Craig Nickerson

Allen & Co., Inc. engages in private placement, underwriting and brokerage services to entertainment and media companies. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sundance Homes, Inc. is a builder of single family homes in the Chicago metropolitan area and condominiums in the Chicago urban market. The Chicago metropolitan area includes Cook County and the five surrounding counties is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States. The company was founded by Maurice Sanderman in 1975 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Here Holding Corp. provides digital maps and map content processing services. It provides technical services, including strategic program management, technical customer support, system assessment testing, and customer engineering services. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Synchronicity Software, Inc. develops and design collaboration software. It provides Internet-based software products that enabled enterprise-wide and business-to-business collaboration among the participants in electronic product development supply chains. The company is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

ThoughtWorks, Inc. provides systems integration and application development services. It offers system architecture, consulting, organizational transformation, software development, and implementation services. The firm serves energy, manufacturing, retail, and financial sectors. The company was founded by Neville Roy Singham in 1993 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

CallMiner, Inc. provides speech analytics services. Its product Eureka is delivered as a cloud-based or on premise contact center monitoring solution. It caters to the business process outsourcing, collections, communications, energy and utilities, finance and banking, healthcare, high ereducation, and technology. The company was founded by Cliff Lacoursiere, Kim C. Brown and Jeffrey A. Gallino and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Acronis AG engages in the acquisition, holding, management, and disposal of participating interests in firms, particularly in the data protection and cybersecurity sectors. It also provides management and financing services to its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Serguei Beloussov, Max Tsypliaev, Yakov Zubarev and Stanislav Protassov and is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GumGum, Inc. engages in the design, development, and operation of an in-image advertising platform. The firm provides in-image and in-screen products. Its product is grown to include several displays, mobile, and video solutions to help brands tell their stories and publishers unlock new sources of revenue. It offers GumGum Visual Intelligence, a real-time visual listening platform that helps brands identify and activate online pictures relevant to them, as well as engage their top influencers on social media. The company was founded by Ari Mir and Ophir Tanz in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

CollabNet, Inc. provides software development solutions for software-driven organizations. The firm’s products include ALM connect, cloudforge, continuum, giteye, scrumworks pro, subversionedge, teamforge, teamforge SCM, versionone editions and versionone. It also offers product consulting and implementation, agile consulting and transformation services. The company was founded by William J. Portelli and Brian Behlendorf in 1999 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

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.

Part of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., VisiCom, Inc. provides information technology solutions to communications and satellite service customers. The company is based in San Diego, CA. VisiCom was acquired by The Titan Corp. on August 25, 1998 for $25 million.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Operates and maintains planetarium and museum. It provides astronomy education for students, adults and families through variety of lectures and special events. The company was founded by Max Adler in 1930 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

AFS Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions for the food and beverage industry. It offers sales agency management, direct store delivery, electronic proof of delivery, warehouse management, retail execution and order management system. The company was founded by Pamela Brunke in 1985 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Part of Kantar Group Holdings Ltd., Market Track LLC is a data and tech company that provides 360-degree consumer understanding for the market research industry. The company blends first-party data from over 1 million US households with advanced technology to offer unparalleled insights into modern consumer shifting behaviors. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Market Track has 2,000 employees worldwide, and 80 of the top 100 CPG brands’ manufacturers are its clients. The company's brand insights platform provides on-demand, omnichannel consumer insights and data, enabling businesses to answer their questions at any hour of the day. Market Track's measurement consumer panel provides purchasing data from over a million contributors, enabling new use cases like omnichannel share measurement, demographic share measurement, opportunity sizing, and more. The company was founded in 2004 by Dan Fitzpatrick, and Eric D. Belcher has been the CEO of the company since 2019. Market Track was acquired by The Kantar Group Ltd. on July 06, 2021 for $1,500 million.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization that represents over 1,000 member companies in various industries. The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is based in Chicago, IL, and represents businesses from all industries. The members collectively employ 400,000 employees and generate $24 billion in revenue. The chamber combines the power of membership with its legacy of leadership and business advocacy to drive a dynamic economy. The organization offers extensive benefits and opportunities for members at every level, including networking, professional development, and business advocacy.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center provides business development advisory services. It helps clients by providing financing, sales and client development, mentoring, peer-to-peer exchange, grant and new ventures accelerating services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Leo Burnett Co., Ltd. operates as an advertising agency. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs Growth Partners LP is an investment management company. The company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Holger Staude.

Egnyte, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise file sharing services. Its products are Egnyte Connect a secure file sharing solution and Egnyte Protect, a content governance solution. Its content intelligence platform delivers content collaboration and governance in the cloud or on-premises. The company was founded by Rajesh Ram, Kris Lahiri, Amrit Jassal, and Vineet K. Jain in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Sapphire Ventures LLC (Sapphire Ventures) is a private equity and venture capital firm, subsidiary of SAP Ventures Investment GmbH founded in 1996 by R. Douglas Higgins and Andreas Markus Weiskam. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Jibe, Inc. provides cloud-based recruiting technology solutions that make recruiting about people, not process. Its recruiting platform simplifies job distribution, enables mobile recruiting, turns data into decisions, engages the passive candidate, optimizes the candidate experience and referral process and leverages social networks. The company was founded by Joe Essenfeld in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

DataStax, Inc. designs and develops database management software. Its products include DataStax enterprise, built on Cassandra which provides the massive scalability, continuous availability and enhanced data security big data applications demand, DataStax opscenter is a simplified management for DataStax enterprise and Apache Cassandra database clusters and DataStax sandbox is a packaged and personal virtual machine image that contains everything customer need to get started with DataStax software. The firm also offers training, consulting and support services. The company was founded by Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Convercent, Inc. engages in the provision of a software-as-a-service platform for corporate compliance and ethics management. It offers ethics and compliance solutions including anti-corruption, board reporting, data privacy, conflicts of interest, and advisory services. The company was founded by Barclay Friesen, Patrick Quinlan, and Philip Winterburn in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Infinidat Ltd. manufactures data storage systems. It offers storage systems for enterprises and data center solutions that provide tools for storage and applications. The company was founded by Moshe Yanai in 2011 and is headquartered in Hertzeliya Pituach, Israel.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in New York, NY.

MAX Digital LLC develops cloud-based digital marketing and retailing software. Its products include MAX Digital and Mobile Showroom, MAX Consumer Tool, MAX for Website 2.0, MAX Ad and MAX Digital Optimization Engine. The firm offers next-generation digital marketing and retail platform to power a consumer-friendly future for automotive retailers. It operates through its offices located in Austin and Chicago. The company was founded in October 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Boston Materials, Inc. manufactures carbon fibres. It specializes in carbon fiber, advanced composite construction, out-of-plane composites and advanced delamination resistant composites. The company was founded by Anvesh Gurijala, Michael Segal and Randall Erbes in 2016 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.