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Autobooks is a provider of small business banking solutions that make it simple to get paid online, manage cash flow, and automate accounting. Through Autobooks, financial institutions can provide essential back-office services, providing a small business e-commerce platform directly embedded within their existing digital banking channels.

At Quiq, we are reimagining how brands engage with their customers. As leaders in enterprise agentic AI for customer experience (CX), we empower businesses to deliver personalized, proactive support across every touchpoint along the customer journey—at scale. Brands benefit from our AI Agents, a cutting-edge AI Contact Center, and advanced AI-powered business process automation capabilities to create multimodal, omnichannel experiences and seamless handoffs from AI to human agents. From voice and email to digital messaging, including web chat, SMS, Apple Messages for Business, WhatsApp, and more, Quiq makes it easy for brands to give their customers exceptional, yet cost-effective, service on their preferred channels. Created by CX and AI experts, Quiq’s AI Studio is a purpose-built, model-agnostic platform that simplifies and accelerates the AI development life cycle. It comes with a complete ecosystem of tools and integrations, as well as AI guardrails and real-time observability – everything you need to design, build, test, deploy, manage, and scale custom AI solutions. Whether you leverage AI Studio to rapidly build agentic AI solutions in-house, have the Quiq experts do it before handing you the reigns, or a combination of the two, you'll soon understand why our customers have described Quiq as "white glove service in a clear box." There's no "black box AI" here. Trusted by global leaders like Volvo, Brinks Home, and IHG Hotels & Resorts, Quiq helps brands bring their AI strategies to life with confidence. With unrivaled expertise and a relentless focus on CX, we’re here to help your business achieve the seamless journeys you've always dreamed about.

SourceDay they provide purchase order management system of ERP, for buyer and supplier relationships to help customers standardize processes to reduce errors, communication delays, material delays, frustrations and communications.

STR provides cable molding, cable spooling, calibration, cathodic protection inspection, flooded member detection, offshore personnel, research, and technical development services. They provide drop camera systems, subsea cameras, subsea lights, subsea lasers, digital video recorder systems, and more products.

Virtual Incision develops a miniaturized surgical robotic support device with a focus on colon resection. It has developed the MIRA (Miniaturized In vivo Robotic Assistant) Platform, a first-of-its-kind miniaturized surgical robotic support device, focusing first on colon resection, with follow-on specialty robots for additional potential applications.

Circonus is the monitoring and analytics platform built for the modern-day enterprise. Circonus delivers crystal-clear, real-time visibility of the behavior, health, trends, and performance of traditional infrastructure and cloud-based technologies in one powerful, unified platform. Led by experts in large-scale distributed systems and data science, Circonus is pioneering the way that telemetry data at scale is leveraged throughout the enterprise to drive smarter operations, deploy faster, make better decisions, and deliver mission-critical services with confidence. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered near Philadelphia, PA.

Vodori provides solutions that simplify how life science companies create, approve, and distribute promotional content for their global marketing operations. Vodori is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Strata Oncology is a precision oncology company dedicated to transforming cancer care by expanding patient access to precision medicine clinical trials and accelerating drug approval. Strata's national precision oncology platform serves the needs of patients, providers and drug developers by providing a link from patient screening to streamlined enrollment in mutation-matched clinical trials. Follow us on Twitter @StrataOncology.

Saranas is a medical device that detects internal bleeding during catheterization procedures. Its mission is to provide products that minimize complications associated with medical procedures in the interventional or surgical setting. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Crayon is the competitive intelligence backbone that enables mid-market and enterprise businesses to see and seize opportunities and create sustainable advantages in their markets. Hundreds of organizations use Crayon to capture sharp insights that can be easily accessed and acted on to drive broad, measurable and meaningful impact. Crayon was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Azzur Group is a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices. Their services include GXP advisory and consulting laboratory services, aseptic and GXP training, and IT advisory services.

ChurnZero is a software company. They provide software solutions for SaaS and subscription businesses. Their software solutions allow businesses to understand their customers' use of their products, assess their health, and give businesses to personalize the customer experience through touchpoints. Their platform offers journeys, health scores, survey tools, segmentation, plays, and reporting.

