Patrick McCartney

Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

SignalSoft Corp. develops wireless location services. The company was founded by David A. Hose and Mark H. Flolid in 1995 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Scotia Capital (USA), Inc. (SCUSA) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Scotia Holdings (USA) LLC, which is owned by The Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS; TSE: BNS) in Canada. They provide debt research coverage on US investment grade and high yield debt markets. SCUSA focuses on 6 industries which includes automotive, financial services, healthcare, media and communications, REGAL - real estate/gaming and leisure and technology. They also focus on 4 main global sectors such as power, mining, infrastructure and oil & gas/energy.

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC (Glass Lewis) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2003 by Kevin J. Cameron & Gregory P. Taxin. Glass Lewis provides investment research and advice on proxy votes to institutional investor and?publicly listed?companies. Their clients include pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

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

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Disqus, Inc. provides blog comment hosting solutions. It offers a platform for social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications and mobile commenting. The company was founded by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Gary Platt Manufacturing LLC designs, manufactures and markets seating products. It produces, and distributes primarily for casinos, including slots, table games, poker, bar-top, and bingo. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Reno, NV.

Recreation Resource Management, Inc. operates recreational parks. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Signature Coast Holdings LLC provides lawn and gardening services. The company is headquartered in Napa, CA.

Bragiel Brothers (Bragiel Brothers) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Paul Bragiel and Dan Bragiel. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Textbo LLC operates a textbook price comparison platform. The American company was founded by Hsu William.

i/o Ventures (i/o Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Jim S. Young and Ashwin Navin. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of HireVue, Inc., CodeEval, Inc. is a company that offers enterprise quality assessment software for faster hiring. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's platform includes game-based, interview-based, and coding assessments. The company was founded by Hsu William. CodeEval was acquired by HireVue, Inc. on August 02, 2012.

HireVue, Inc. engages in the development and provision of hiring intelligence platform. Its product allows candidates for jobs to interact and respond to preprogrammed questions with webcams. The firm also provides digital interviews, digital assessments, predictive analysis, technical recruiting, and sales coaching solutions. The company was founded by Mark Newman, Chip Luman, and Ryan Money in 2004 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

The Boston Consulting Co. provides business consulting services. The private company is based in Douglas, UK.

HackerX, Inc. is the world's largest invite-only developer community that connects developers with innovative companies and fast-growing startups. HackerX hosts events where developers can meet up to 20 companies in 2 hours, providing a platform for networking and job opportunities. The American company also offers an online matching platform for those who cannot attend events in person. Testimonials from attendees suggest that HackerX events are a great way to meet interesting people and companies, and have resulted in successful job placements. The private company was founded by Hsu William in 2012 in Silicon Valley and has since expanded to over 150+ cities.

Whitetruffle, Inc. operates as a recruiting agency. It is a talent sourcing platform that uses a proprietary matching technology to match the right candidate to the right job. The firm has no database digging, no cold calling; candidate and job matches are delivered directly to inbox. The company was founded by Alex Deve and Michael A. Morell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

OnScale, Inc. engages in the development of cloud high performance computing (HPC) platform. The company was founded by Ian Campbell, Robbie Banks and Gerry Harvey in 2018 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Texas Instruments Northern Virginia, Inc. develops and supplies semiconductor and battery management integrated circuits for portable consumer, commercial, and military applications. The firm's products include indicator integrated circuits and modules, single chip battery management, off the shelf energy management IC architecture and software suites for measurement, monitoring and analysis. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.