Mark W. Zager

The Black & Decker Corp. manufactures power tools, electric lawn and garden tools, hardware and home improvement products. The firm has been setting the standard for innovation and design of power tools, accessories, outdoor yard care equipment, home cleaning products, automotive and lighting products, hardware and other home improvement products. The company was founded by S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker Sr. in 1910 and is headquartered in Towson, MD.

Bolder Technologies Corp. manufactures and markets innovative battery cell powered products for the consumer & other aftermarkets based on its patented thin metal film technology. Its small size, light weight and high power density batteries discharge & recharge very rapidly and provide superior performance in cold temperatures. The company currently manufacturing TMF cells at the rate of 30,000 to 35,000 per week. Its TMF technology represents a significant advance over existing rechargeable battery technologies for applications that require high power in a small package. The company's TMF rechargeable cells employ a proprietary configuration of traditional lead acid electrochemical that has been used in battery systems for over a century and that is currently used in batteries for cars and many electronic applications.

Spectrum Brands, Inc. engages in the manufacture and market alkaline, zinc carbon and hearing aid batteries, herbicides, insecticides and repellants and specialty pet supplies. It operates through the following segments: Global batteries and Appliance; Global Pet Supplies; and Home and Garden. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Virent, Inc. develops and commercializes biofuel technologies. It converts soluble biomass-derived sugars into products molecularly identical to those made with petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals used for plastics and fibers. The company was founded by Randy D. Cortright and James Dumesic in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Venture Investors LLC (Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

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

Soft Switching Technologies Corp. provides power quality and monitoring solutions for the automated industrial markets. The firm offers scalable, battery-free DySC products, voltage sag detectors and I-Sense intelligent sensors to semiconductor, food and beverage, and automotive industries, as well as manufacturing customers and utility industries. The firm's customers include both middle market firms and blue chip companies. The company was founded by Deepak M. Divan in 1995 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Madison Development Corp. manages housing units in Madison. The non-profit company is based in Madison, WI. Lorrie Keating Heinemann has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Eximis Surgical, Inc. develops and manufactures surgical devices. It offers XCor, a specimen removal device that reduce surgery times and risks associated with traditional tissue removal methods. The company was founded by Donna Ford-Serbu, Kristin D. Johnson, William Gregg, and Dirk Johnson on June 5, 2014 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

EnsoData, Inc. develops software solutions for medical sector. Its solutions enables user to discover, identify, and report a critical patterns and trends in temporal health data. The company was founded by Christopher Robert Fernandez, Nicholas Glattard and Sam Rusk in 2015 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Elucent Medical, Inc. develops solutions for breast cancer treatment. The firm is pioneering and commercializing a wireless marker tag and detection system that helps locate breast abnormalities and predict margins during surgical excision. The company was founded by Dan van der Weide, Laura G. King, Lee Wilke, Fred T. Lee, Christopher Brace and Elizabeth Burnside and is headquartered in Brookfield, WI.

Part of University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization facilitates the transfer of UMN innovation beyond the research lab by helping diverse researchers to license research, patent innovative ideas, establish startups, and facilitate commercialization. The American company covers various technology sectors such as agriculture & horticulture, creative works, engineering & physical sciences, life sciences, software & information technology, and statistics. The company has helped launch more than 200 startup companies based on UMN technology and have raised more than $1.15 billion in investment capital, IPOs, and acquisitions. The company is among the top 15 public universities for technology transfer and ranked 2nd in the Big Ten for "innovation impact."