Kirk A. Ziehm

Aventri, Inc. provides software for cloud-based analytics for end to end event management and venue sourcing. It offers event management software, meetings management, mobile events app, venue sourcing, survey solutions, and email marketing. The firm serves education, financial services, technology, media, automotive, and airlines sectors. The company was founded by Leonora Valvo in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Sunstone Partners Management LLC (Sunstone Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Gus Alberelli, Mike Biggee, John Moragne and Arneek Multani. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

Primus Capital Partners, Inc. (Primus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Loyal Wilson. The firm is headquartered in Pepper Hike, Ohio.

Achievers, Inc. designs and delivers management solutions for employee engagement and business alignment. Its platform features health and wellness, recruiting referrals, innovation, living company values, sales incentives, security and safety, and years of service. The company was founded by Razor Suleman in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Steele Compliance Solutions, Inc. provides compliance and integrated risk management solutions. It offers regulatory due diligence, third-party program advisory services, program management services, and compliance workflow, analytics and benchmarking. The company was founded by Kenneth Kurtz in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

STEELE International, Inc. provides global crisis and risk management services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Achievers Corp. provides employee recognition and rewards solution. It delivers a cloud-based Achievers Employee Success platform that shows reports and trends regarding the company's workforce and employee engagement strategies. The company was founded by Razor Suleman and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Golin Harris, Inc. provides content creation, digital strategy, and public relation services. The private company is based in Arlington, VA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Samaritan Partners LLC (Samaritan Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Christopher Maher. It is headquartered in New York.

Juggernaut Management LLC (Juggernaut Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by John Shulman. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Mytonomy, Inc. operates as a video based social network which provides education solutions. It provides video tutorials, giving insights and advice on topics ranging from college admissions to career success, with a special focus on first-generation college going students. The company was founded by Vinay Bhargava, Anjali Kataria and Sean Patrick Burke in 2011 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

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.

Part of Vacasa, Inc., Vacasa Holdings LLC operates as a holding American company that provides vacation rental management services. Matthew Roberts has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Instaclustr Pty Ltd. provides managed and hosted Cassandra and DataStax enterprise solutions. The firm offers cassandra on AWS, cassandra on azure, developer nodes and pricing. Its services include proof of concept, data migration, and architecture. The company was founded by Adam Zegelin and Ben Bromhead in 2013 and is headquartered in Bruce, Australia.

Vacasa LLC provides vacation rental property management services through its Vacasa platform. It also offers property management and other real estate services. The company was founded by Eric Breon and Cliff Johnson in 2009 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

The simPRO Group Pty Ltd. provides field service management software that connects the field to the office. The company is based in Eight Mile Plains, AU. The Australian company's software streamlines job management, project management, asset management, and job costing. and has subsidiaries in the United States and Australia. The company was founded in 2002 by Stephen John Bradshaw. Gary Specter has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Net Health Parent Holdings LP operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Net Health Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions for healthcare professionals. It offers wound care services, revenue cycle services, digital marketing services, professional, and telehealth portal services. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

CloudCheckr, Inc. develops cloud management platform. It monitors and measures AWS data sources including AWS cloudtrail logs, AWS config, AWS virtual private cloud flow logs, AWS cloudwatch and AWS API calls. The firm’s solutions include Cost Management, FinanceManager, Cloud Security, Total Compliance, Inventory and Utilization, and Cloud Automation. The company was founded by Aaron C. Newman and Aaron Klein in 2011 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Instaclustr, Inc. provides managed and cloud solutions. It offers apache cassandra and datastax enterprise solutions. It allows distribution of cluster servers across cloud provider failure zones. Cassandra’s rack concept is designed to group servers within a cluster where the likelihood of a failure is correlated and to provide ongoing availability despite the failure of a group of servers. The solution also allows nodes to be replaced within a cluster with no interruption to the service provided by the cluster. The company was founded by Ben Bromhead, Doug Stuart, Peter Lilley and Adam Zegelin in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

eTouches Topco, Inc. operates as an early stage development company. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RSource LLC engages in the provision of healthcare services. It includes COB and patient involvement denials, clinical and other denials, accident claims, low balance recovery, and AuthAssure. The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Vcheck Global engages in delivering business-to-business services. Its services include background checks, employment screening, document retrieval, and specialized research of both business entities and individuals. The firm also offers banking, private equity, real estate, legal, and accounting services. The company was founded by Michael Adams, Shai Stern and Seth Farbman in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Fund for Arkansas' Future (Fund for Arkansas' Future) is a venture capital subsidiary of State of Arkansas founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Black Oak Partners LLC is an alternative investment manager. The private company is based in Oklahoma City, OK.

Vixiar Medical, Inc. develops non-invasive devices and systems for monitoring cardiopulmonary disease. It includes digital health, medical devices and computational medicine services. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

Ezra Innovations LLC, also known as Ezra Pharma, is an American privately-held specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on the development and commercialization of highly technical and innovatively formulated brand and generic drug products. The company is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is engaged in improving the quality and accessibility of pharmaceutical therapies. Ezra Pharma has a suite of proprietary delivery technologies that has resulted in several new and abbreviated drug applications filed with the FDA and a robust portfolio of investigational drug candidates now in development.

White Sands Pharma LLC operates as a pharmaceutical company. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

VIC Technology Venture Development LLC (VIC Technology) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Calvin R. Goforth. The firm is headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

TICKETsage, Inc. operates an online platform for enterprise-level organizations.

Arkansas Venture Center is an alternative investment manager. The private company is based in Little Rock, AR and has subsidiaries in United States. The company was founded in 2013 by James K. Hendren.

Qbox, Inc. provides managed cloud hosting for elastic search. It offers Qbox, a cloud powered elastic search, which eliminates the need for developers to install, maintain, patch, monitor and scale search infrastructure. The firm?s products include Hosted elastic search, Kibana, Logstash and Elk Stack. Its second product is an e-commerce offering, which helps small to medium-size e-commerce merchants reduce site abandonment. The company was founded by Mark Brandon, Sloan Ahrens and Ben Hundley in May 2012 and is headquartered in Fayetteville, AR.

Everyspend, Inc. uses their patented empathy engine® to analyze financial, non-financial, and intangible data to gain a holistic view of a financial institution's customers. The company is based in Little Rock, AR. This helps increase profits and efficiency. The company has introduced the empathy engine® 2.0, which is a financial assistant powered by the empathy engine® and generative AI.

Clubready LLC engages in the development and provision of web-based fitness and gym management platform. The company was founded by Brad Denton and Andrew McMaster in 2009 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Accelerate Arkansas is a business services company, which focuses on economic development. The company is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

Part of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., Arkansas Systems, Inc. provides software used in ATM transaction processing. The company is based in Little Rock, AR. Arkansas Systems was acquired by Euronet Worldwide, Inc. on December 02, 1998 for $18.20 million.