Tracer accelerates Brand Success for the world’s most-loved brands, including four of the top five most valuable global businesses. In today’s landscape of highly sophisticated digital threats and hyper-competition, the stakes have never been higher for businesses to identify risks and opportunities across the evolving digital universe. The Tracer Platform mitigates digital brand misuse to preserve authentic customer interactions and uncovers new categories of dynamic market insights to fuel better business decisions. TracerAI™ technology continuously captures and filters data from thousands of global Web2 and Web3 digital sources, including domains and websites, marketplaces, social media, mobile apps and app stores, search engines, NFT marketplaces, metaverse environments, Web3 domains and more. TracerAI applies a suite of advanced, human-in-the-loop AI and machine learning approaches to analyze and correlate instances of brand use and misuse across this digital landscape. This allows businesses to “see the unseen” and control the use of their brand online, improving brand integrity to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. The platform’s market-leading Tracer Protect product for online brand protection provides real-time monitoring and analysis of IP and copyright infringement, fraud, brand impersonation, digital and digital-plus-physical counterfeiting and other forms of brand misuse. This enables businesses to prevent brand misuse before it has a chance to damage their brands. For the highest level of security for valuable domains, Tracer Registrar provides enterprise-grade corporate domain registration and management so businesses can protect their brand for the long-term from the start. Built on more than a decade of real-world brand protection experience, the Tracer Platform yields rapid infringement detection with market-leading accuracy, leading to vastly faster time to detection and enforcement.

JUMPCODE's CRISPR-mediated rRNA depletion kits remove nucleic acids from sequencing workflows to improve sensitivity and performance. CRISPRclean is a proprietary technology that utilizes the CRISPR/CAS system to cut through the noise by removing unwanted nucleic acid molecules from sequencing libraries while preserving the representational integrity of the non-targeted sequences. Keith Brown founded the company in Carlsbad, California in 2016.

HSP simplifies the management and control of international operations and empowers customers to capitalize on their growth opportunities overseas. There unique approach has helped over 300 organizations in over 80 countries.

Upfront Healthcare creates a better ambulatory experience for all. With so much focus on increasing ambulatory volume without inserting efficient ways to qualify and prepare for the visit, many appointments result in wasted effort, disappointing all parties involved. The company's Care Traffic Control platform proactively reassures and directs patients to the safest and most relevant care options within the health system. Using advanced analytics, personalized content, and strategic calls-to-action, Upfront aligns patient care needs with health system resources through a 1:1 digital experience based on deep healthcare operations and patient engagement experience. Upfront Healthcare Services was established in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Blue Matter Consulting is a management consulting firm that focuses on providing the strategic insights necessary to create their visions.

eCube Solutions provides accurate and efficient zonal disassembly, aircraft demolition, and recycling services. They offer end-of-life services, parking, care, and accredited maintenance services, third-party logistics services, and upcycling services.

Autobooks is a provider of small business banking solutions that make it simple to get paid online, manage cash flow, and automate accounting. Through Autobooks, financial institutions can provide essential back-office services, providing a small business e-commerce platform directly embedded within their existing digital banking channels.

GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

OncoHealth delivers digital health solutions that reduce the physical, mental, and financial toll of cancer. They help health plans, employers, providers, patients, and life science researchers navigate the physical, mental and financial complexities of cancer through technology-enabled services and real-world data.

GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

SourceDay they provide purchase order management system of ERP, for buyer and supplier relationships to help customers standardize processes to reduce errors, communication delays, material delays, frustrations and communications.

Aura Futures is provides workspace technology services to mid-to-large enterprises. Aura is the essential atmosphere that encompasses and embodies the workspace, making everything and everyone work seamlessly together. We blend the best that technology has to offer with first class service, so you can focus on what matters most to your organisation. We transform the interplay between technology and people in your business which improves the overall wellness of your employees and productivity of your teams, whilst enhancing the user experience and generating significant savings to your bottom line.

Vega Global Group is a provider of audio visual and video collaboration solutions for organisations of all types. Vega’s services enable global communications for the modern workplace, facilitating meaningful collaboration to enhance productivity for its enterprise clients.

