Ian Sugarman

Eagle River Investments LLC is a venture capital fund that provides funding to startups and early-stage companies. The private company is based in Kirkland, WA.

Voyager Capital LLC (Voyager Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Enrique Godreau, William H. McAleer and Tony Audino. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

JJT, Inc. provides digital imaging and database system sale services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Eta Kappa Nu owns and operates a non-profit public-service organization. It operates as a electrical and computer engineering honor society of the IEEE. The company was founded by Maurice L. Carr in 1904 and is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ.

Women in Technology (WIT) is a non-profit organization with over 18,000 members worldwide, including more than 1,000 members in the local area. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The organization provides leadership development, technology education, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers and for girls interested in STEM. WIT aims to make the state with the highest percentage of women in the STEM workforce by partnering with the community to provide opportunities that champion women throughout their education and career. The company was founded by Gavriella Schuster, Deborah Gore Cassidy.

The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) is a research organization that helps technology companies achieve profitable growth and overcome their top business challenges. With a membership community of over 40,000 executives from 96 countries, TSIA represents 80% of the Fortune 100 technology companies. TSIA provides world-class business frameworks, best practices, performance benchmarking, peer networking opportunities, and certification and awards programs to technology services organizations of all sizes. The organization serves four major markets: enterprise IT and telecom, consumer technology, healthcare and healthcare IT, and industrial equipment and technology.

Standish Management LLC provides fund administration services to private equity, venture capital, and real estate managers. The firm offers performance return calculations, capital call and distribution, enhanced software and analytics, international and offshore fund administration, limited partner communications, web based reporting and specialized consulting services. The company was founded by Robert Raynard, Susan Bruno Gillick, Rowena Baginski and Judy Dickinson in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TableSafe, Inc. designs, builds and sells hardware and software products to eliminate credit and debit card information theft. The firm specializes in secure pay at the table transactions, marketing and guest communication opportunities, increased wait staff efficiency, custom applications, back of house labor and hard cost savings and faster table turns. The company was founded by Pope Andrew and Joseph Snell in 2010 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Tagboard, Inc. provides social media software. It is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. The company was founded by Jenni Hogan, Josh Decker, Tim Shimotakahara and Sean Sperte in 2011 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Igneous Systems, Inc. provides unstructured data management as-a-service solution. Its products include DataProtect, DataDiscover and DataFlow. The firm’s business includes both the raw boxes of hard drives a business buys to store data and the software needed to manage it. It also provides cloud infrastructure to change the enterprise landscape. The company was founded by Kiran Bhageshpur, Byron Rakitzis and Jeff Hughes in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Open Systems AG engages in the provision of development and consulting services in the fields of telecommunications and information technology. It operates as a managed security services provider, which offers services and solutions focusing on data security, network traffic usage visibility, bandwidth management, cloud enablement, cyber risk mitigation, and advanced threat protection. The company was founded on October 6, 1999 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

WRG Energy Innovation LLC seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund provides financing for seed stage, early stage, later stage and expansion capital requirements.

Tectonic Audio Labs, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers loudspeakers for use in AV rental, touring, and house of worship applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

Qorus Software, Inc. offers document automation software solutions. The firm offers Qorus DocGeneration, a solution that adds document automation features to Microsoft SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint for the automatic or manual creation of customized client documents; and enables users to customize and generate Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, such as sales proposals and presentations, financial reports, contracts, and advisory reports. Its solutions include proposal & RFP management, pitch and experience management, accelerate sales and marketing and document generation. The company was founded by Raynard Stephen Meiring, Lee John Child and Stephanie Laurent in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Wicket Labs, Inc. engages in the development of audience insights platform for media and entertainment companies. The company was founded by Ian Blaine, Eric Knutson, and Marty Roberts in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC (Energy Innovation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jeffrey Clark. The firm is headquartered in Orinda, California.

Singularity Education Group provides education services. The company was founded by Peter H. Diamandis and Raymond C. Kurzweil in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

The Riveter, Inc. engages in developing, constructs, leases and operates co-working office space for working women. It empowers women, professionally and personally, through events that celebrate and connect its members. The company was founded by Amy Nelson and Kim Peltola in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

PTO, Inc. engages in the development and operation of software platform for education. Its platform enables employees to personalize workplace benefits by converting unused paid time off to tangible goods and services such as vacations, retirement funding, student loan debt payments, and charitable donations. The company was founded by Robert Whalen and Todd Lucas and is headquartered in Woodinville, WA.

Soda Media, Inc. is a private company based in Redmond, WA. Soda Media, Inc. was founded by Anthony Bontrager.

Nerdio, Inc. engages in could computing design, deployment and optimization services. The company was founded by Vadim Vladimirskiy in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

X Shore AB is a Swedish climate-tech and electric boat company that was founded in 2016. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company has become the world's leading supplier of electric boats with customers in various markets. X Shore's boats have no impact on marine wildlife and use no fossil fuels. The company has won several awards for the design of its model eelex 8000, and in 2022, it was nominated for the European Powerboat of the Year and received the jury's special mention. X Shore creates 100%% electric boats for a fossil-free tomorrow by combining Swedish maritime craftsmanship with technology, innovation, and sustainability. The company was founded in 1996 by Konrad Bergström, and the CEO is Jenny Keisu.

Included, Inc. develops diversity, equity, and inclusion analytics technologies. The American company was founded by Raghu Gollamudi, Chandan Golla, and Laura Close, with Raghu Gollamudi serving as the CEO since incorporation.

She Community AS provides events, information, and business consulting services.

Cheq Lifestyle Technology, Inc. develops social payment solutions for point-of-sale services, mobile orders, and peer payments. The American company was founded in 2021 by Thomas Lapham, Jim Castillo, and Jake Stone. Thomas Lapham has been the CEO since 2021.

Liquor Laboratory operates as a liquor laboratory. The private company is based in Redmond, WA and has subsidiaries in Canada.