Kent Wasson

Biosynthetic Technologies LLC is a company based in Indianapolis, IN. The company specializes in manufacturing a new class of biobased synthetic compounds called estolides, which are made from organic fatty acids found in various bio-derived oils. The company offers a range of products including food grade, industrial, marine, metalworking, personal care, and more. Biosynthetic Technologies is committed to sustainability and social responsibility and holds appropriate certifications and registrations to ensure their products are compliant with national and international requirements. Mark Miller has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Chromatin, Inc. provides seed and feedstock products for traditional agriculture and bio-industrial processes. The firm markets seed products under its Sorghum Partners brand, primarily the grain sorghum and forage sorghum seed types. It also delivers sorghum products for companies seeking renewable feedstock. Its service areas encompass supplying seed, contracting growers, providing agronomic support, and overseeing harvest and delivery of feedstock in the form and specifications required by bio-processors. The company was founded by Kevin Keith, Daphne Preuss and Gregory Paul Copenhaver in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Taxon Biosciences, Inc. engages in the provision of development of genomics tools to profile microbial communities. The company was founded by Matthew Ashby, Jasper Rine, and Stewart Scherer in 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Beyond Limits Life Sciences, Inc. engages in artificial intelligence and cognitive computing services. The firm offers decision optimization and automation, supervisory decision and real time control decisions. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. engags in the production of biofuel from garbage. It designs, develops, owns, and operates facilities that convert sorted, post-recycled municipal solid waste into ethanol. The firm's proprietary thermo chemical process converts municipal solid waste feedstock into ethanol using conventional commercial systems and alcohol synthesis process. The company was founded by James Alastair Campbell McDermott and E. James Macias in July 2007 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Decarbonization Partners LLC is a joint venture firm founded in 2022 by Temasek Holdings and BlackRock, Inc. The firm is headquartered in New York, New York.

Paine Schwartz Partners LLC (Paine Schwartz Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Dexter Paine, Kevin Michael Schwartz and Mitchell S. Presser. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Innoleo LLC supplies castor oil molecule and castor oil. Its products include atural polyols, fatty acids, alcohols, and esters, bis-amides and sulfates. The company was founded on October 1, 2011 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Wabash College is an independent, liberal arts college for men. It offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines

Roetzel & Andress LPA provides legal services. The private company is based in Ohio and has subsidiaries in various states across the United States.

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH (HTGF) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Blu Venture Investors LLC (Blu Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Jim Hunt, Robert Proctor, Kevin Hollins, and JS Gamble. The firm is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

Jacket Micro Devices, Inc. designed, manufactured and assembled a range of modules, components, filters and microelectronic packages for the wireless, semiconductor, and specialty product markets. The company was founded in 2002 and was headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Clarabridge, Inc. provides intelligent customer experience management solutions. It enables businesses to intelligently listen to, analyze, operationalie, and measure multi-source customer feedback through intelligent sentiment and text analytics. The company enables organizations to create a universal understanding of its customers, partners, and employees; make actionable business decisions with measurable ROI; and collaborate on those decisions both internally with stakeholders and externally with customers. Its products include CX Analytics, CX Social and CX Survey. The company was founded by Siddhartha Banerjee, Nithi Vivatrat, Gene S. Sohn and Justin Langseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Row Sham Bow, Inc. publishes and distributes traditional and on-line interactive software games. The company was founded by Nicholas Gonzalez and Philip Holt in 2011 and is headquartered in Altamonte Springs, FL.

simplifyMD, Inc. operates as a healthcare information technology company with a software-as-a-service product focused on medical practice automation. The company was founded by Matt Ethington, Jeffrey B. Lamkin, and Shadid Shah on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

CallMiner, Inc. provides speech analytics services. Its product Eureka is delivered as a cloud-based or on premise contact center monitoring solution. It caters to the business process outsourcing, collections, communications, energy and utilities, finance and banking, healthcare, high ereducation, and technology. The company was founded by Cliff Lacoursiere, Kim C. Brown and Jeffrey A. Gallino and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Florida Venture Forum, Inc. is a non-profit organization, which provides educational and networking opportunities for Florida-based entrepreneurs and private companies. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Part of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton International, Inc. provides management consultancy services.