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DW Data, Inc. provides web-based business services. Its services include business builder, professional services and zoomshare. The company was founded by Craig A. Terrill and Robert A. Schultz in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Asia Online Ltd. operates as a holding company. It operates through Asia Online operations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The company's services include dial-up, leased lines, ISDN, roaming, web design, and hosting, advertising and e-commerce. Asia Online was founded in 1998 and is located in Walnut Creek, CA

Doosan Fuel Cell America, Inc. manufactures fuel cell power products. It provides clean, efficient and secure energy solutions that scale to multiple megawatts. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in East Hartford, CT.

ShareThis, Inc. provides access for social web communities which make online sharing easy. It offers campaign delivery and optimization, audience segmentation and targeting, analytics, and real-time social reactions. The company was founded by Timothy Schigel and David E. Goldberg in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Collective Intellect, Inc. specializes in software and services in monitoring online conversations. The firm offers applications designed to monitor, understand and respond to consumers’ conversations on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, message boards, and news sources. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Tekion Canada, Inc. manufactures electronic and other electrical equipments. It also provides portable and backup power fuel cell products The company was founded on February 24, 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

SmartDrive Systems, Inc. provides driving technology solutions. It specializes in video based safety program and transportation intelligence solutions. The firm serves to the commercial trucking, government, private fleet, distribution, transit bus and rail, utilities, construction, and waste and recycling industries. The company was founded by Gregory V. Mauro, Robert J. Hutter and James Plante in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Ingenu, Inc. develops wireless solutions for energy automation. Its Ultra-Link Processing system enables low-power monitoring and control applications within Smart Grid, water efficiency, industrial sensing, and location tracking. The firm’s signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, immunity to high interference, and significantly lowering cost. The company was founded by Joaquin Fernandez Silva, Robert W. Boesel and Theodore Myers in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Personify, Inc. (Illinois) provides video communication solutions. Its products include ChromaCam, Fusion, and Presenter. The company was founded by Minh N. Do, Quang Nguyen, Sanjay Jeram Patel, Wen-Mei Hwu and Dennis Lin in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Webscale Networks, Inc. provides cloud-based web and application performance software. Its products include CloudMaestro, a complete, fully scalable Software-as-a-Service application delivery network, improves the speed, availability and reliability of web and mobile applications for small and medium businesses and; CloudMaestro with Application Scaling. The firm's solution delivers intelligent traffic optimization, predictive right-sizing, self-healing, web content acceleration and security in a single unified application delivery fabric, which provides faster site speed indexes while nearly eliminating downtime. It offers professional support and professional services for cloud-based applications. The company was founded in 2012 by James T. Smith II, Vladimir V. Shestak and Robert L. Shires and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Via Internet provides Internet services.

TrenStar, Inc. provides asset tracking and management solutions. The company was founded in August 2001 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

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

Central Hockey League operates a professional minor league hockey teams playing in small to medium-sized markets primarily in central and southwestern US states. The league, which was started in 1992, is managed and operated by WPHL, a subsidiary of Global Entertainment Corporation.

Serra Ventures LLC (Serra Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Tim Hoerr. The firm is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.

FoodMaven Corp. engages in the operation of digital marketplace for dated and perishable grocery items approaching expiration. It also sells food to restaurants and institutions like universities and hotels and donates it to hunger-relief organizations. The company was founded by Patrick Bultema and Dan Lewis in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Hydra LLC operates as an online advertising network. It specializes in website publishers that include largest portals and social networking sites on the Web. The company was founded by Zac Brandenberg in 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

Champaign County Economic Partnership is a non-profit organization which engages in the provision of economic development services. The firm offers assistance for business startup, expansion, relocation, patent consideration, workforce development issue, incentive consideration, and access to professional resources or parts supplier and any other internal or external business operation. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Champaign, IL.

Hydra Group LLC operates a performance based, multichannel digital ad platform that drives new sales, leads, and ad engagements. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Illinois Ventures LLC (Illinois Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.