Joel Whitley

Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce offers a Chamber Welcome Series to help members make the most of their membership. The Chamber is based in Denver, CO and is a leading business voice in the area. Members can participate in an in-depth look at the Chamber's offerings alongside a cohort of other members. The Chamber also hosts a quarterly All-Programs Mixer, a happy hour event for members in one or more of the Chamber's engagement programs.

Mission Engine LLC (MissionOG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Kevin O’nell, Eugene Lockhart, George Krautzel, Andrew Kese and Andy Newcomb. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Settlement Funding LLC provides factoring services. The firm, through its group of affiliated companies, purchases deferred payment obligations, structured legal settlements, annuity payments, lottery prize payments, sweepstakes awards, life insurance policies, tobacco transition payments, and sports contract payments. The company was founded by Timothy J. Trankina and James D. Terlizzi in 1996 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

The Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, also known as the IPA, is a trade organization that represents the electronic payments sector. The private company is based in Sherborn, MA and was founded by Andy L. Newcomb. The company's focus is on prepaid products, mobile wallets, and person-to-person (P2P) technology for consumers, businesses, and governments.

Downing Ventures (Downing Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in London.

United Way of Central Indiana, Inc. provides social services. The firm specializes in health, financial stability, community impact, live united, basic needs and connecting resources. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Gelest Intermediate Holdings, Inc. manufactures and provides silane. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gelest, Inc. manufactures and supplies organo-silicon and metal-organic materials. Its products include silanes and silicon, geranium and tin compounds, biosafe antimicrobials, personal care, specialty polyethers and olefins, and special packaging. It offers technical development and application support for microelectronics, metallization and dielectrics, diagnostics and separation science, specialty polymeric materials, pharmaceutical synthesis, medical materials, and personal care. The company was founded by Barry Arkles and Kevin King in 1991 and is headquartered in Morrisville, PA.

Eight Roads Capital Advisors (UK) Ltd (Eight Roads Capital Advisors) is a venture capital subsidiary of FIL Ltd. founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in London.

Foresight Group CI Ltd. operates as an infrastructure and private equity investment manager. The company is headquartered in Saint Peter Port, the United Kingdom.

Part of Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc., Oliver Wyman & Co. is a French company that provides business and management consulting services. The company is based in Paris, France.

Deloitte LLP (New York) engages in the provision of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory solutions. It offers services relating to tax, consulting, audit and assurance, Deloitte private company services, mergers and acquisitions, risk and financial advisory, analytics, and cloud. The company was founded by William Welch Deloitte, George A. Touche, Charles Waldo Haskins, and Elijah Watt Sells in 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Red Bison Technology Group LLC offers broadband solutions powered by smart building technology. The company was founded by William Arthur Owens and Juan O. Alfonso in 2014 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Ayar Labs, Inc. develops connectivity solutions. It offers teraphy silicon chips, supernova light supplies, and system reference designs that break barriers in moving data with electronic-photonic integrated circuits. The company was founded by Alex Wrigjht-Gladstein, Mark Wade, Chen Sun, Vladimir Stojanovic, Milos Popovic and Rajeev Ram and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Gyft, Inc. develops a gift card platform for consumers and retailers. The firm enables customers to upload, buy and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. Its customers can ditch the plastic and use their mobile device to store, send and redeem cards. The company was founded by Vinny Linghamv, C. J. MacDonald and Mark Levitt in January 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Cell Capital Partners LLP (Cell Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Foresight Group LLP (Foresight Group) is a private equity subsidiary of Foresight Group CI Ltd founded in 1984 by Bernard William Fairman. The firm is headquartered in London.

Next47 Services GmbH (Next47, fka Siemens Venture Capital GmbH) is the venture capital unit of Siemens AG (FR: SIE; NYSE: SI), a global electronics and engineering company based in Germany. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Munich, with additional offices around the world.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Florence Health, Inc. aims to bridge the gap between clinical practice and its impact on the financial health of an organization. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2022 by Satish K. Tadikonda. The company provides daily newsletters called "The Nursing Beat" that offer specific, concise, and helpful insights to improve patient care. Additionally, Florence Health specializes in senior living and caters to the evolving needs of the industry. Tamara AL-Yassin has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

NovaTract Surgical, Inc. manufactures and develops laparoscopic medical devices. It offers NovaTract, a laparoscopic retractor that addresses the need to increase visibility (by using fewer instruments), improves tissue manipulations, provides angle of retraction modifications and reduces the number of ports and incisions. The firm also offers its intra-abdominal retraction system for use in general, colorectal, gynecology, urology, urogynecology, bariatric, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery applications. The company was founded by Eleanor L. Tandler in April 2010 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA.

Covr Financial Technologies LLC operates digital personal insurance platform. It digital platform provides way to research, compare, shop for and buy insurance from providers. The company was founded by Todd Ruplinger in 2013 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Iridia, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It offers research and development services. The company was founded by James P. Linton in 2016 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Aureus Analytics Ltd. provides big data analytics platform for understanding customers, business risks and operational efficiencies in insurance, banking and healthcare sectors. It offers statistical and analytical platform that allows business users and analysts to work with the data than on the data. The company was founded by Nitin Purohit, Anurag Shah and Ashish Tanna in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Aventri, Inc. provides software for cloud-based analytics for end to end event management and venue sourcing. It offers event management software, meetings management, mobile events app, venue sourcing, survey solutions, and email marketing. The firm serves education, financial services, technology, media, automotive, and airlines sectors. The company was founded by Leonora Valvo in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Payveris LLC provides online and mobile payment solutions. It also offers full service online bill pay and interbank transfer solutions for financial institutions and service providers. The company was founded by Francis P. Duggan and Louis Hernandez Jr. and is headquartered in Cromwell, CT.

Continuity Engine, Inc. provides regulatory technology solutions that automate compliance management for financial institutions. The company offers regulatory expertise and cloud technology to reduce regulatory burden and mitigate compliance risk at a fraction of the cost. Its solutions are designed to automate all aspects of compliance management, from interpretation of regulatory issuances through intuitive task delegation, vendor management, and board reporting. The company was founded by Andrew Ivar Greenawalt, Michael R. Jennings, and Jim Kisch in 2008 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Fintron LLC engages in the provision of banking, and financial services. It also provides financial freedom and security for the digital generation through better education, affordable financial products, and philanthropic give-back programs. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

PNT Data Corp. provides information logistics for healthcare management. It offers services for healthcare management, enabling health plans, providers, health systems and vendors to securely manage and optimize the flow of healthcare information. The firm provides a fully developed, deployed and managed cloud communications platform with flexible and adaptive toolkits that provide solutions that enable healthcare entities to connect and communicate information securely, reliably and to collaborate across the spectrum of health information. It also supports health system, revenue cycle, billing services and clearinghouse vendors. The company was founded by George Allen DeGraw in 2002 and is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT.