Ben Siscovick

Next Big Sound, Inc. provides a dashboard, charts and reports to monitor popularity, activity and metrics for musicians. It is an online music analytics and insights company. The firm measures the popularity of bands across major web properties and sells actionable insights around those data to band managers and other industry professionals. The company was founded by David Hoffman, Samir Rayani and Alexander S. White in June 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kinetic Trading Strategies LLC develops computational finance techniques to massive amounts of textual data. It operates as a boutique trading firm that offers alpha generating models for quantitative hedge funds and proprietary trading desks. The firm delivers trading signals and analytics that analyze and derive intelligence from alternative data sources. The company was founded by Roger Ehrenberg and Roger Portnoy in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PlaceIQ, Inc. develops mobile marketing tools that take photos of places shared on mobile phones. Its solutions include media, analytics, measurement and data-as-a-service. The company was founded by Duncan McCall and Steve Milton in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lua Technologies, Inc. provides mobile workforce services. The firm empowers mobile workforces by giving access to the people and information needed to get the job done from the field or the office. It also enables users to access various departments and custom groups, simplify real-time conversations with messaging and conference calling, and pinpoint who has read the messages, and receive confirmation. The company was founded by Michael Keoni DeFranco, Eli Bronner, and Jason Krigsfeld in February 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Millennium Management LLC is a SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Israel 'Izzy' Englander in 1989 and is a subsidiary of MLM Trust B LLC, itself a subsidiary of MLM Trust B. Millennium Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

IA Capital Advisors LLC (IA Capital Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Roger Ehrenberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Barclays Capital Luxembourg SARL (BCL) is a private banking firm headquartered in Luxembourg. The firm is a subsidiary of Barclays Luxembourg GBP Holdings SARL, ultimately owned by Barclays PLC (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. BCL provides wealth management services to individuals, family offices, charities and not-for-profit organizations, and intermediaries and corporates.

Kohort, Inc. provides social media related services. The company was founded by Mark Peter Davis and Steve Blood in 1999 and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.

Thinknear, Inc. engages in the development and provision of management solutions for businesses. The company was founded by Portnoy Eli and John Hinnegan in 2011 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.