Robert Thomas

Pellucere Technologies, Inc. manufactures advanced optical coatings for energy and industry. Its products in development and testing include architectural-grade window coatings, military-grade dirt rejection shield, polycarbonate anti-soiling shield, high definition AR coating and lens AR coatings. The firm specializes in solar, optical coatings, anti-reflective and anti-soiling. The company was founded by Chih Hung (Alex) Chang in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Chevron Technology Ventures LLC (Chevron Technology Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Chevron Corporation founded in 1999 by Don Riley. The firm headquartered in San Ramon, California.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Carbonfree Chemicals Holdings LLC develops a proprietary technologies that capture flue gases that would otherwise release carbon dioxide into the environment and transform into solid carbonate materials. It has three primary technologies include: SkyMine, SkyScraper, and SkyCycle a processes require less energy to remove harmful pollutants and safer ways to store carbon. The company was founded by Joe Jones in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Emerging Infrastructure Capital Partners LLC is a specialty investment company, which focuses on creating long-term opportunities by partnering the platform companies to accelerate the rollout of distributed infrastructure assets in global energy-technology, water and environmental management markets. The company was founded by Joaquin Fernandez-Silva, Michael Peterson, and Kevin Skillern in 2014 and is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA.

ConnectDER, Inc. is a company that aims to accelerate the transition to clean energy by making clean distributed resources the default source of power for the 21st century. The company is based in Falls Church, VA and was founded by Whitman Fulton, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company offers innovative products that simplify and accelerate the integration of distributed energy resources with the grid. ConnectDER's meter socket adapters are used by the largest electric power utilities and solar installers throughout the country, allowing anyone to connect solar panels or EV chargers to their home at a fraction of the typical time and cost.

GE Energy Financial Services Inc (GE Energy Financial Svcs) is a private equity subsidiary of GE Energy Services, Inc founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kelvin, Inc. provides industrial 3D motion intelligence system to improve asset performance. The company was founded by Peter Harding and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

WestRiver Management LLC (WestRiver Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Erik J Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

JJT, Inc. provides digital imaging and database system sale services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

PTO, Inc. engages in the development and operation of software platform for education. Its platform enables employees to personalize workplace benefits by converting unused paid time off to tangible goods and services such as vacations, retirement funding, student loan debt payments, and charitable donations. The company was founded by Robert Whalen and Todd Lucas and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

Soda Media, Inc. is a private company based in Redmond, WA. Soda Media, Inc. was founded by Anthony Bontrager.

Tagboard, Inc. provides social media software. It is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. The company was founded by Jenni Hogan, Josh Decker, Tim Shimotakahara and Sean Sperte in 2011 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. develops social payment solutions for point-of-sale services, mobile orders, and peer payments. The American company was founded in 2021 by Thomas Lapham, Jim Castillo, and Jake Stone. Thomas Lapham has been the CEO since 2021.

Qorus Software, Inc. offers document automation software solutions. The firm offers Qorus DocGeneration, a solution that adds document automation features to Microsoft SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint for the automatic or manual creation of customized client documents; and enables users to customize and generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, such as sales proposals and presentations, financial reports, contracts, and advisory reports. Its solutions include proposal & RFP management, pitch and experience management, accelerate sales and marketing and document generation. The company was founded by Raynard Stephen Meiring, Lee John Child and Stephanie Laurent in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

The Riveter, Inc. engages in developing, constructs, leases and operates co-working office space for working women. It empowers women, professionally and personally, through events that celebrate and connect its members. The company was founded by Amy Nelson and Kim Peltola in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Igneous Systems, Inc. provides unstructured data management as-a-service solution. Its products include DataProtect, DataDiscover and DataFlow. The firm’s business includes both the raw boxes of hard drives a business buys to store data and the software needed to manage it. It also provides cloud infrastructure to change the enterprise landscape. The company was founded by Kiran Bhageshpur, Byron Rakitzis and Jeff Hughes in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Wicket Labs, Inc. engages in the development of audience insights platform for media and entertainment companies. The company was founded by Ian Blaine, Eric Knutson, and Marty Roberts in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Delta Energy & Communications, Inc. provides network, smart grid and big data for electric, gas, and water utilities. Its Delta Smart Grid Network (DSGN) couples the world’s first Wi-Fi-based WWAN mesh with advanced power metering to deliver electrical distribution monitoring and pioneering analytics within a robust and secure, cloud-based network. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Murrieta, CA.

