Scott Mercer

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tortoise Capital Advisors LLC (TCA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor firm headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded by Harold Birzer in 2002 and is a subsidiary of TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC (formerly Tortoise Borrower LLC), ultimately held by TortoiseEcofin Investments LLC. TCA provides investment management services to individual and institutional investors and pooled investment vehicles.

Lightfoot Capital Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in middle market companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for buyout transactions.

XMS Capital Partners LLC engages in the provision of financial advisory services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, initial public offering, and debt restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by John Spence and Theodore Brombach in 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

TortoiseEcofin Investments LLC engages in the provision of investment advisory services. It also offers investment vehicles which includes closed-end, open end, interval, and private funds. The company was founded by H. Kevin Birzer, David J. Schulte, Zachary A. Hamel, Kenneth P. Malvey, and Terry C. Matlack in December 2002 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Zenith Energy LP develops and operates terminals that store and distribute petroleum. The company is headquartered in Metuchen, NJ.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Part of James River Coal Co., International Resource Partners LP produces and sells metallurgical and steam coal. The private company is based in South Charleston, WV. International Resource Partners was acquired by James River Coal Co. from Lightfoot Capital Partners Fund on April 18, 2011 for $475 million.

Bitcentral, Inc. provides digital streaming solutions. It offers news content production, distribution and aggregation solutions. The firm also provides engineering and proactive monitoring services. The company was founded by Fred Fourcher in 2000 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Aurora Solar, Inc. operates cloud-based platform that enables solar photovoltaic engineering design, supports operations and facilitates. The company was founded by Christopher Hopper and Samuel Adeyemo in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Virgo Investment Group LLC (Virgo Investment Group) is a private equity firm founded by Jesse Watson and Barry Jay Uphoff in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Choose Energy, Inc. provides online energy platform. It provides comparison shopping for consumers and business owners on its monthly energy bill. The firm finds cheaper energy for homes and businesses, compare electricity rates between supplier and switch energy suppliers. The company was founded by Jerry C. Dyess in 2008 and is headquartered in Fort Mill, SC.

Part of Lightfoot Capital Partners LP, Lightfoot Capital Partners GP LLC is an American investment company that focuses on energy-related businesses. The private company is based in DE and was founded by Vincent T. Cubbage.

Part of Zenith Energy LP, Zenith Energy Logistics GP LLC operates as a holding American company. Jeffrey R. Armstrong has been the CEO of the private company since 2014.

Dronedeploy, Inc. operates a smart drone management platform. Its products includes mobile app, enterprise, live app and app market. The company was founded by Nicholas Pilkington, Michael Winn and Jono Millin in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Optimus Ride, Inc. designs and develops a self-driving technology for geo-fenced environments. The firm also offers transport solutions. The company was founded by Ramiro Almeida, Ryan Chin, Albert Huang, Sertac Karaman, and Jenny Larios Berlin in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Organoponicos Co. Ltd. provides online flower bouquet, basket and plant delivery services. The company was founded on November 18, 2014 by Gyu-Hyeong Lim and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Nozomi Networks, Inc. provides operational technology and Internet of things security and visibility services. It offers guardian, central management console, threat and asset intelligence and smart polling. The firm provides solutions for building automation systems, electric utilites, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, transportation and logistics. The company was founded by Andrea Carcano and Moreno Carullo in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Smartcar, Inc. operates a software platform for car services. The company was founded by Sanketh Katta and Sahas Katta and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SiteTracker, Inc. develops enterprise project management software for site based projects. It serves to telecommunications, utilities, smart cities, and alternative energy industries. The company was founded by Timothy May and Brett Cupta in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Gradient Ventures (Gradient Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2017 by Zach Bratun Glennon. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Matroid, Inc. acts as computer vision company. Its product provides a studio allowing users to monitor streams of video data in the cloud and on edge devices. The company was founded by Reza Zadeh and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Activate Capital Management LP (Activate Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Anup M Jacob, David Lincoln and Rajesh Atluru. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Zededa, Inc. develops software applications and provides information technology services. It focuses on industrial automation, energy and automotive. The company was founded by Said Ouissal and Roman Shaposhnik in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Jupiter Intelligence, Inc. develops climate score intelligence platform which offers weather and climate data, trend visualizations, forecasts, weather models and climate models. The company was founded by Rich Sorkin, Eric Wun, Josh Hacker and Alan Blumberg in 2017 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

80 Acres Urban Agriculture LLC provides and distributes fresh produce products. It offers herbs, vine crops, microgreens, leafy greens, and fruits. The company was founded by Tisha Livingston and Mike Zelkind in 2015 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.