Tom Montgomery

Fred Alger Management LLC (FAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1964, the firm is wholly-owned by Alger Group Holdings LLC, which is wholly-owned by Alger Associates, Inc. FAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors through separate accounts, US and foreign registered and privately offered funds, as well as through third-party sponsored funds and bank sponsored collective investment trusts; and to retail investors through wrap programs and US and foreign registered funds.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

GenapSys, Inc. develops DNA sequencing technologies and systems for applied genomic testing and medical sequencing. It also develops gene electronic nano-integrated ultra-sensitive platform device for chip-based DNA sequencing. The company was founded by Hesaam Esfandyarpour in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

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.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Audax Private Equity (Audax Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of 101 Huntington Holdings LLC founded in 1999 by Geoff S. Rehnert and Marc B. Wolpow. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and additional office in San Francisco, California.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

LMCG Investments LLC (LMCG) is an independent employee-owned, SEC-registered investment management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was originally founded by Lee Munder in 2000 as Lee Munder Investments Ltd. and changed its name into LMCG Investments LLC at the end of 2014. LMCG offers a broad range of investment strategies and solutions to institutional and private clients, globally.

GreenOrder provides consulting services focusing on energy efficiency. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Worldwatch Institute operates as an environmental research organization. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Innovation Endeavors LLC (Innovation Endeavors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Dror Berman and Eric E. Schmidt. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is a global investment banking firm, SEC-registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, and futures commission merchant headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). MLPFS provide investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banks, insurance companies, thrift institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations and other types of business.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Chubbies, Inc. manufactures and sells shorts for men. The company was founded by Kyle G. Hency, Rainer Castillo, Preston Rutherford and Tom Montgomery in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gradescope, Inc. develops software that enables instructors to grade paper-based assignments and exams online and to provide feedback. It offers Gradescope, an application that helps instructors save time on grading. The company was founded by Sergey Karayev, Pieter Abbeel, Ibrahim Awwal, and Arjun Singh in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Auransa, Inc. develops biotechnologies and monoclonal antibody medicines. It applies novel data analysis techniques and algorithms to every step of the drug discovery and development pipeline to identify compounds, markers and new targets for specific patient populations. The firm offers SMarTR engine, a proprietary automated and scalable computational platform that characterizes disease heterogeneity and identifies compounds for specific patient sub-populations. The company was founded by Pek Yee Lum and Viwat Visuthikraisee and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Darmiyan, Inc. engages in development of a software platform that inputs human brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and produces maps that detect Alzheimer’s disease. The company was founded by Padideh Kamali-Zare, Thomas Liebmann, Hesaam Esfandyarpour, and Kaveh Vejdani in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Primer Technologies, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software which provides digging, compiling and summarizing data. The company was founded by Sean William Joseph Gourley and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Anagenex, Inc. is a company that uses high quality, large-scale data generation and AI to discover the next generation of small molecule medicines. Anagenex is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's platform leverages AI to design and synthesize hundreds of millions of target-specific compounds for testing in two weeks. The company's pipeline is focused on synthetic lethal oncology. The company was founded by Nicolas Tilmans and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Braid Health, Inc. operates as a holding company. The company was founded by Kevin Quennesson and Wei En Tan on August 20, 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Creyon Bio, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage drug development company based in San Diego, CA. The company is focused on developing precision oligonucleotide-based medicines (OBMs) such as ASOs, siRNAs, guide RNAs, RNA editing guides, mRNAs, and aptamers. Creyon Bio uses a data-first approach to generate powerful datasets and develop machine learning models to uncover the engineering principles that make precision OBMs possible for patient populations of all sizes. The CEO of the company is Christopher E Hart.

Dimension Management LP is based in New York, NY. Dimension Management LP is a company that partners with founders at the intersection of technology and life sciences. The company was founded by Adam Goulburn, Zavain Dar, Nan Li.

Hiro Systems PBC operates as a passcard identity company which builds access control on the block chain. The company was founded by Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hugging Face, Inc. develops a chatbot mobile application based on artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Julien Chaumond and Clement Delange and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Enveda Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, CO. The company has developed a drug discovery search engine that utilizes metabolomics and machine learning to create a high-resolution chemical map of the natural world. Enveda's team includes experienced drug hunters and data scientists who work together to tackle the toughest problems in drug discovery. The company was founded by Viswa Colluru and Pieter Dorrestein, with Viswa Colluru serving as CEO since incorporation.

Runway AI Inc. engage sin the provision of machine learning tool for creators. It focuses on its RunwayML product. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Counterparty is an American company that pioneers peer-to-peer finance. The non-profit company has a growing community of supporters and projects built on top of their technology. The company enables the creation of powerful applications that extend Bitcoin's functionality by encoding data in ordinary Bitcoin transactions. Custom tokens can be used for a wide range of purposes and act as their own cryptocurrency while still running on the Bitcoin blockchain. The company supports the development and adoption of valuable new features, all secured by the full power of the Bitcoin network.

SimpleBet, Inc. develops automation software solutions for sports events. The company was founded by Chris Bevilacqua, Scott Marshall, and Joey Levy in April, 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.