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Optasite, