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PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ProfitLine, Inc. addresses the growing challenges that global enterprises face in the day-to-day management of mobile devices, communications services, and carrier contracts. Its mobility management and communications spend experts provide sourcing, inventory, device, and spend management solutions to enterprises, multinational organizations, and global integrators & suppliers of communications products. ProfitLine serves Global 2000 enterprises. The firm also serves clients in all major industries including healthcare, government, financial services, retail, energy, manufacturing, media, publishing, technology, and consulting.

Digital Harbor, Inc. provides software solutions. It also provides risk management and compliance solutions for the financial services, industry, and public sector clients. The company was founded by Rohit Agarwal in 1997 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Berkshire Capital Securities LLC operates as an independent employee-owned investment bank specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions in the financial services sector. The company has partners located in Philadelphia, Denver, London, Frankfurt and Sydney. Berkshire Capital majorly transacts in the wealth management, money management, alternatives, real estate and broker/dealer industries. The company was founded in 1983 and headquartered in New York.

Planful, Inc. provides corporate performance management solutions for manufacturing, retail, healthcare, technology, financial, and entertainment industries. It offers budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting, and analysis. The firm also offers classroom training, virtual classes, recordings, certification, and training guides. The company was founded by James A. Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni in May 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Rapid Ratings International, Inc. operates as a corporate rating agency. The firm’s solutions include supplier risk management, corporate credit risk management, institutional investment, vendor risk management in financial institutions, insurance underwriting, loss avoidance and credit risk assessment, and capital markets. The company was founded by James H. Gellert, Patrick Caragata, Douglas Cameron and Jonathan Lieberman in February 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Virtana Corp. engages in the development of an artificial intelligence for information technology operations (AIOps) providing infrastructure monitoring and artificial intelligence-powered analytics. It offers VirtualWisdom, WorkloadWisdom, and metricly for public cloud products. It also offers hybrid information technology infrastructure management, technology solutions, and storage performance validation. The firm serves the healthcare, government, financial services, retail and marketing, telecommunications and cloud service providers, energy and utilities, and technology vendors. The company was founded by Mark R. Urdahl in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

NexGen Storage, Inc. operates as a computer data storage company. It offers both Storage QoS for managing performance and Service Levels for critical application performance. The company was founded by John W. Spiers and Kelly C. Long in 2010 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Aspire Financial Services LLC provides retirement plan solutions to small and medium sized businesses, organizations, and government entities. It leverages its proprietary technology platform to offer services to plan sponsors, third party administrators, and advisors through a web interface containing research, tools, and access to investment products. The company was founded by James J. Olson, Manish Gupta and Michael A. Gottfried in 2002 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Hired, Inc. provides recruiting services. It operates a marketplace that enables tech companies to recruit engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers. The company was founded by Mehul Patel, Matt Mickiewicz, Douglas Feirstein and Allan Grant in April 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

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.

Lufthansa Systems AG provides information technology services to the airline industry. It provides IT consultancy services, development of company-specific applications, implementation of communication systems and desktop services up to complete IT outsourcing. The company operates in 16 countries. The firm is headquartered in Kelsterbach, Germany.

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.

Doetsch Grether AG engages in the marketing, sale, and distribution of pharmaceutical, over-the-counter, and consumer care products. It distributes its products under the Grether's Pastilles, Magnesium-Diasporal 300, Sulgan N, Magnesium-Diasporal activ, PERNATON, cannaQIX, Bi-Oil, OMEGA-life, ceylor, Liberol N & Baby N, MUM deodorant, Basica, neo-angin, neo-angin protect, neo-angin spray, Tiger Balm, CALMERPHAN-L, Blistex, pearl drops, BITE-X, Grefen, ANDREA, MENNEN, TestPack, Quilonorm, celeste, and exacto brands. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Berenson & Co, Inc. is a merchant bank that was founded in 1990. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company has two principal lines of business which are investment banking and private equity investing. The company was founded by Robb Eric Turner and Jeffrey L. Berenson. Jeffrey L. Berenson has been the CEO since incorporation.

Integrity Venture Services LLC(Vista Ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000 by Catharine Merigold and Dave E. Dwyer. The Firm is headquartered in Boulder.

Credit Suisse (Singapore) Ltd. (Credit Suisse-Singapore) is the Singapore-based subsidiary of Credit Suisse AG, itself a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (VX: CSGN; ADR: CS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1971, the firm provides investment banking, private banking and asset management services to a range of corporate and institutional clients and high-net worth individuals. Credit Suisse-Singapore is headquartered in Singapore City.

Hercules Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Scott Harvey, Manuel Henriquez, and Roy Liu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Pacific Management Partners LLC (Pacific Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Craig Hanson. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Egress Software Technologies Ltd. provides software and encryption services. Its products include desktop encryption, mobile encryption, gateway encryption, automated encryption and secure Web forms. The company was founded by Tony Pepper, and Neil Larkins in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Harmony Partners Management Co. LLC (Harmony Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Mark J. Lotke. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Sysxnet Ltd. engages in the provision of payment card industry compliance services. It offers security and compliance, proactive date security, envoy and cyber risk solutions. The company was founded by Tom Moynagh in 1989 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

ReliaQuest LLC provides enterprise security solutions. It offers detection and response, security and engineering, threat management, and delivery management. The company was founded by Brian P. Murphy in 2007 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

ThoughtSpot, Inc. provides search and data analysis software. Its data search appliance enables on-the-fly access and analysis of data at enterprise scale. The firm has developed a relational search engine and in-memory database designed for mid-to-large enterprises with natural language query so that enterprises have a way to search across all numerical data. The company was founded by Ajeet Singh, Amit Prakash, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan, Sanjay Agrawal, Abhishek Rai and Priyendra Deshwal on May 21, 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Gong Io, Inc. provides artificial conversation intelligence platform for sales. It develops software which automatically records, transcribes and analyzes sales conversations. The company was founded by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Aviso, Inc. provides portfolio management principles to business executives. Its platform extracts, analyzes and provides insights to generate scenarios, predict outcomes, understand risks and make decisions. The company was founded by K. V. Rao and Andrew Abrahams in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

True Potential Group Ltd. is a holding British company founded in 2015 that operates through its subsidiaries to provide financial advisory and investment management services. The private company is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

True Potential LLP provides investment and wealth management technology platform. The firm offers recruitment, client management, platform architecture, investment, and investment tools strategies. The company was founded by David George Harrison in 2007 and is headquartered in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the United Kingdom.

Square, Inc. is a private company that provides sellers with tools to reach buyers online and in person, manage their business, and access financing. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and has offices in various locations. Individuals can also use their Cash App to spend, send, store, and invest money. Additionally, Square has expanded its purpose of economic empowerment to artists through its music and entertainment platform, Tidal. Square was founded by Ariana Poursartip.

Centana Management LLC (Centana Growth Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Ben Cukier, Eric Byunn and Steve Swain. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional office in Palo Alto.