Joseph C. Panettieri

Golden Seeds LLC (Golden Seeds) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Stephanie Hanbury-Brown. The firm is headquartered in New York city with an additional offices in Arizona, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, New York and Silicon Valley.

Nine Lives Media Inc. defines emerging IT markets and disrupts established markets. They are creative, ambitious, and never satisfied with their business performance. Their media platforms MSPmentor, MSPtweet, The VAR Guy and VARtweet – lead their respective markets. Their newest launch – Talkin’ Cloud – is the first video blog and forum focused completely on cloud business models in the IT channel. And they are not done. Not by a long shot. They are striving to exceed reader and sponsor expectations. Their name — Nine Lives Media Inc. — reflects their ability to adapt to evolving IT media markets again and again. They embrace change. And they help their clients to reach new target audiences across emerging media. Their corporate name also reminds them of their personal priorities. Nine individual lives their co-founders and their immediate families gave this venture the green light.

Ziff Davis LLC publishes digital media content. The company was founded by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis in 1927 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cyberrisk Alliance LLC is a business intelligence company. It serves the cyber security and information risk management marketplace. The company was founded by Douglas J. Manoni in November 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Channel Angels (Channel Angels) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Joe Panettieri. The firm is headquartered in Florida.