Beth Spurgeon

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Better Rhodes Co. is a curated collection of alcohol-free beer, wine, and spirits. The company is based in Madison, CT. The company offers a wide range of non-alcoholic beverages, mocktail kits, gift boxes, and more. Better Rhodes aims to provide tasty alcohol-free options to anyone and everyone looking for them. The company's website features a simple search function that allows customers to filter their drinks by taste, ABV, dietary requirements, and more. Additionally, customers can find tried-and-tested food pairings and shop pre-mixed cocktails for a quick and easy AF happy hour. It was founded by Daniel Stiller, Dhimant Patel, Billy Poole, and Chris Becker, with Daniel Stiller serving as the CEO since incorporation.

InvestBev Group LLC (InvestBev Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Brian Rosen. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Top Shelf Ventures Management LLC (Top Shelf Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Jason Sherman and Noah Sanborn Friedman. The firm is headquartered in the United States.

Future Proof Brands LLC engages in the manufacture of boxed wine and cocktail. Its products include .tropical punch, blue razzberry, fruit punch, fresh watermelon, and pink lemonade. The company was founded by Justin Fenchel, Brad Schultz, and Aimy Steadman in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Speakeasy Co. operates as a technology company which develops e-commerce (electronic commerce) platform for the wine and spirits industry. it offers store customization; website redesign and development; digital advertising; warehousing and product fulfillment; brand merchandise fulfillment; and cocktail kit fulfillment services. The company was founded by Josh Jacobs and Michael Bowen in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Maker Wine Co. manufactures wines products. its products include organic viognier, chenin blanc, rosé wine, and maker mixed pack. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Good Beverage LLC offers wellness products. The company was founded by Britt Dougherty and Ashley Selman and is headquartered in Hinsdale, IL.

Heritage Distilling Co., Inc. manufactures and markets sprits. It offers whiskey, vodka, and gin. The company was founded by Jennifer Stiefel and Justin Stiefel in November 2011 and is headquartered in Gig Harbor, WA.

Archer Roose LLC produces and supplies wine. The company was founded by David Waldman and Marian Leitner-Waldman in 2015 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

DRNXMYTH, Inc. is a bottled cocktail company that specializes in bringing fresh craft cocktails to people through proprietary fresh bottling technology. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA and has experienced rapid growth over the past three years, generating over $6.50 million in revenue. The company has a specialized manufacturing process that utilizes all fresh ingredients and pressurizes the cocktails, so they stay fresh in a refrigerator for up to 75 days. The company works with the top bartenders in the industry and commercialize their recipes. DRNXMYTH is known for its patented bottle technology that allows for the creation of fresh bottled cocktails. With an 11% compound annual growth rate propelling forward the RTD category, DRNXMYTH is poised to become the leader in the ultra-premium RTD segment, which is growing at 600% year-over-year.

Lunar Brands, Inc. is an online platform that sells drinks made from real fruits. The American company was founded in 2019 by Sean Ro and Kevin Wong.

Next Century Spirits LLC engages in manufacturing, processing and supplying of distilled spirits. The firm offers whiskey, rum, taquila and other flavoured products and liqueurs. The company was founded by Scott Bolin in 2018 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Baker Tilly US LLP engages in the provision of accounting and financial advisory services. It offers assurance, consulting, and risk advisory services. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Nbtv Inc. is a premium content studio that operates at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and the connected consumer. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2006. Nick Buzzell has been the CEO of the company since 2008.

Sourced Craft Cocktails Corp. operates as a wedding venue. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Nipyata, Inc. is a company that specializes in creating boozy piñatas filled with mini plastic bottles of liquor and candy chasers. The company is based in Stamford, CT. The company offers a wide array of spirits from the world's greatest brands and deliver pre-loaded Booze-Filled Piñatas, Drinkable Greeting Cards, and Boozy Advent Calendars. The company was founded by Andrew Hench, Will Hench, and Daniel Cedrone.

Surterra Holdings, Inc. operates as a health and wellness firm. It offers vape pens, oils, lotions, and sprays. The company was founded by Robert Jacob Bergmann in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Pernod Ricard USA LLC sells and distributes liquor products such as beer, distilled spirits, and wine. Its brands include The Glenlivet, Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Wild Turkey Bourbon, Seagram's Extra Dry Gin, Beefeater Gin, Plymouth Gin, Martell Cognac, Malibu flavored Rum, Kahlua Liqueur, Hiram Walker Liqueurs, Pernod and Ricard. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deane & Hoyle Brands, Inc. manufactures wines. The company is based in Vestavia Hills, AL.

Ascend Leadership is a non-profit membership organization for business professionals.

The Howard Hughes Corp. engages in the development and management of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate. It operates through the following segments: Operating Assets, Master Planned Communities, Seaport District, and Strategic Developments. The Operating Assets segment consists of retail, office, hospitality, and multi-family properties along with other real estate investments. The Master Planned Communities segment focuses on the development and sale of land in large-scale, long-term community development projects in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, Houston, Texas, and Columbia, Maryland. The Seaport District operates approximately 453,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, and entertainment properties situated in three primary locations in New York, New York: Pier 17, Historic Area/Uplands, and Tin Building. The Strategic Developments segment is involved in other real estate assets in the form of entitled and unentitled land and residential condominium developments. The company was founded in July 2010 and is headquartered in Woodlands, TX.

Forward Ventures Services LLC (Forward Ventures ) is a venture capital firm founded in 1990 by Standish M. Fleming and Ivor Royston. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Patient Square Capital is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded by Jim Momtazee and Maria Walker. Patient Square Capital is headquartered in Menlo Park.

MedicineNet, Inc. operates an Internet Website that provides health care information. It offers information about news and views, diseases and conditions, symptoms and signs, procedures and tests, medications, health and living, and online medical dictionary sections. The company was founded by David D. Hsu in 1996 and is headquartered in Elmwood Park, NJ.

Points of Light Foundation, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization that provides social services. It helps schools, children and families and also volunteers in their communities and serves community needs. The company was founded by George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.