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General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Wells Fargo Bank, NA provides investment advisory services. It offers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer finance services. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ALT Fund Distributors LLC invests in real estate. The company was founded on December 18, 2007 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CT.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

InterWest Partners LLC (InterWest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979 by Wally Hawley, Scott Hedrick and Gene Barth. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

WS Investment Management Co. (WS Investment) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corp. founded in 1978 by Larry W. Sonsini. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

New York Hall of Science is a non-profit organization that operates a center for interactive science. It offers events, exhibits, three dimensional theater, programs, and shop. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Corona, NY.

Pacific Science Center operates as a science museum. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA. William T. Daugherty has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Founded in 1981, the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) is an independent private foundation located in Seattle, Washington. WRF assists universities and other nonprofit research institutions in the state of Washington with the commercialization of their technologies and provides support, through gifts and grants, for scholarship and research.

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital operates as a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It offers care for cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes and spine. The company is headquartered in Needham, MA.

Divergent Ventures (Divergent Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Kevin Ober. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. provides higher education, invention, and entrepreneurship services. It funds and trains faculty and students innovators to create successful and socially beneficial businesses. It offers grants to faculty to start programs in technology entrepreneurship, particularly ones that focused on the development of E-Teams-groups of students, faculty and advisors working to commercialize a novel idea. The company was founded on April 11, 2007 and is headquartered in Hadley, MA.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (Foundation Trust), formerly known as William H. Gates Foundation, is a private foundation headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation (established in 1994), which focused on improving global health. The Foundation Trust manages the endowment assets. They participate in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries.

Oregon BEST provides business solutions. It offers university research, private investment, industry growth and development. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Wisys Technology Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that collaborates with inventors, researchers, and students to facilitate cutting-edge research programs. The non-profit company is based in Madison, WI. Established in 2000, it is the official designated technology transfer office for the UW System Comprehensive Campuses. WiSys advances scientific research throughout the state by patenting technologies developed out of the research base and helps inventors protect their discoveries with several other types of Intellectual Property protection.

The Lemelson Foundation engages in the provision of philanthropic services. It focuses on nurturing invention-based businesses developing physical products to address global and community challenges. The company was founded by Jerome Lemelson and Dorothy Lemelson in 1992 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

American Society for Engineering Education Provides education in engineering and engineering technology. It offers education in instruction, research, public service and practice, and leadership. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Greentown Labs operates as a community of climatetech and cleantech pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Life Sciences Discovery Fund provides research in the Washington state to promote life sciences competitiveness. The firm offers commercialization of health-related technologies, economic development in Washington state, improving health and health care in Washington state. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Illuminate Management LLC (Illuminate Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Cindy B. Padnos. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

InCube Ventures Partners LLC (InCube Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Mir Imran. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign is a private company committed to advancing health outcomes and equity through innovation education, translation, and policy. More than 4.3 million people have been helped by technologies invented at Stanford Biodesign, and the biodesign innovation process has been widely adopted by universities and training programs around the world. The American company believes that diversity across multiple dimensions inspires creativity and helps them innovate for all patient populations. The company was founded by Joshua Makower and Paul G. Yock in 2001 at Stanford.

Starlight Cardiovascular, Inc. is a medical device company based in San Diego, CA. Starlight Cardiovascular, Inc. develops tools and devices to treat pediatric congenital heart defects. The company was founded by Beverly Tang, Pedro del Nido, Carl M. Berke, Attila Meretei, Tom Duerig, and Beverly Tang has been the CEO since incorporation.

Program Planning Professionals, Inc. offers portfolio, program and project management solutions. Its services include change management, portfolio management, program leadership and project delivery. The company was founded by Adrian Balfour, Paul Driver and Leonora Balfour in March 1994 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Readypulse, Inc. operates a social marketing platform. It offers solutions to help online brands and retailers collect and display content including photos, videos, and testimonials on websites, eCommerce sites and as in-store displays. The company was founded by Dennis O'Malley, Srinivas Penumaka, Tankala Vinod Kumar Gupta, and Mihir A. Vaidya in 2010 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, CA.

TempoIQ, Inc. develops and markets time series data-based software and database solutions. The firm operates as a purpose-built database service that enables businesses to store and analyze streams of time series data, such as thermostat temperature, network latencies, and heart rates. Its solutions encompass data storage, security, analysis, metadata tags, and visualization. It also focuses on addressing the needs of energy and smart grid management, server and network monitoring, sensors and connected devices, and social media monitoring applications. The company was founded by Andrew Cronk, Justin DeLay, and Michael Yagley in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.