Maria Wagner

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Bonobos, Inc. operates men's clothing stores. Its products include pants, denim, shirts, suits and blazers, sweaters, tees, knits, belts, bags, shoes and accessories. The company was founded by Andrew Dunn and Brian Spaly in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Transphorm, Inc. provides power conversion modules. It simplifies the design and manufacturing of motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. Transphorm designs and delivers its power conversion devices and modules from material technology and device fabrication to circuit design and module assembly. The company was founded by Umesh K. Mishra and Primit A. Parikh in 2007 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Zipline International, Inc. builds flexible and open robotic platforms that interacts with humans. It makes robotic platforms that use user's smartphone as their brains and users can customize, program and control remotely via a live video feed. The company was founded by Peter Seid, Keller Rinaudo and Phu Nguyen in August 2011 and is headquartered in Half Moon Bay, CA.

Canva Pty. Ltd. develops online graphic design platform. Its features include graphs, photo editing, and print. The company was founded by Cameron Adams, Melanie Joy Perkins, and Clifford James Obrecht in 2012 and is headquartered in Surry Hills, Australia.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Arthur D. Little, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in strategy and organization, operations management, technology and innovation management, corporate finance, and global carbon advisory serving corporations and organizations worldwide. The firm serves the automotive, healthcare, information, chemicals, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and transportation industries. The company was founded by Arthur Dehon Little and Roger Griffin in October 1886 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. organizes and performs opera shows in its residence at the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts. The firm offers services in association with sponsors, such as Texaco. It produces radio, television and compact disk recordings of the performances and distributes them around the world. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Kayak Software Corp. operates as an online travel agency. It offers fare information from airlines and hotels. The firm also develops and operates websites and mobile applications that provide destination information, travel tips, member discounts, and hotel descriptions. The company was founded by Daniel Stephen Hafner, Gregory E. Slyngstad, Douglas Feirstein, Terrell B. Jones, and Paul M. English in 2004 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

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

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.

Felicis Ventures Management Co. LLC (Felicis Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Aydin Senkut. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

GV Management Co LLC (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2009 by Bill Maris. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, Boston, New York and London.

Dialpad, Inc. develops pure-cloud communications solutions. It offers business phone system, contact center, video conferencing, and sales dialer. The company was founded by Craig Walker, John Rector, Brian Peterson, and Alex Cornell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MIT Corp. (US) owns and operates as a trust. The corporation and its committees have responsibility for reviewing and providing guidance on strategic directions, approving annual budgets and exercising long-term fiduciary responsibility. The company was founded in 1861 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Flexport, Inc. engages in the provision of online customs brokerage and freight forwarding services. It offers ocean freight, air freight, trucking and delivery, government agency filing, cargo insurance, and warehousing and fulfillment. The company was founded by Ryan Roy Petersen and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ripple Foods PBC offers dairy products. Its provides unsweetened vanilla and chocolate, superfoods milk, nutrition, and frozen dessert. The company was founded by Neil Renninger and Adam Lowry in 1995 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Overture Life, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company was founded by Martin Varsavsky, Santiago Munné and José Horcajadas and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Xilis, Inc. engages in the development of droplet-based microfluidics technology devices for precision cancer diagnostics and drug development. It offers Xilis platform. The company was founded by Xiling Shen and David Shu and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Mentors Fund (Mentors fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Culture Amp Pty Ltd. operates as a software company that builds survey platform for people and culture. Its platform that enables human resources departments how employees feel about the organization work and how company culture stacks up against competitors in the industry. The company was founded in 2011 by Didier Elzinga, Jonathan Williams, Douglas English and Rod Hamilton and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Part of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood Credit, Inc. is a credit card company that offers the x1 card, which is built with stainless steel and laser etching technology. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The x1 card provides smart credit limits, a rewards program, and automated features to enhance the shopping and spending experience. Partnered with Visa Signature, the card can be used at millions of merchants worldwide. The company was founded by Deepak Rao and Siddharth Batra, with Deepak Rao serving as the CEO since incorporation. Robinhood Credit was acquired by Robinhood Markets, Inc. on July 03, 2023 for $104 million.

Opsera, Inc. is a unified DevOps platform that offers comprehensive orchestration for CI/CD pipeline creation and management, a marketplace of pre-built integrations, and complete analytic and reporting capabilities with actionable intelligence. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The platform enables toolchain automation within DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, increasing productivity, efficiency, and security of organizations. Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across the entire software delivery process. The company was founded in 2020 by Chandra Ranganathan and Kumar Chivukula. Kumar Chivukula has been the CEO since 2020.

Forsta AS is a customer experience and Norwegian market research technology company that was formed in 2021 through the merger of industry leaders Confirmit, FocusVision, and Dapresy. The company is based in Oslo, NO, and has subsidiaries in Australia, Norway, Canada, and the United States. The company provides a comprehensive platform for research and insights solutions, including CX, enterprise feedback management, VOC, VOE, qual, quant, data visualization, and more. Forsta's technology, combined with its team of expert consultants, helps thousands of organizations across various industries. Forsta was founded in 2021, and Kyle Ferguson has been the CEO of the company since 2020.