With wasteful healthcare spending in the U.S. estimated at $935 billion, we take our role as a healthcare innovator very seriously. Simply put, we’re on a mission to transform quality measurement and care delivery. To drive toward a Learning Health System—a framework that drives better outcomes and cost efficiencies across the health ecosystem—the industry has to commit to real change. Apervita is that change. Through our solutions and trusted collaboration platform, we’re committed to making the Learning Health System a reality, making healthcare smarter and ultimately improving patient care. As we move into our next phase of growth, we’re looking for passionate and fearless professionals to help us pursue our mission. We’ve earned the trust of our investors, including Optum Ventures, Baird Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Math Venture Partners, to further grow and scale our business. We’ve also been recognized as an industry leader by Gartner, CIOReview, Healthcare Tech Outlook, and Healthcare Informatics. Always in search of the next “first,” Apervita was named the first company to certify electronic clinical quality measures from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) using our proprietary clinical quality language (CQL) ingestion engine. And, we were recently awarded by Healthcare Innovation for our innovative work with The Joint Commission, one of the nation’s largest regulatory organizations. We believe we’re making a difference every day to drive improvements in quality care that lead to better patient outcomes with a lower cost of care. We’re honored to be on this incredibly important journey to build a better healthcare system.

AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments. It enables intelligent decision-making and improving health outcomes. It has developed patented facial recognition and motion-sensing technology to confirm medication ingestion in real-time. AiCure's platform has the potential to revolutionize the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems by enhancing treatment and reducing risks. Their software captures and understands video, audio, and behavioral data to establish the link between patients, disease, and treatment. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

NowSecure is a mobile app security software company delivering fully automated mobile app security testing with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency necessary for Agile and DevSecOps environments. It can identify the broadest array of security threats, compliance gaps, and privacy issues in custom-developed, commercial, and business-critical mobile apps. These offerings are also provided as a managed service or independent 3rd party app verification. NowSecure was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

AEGIS Hedging Solutions is the recognized global leader for hedging technology and expertise. AEGIS’ proprietary technology platform and unmatched experience in the commodity and rate hedging markets combine to help producers, consumers, manufacturers, and investors protect their cash flow. AEGIS' fully-integrated approach enables clients to research, trade, and manage their hedge portfolios with confidence through continuous market insights, innovative technology, and tailored hedge programs.

Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company focused on developing wearable neuromodulation therapies for chronic diseases. The company integrates neuroscience and technology to provide individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. Its primary product, Cala Trio therapy, is a non-invasive prescription treatment for essential tremor. Cala Health is also working on therapies for Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions and areas in psychiatry, cardiology, and autoimmune disorders.

ChurnZero is a software company. They provide software solutions for SaaS and subscription businesses. Their software solutions allow businesses to understand their customers' use of their products, assess their health, and give businesses to personalize the customer experience through touchpoints. Their platform offers journeys, health scores, survey tools, segmentation, plays, and reporting.

Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

The Wealth Advisors of Hilliard Lyons get to know clients deeply, understand their goals and ambitions, then build personal financial roadmaps that will allow them to reach their goals. Building on industry best practices and leveraging the acumen of Home Office staff, they guide clients through all the stages of their financial lives to help them achieve long-term peace of mind.

Crisp Real-time Risk Intelligence protects your brands, assets and people from reputational damage, security threats and online harms. Crisp has spent 16 years training our AI technology to discover and track the risk signals embedded within digital chatter to be the leading expert in fast, actionable risk intelligence. That way you get peace of mind, 24/7/365. With Crisp, you’re always first to know and first to act

Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

Collingwood is a leading designer and supplier of residential, commercial and exterior luminaires into the professional refurbishment and new-build markets in the UK and France.

Zurex Pharmacy is a specialty pharmacy and medical technology company with a novel antimicrobial technology platform. Their company's mission is to develop and commercialize a portfolio of new antimicrobial products designed to prevent healthcare-acquired infections with a focus on surgical site wounds and catheter-related infections. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

M. Griffith, an independent and employee-owned investment firm offers financial planning, investment management and other services. M. Griffith has more than 40 employees, including 12 financial advisors who manage and oversee more than $2 billion in assets. M. Griffith is a highly respected and well-established firm with a business model and client-focused culture.

Strata Oncology is a precision oncology company dedicated to transforming cancer care by expanding patient access to precision medicine clinical trials and accelerating drug approval. Strata's national precision oncology platform serves the needs of patients, providers and drug developers by providing a link from patient screening to streamlined enrollment in mutation-matched clinical trials. Follow us on Twitter @StrataOncology.

