Erin Wilband

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

Toka Cyber Labs provides cyber security consulting services. The firm is a cyber capacity-building company that helps design, build, and manage a tailored ecosystem of cyber capabilities and software products for governmental, law enforcement and security agencies. The company was founded by Yaron Rosen, Kfir Waldman, Alon Kantor and Ehud Barak and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Isreal.

Part of Tovera, SnifflesNFT is an American company that develops an NFT fraud prevention platform. The company was founded by Mert Hilmi Iseri. SnifflesNFT was acquired by Tovera on June 24, 2022.

Formation8 Partners LLC (Formation8) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo, and Jim Kim. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Elementum Ltd. develops cloud and mobile applications for the supply chain management. The company was founded by Nader Mikhail, David A. Blonski and Glenn Jones in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Flextronics Corp. provides fiberoptics and electronics manufacturing services. The company is located in Westford, MA.

GlobalLogic, Inc. provides software solutions and development services. It operates as a digital product engineering firm. Its services include experience design, product engineering, digital services, labs, and content engineering. The firm operates design studios and engineering centers that specializes in offering customers in the communications, automotive, healthcare, technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and semiconductor industries. The company was founded by Sanjay Singh, Manoj Agarwala, Rajul Garg, and Tarun Upadhyay in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

6 River Systems, Inc. provides turnkey automation solutions for e-commerce fulfillments. The company was founded by Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo and Rylan Hamilton in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Owlet Baby Care, Inc. engages in the manufacture of baby health monitor devices. It offers the Owlet Smart Sock, a device that tracks a baby's oxygen and heart rate using pulse oximetry technology. The firm sends notifications to the Base Station and via Wi-Fi to a smartphone, if a baby's heart rate or oxygen fall outside a preset range. The company was founded by Jordan Monroe, Kurt Workman, Jacob Colvin, and Zack Bomsta in 2013 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Bright Machines, Inc. develops software for manufacturing industries. It offers cutting edge technology, computer vision, cloud and edge computing, robotics, and machine learning that enables operations more competitive and customer focused. The company was founded by Amarpreet Hanspal in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Flextronics Lab IX (Flextronics Lab IX) is a venture capital subsidiary of Flextronics International Ltd founded in 2013 by Lior Susan. The firm is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Eclipse Ventures LLC (Eclipse Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Lior Susan. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Wenzel Spine, Inc. offers minimally invasive solutions for stand-alone treatment of disc herniations, spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis. Its products help to simplify and shorten spine surgery, while providing superior clinical patient outcomes. The company was founded by Chad G. Neely and Warren F. Neely in January 2008 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Augury, Inc. engages in the development of a mechanical diagnostics platform that analyzes data in real time and provides actionable machine health insights. The company was founded by Saar Yoskovitz and Gal Shaul in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

June Life, Inc. provides kitchen tools for cooking. It offers oven for baking, roasting, broiling, toasting and slow cooking. The company was founded by Matthew van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cheetah Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of application for foodservice industry. It offers Cheetah, which allows users to order restaurant supplies online. The company was founded by Na'ama Moran, Christopher Elliott, and Alon Har-Tal and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Datorios Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides a data orchestration platform to control any ETL data pipeline. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company's platform reduces overall engineering overhead by more than 200%% and drives down TCO by 75%%. The CEOs of the company are Assaf Cohen, Ronen Korman.

Part of Flex Ltd., the company is a technology company based in Austin, TX. The company manufactures printed circuit boards and electronic components. The company was founded by Lior Susan.

Dutch Pet, Inc. provides 24/7 access to high-quality veterinary care and offers delivery of pet treatments and prescriptions. Dutch Pet is based in Martinez, CA and has subsidiaries in Netherlands. The company's mission is to treat pets' chronic conditions through telehealth. The company was founded by Joe Spector, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Farm2050 is a collective of diverse partners committed to advancing the future of food through supporting agtech entrepreneurs and startups. By 2050, the world will need to feed more than 10 billion people, requiring a 70% increase in food production. Farm2050 brings together researchers, farmers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and distributors to accelerate the path for new disruptive agtech ventures. The American company is looking for teams that are working on innovative technologies in areas such as supply chain efficiency, sustainability, and innovative business/distribution models, financial services/products to drive technology adoption and farm profitability, effective and sustainable crop inputs, and next-generation food products and development platforms. The private company was founded by Lior Susan with top industry players on the belief that innovation and technology are critical to addressing the food challenge.

Intucell Ltd. provides advanced self-optimizing network (SON) software, which enables mobile carriers to plan, configure, manage, optimize and heal cellular networks automatically, according to real-time changing network demands. The company was founded by Susan Ido and Rani Wellingstein in 2008 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

WONDER VENTURES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP (Weact Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Darya Henig Shaked. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Precedent Health, Inc. operates as a healthcare company. It focuses on aligning physicians, hospitals and payers by building innovative provider networks. The firm's services include the development and management of comprehensive provider networks which will be positioned to succeed under healthcare reform. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Momentum Bioscience Ltd. develops a technology for the detection of infection in blood and other normally sterile body fluids. Its solutions include EMA Sepsis, a detection method for organisms in blood; EMA Total, a detection method for organisms in NSF; EMA Bacteria for the detection of bacteria; and EMA Fungi for the detection of fungi. The company was founded by William Henry Mullen in 2008 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, also known as ibio, is a state trade association representing the life sciences industry in Illinois. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization's mission is to promote, connect, and engage the life sciences community to drive discovery, transform lives through groundbreaking research, and grow the economy. The company's membership ranges from corporations to startup companies in the biopharma, medical device, and nutrition industries. The Illinois life sciences industry is recognized as a national leader, and ibio's members are committed to expanding the boundaries of science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative and needed therapeutics and products to transform patients' lives.

Microvisk Ltd. engages in the manufacture and development of micro-viscometer based on micro electro mechanical sensors technology for medical field. The firm's products include CoagMax, CoagLite, CoagManager and SmartStrip. It develops technology for the detection and analysis of a fluid's properties using a cantilever-based micro-viscometer. The company was founded by Vladislav Djakov, Paul Morgan Vernon and Jeremy Burford Peckham in 2004 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

HemoSonics LLC operates as a diagnostic center. Its product Quantra system provides rapid, comprehensive measurement of vital coagulation parameters at the point of care, enabling clinicians to choose the right treatment at the right time. The company was founded by Francesco Viola and William F. Walker and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

BASE4 Group, Inc. is a provider of value vending services. It provides sourcing, packaging and marketing impulse merchandise in themed promotional displays. The company was founded in 2003 by Bradley Berkley and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

First Light Diagnostics, Inc. develops automated medical diagnostic products for the detection of microbes that cause healthcare and hospital infections. The firm offers MultiPath technology detects and counts fluorescent targets without using magnification. Its MultiPath technology is used for screening, blood infections, surgical infections, skin infections and GI infections. The company was founded by Donald Straus and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

PhunCoin, Inc. engages in the operation as an online security token. The company was founded by Alan S. Knitowski and Luan Dang on June 1, 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Altoida, Inc. operates as a health technology firm that uses active digital biomarkers and cutting-edge technology. It offers an FDA-cleared and CE Mark-approved medical device and brain health data platform to support early detection of Alzheimer's disease. The company was founded by Richard Fischer, Ioannis Tarnanas and Maximillian and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Central Texas Angel Network is a not-for-profit angel investing organization located in Austin, Texas.

TEXO Ventures LLC (TEXO Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Jerry DeVries, Philip Sanger and Randall Crowder. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.