Matthew J. Petzold

Transaction Network Services, Inc. provides payments, financial services, and telecommunications solutions. It offers managed processing services, security, global connectivity, identity and protection, and market data. The firm provides services to many organizations in the global payments and financial communities, as well as a provider of extensive telecommunications network solutions to service providers The company was founded by John J. McDonnell, Jr. in 1990 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Network Access Solutions Corp. provides broadband network solutions and Internet service to business customers. It provides data communications services using a variety of high-speed access methods and market those services directly through own sales force and through wholesale partners. It is headquartered in Herndon, VA

Cogenics Icoria, Inc. provides medical research services. The firm offers genomics and proteomics-related research instruments, consumables, data, including databases, software & other research-oriented products. Icoria offers gene expression analysis and other related services. Its tissue informatics software performs tissue analysis for toxicology studies of early-stage drug candidates and other purposes. The firm also provides biomarkers to develop diagnostics and therapies for liver injuries, metabolic conditions & cancer. The company is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Medina Medical, Inc. operates as a neurovascular company. The firm provides minimally-invasive devices for the treatment of brain aneurysms and stroke. The company was founded by Maria Aboytes and Kimberly Vogel in 2010 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Gauss Surgical, Inc. engages in mobile health operation which specializes in blood and hemoglobin loss monitoring during surgery. Its services include research and development, publications, clinical performance, feature extraction technology, rapid integration with surgical workflow, and inoperative mobile platform. The company was founded by Siddarth Satish in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Burril LLC (Burrill) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1994 by G. Steven. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Genentech Ventures (Genentech Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

United Way of Northeast Florida, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that works to change by focusing on the building blocks for a good life with volunteers, community organizations and leaders, The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

NewBridge Pharmaceuticals FZ LLC engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products, therapeutics and medical devices. The company was founded by G. Garrett Vygantas in 2007 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Communication Technologies LLC provides safety driven services for the utility, telecommunication, cable and municipal infrastructure industries. It specializes in fiber optic cable construction, strand mapping, underground construction, system rebuilds and updgrades, water service installations, AutoCAD drafting services, permit application, directional boring, subsurface utility exploration, plowing, system as-builts, manhole construction and demolition, emergency response, aerial construction, maintenance, and wreck out, maintenance, fiber optic cable splicing, cable pulling, overhead to underground conversion projects, duct bank construction, and trenching. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.

Jump Capital LLC (Jump Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mike B. McMahon and Sach Chitnis. The firm is headquartered in Chicago.

Upskill, Inc. develops enterprise software for smart glasses. The firm serves to aerospace, field services, inspection and audit, manufacturing, retail and grocery industries. The company was founded by Brian Ballard, Jeff Jenkins, Chris Hoyt and Alexander Watson in 2010 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Visibly, Inc. develops a platform to perform an online eye exam. It operates as a healthcare technology firm that offers the convenient and affordable way to get a prescription for glasses and contacts. The firm’s technology provides valid glasses and contact lens prescriptions online from the convenience of home. The company was founded by Aaron Dallek and Steven Lee in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MD Revolution, Inc. engages in the provision of a digital care management platform. Its product platform include care management features, clinical tools, patient engagement tools, and integration. The firm solutions also include Chronic Care Management; Remote Patient Monitoring; Behavioral Health Integration; Annual Wellness Visits; Transitional Care Management; Whole Person Care; Clinical Care Teams; And Care Program Design. The company was founded by Samir Damani in 2011 and is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA.

Moonshots Capital Management Co LLC (Moonshots Capital) is a venture capital firm founded by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings in September 2014. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Goodworld, Inc. empowers non-profits to raise money on social media. The company was founded by Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, John Gossart, and Charlie McGuire Wien in October 2014 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Pieces Technologies, Inc. develops healthcare software solutions. Its products include pieces IRIS and pieces decision support. The company was founded by Ruben Amarasingham in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Part of Douyin Co., Ltd., Cheerful, Inc. is a mobile application provider that allows users to create short video clips. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company was founded by Arash J. Danesh, Kai Gradert, Navid Aslani, Farhad Mohit.

OSF Ventures (OSF Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of OSF Healthcare System founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Illinois, Chicago.

Level Ex, Inc. engages in the provision of medical video games for physicians. It offers Cardio Ex, Pulm Ex, Gastro Ex, and Airway Ex games. The company was founded by Sam Z. Glassenberg in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Yet Analytics, Inc. provides software solutions. It has contributed to the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative's (ADL) Design Cohorts and the xAPI Working Groups to develop the data interoperability specification. The company was founded by Shelly Blake-Plock, Margareth Roth and Rose burt in November 2014 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

HealthBridge Financial, Inc. provides health insurance services. It offers design, underwriting and servicing of credit solutions. The company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

Inflammatix, Inc. operates molecular diagnostics company which develops rapid tests that read the immune system. The firm specializes in molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, computational immunology, in-vitro diagnostics, personalized medicine and bioinformatics. The company was founded by Purvesh Khatri, Jonathan Romanowsky and Timothy Sweeney and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Corsair Pharma, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the development of novel prodrugs of treprostinil to treat patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension using a once-daily transdermal patch. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

TherOptix, Inc. develops and manufactures drug-eluting contact lens. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Health Scholars, Inc. engages as a cloud-based, VR-ready training platform for the management, delivery, and analysis of clinical training. Its solutions include virtual reality training, and simulation management. The company was founded by Brian Gillett in 2017 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

Riverine Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Garrett Vygantas. The firm is headquartered in Sausalito, California.