Delta Disaster Services is a nationally recognized, award-winning franchise brand in the 60-billion-dollar restoration industry, providing restoration services to commercial and residential properties for water, fire, and environmental damage, including reconstruction. Delta Disaster Services franchise offices, located in 16 markets across the United States, are certified in all restoration services they offer.

Nirvana Asia LTD (富貴生命國際有限公司) (“Nirvana”) is the largest integrated death care service provider in Asia*. They offer premium quality burial plots, niches and tomb design and construction services in terms of design, landscaping, materials used for building and amenities, site maintenance, and customer services, as well as high quality and reliable funeral services. They are a leading death care service provider in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Their brands, Nirvana and 富貴, are widely recognized by customers in our home markets. They are the most recognized brand name in Malaysia and one of the most recognized brand names in Singapore in terms of professionalism, trustworthiness, quality of services and products and facility maintenance**.

Autobooks is a provider of small business banking solutions that make it simple to get paid online, manage cash flow, and automate accounting. Through Autobooks, financial institutions can provide essential back-office services, providing a small business e-commerce platform directly embedded within their existing digital banking channels.

ReMed provides rehabilitation services, neurobehavioral services, and supported living for people with mild, moderate, and severe brain injuries. They offer residential, outpatient, and home and community-based treatment.

AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments. It enables intelligent decision-making and improving health outcomes. It has developed patented facial recognition and motion-sensing technology to confirm medication ingestion in real-time. AiCure's platform has the potential to revolutionize the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems by enhancing treatment and reducing risks. Their software captures and understands video, audio, and behavioral data to establish the link between patients, disease, and treatment. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Hopebridge Autism Therapy Center offers a wide range of outpatient services designed to meet the needs of children requiring behavioral diagnosis and applied behavioral analysis, occupational, feeding, and speech treatments in the center, home, and school settings.

Strategas is a global institutional brokerage and advisory firm. The Firm provides macro research, capital market and corporate advisory services, and financial products to institutional investors and corporate executives, in more than twenty countries, around the world.

Montage is the single solution to engage, interview, and hire better candidates, faster. The company partners with many of the world’s most well-respected brands, including 100 of the Fortune 500, to create the high-tech, high-touch hiring experience the modern candidate expects. As the pioneer of purpose-built video interviewing, its proprietary technology integrates seamlessly with enterprise needs for reliability, scalability, compliance, and security. Montage is committed to market-driven innovation, incorporating applicable science, and data in its solutions to speed the process and improve the predictability of talent acquisition. Its commitment to superior client service and support is unique in the industry. The company helps each and every client at every stage of our partnership because we sincerely want them to succeed – and believe in building relationships for the long term. A privately held company, Montage is headquartered in Wisconsin.

Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners. It is a full-service tool that enables service professionals to run their entire business on their smartphone and complimentary web portal. The tool is offered at a competitive low cost and supports service professionals with all aspects of their workflow, including job scheduling, customer database, invoicing and payment processing, and technician dispatch. Housecall Pro was established in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Prescient is a product strategy and decision support consultancy that helps clients make better clinical and commercial decisions, resulting in enhanced outcomes for patients, customers and shareholders. Founded in London in 2007, Prescient has since expanded its global reach through offices in New York, San Francisco, New Delhi and Beijing. Prescient partners with most of the leading multinational pharmaceutical companies, as well as a growing number of emerging biotech organizations.

Amphora Medical is a Minnesota-based developer of medical devices and instruments. The company is currently working on a novel cystoscopic device that has the potential to improve bladder function and quality of life for people with Overactive Bladder Syndrome (OAB). It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Autobooks is a provider of small business banking solutions that make it simple to get paid online, manage cash flow, and automate accounting. Through Autobooks, financial institutions can provide essential back-office services, providing a small business e-commerce platform directly embedded within their existing digital banking channels.

Elucent Medical develops advanced surgical navigation technology to improve patient outcomes in surgeries. The Elucent Solution utilizes real-time data processing to precisely locate surgical markers, enhancing the accuracy of procedures.

