Bob A. Compton

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. used to develop, make and market spinal implant devices. The company's products included invasive devices, bone replacement material, interbody fusion devices, surgical navigation technology and hedrocel material. Sofamor Danek was located in Memphis, TN

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. provides clinical software, connectivity, and information solutions for physicians in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Software and Related Services, Information Services, and Prepackaged Medications. The software and Related Services segment consists of clinical software solutions, including TouchWorks, TouchScript, and Impact.MD.

Interactive Intelligence, Inc. provided business communications solutions. It offered a suite of applications that can be deployed as a cloud-based or on-premise multichannel communications platform. The firm solutions were used by businesses and organizations across a wide range of industries, including teleservices, insurance, banking, accounts receivable management, utilities, healthcare, retail, technology, government, and business services. The company was founded by Donald E. Brown in October 1994 and was headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

ExactTarget LLC provides cross-channel interactive marketing software-as-a-service solutions. It offers open application programming interfaces and developer tools that allows third parties to embed its technology into solutions and build applications on its platform. The company was founded by Aaron Gotwalt, Christopher Baggott, Peter D. McCormick and Scott D. Dorsey in December 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Vontoo, Inc. provided automated voice messaging solutions. The company was founded by Robert A. Compton and Dustin K. Sapp in 2005 and was headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

CID Capital, Inc. operates as a venture capital company. It provides private equity funds to lower-middle market companies throughout the United States. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation operates as a private, nonpartisan foundation that works in entrepreneurship and education to create uncommon solutions and connect people to the tools they need to shape their futures and be successful. It works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. It works with educators and researchers nationwide to create awareness of economic impact of entrepreneurship. The company was founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.