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Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

PAETEC Corp. provides integrated communication services. Its services include voice, data and Internet protocol and enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE and managed services. The firm's customers include the financial services, government, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, manufacturing and distribution, professional services and retail industries. The company was founded in May, 1998 by Arunas A. Chesonis & Jack Baron and is headquartered in Fairport, NY

HM Publishing Corp. publishes textbooks and dictionaries. The firm develops educational programs, comprised primarily of textbooks, workbooks, supplemental materials, teaching guides, technology-based components and other resources. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SweetWater Energy, Inc. uses a unique technology to produce low-cost nanofibrillated cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, cellulosic sugars, and clean lignin from non-food plant materials. SweetWater Energy was founded in 2009 as a spinout from the Rochester Institute of Technology, with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. The company is based in Rochester, NY. The company aims to meet the increasing bioenergy and biochemical demands of the modern world. The company's vision expanded as their technology developed and its capabilities grew. The company was founded in 2009 by Jerry W. Horton. Arunas A. Chesonis has been the CEO of the company since 2011.

Accion Systems, Inc. develops electric propulsion systems for small satellites. It offers tile satellite and custom configurations. The company was founded by Natalya Brikner and Louis Perna on January 31, 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

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.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (Epoch) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Bill Priest and David Pearl in 2004. They are a subsidiary of TD Bank US Holding Co., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) in Canada. Epoch provides investment advisory services to primarily institutional clients.

Acofi Gestion SA is the financial services subsidiary of ACOFI SCA in France. Founded by Thibault de Saint Priest and Francois Delavenne in 1998, the firm is headquartered in Paris.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

PAETEC Holding LLC provides integrated broadband communications services. It offers comprehensive suite of IP, voice, data and Internet services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE and managed services. The firm’s primary business is providing business end-user customers in metropolitan areas with a package of integrated broadband communications services that encompasses data services, including internet access services and virtual private network services and voice services, including local telephone services and domestic and international long distance services. The company was founded in August 2006 and is headquartered in Fairport, NY.

Hastings Equity Partners LLC (Hastings Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Edward Ted Patton. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

SWM International, Inc. is an American leading performance materials company that designs and manufactures highly engineered films, adhesive tapes, foams, nets, nonwovens, and papers for various industries and specialty applications. The private company is based in Alpharetta, GA. The company collaborates with industry leaders to develop and manufacture innovative skin-friendly medical device fixation and topical solutions. The company's state-of-the-art facilities enable them to offer customers the whole spectrum of production services from inception through to market delivery. SWM International and its subsidiaries manufacture on four continents, conduct business in over 90 countries, and employ approximately 5,000 people worldwide.

Charter Private Capital Management, Inc. (Charter Private Capital) is a venture capital/private equity, subsidiary of Charter Capital Holdings, Inc. founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Part of KeyCorp, KeyBank Real Estate Capital Markets, Inc. operates as a full-service capital provider and commercial mortgage servicer. The company is based in Duluth, GA.

Colorado Clean Energy Cluster provides clean energy education and empowerment initiative programmes. The private company is based in Colorado.

Pelican Energy Partners ( Pelican Energy Partners ) is a private equity firm founded by Michael Scott in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Undercurrent LLC provides organizational design, strategy, and management consulting services for companies and organizations. Its devise, orchestrate, and measure organizational changes at the enterprise, business unit, department or team level. It serves financial services, consumer packaged goods, luxury and beauty, media and entertainment, medical services, energy, pharmaceuticals, government and the public sector, restaurants and hospitality, retail, technology, telecoms, and automotive and transportation. The company was founded by Aaro Dignan in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Soko, Inc. designs and operates fashion jewelry. It offers necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings. The company was founded by Gwendolyn Floyd, Catherine Mahugu and Gwendolyn Floyd and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Unreasonable Capital Management LLC (Unreasonable Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Daniel Epstein. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Greentown Labs operates as a community of climatetech and cleantech pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Rockies Venture Adviser LLC (Rockies Venture) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Rockies Venture Club Inc founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Slack Technologies LLC (Slack Technologies) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

C2Sense, Inc. develops chemiresistive gas sensors for food and agriculture applications. Its sensors are used to detect ethylene, biogenic amines, and other relevant gases and sub-ppm concentrations; and monitor fruit ripeness and meat, fish and poultry freshness at all stages of the supply chain. The company was founded by Timothy M. Swager, Jan Schnorr and Eric Keller and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Via Separations, Inc. develops and manufactures membrane. It specializes in food and beverage filtration, concentration and desalting, chemical refining, chemical purification, oil and gas, pulp and paper, specialty and commodity chemicals, biosynthetics, and pharmaceutical purification. The company was founded by Shreya Dave, Brent Keller, Jeff Grossman and Karen Golmar and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Unreasonable Adventures operates an online reservation system for the guiding industry.

Makerbay Ltd. is a non-profit organization that aims to achieve positive social and environmental impact through maker education and innovation. The Chinese company works with makers, community centers, and the public to address environmental and social issues. The company recently participated in the "Jockey Club AI Community Innovation Programme - Showcase Day" where they demonstrated products created by program participants using AI. Makerbay is eager to take on new challenges and has been working towards creating an impact on society since its establishment. The company also focuses on preserving coral reefs and curbing climate change. Additionally, they explore design thinking as an approach to designing curricula and learning experiences that meet users' needs.

Xibus Systems, Inc. engages in developing a microbiological testing solution applicable to pathogens, allergens and spoilage organisms. The company was founded by Chris Hartshorn and Kent Harvey in 2018 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Girl Effect Accelerator is the world's first accelerator dedicated to adolescent girls. The accelerator is a partnership between the Nike Foundation and Unreasonable Group, and it aims to support startups that are positioned to benefit millions of girls in poverty. The program provides world-class mentors, strategic financing, and access to a network of support to selected ventures. The inaugural program was launched in November 2014, and it connected ten select ventures with mentors and support. The accelerator aims to rapidly increase the positive impact these ventures already have for girls living in poverty. The American company was founded by Daniel Epstein.

Aramis Biosciences is a clinical-stage immuno-ophthalmology biopharmaceutical company based in Medfield, MA. Aramis Biosciences is committed to developing disease-modifying therapy for ocular surface disease, starting with dry eye disease. The company's lead product candidate, A197, is a novel, first-in-class, topical immunomodulatory agent currently in a phase II clinical proof of concept for the treatment of dry eye disease. The company was founded in 2018 by Sunil Chauhan, Reza Dana, and the CEO is David S. Tierney. Aramis Biosciences was founded by leading experts in the fields of corneal disorders, ocular inflammation, and immunology from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear and the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, with support from Safar Partners, Dompé Farmaceutici S.p.A., and a leader in ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.

Precog Data, Inc. is a data loading and transformation solution that moves data from any source to any destination. The company is based in Boulder, CO, and the CEO of the company is Jeff Carr. The company's platform, Precog for ServiceTitan, connects directly to ServiceTitan data via API and allows users to build tables for BI or ML applications in minutes. Precog's universal API connector provides a webform for configuring access to any REST API, making it easy to access any API data regardless of structure.

Career Allies, Inc., operating under the name Tilt, offers a leave management system to help companies manage employee leave. The company is based in Fort Collins, CO, and the CEO of the company is Jennifer Henderson. The company provides personalized step-by-step leave plans for each employee, including pre-leave, on-leave, and return-to-work plans. Tilt offers a transparent pricing model with one flat rate for unlimited leave management, and provides a knowledge center with resources such as ebooks, best practice guides, and industry blog articles.