The mission of Integrated Diagnostics is to leverage powerful emerging technologies in the development of diagnostic products that enable physicians and patients to manage complex and important diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's through blood tests that can monitor tens to hundreds of disease markers simultaneously. The company plans to develop a pipeline of game-changing diagnostic products that enable the diagnosis and prognosis of a variety of diseases. The company is based on the concept of a systems view of disease where pathophysiology arises from disease-perturbed networks of proteins, genes and other molecules.

Datica helps highly regulated industries manage sensitive information in the cloud. Datica's customers ranges from mid-to-late-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

R2i creates new integrations between brand, demand, and technology that empower our clients to accelerate marketing ROI.

Fideo’s powerful intelligence identifies more accurate digital personas by fusing digital, transactional, behavioral, device-related, geospatial, and historical fraud data together to give platforms the ammunition needed to keep pace with potential fraudsters. The company’s proven, patented continuous learning engine offers a sophisticated approach to analyzing interconnected data, in which businesses can uncover anomalies and patterns, enhancing the ability to identify and prevent fraud.

Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

Signal is the leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution. The Signal Open Data Platform helps marketers collect data from any offline or online source, synchronize the data across all touchpoints, and distribute it to any marketing or analytics endpoint – all in real-time. Signal’s technology platform empowers people-based marketers to enhance their customer experience by providing relevance across all channels. Signal was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Strata Oncology is a precision oncology company dedicated to transforming cancer care by expanding patient access to precision medicine clinical trials and accelerating drug approval. Strata's national precision oncology platform serves the needs of patients, providers and drug developers by providing a link from patient screening to streamlined enrollment in mutation-matched clinical trials. Follow us on Twitter @StrataOncology.

bfinance is an independent, privately-owned, financial services firm that provides advice and solutions to companies and institutional investors around the globe. They combine specialist expertise with a global perspective to help their clients develop, implement and manage best-in-class investment programmes, as well as financing and treasury solutions. Their Investment Advisory capabilities span all traditional and alternative asset classes. They have advised over 300 of the world’s most sophisticated investing institutions controlling more than $1 trillion in over 25 countries. They deliver high-quality, customised advice. They have earned a reputation for innovative advice, research, reporting and investment manager selection. As client needs evolve, so do their services.

Zaloni is a data acceleration company. Our Arena software delivers trusted data agility and cost savings while accelerating the time to analytics value. We support this award-winning platform with professional services, experts who specialize in optimizing data operations so that enterprises conquer their data sprawl challenges. We believe in the unrealized power of data. Our end-to-end data operations empowers customers to conquer data sprawl challenges, secure data without hindering business goals, create new revenue streams quickly, and accelerate insights while lowering costs.

Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

Appcast is a first-of-its-kind programmatic job advertising platform that enables employers to promote their open positions across thousands of job and consumer sites on a 'pay-per-applicant' basis.

At Synap, customer relationships are the center of Their product and Their business. They are creating delightful and empowering experiences for Their customers, by taking full-advantage of the recent advancements in the API ecosystem, mobile platforms, and data analysis.

edo provides an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. Simply put, edo is the simplest way to connect online advertising with in-store results. edo helps advertisers connect advertising with in-store results. Through our bank partners we can deliver card-linked offers that are targeted & automatically available on credit cards, debit cards & mobile phones. This intersection of ‘payments & advertising’ rides a number of marketplace trends including the convergence of digital, personalization and mobile. edo is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. with additional offices in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. For more information, visit www.edointeractive.com or find us on Twitter @edointeractive

SloanLED was founded in 1957 to design and develop high-reliability lighting products. By the early 1970s, SloanLED had become a pioneer in Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. The founder, Charles Sloan, was driven by two simple principles: employ the latest technologies to develop quality lighting products and take really good care of the customers. Today, more than 55 years later, SloanLED continues to deliver on those principles. The company is a leader in the development and application of LEDs, serving many commercial, industrial and high-tech industries. By combining its over 55 years of lighting experience with ISO 9001:2008 certification for quality management, strong warranties, superior technical assistance, and unparalleled customer service, SloanLED is dedicated to providing the best LEDs, the best support and the best results.

