John W. Benson

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

ABB Installation Products, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets electrical lighting and wiring equipment used to manage the connection, distribution, transmission and reliability of electrical power in industrial, construction and utility applications. The company also produces commercial heating and ventilation units used in commercial and industrial buildings and highly engineered steel structures used for utility transmission. The company was founded by Robert M. Thomas and Hobart D. Betts in 1898 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

DSM Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and designs medical device materials. The firm's products include bioceramics, polyurethanes, device development, hydrophilic coating solutions, polyethylenes, collagen, and extracellular matrix and drug delivery materials. The company was founded by Kenneth R. Kensey and John E. Nash in 1984 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.

Zoran Corp. provides digital solutions in the digital entertainment and imaging market worldwide. It develops and markets integrated circuits (IC), IC cores, and embedded software for digital versatile disc (DVD) players and recorders, digital cameras, broadband receivers, professional and consumer video editing systems, digital speakers and audio systems, and applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television. The company was founded by Levy Gerzberg in 1981 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

S1 Corp. provides customer interaction software solutions. It offers payments solutions for ATM and retail point-of-sale driving, card management and merchant acquiring, financial services solutions for consumer, small business and corporate online banking, trade finance, mobile banking, voice banking, branch and call center banking. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Cowen Investment Management LLC (Cowen Investment Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Wheatley Medtech Partners LP invests in technology based private and public companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of internet, software, IT consulting & telecommunications, banking & financial services, healthcare services and publishing & education. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements. It makes co-investments.

ShiftWise, Inc. provides healthcare-specific Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that enables hospitals and staffing suppliers to quickly procure and manage contingent healthcare workers. The staff self-scheduling component of the ShiftWise solution improves the recruitment, retention and overall morale of the hospital’s internal staff. The company was founded by Jason Lander and Ross E. J. Barbieri in 2003 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops therapies and inhalation delivery technologies. The company was founded by Thomas A. Armer on July 3, 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Origin Life Sciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages in the development of a plasma device that generate nitric oxide (NO) in the form of a plasma or NO stream. It focuses on its IonoJet platform, which provides therapeutic treatments which helps in immune system and blood vessel regulation, and tissue regeneration. The company was founded by Michael D. Preston and Alexander Dolgopolsky on June 14, 2010 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Part of Imprivata, Inc., Jotter Technologies, Inc. develops software for the Internet. The company is based in Sacramento, CA. Jotter Technologies was acquired by SAFLINK Corp. on December 15, 2000 for $5.05 million.

Minnesota Public Radio operates radio stations produces programs for radio, Internet, and face-to-face audiences. It operates 37-stations radio network serving to the people in Minnesota and in parts of Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Michigan, Iowa, and Idaho. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Part of Siemens AG, In Vitro Diagnostics is a medical diagnostic testing American company. The company is located in the US. The company was founded in 1986. In Vitro Diagnostics was acquired by Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. from EIDP, Inc. on May 08, 1996 for $450 million.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Northwell Health, Inc. engages in the provision of medical and healthcare services. It offers several long-term care facilities, rehabilitation services, outpatient surgery centers, home care, hospice, diagnostic laboratory facilities, and emergency medical services. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New Hyde Park, NY.

Long Island Jewish Medical Center provides health care services. Its Schneider Children's Hospital gives treatment to kids it contains more than 150 beds and The Zucker Hillside Hospital, a psychiatric hospital that contains 220 beds. The company is headquartered in New Hyde Park, NY.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) protects human health by protecting human rights. It fights to stop torture, disappearances and political killings and to improve hygiene conditions in prisons. The current projects of the company include the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, Health Action AIDS Campaign, PHR Asylum Network, Health and Justice for Youth and Colleagues at Risk. The company was founded in 1986 by Jonathan Fine and is headquartered in New York, NY.

First Flight Venture Center operates as a non-profit organization that provides business support services to start-up and early stage companies. It offers programs for technology companies that help them in fields such as concept testing, prototyping, research, business strategies, and product development. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Visionsense Ltd. develops novel visualization solutions that bring natural stereoscopic sight to minimally invasive surgery (MIS). It delivers depth perception, 3D-HD resolution images and maneuvering flexibility through the smallest access diameters. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Petach Tikva. Israel.

Care Management Technologies, Inc. provides evidence-based behavioral health analytics and decision support tools. It offers data analytics, trend identification, predictive analyses and care tracking to support and enrich patient, provides monitoring functions that improve healthcare outcomes, support health home, lower costs and enhance patient engagement of care. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

The Opus Group is an American company that provides real estate development services. The private company is based in Minnesota and has subsidiaries in the United States.