Rick Tywoniak

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Part of Microsoft Corp., Microsoft EMEA is a British company that provides software services.

HyperGrid, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud management platform. It offers cloud infrastructure migration, cloud application migration, disaster recovery planning, cloud cost management, and cloud governance solutions. The company was founded by Kelly Murphy, Antoni Sawicki, and Tomasz Nowak in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

SeeReal Technologies provides 3D display solutions. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Bot1 Corp. develops and provides a software application which allows users to stay connected with their favorite bands. The company was founded by Jürgen G. Kurz, Andre Rabold, Thomas Hesse and Konstantin Elchev in June 2015 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.

Striim, Inc. develops big data and real-time analytics software. It offers end-to-end streaming integration platform that specializes in multi-stream data integration and real-time change data capture. The firm?s solutions include streaming integration and streaming intelligence. The company was founded by Ali R. Kutay, Alok Pareek, Steve Wilkes, and Sami Akbay in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

AttackIQ, Inc. provides security solutions. It offers firedrill, a SaaS platform that allows companies to conduct automated attacks and detect exploitable flaws and misconfigurations. The company was founded by Stephan Chenette and Rajesh Sharma in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Part of Peloton Interactive, Inc., Aiqudo, Inc. is a voice AI pioneer that connects the world of voice interfaces to mobile apps through its voice to action platform. The company is based in Campbell, CA. Aiqudo's SaaS platform uses machine learning to understand natural-language voice commands and triggers instant actions via mobile apps, cloud services, or device actions. The company's proprietary technology is covered by more than 30 granted patents and patent applications. The company was founded by John Foster, Rajat Mukherjee, and John Foster has been the CEO since incorporation. Aiqudo was acquired by Peloton Interactive, Inc. on February 01, 2021.

Cloudsphere Ltd. engages in the provision of cloud management platform. It offers migration planning, cost management, and security posture. The company is headquartered in Leopardstown, Ireland.

Vectra Ai, Inc. develops automated threat management solution. It monitors internal network traffic to detect in real time active attacks inside network. The company was founded by Mark Abene and James P. Harlacher is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Civic Resource Group develops applications that leverage augmented reality and the mobile technologies. Its flagship product includes CivicConnect which connects and integrates structured public, commercial and unstructured data sources providing business intelligence across unlimited outlets and devices. The firm’s solutions include CivicConnect platform, CivicAR mobile platform, CivicConnect urban mobility, CivicConnect economic development and CivicConnect asset management. The company was founded by Gregory G. Curtin and Robert McConnachie in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

GeoVector Corp. provides pointing-based mobile local search and augmented reality solutions. It engages in research and development in the fields of directional search, augmented reality, operation of spatially aware devices, and other aspects of spatially aware computing and photography. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ellenby and John Ellenby in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PolarLake’s Financial and Reference Data Management Platform enables some of the largest firms in Financial Services to acquire, manage and distribute Reference Data with speed, agility, control with embedded Security not seen before in the Reference Data Management Market. A number of leading Financial Services firms are using PolarLake to load data up to 11x faster, query securities from the store 17x faster and onboard new data feeds 20x faster than their legacy Data Management Platforms. PolarLake have implemented a truly disruptive technology based on a unique combination of XML streaming, storage and semantic web technologies. PolarLake's Data Management Platform is a post relational database solution, enabling firms to utilize semantic web technology to solve problems that relational data models were never designed to solve. The Platform also has the leading Reference Data Distribution capability in the market. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries' quadrant.