Alpha Source is a leading provider of innovative solutions in medical equipment maintenance, telemedicine, medical device battery manufacturing, medical parts distribution and secure managed technology to thousands of customers in more than 74 countries around the world. Their advanced and experienced national biomedical field services team delivers preventative maintenance, repair services, quality assurance analysis, and global training for ultrasound modalities that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

Alpha Source is a leading provider of innovative solutions in medical equipment maintenance, telemedicine, medical device battery manufacturing, medical parts distribution and secure managed technology to thousands of customers in more than 74 countries around the world. Their advanced and experienced national biomedical field services team delivers preventative maintenance, repair services, quality assurance analysis, and global training for ultrasound modalities that improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

Datica helps highly regulated industries manage sensitive information in the cloud. Datica's customers ranges from mid-to-late-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

VENITI is the first medical device company developing a suite of innovative technology and solutions that will provide comprehensive treatment across the venous disease continuum. Venous disease refers to all conditions related to or caused by veins that become diseased or abnormal. This encompasses a broad set of maladies. The venous disease cycle begins when vein walls become weak or damaged, or the valves are stretched or injured, and can no longer prevent reflux (backward flow of blood). Once the veins lose their ability to convey blood without reflux, the progressive venous disease cycle has begun. This is commonly referred to as chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI. The blood will begin to back up into the peripheral veins, causing venous hypertension, potential thrombosis (clotting), and leading to even more damage of the vein walls and valves. This in turn leads to more reflux. The VENITI team of experts in science, technology and business are currently developing the VENITI VICI VENOUS STENT® System. Through this, and other, innovative technology, VENITI will achieve results that sets it apart in addressing the challenges specific to the venous system and venous disease.

Carsing was founded in 2009 by Lin Zhe, a seasoned entrepreneur with deep experience in the Chinese automotive market. The company, which currently has 15 locations in Shanghai and Shenzhen, aims to improve consumers' experiences when selling used vehicles by providing inspection services and facilitating transactions to automobile dealers through wireless mobile auctions. Through this financing, the investors will leverage their knowledge of the Chinese market to help grow Carsing's domestic footprint.

Fideo’s powerful intelligence identifies more accurate digital personas by fusing digital, transactional, behavioral, device-related, geospatial, and historical fraud data together to give platforms the ammunition needed to keep pace with potential fraudsters. The company’s proven, patented continuous learning engine offers a sophisticated approach to analyzing interconnected data, in which businesses can uncover anomalies and patterns, enhancing the ability to identify and prevent fraud.

With wasteful healthcare spending in the U.S. estimated at $935 billion, we take our role as a healthcare innovator very seriously. Simply put, we’re on a mission to transform quality measurement and care delivery. To drive toward a Learning Health System—a framework that drives better outcomes and cost efficiencies across the health ecosystem—the industry has to commit to real change. Apervita is that change. Through our solutions and trusted collaboration platform, we’re committed to making the Learning Health System a reality, making healthcare smarter and ultimately improving patient care. As we move into our next phase of growth, we’re looking for passionate and fearless professionals to help us pursue our mission. We’ve earned the trust of our investors, including Optum Ventures, Baird Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Math Venture Partners, to further grow and scale our business. We’ve also been recognized as an industry leader by Gartner, CIOReview, Healthcare Tech Outlook, and Healthcare Informatics. Always in search of the next “first,” Apervita was named the first company to certify electronic clinical quality measures from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) using our proprietary clinical quality language (CQL) ingestion engine. And, we were recently awarded by Healthcare Innovation for our innovative work with The Joint Commission, one of the nation’s largest regulatory organizations. We believe we’re making a difference every day to drive improvements in quality care that lead to better patient outcomes with a lower cost of care. We’re honored to be on this incredibly important journey to build a better healthcare system.

NowSecure is a mobile app security software company delivering fully automated mobile app security testing with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency necessary for Agile and DevSecOps environments. It can identify the broadest array of security threats, compliance gaps, and privacy issues in custom-developed, commercial, and business-critical mobile apps. These offerings are also provided as a managed service or independent 3rd party app verification. NowSecure was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

WordStream provides software and services to help online marketers maximize the performance of their paid search and social campaigns, driving traffic, leads, and sales for lower costs. WordStream’s software platform, WordStream Advisor, facilitates more effective campaigns by automating proven best practices and delivering expert-level results in a fraction of the time for campaigns on Google AdWords, Bing, and Facebook. The company’s managed services division also provides full-service pay-per-click (PPC) marketing management through a fully certified team of advertising experts. WordStream has been recognized for thought leadership in digital marketing through its blog and free learning resources including PPC University, and offers award-winning free tools, such as the AdWords Performance Grader, to assist marketers with campaign analysis and strategy.

