Simon Tiu

LiquiGlide, Inc. develops permanently wet slippery surfaces. The firm serves to consumer products, manufacturer, medical, energy and agrochemical industries. The company was founded by Jonathan David Smith and Kripa K. Varanasi in August 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Accel Partners LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson. The firm is headquartered in California, the US.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Juniper Networks is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Juniper Networks Inc founded in 2010 by Pradeep S. Sindhu. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Seedcamp Investment Management LLP (Seedcamp) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Reshma Sohani and Saul Charles Klein. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Founded in 2011, Index Venture Management (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Index Venture Management SA

The Capital Network, Inc. is a private company based in Wellesley, MA that provides founder-focused fundraising education programs. The company aims to create a more inclusive and accessible funding ecosystem to support female and other first-time founders of early stage startups. The company offers three programs: the Fellowship for Female Founders, Fundraising Readiness Workshops, and the Investment and Inclusion Series. The Fellowship for Female Founders is a six-month program that has helped over 90+ female founders raise over $85m in capital. The company also offers ongoing workshops for first-time startup founders and a series of honest conversations to bring about meaningful systemic change. The Capital Network has a network of 300+ investors and sponsors who help them make the fundraising ecosystem work for everybody. The company was founded by Ashkan Afkhami and Chula Reynolds.

Jolt Capital SAS (Jolt Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2011 by Jean Schmitt. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

DLA Piper Group operates as a holding company that provides legal services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, employment litigation and dispute resolution, asset-based lending, cyber security services, financial services regulatory, corporate and securities litigation, and real estate development and planning. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in NY.

Cisco Investments Inc (Cisco Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Bellhop, Inc. provides moving services to collegiate and local communities. Its services include loading, unloading, on-site dorm move-in, storage, long distance moves, and residential housing move-in. The company was founded by Stephen Vlahos and Cameron Doody in 2011 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, TN.

Tulip Interfaces, Inc. engages in the design and development of software and hardware based solutions to solve manufacturing challenges. The firm provides application builder, analytics, connectors, configuration and control, deployment and security, and roadmap. The company was founded by Natan Linder and Rony Daniel Kubat in 2014 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Upsolver Ltd. develops and provides learning platform for RTB mobile advertisers. It focuses on developing SaaS based predictive technology for simulating the human brain. The company specializes in stream data, real time analysis, business intelligence and big data. Upsolver was founded by Ori Rafael and Yoni Iny in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Forestry.io, Inc. develops and builds static sites. It is a content management system (CMS) for sites built with a modern technology stack. The company was founded by Scott Gallant and Jordan Patterson and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Vertex Ventures HC (Vertex Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Joe & The Juice is a private company that sells freshly prepared juices, shakes, sandwiches, and coffee using natural and organic ingredients sourced directly from growers. Joe & The Juice is an urban juice bar and coffee concept with 160 locations worldwide, including a growing presence in various countries. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Icelander company offers a modern, urban, and hip ambiance that caters to customers who prefer a fast yet healthy lifestyle while still enjoying an authentic and unique brand.

Concrete Venture Capital (Concrete Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Taylor Wescoatt. The firm is headquartered in the London, United Kingdom.

Broker Buddha, Inc. operates online platform that helps commercial insurance brokers grow sales by simplifying the application and renewal process. The firm?s features include interactive smart form library, application builder, renewal fields, tooltips, hidden Sections and conditional logic. The company was founded by Jason Keck in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ateam Army, Inc. is engaged in fitness services. It offers training sessions and coaching services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hasura, Inc. engages in the provision of data access and data flow tools and services via GraphQL APIs. The company was founded by Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh in July 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Humane LLC provides professional, scientific and technical services. The company was founded by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Orkes, Inc. is a microservices and workflow orchestration platform that helps companies build and scale complex software applications with high reliability. The company is based in California and is backed by Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US. Orkes provides an enterprise-grade, cloud-hosted version of the popular Conductor open-source platform used by Fortune 100 companies and international corporations. The American company was founded in 2021 by seasoned product and engineering leaders from Google, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. Jeu George has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Typefox GmbH, Gitpod GmbH is a German cloud development environment company that provides pre-configured workspaces for developers to write, test, and review code. The private company is based in Kiel, Germany. Gitpod's remote developer environments help enterprises improve onboarding, collaboration, and security, allowing them to ship faster and more securely. The CEOs of the company are Sven Efftinge and Moritz Eysholdt.

EJ2 Communications, Inc. provides threat intelligence from the deep and dark web for corporations and governments. Its solutions include an proactive approach with identifying potential threats and a research tool as know your enemy. The company was founded by Evan F. Kohlmann and Josh Lefkowitz and is headquartered in New York, NY.