Jared Payne

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Element Analytics, Inc. provides industrial analytics software. It also provides actionable insight and foresight into daily operations. The firm offers solutions to a variety of industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, utilities, diversified, and more. The company was founded by Sameer Kalwani and David Mount in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Riverstone Holdings LLC operates as an energy focused investment manager. It conducts buyout and growth capital investments in the exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services, power, and renewable sectors of the energy industry. The company was founded by David Matthew Leuschen and Pierre Fernard Lapeyre, Jr. in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Omnidian, Inc. engages in operation as a solar asset management firm that offers residential rooftop arrays. It offers risk assessment, portfolio management, and operations and reporting services. The company was founded by Mark Liffman, Ray Szylko, and David Kenny and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Mission Secure, Inc. develops cyber defense software which controls physical assets. The company was founded by David Drescher, Daniel Park and Barry Horowitz in 2014 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Everactive, Inc. provides technology services. It offers sub-threshold processing and extremely low power RF technology to build the world’s lowest power wireless systems-on-chip. The company was founded by Denton Calhoun, David Wenzloff and Brendan Richaedson in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Shoreline AS provides web based simulation software and consulting for the offshore wind industry. Its software assists developers, OEMs, financial institutions, insurance companies, vessel owners and service providers in general in analyzing the entire offshore wind project life cycle from early project assessment until decommission. The company was founded by Ole-Erik Vestøl Endrerud in 2014 and is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

Raptor Maps, Inc. uses remote sensing and data analytics to monitor crop health. It utilizes unmanned aerial vehicles and autopilot systems to capture agricultural data. The company was founded by Nikhil Vadhavkar, Forrest Meyen and Eddie Obropta, Jr. in 2015 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA.

Mira Labs, Inc. designs and develops smartphone powered augmented reality headset. The company was founded by Ben Taft, Matt Stern and Montana Reed and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

First Resonance, Inc. develops software solutions to aerospace manufacturing. Its product, Testhub, is a hardware testing platform that allows companies to manage, execute, and analyze real-world hardware tests. The firm has created industry-specific solutions to replace old methods of tracking and shipping rocketship parts. The company was founded by Karan Talati in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

EnMass Energy Corp. is a waste-to-energy technology platform that connects waste suppliers with energy project operators. EnMass Energy is based in Durham, NC, and the CEO of the company is Andrew Joiner. EnMass Energy is a leading software provider for businesses that want to optimize their waste-to-energy supply chains. The company's solution deploys mobile apps to vendors and provides waste-to-energy providers with a custom dashboard to track the entire process in real-time. The company was founded in 2012 and provides advisory services for complex energy projects.

CSL Capital Management LLC (CSL Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Charles Leykum in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

DeepIQ, Inc. provides software and services to enterprises seeking to accelerate their data science and AI efforts. The company is based in Houston, TX. The company was founded in 2016 by Viswanath Avasarala. Viswanath Avasarala has been the CEO since 2016.

Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship is a nationally recognized initiative devoted to supporting technology commercialization, entrepreneurship education, and the launch of technology companies. The private company is based in Houston, TX. The company connects startups to capital, networks, and success. Rice Alliance has supported over 3,165 companies in its 20+ years of startup support, raising $23.60 billion in funding. The company hosts both large-scale and more intimate events to bring together investors, corporations, startups, and technology ventures for deal-flow, networking, and discussions. Rice Alliance has subsidiaries in the United States.

QuantumPro, Inc. operates as an oil and American energy company.

Advantek Waste Management Services LLC provides waste management services. It services include Treatment and Recycling, Disposal and Consulting and Software Licensing. The company was founded by Ahmed Abou-Sayed on August 15, 2014 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Biota Technology, Inc. applies deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing and data science to explore the earth's subsurface. It offers DNA data services for production profiling, sweet spot identification, and reservoir connectivity. The company was founded by Ajay Kshatriya and Rob Knight in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Wireless Seismic, Inc. provides scalable wireless seismic recording systems. Its technology, RT System 2, immediately transmits data to a central location, the RT System 2 eliminates longstanding risk of data loss and reshooting due to unit theft, damage or malfunction, and the issues related to data collection and transcription. The company was founded by Douglas B. Crice, Roy Kligfield, and Mihai Beffa in 2006 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX.

Infrastructure Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of wireless infrastructure and communications solutions. It offers virtual private radio networks, 4G LTE cellular technology, industrial Internet of things, bulk bandwidth, subscription based transit pipe services, FastL2 - transparent ethernet circuits over any IP network, CloudCore LTE service management, and broadband router solutions. The company was founded by Jack M. Fields Jr., Stanley R. Hughey, and Kori Kalich-Ugalde in March 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Machfu Inc. develops and maintains applications and infrastructure in industrial Internet of things enabling data, analytics, and visualization on mobile tablets and computers. Its products include MACHGateway and MACHData. The firm’s solutions include grid automation and digital oil field. The company was founded by Prakash Chakravarthi and John Geiger in 2015 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

Tourmaline Labs, Inc. develops artificial intelligence technology platform. It offers TL Trip, TL Behaviour, TL Insight, and TL KIT and open API solutions. The firm serves transportation, insurance, OEM and general mobility industries. The company was founded by Lukas Kuhn and Sven Beerweiler in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Datch, Inc. develops and operates software platform for communication. The firm specializes in industrial internet of things, internet 4.0, machine learning, industrial analytics, data consolidation and natural language processing. The company was founded by Ben Purcell and Mark Fosdike in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nanosys, Inc. develops and manufactures inorganic nanostructures and other related products. It offers Ultra HD television. The company was founded by Paul A. Alivisatos, Stephen Empedocles, Peidong Yang, Robert M. Metcalfe, Jim Heath, Paul McEuen, Christoph H. Westphal, Moungi Bawendi, Lawrence A. Bock, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Chunming Niu, Karen Vergura, Hongkun Park, George Pontis and Charles M. Lieber in 2001 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Crosslink Capital, Inc. founded in 1989 by Sy F. Kaufman and Michael Joseph Stark. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Verodin, Inc. engages in the provision of security infrastructure management and monitoring solutions. It develops a platform to test weaknesses in company cybersecurity networks. The company was founded by Christopher Key and Ben Cianciaruso in 2014 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Neohapsis LLC provides mobile and cloud security services. It offers cloud security, compliance services, information technology and security strategy, application and mobile security, network and endpoint security services. The company serves the financial services, insurance, healthcare, science and technology, retail, energy and transportation, government, education and nonprofit organizations. The company was founded by Greg Shipley in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Samsung Venture Investment Corp. (SVIC) is a corporate venture capital investment firm based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1999, they manage investment and investment-related activities for the Samsung Group. The parent firm, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Seoul, produces semiconductors, business communications systems, reciprocating and rotary compressors, optical and hard disc drives, LCD panels, set-top boxes, CC televisions, as well as fiber optics. In 2004, SVIC established Samsung Ventures America, their US-based venture capital arm.

YotaScale, Inc. operates as an enterprise-grade systems management platform for cloud computing. The firm provides autonomous cloud systems management. The company was founded by Asim Razzaq, Imran Moin, Michael Babiak and Abbas Yousafzai in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.