Zurex Pharmacy is a specialty pharmacy and medical technology company with a novel antimicrobial technology platform. Their company's mission is to develop and commercialize a portfolio of new antimicrobial products designed to prevent healthcare-acquired infections with a focus on surgical site wounds and catheter-related infections. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Montage is the single solution to engage, interview, and hire better candidates, faster. The company partners with many of the world’s most well-respected brands, including 100 of the Fortune 500, to create the high-tech, high-touch hiring experience the modern candidate expects. As the pioneer of purpose-built video interviewing, its proprietary technology integrates seamlessly with enterprise needs for reliability, scalability, compliance, and security. Montage is committed to market-driven innovation, incorporating applicable science, and data in its solutions to speed the process and improve the predictability of talent acquisition. Its commitment to superior client service and support is unique in the industry. The company helps each and every client at every stage of our partnership because we sincerely want them to succeed – and believe in building relationships for the long term. A privately held company, Montage is headquartered in Wisconsin.

Appcast is a first-of-its-kind programmatic job advertising platform that enables employers to promote their open positions across thousands of job and consumer sites on a 'pay-per-applicant' basis.

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Datica helps highly regulated industries manage sensitive information in the cloud. Datica's customers ranges from mid-to-late-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The mission of Integrated Diagnostics is to leverage powerful emerging technologies in the development of diagnostic products that enable physicians and patients to manage complex and important diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's through blood tests that can monitor tens to hundreds of disease markers simultaneously. The company plans to develop a pipeline of game-changing diagnostic products that enable the diagnosis and prognosis of a variety of diseases. The company is based on the concept of a systems view of disease where pathophysiology arises from disease-perturbed networks of proteins, genes and other molecules.

Workforce Insight is the leading provider of strategic workforce management consulting and implementation services. We help organizations at all stages of adoption, from the earliest point in identifying the potential for workforce management improvements, through implementation, optimization and support.

NeuMoDx Molecular, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics company. The company develops solutions for molecular diagnostic (MDx) testing in hospital and clinical reference laboratories.

Watkins Hire is part of the WELCO Group of companies. In 1860, when British industry was dominating the globe, the Watkins Group of companies were established, the company still remains in the Watkins Family today.

Emids is a provider of digital transformation solutions to the healthcare industry, serving payers, providers, life sciences, and technology firms. Headquartered in Nashville, emids helps bridge critical gaps in providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality healthcare by providing digital transformation services, custom application development, data engineering, business intelligence solutions, and specialized consulting services to all parts of the healthcare ecosystem.

Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

Signal is the leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution. The Signal Open Data Platform helps marketers collect data from any offline or online source, synchronize the data across all touchpoints, and distribute it to any marketing or analytics endpoint – all in real-time. Signal’s technology platform empowers people-based marketers to enhance their customer experience by providing relevance across all channels. Signal was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Datica helps highly regulated industries manage sensitive information in the cloud. Datica's customers ranges from mid-to-late-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is a provider of specialist consultancy services to the financial services sector. The company specializes in asset management, insurance industries, and wealth management industries.

Insightra Medical was founded in 2001 as a medical device innovator. The charter was to create niche surgical products based on proprietary designs. Since then, the company has developed into a strong general surgery company with a focus on inguinal and ventral hernia.

GenomeDx discovers, develops, and commercializes genomic-based laboratory tests for the personalized medicine revolution in cancer care. In partnership with physicians and scientists from leading academic medicine institutions, our mission is to bring cost-effective and high-resolution genomics for routine clinical use in cancer medicine.

Keduo Media & Advertisement is focused on the consumption-type service industry and e-commerce marketing service platform that is based on business circles. It determines to meet the promotion requirements of the adjacent business circle around small and medium stores on consumer services by using software, Internet, and cellphone network technology appliance, and help obtaining customer sources with low cost, and enable effective sales volume, and the influence amongst business circles. Keduo Media & Advertisement operates in the online-to-offline e-commerce mode.