Lauren Gomez

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) is a wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 8604; NYSE: NMR). Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1925. NSC places a strong emphasis on research, both fundamental and quantitative. In addition to stock and bond underwriting, their activities include IPO and M&A advisory, wealth management, separately managed accounts, fund wrap services, prime brokerage and structured equity finance. Their clients include institutions, hedge funds, private banks and private equity funds as well as corporate clients and retail investors.

S2 Technologies, Inc. provides embedded software solutions. The firm's solutions help to integrate with the embedded software to create a single virtual platform that accelerates continuous integration, testing, and verification. Its products include Testspace and Stride. The company was founded by Mark Underseth in July 2000 and is headquartered in Encinitas, CA.

Cota, Inc. provides healthcare services. It specializes in healthcare information technology. The company was founded by Andrew L. Pecora in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RiverVest Venture Management LLC (RiverVest Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Tom C. Melzer, Jay W. Schmelter, Mark J. Mendel and Andrew B. Craig III. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Nomura Bank International PLC operates as an investment banking. The company was founded on January 22, 1986 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The University of Tampa, Inc. functions as a college/university that offers undergraduate and graduate studies. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Ridge Ventures is an independent venture capital firm, a subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc founded in 1997 by Alex Rosen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

American Cancer Society, Inc. provides information on cancer occurrence, survival, prevention, early detection, and treatment. The non-profit company is based in Kennesaw, GA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's SHES department is an intramural research program with world-renowned epidemiologists and health scientists. The company was founded in 1913 by Candy Arrington. Karen E. Knudsen has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

United Nations Children's Fund is a non-profit organization that operates to help children that are in need. It offers child protection and social inclusion, education, and emergencies and humanitarian action. The company was founded by Ludwik Rajchman on December 11, 1946 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Accretive LLC (Accretive) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Michael Cline. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Seiler LLP is a professional services firm that has been providing advisory, tax, and accounting services for 65 years. The private company is based in Silicon Valley and is an independent member of HLB, the advisory and accounting network. Seiler delivers sophisticated solutions, innovative thinking, capabilities, and highly personalized service to its clients. The American company was founded in 1957, and the CEO is George D. Marinos.

IT Frontier Corp. provides comprehensive support in a full range, from supporting IT strategy planning, designing and integration of IT systems, and development of IT infrastructure, to the operation of IT systems/IT infrastructure. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan

Acero Capital Management LLC (Acero Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Bloomberg Beta Management LLC (Bloomberg Beta) is a venture capital subsidiary of Bloomberg LP founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Mitsubishi Corp., MIC Business Solutions, Inc. is a company that provides IT services to Mitsubishi Corporation group companies. The company is based in New York, NY, and has recently opened a new office. The company's services include IT consulting, application implementation, project management, infrastructure/network construction, system management, and helpdesk operations.

Interplay Learning, Inc. develops software for online learning. It offers city code inspection, combustion safety, computer networking, cosmetology, home energy score, residential wiring and solar photovoltaic products. The company was founded by Steve Quirk and Doug Donovan and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

SmartHop LLC operates as an artificial intelligence-powered dispatcher that helps truckers plan, search and book loads. It offers dispatching, back office/ paper work, taxes, compliance and factoring services. The company was founded by Miguel Sucre, Joaquin Brillembourg and Guillermo Garcia and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Leaf Logistics, Inc. provides freight contracting platform. The company was founded by Anshu Prasad in 2017 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Shappi, Inc. engages in development of a marketplace that connect shoppers with travelers. The company was founded by Karla Valdivieso on September 23, 2019 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

nZero Labs, Inc. operates technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Invisible Ai, Inc. engages in the provision of digital platform to monitor body posture and ergonomics of operators. The company was founded by Eric Danziger and prateek Sachdeva and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Podcastle AI develops podcast creation tools for amateur and professional podcasters and a streaming platform for listeners. The company was founded by Artavazd Yeritsyan and is headquartered in Middletown, DE.

Sparrow Lending PBC is a company that helps individuals compare and save on private student loans and student loan refinancing. The company is based in New York, NY. The company's services are free and have no impact on credit scores. Sparrow allows users to manage, pay off, and save on their student loans. Sparrow Lending PBC was founded in 2020 by Harrison Hochman, Griffin Morris, and Daniel Kahn. Harrison Hochman has been the CEO since 2020.

Sparrow Labs is an American AI/NLP company that develops advanced applications to enhance enterprise software, infrastructure, and cloud. The company is located in CA and has open positions available. Sparrow Labs provides the first natural question answering service for enterprise IT and cloud, which instantly provides answers to product questions from any document and content sources across the enterprise. The company was founded by industry veterans and NLP deep learning researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University.

Harmonic Ai, Inc. provides an all-in-one platform with billions of datapoints on startups, talent, and trends that are updated daily. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The platform helps users save up to 10 hours a week. Harmonic is a net-zero company that tracks the carbon impact of everything they do by using their spending data to calculate the carbon emitted from each transaction and investing in cutting-edge carbon offset initiatives. The company was founded in 2020. The CEO is Bryan Casey.