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Celect, Inc. develops predictive analytics platform for retail merchandise planning and product assortment optimization. Its solutions include predictive peronalization and markdown optimization. The company was founded by Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

StarVest Management Inc (Starvest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Farrington Anne Deborah, Laura Belle Sachar and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

ideeli, Inc. provides online shopping services. It offers women's fashion apparel, beauty products, and accessories, as well as products for men and home. The company was founded by Mark Uhrmacher and Paul Hurley in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Newgistics, Inc. provides e-commerce services to retailers. It offers end-to-end e-commerce solutions that integrate every step in the order life cycle from customer acquisition through fulfilment, delivery and returns. The firm offers technology-enabled parcel logistics and related services to the rapidly growing e-commerce and direct-to-consumer retail industry. The company was founded in 1999 by Philip S. Siegel and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Vesta Ventures LLC (Vesta Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Clayton Wyatt and Rich Ford. The firm is headquartered in Fairfax, California.

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL provides legal services. The company serves as legal business needs to client companies with specialized practices in such areas such as commercial finance, bankruptcy and real estate development. It was founded by John L. Muething and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Netpulse, Inc. operates as a media and data services company. Its application allows members to attract new prospects, convert prospects into members, engages members and keeps them coming back, increases revenue, and connects applications and devices, as well as offers mobile marketing solutions. The company was founded by Bryan Arp and Thomas A. Proulx in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

N.G. Partners II LLC provides investment management services. The company was founded on April 12, 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Verve Group, Inc. provides location-based mobile marketing solutions. It specializes in customer advisory panels, online brand communities, market research, agile insight and online communities. The company was founded by Thomas C. Kenney and Arthur Howe in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zvents, Inc. creates and operates local entertainment guides online. Its publications promote a range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities. The company was founded by Tyler Kovacs and Ethan Stock in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

1809 Capital (1809 Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by James T. Ryan, Mark R. Richey, and Tim R. Holcomb. The firm is headquartered in Oxford, Ohio.

NGP Capital (NGP Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Nokia Oyj founded in 2005 by John Gardner and Paul Asel. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

@hand provides field mobility software solutions for commercial enterprises and government organizations. It offers mobility software architecture and mobile solutions for field service, asset management, and supply chain environments. The firm solutions include equipment maintenance, facilities management, asset tracking, field sales inventory and supply management. The company was founded in 1998 by Michael T. Loos and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Cerebra, Inc. develops content integration solutions. It provides enterprise-ready, semantic technologies through its offices in Menlo Park, Boston, Washington DC and Manchester, UK. Its products provide an enterprise integration and business application environment on an SOA-ready platform based on the W3C's OWL, RDF, XML, SOAP and WSDL standards. Cerebra was founded in January, 2001 by Michael Lees & Ian Horrocks and is located in Carlsbad, CA

BlueRun Ventures, formerly Nokia Venture Partners, is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by W. Pete Buhl, John Gardner and John A. Malloy. The headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

AppFormix, Inc. provides gap between applications and infrastructure. Its software removes and prevents resource contention among applications on the infrastructure without being invasive to the applications. The company was founded by Sumeet Singh in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Palerra, Inc. provides stealth cloud security. It enables organizations to protect business-critical cloud infrastructure and data with LORIC, the cloud security automation platform. Palerra LORIC is the first CASB to combine threat detection, predictive analytics, security configuration management and automated incident response and remediation into a single solution. The company was founded by Rohit Gupta and Ganesh Kirti on July 12, 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Activant Capital Group LLC (Activant Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino. The firm is headquartered in the Greenwich, Connecticut.

NewStore, Inc. provides software services. The firm provides mobile retail platform that boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. Its solutions include conversion, omni channel, fulfillment, and loyalty. The company was founded by Stephan Schambach in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Gilgamesh Ventures LLC (Gilgamesh Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Miguel Armaza, Andrew Endicott and Sue Choe. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., Better Mortgage is a company based in New York, NY. Better Mortgage offers a seamless online mortgage experience with superior customer support. For more information about licensing and disclosure, visit better.com/about-us/licensing-disclosure. The company was founded in 2014 by Vishal Garg, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Deliverr, Inc. operates as an online marketplace. It offers walmart and eBay solutions. The company was founded by Michael Krakaris on August 11, 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zethos, Inc. provides human resource tools that automatically respond to lenders, landlords, and others who need to verify employment. The company was founded by Ryan Sandler, Victor Kabdebon and Ethan Winchell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bolt Financial, Inc. engages in the development of checkout experience platform. Its product, Bolt, optimizes conversions and manages hundreds of integrations and the rising risk of fraud. The company was founded by Eric Feldman and Ryan Breslow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

New Group Holdings, Inc. operates as early stage company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

WellAware Holdings, Inc. operates as an industrial internet of things (IOT) data company that engages in the provision of end-to-end solutions for oilfield data collection, storage, visualization, and decision analysis. It offers remote production and genset remote monitoring, chemical injection automation, preventive maintenance, internal corrosion treatment, operator chemical insights, methanol injection automation, and underground injection control solutions. It serves the communications, oil and gas, and industrial markets. The company was founded by Matt Harrison and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hybris GmbH provides multi-channel commerce and communications software solutions. The firm's product communication platform includes the PIM suite solution that permanently stores product data for various integrated e-commerce applications and print channels, and e-commerce suite and print suite solutions, which generate various sales channels. It has operations in United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. The company was founded by Carsten Thoma, Guenther Lamperstorfer and Moritz Zimmermann in 1997 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Tegile Systems, Inc. provides flash-driven storage arrays for databases, virtualized server and virtual desktop environments. Its products include IntelliFlash, IntelliCare, Hybrid Array and All-Flash Array. The firm offers server virtualization, desktop virtualization and database solutions. The company was founded by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Alok Agrawal and Justin Cheen in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Part of Oracle Corp., Cobalt Networks, Inc. is a company that provides server appliances to enable online presence. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Gordon A. Campbell, Robert N. Gunn, Vivek Mehra, Thomas Gilley. Cobalt Networks was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. on December 07, 2000 for $1,341.39 million.