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Defiance Ventures LLC (Defiance Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by John Espey, Tareq Amin and Kevin O'Dell. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., ICL Group is a British company that produces and sells organic fertilizer under the brand name Polysulphate. The company is also involved in mining salt at their Boulby Mine location, which has been a part of ICL Group since 2002. The company has reached a milestone of 1 million tonnes of polyhalite mined at ICL Boulby and continues to be a significant employer in the North York Moors National Park region.

Invensys Ltd. designs and manufactures software products, systems, and control equipment to various markets. Its Software segment develops and supplies industrial software products including SimSci-Esscor, a design, simulation, and optimization software, as well as a trading, planning, and scheduling software. The company was founded on April 1, 1920 and is headquartered in Telford, he United Kingdom.

Defiance Digital LLC provides cloud services that can be customized to fit the needs of businesses as they evolve. The company is based in Charlotte, NC. The company's solutions create a seamless cloud environment to serve as the foundation of development. Defiance Digital was founded by Kevin O'Dell, John R. Espey.

Copeley Capital Management Co Inc (Copeley Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Lane E. Faison. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Voltagrid LLC provides comprehensive solutions that enable utilities to achieve operational efficiencies. The company is headquartered in Bellaire, TX.

Lobby Cre LLC is a data analytics and management platform designed specifically for commercial real estate. Lobby Cre is based in Charlotte, NC and was founded by Rob J. Finlay. The private company transforms commercial real estate asset management by providing automated operational and financial data intake, intelligent performance analysis and reporting, industry benchmarking, and configurable dashboards all within one platform. The platform enables commercial real estate firms to transform their portfolio with intelligent analysis, industry benchmarking, and asset management, allowing access to all data sources and automating performance reporting across all properties from a single platform. The CEO is Anne Hollander.

Stratifyd, Inc. provides a data-driven visual analytics platform. Its platform identifies hidden trends, patterns, locations, correlations, communities, and outlying themes in large pools of data. The company was founded by Derek Wang in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

New South Financial Services, Inc. engages in development mobile and web-based solutions to help consumers optimize the value of financial products. The company was founded on June 24, 2013 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

CLD Partners LLC specializes in enterprise financialforce implementations and enterprise quote-to-cash solutions on Salesforce. The private company is based in Front Royal, VA. The company has helped hundreds of clients in various industries with custom implementations and have developed their latest tool, PSQuote, after years of custom development for individual clients. Let CLD Partners help you implement Certinia (formerly FinancialForce) right the first time. The company was founded in 2010 by Steve Clune and Tom Lagarde, with Steve Clune serving as the CEO since then.

Harren Equity Partners LLC (Harren Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Thomas A. Carver and Hunter Reichert. The firm is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia with an additional office in Lauderdale, Florida.

Hope Gas, Inc. transmits, storages, and distributes natural gas. Itserves customers throughout counties in West Virginia by using an extensive pipeline system. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Clarksburg, WV.

The East Ohio Gas Co. engages in the distribution of natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in eastern and western Ohio. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Peoples Natural Gas Co. LLC provides natural gas utility services. It provides natural gas service to homes and businesses in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. The company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Community Foundation, Inc. operates as a community foundation that provides stewardship services for endowments. The firm works with donors and partner organizations to address needs through grant making, leadership and community development programs. It administers charitable grant-making funds established by individuals and corporations for the purpose of benefiting non-profit community organizations. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation raises funds and manages investments. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Dominion Generation, Inc. distributes and sells electricity. It offers regulated electric transmission and natural gas transmission pipeline. The firm also offers producer services that comprise aggregation of gas supply, services related to gas transportation and storage and associated gas trading services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

YMCA of Greater Richmond provides support to its community. It offers lectures, devotional meeting, and Bible classes to young men. The firm also manages health and fitness, swimming and aquatics, child care, youth and family, programs, and youth and teem camps. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

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.

Tallan, Inc. develops information technology software solutions. It focus on portals and collaboration, business intelligence, application integration, mobile platforms, user experience, e-commerce, web development, and cloud services. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT.