensive lessons, science-based approach, and devsecops toolchain integrations help to motivate developers, keep them engaged, and learn and retain secure coding principles effectively. HackEDU's training helps developers improve their ability to write secure software, boost their understanding of how software systems are hacked, and decrease the time to solve security related problems. In addition, their training helps meet PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HISTRUST, ISO, and NIST compliance requirements. Security teams turn to HackEDU to help them "shift left" and be more proactive in reducing vulnerabilities in software. The company was founded by Matt Koskela, Jared Ablon. Joseph A. Ferrara has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Honeycomb Credit, Inc. engages in the provision of financial technology services. It provides crowdfunded loan services to local businesses. The company was founded by George Cook and Ken Martin in December 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.