Part of Ideanomics, Inc., VIA Motors, Inc. is a company that offers a 100% electric platform for commercial class trucks and chassis, providing uptime, route mapping, and other features that improve quality, driving comfort, energy efficiency, and connectivity. The company is based in Orem, UT. The company is in a pending transaction with Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX), a group that aims to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. Once it becomes part of Ideanomics, VIA can offer a total package that makes it easy for fleets to transition to electric drive vehicles, charging infrastructure, and financing. Robert Carl Purcell has been the CEO of the company since 2015. VIA Motors was acquired by Ideanomics, Inc. on January 26, 2023 for $600.98 million.

San Diego Opera engages in vocal performances and operatic arts. It offers education and community engagement services. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Alion Energy, Inc. provides engineering procurement construction, operation, and maintenance services for utility scale photovoltaic power plants. It designs construction process for utility scale solar plants by using robotic installation technology and established construction industry practices. The firm's products include Alion Mounting System (AMS) and automated cleaning. The company was founded by Mark Topinka, Tom Hunter, and Christopher Rivest in 2008 and is headquartered in Richmond, CA.

Bit Stew Systems, Inc. operates as a platform which provides real-time analytics, dynamic event management services to Information technology, operational systems and applications. The firm's solutions include AMI deployment, advanced grid management, consumer energy visualization and revenue protection application. The company was founded by Kevin Collins and Alex F. Clark in 2005 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

NarrativeWave, Inc. develops situational intelligence systems for the industrial Internet. Its system empowers industrial equipment operators, service centers, field engineers, system administrators, and customers with real-time operator intelligence. The company was founded by Shawn Ahmed in 2014 and is headquartered in San Juan Irvine, CA.

Linde Energy Services, Inc. develops and operates gathering and midstream natural gas pipeline systems. Its projects include shale formations, transportation and rails to trails. The company is headquartered in Pittston, PA.

YouSolar, Inc. engages in the design of solar systems. Its products include powerbloc home, powerbloc comm and powerbloc field. The company was founded by Arnold Leitner and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Voterfied, Inc. operates as a digital voters engagement platform. The company is based in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The company was founded by Garrett Hernandez Rimer, Mark Page, Michael William Allman. The CEO is Michael William Allman.

Silver Sustainable Solutions Corp. is a blank check company engaged in effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination. The company was founded by Michael William Allman, Jonathan M. Silver, and Arun Majumdar, on May 29, 2018 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Blimp Technologies, Inc. operates as an online application that connects homebuyers and sellers with real estate professionals partners. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Matthew Shaw, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Ocean Aero, Inc. engages in solving the ocean observation challenges for the military, scientific, security, and oil and gas. Its Submaran SaaS offers the ideal platform for scientific, commercial, government, defense and intelligence applications including: environmental monitoring and sampling, remote area monitoring and protection, and marine mammal tracking, bathymetry and hydrography services. The company was founded by Kenneth Childress in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Pacific Integrated Energy, Inc. provides solar energy solutions. The firm's expertise include plasmonics, photonics, optics, device physics, nanofilms and processing, sub-micron scale engineering, project management, product development, testing, fabrication, and commercialization. The company was founded by Phil Layton and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

TableSafe, Inc. designs, builds and sells hardware and software products to eliminate credit and debit card information theft. The firm specializes in secure pay at the table transactions, marketing and guest communication opportunities, increased wait staff efficiency, custom applications, back of house labor and hard cost savings and faster table turns. The company was founded by Pope Andrew and Joseph Snell in 2010 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.