Matthew P. Hanson

Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston, ThinkEquity Partners is a broker/dealer. The firm offers targeted research and investment banking services for institutional investors and corporate clients. They specialize in identifying, analyzing and understanding the technological, macroeconomic and cultural trends that impact key growth verticals, with a particular concentration on healthcare, technology, media/education and business/consumer services. The firm starts with a top-down analysis approach and then allocates resources based on a long-range research roadmap.

Course Hero, Inc. engages in the development of online learning platform for course-specific study resources. It offers crowd sourced study documents, expert tutors, customizable flashcards and online courses. The firm helps users to maintain or improve grades all for less than the cost of a textbook. The company was founded by Jared Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, David Grauer, and Andrew T. Grauer in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Maven Research, Inc. develops and offers micro consulting platforms. Its platforms include knowledge logistics engine, marketplace and communities. The company was founded by Wyatt A. Nordstrom, Anthony J. D'Alessandro and Mark S. Platosh in February 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Dailybreak CP LLC provides a social engagement platform to drive brand participation and consumer action at scale through digital promotional campaigns. It delivers an innovative way to view content that entertains, educates, and challenges consumers while creating value and driving digital social action for brand advertisers. The company was founded by Boris Revsin, Jared D. Stenquist, and Jeffrey Cassidy on May 28, 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

GSV Asset Management LLC (GSVAM) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Woodside, California. The firm was founded in 2010 by Stephen Bard and Michael Moe. Formerly known as NeXt Asset Management LLC, GSVAM provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to individuals and institutional clients.

GSV Ventures Management LLC (GSV Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of GSV Asset Management LLC founded in 2016 by Moe Michael Cohn. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

EdSurge, Inc. operates website for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. The company was founded by Elizabeth Corcoranin, Nick Punt, Bowman Matt and Agustin Vilaseca in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.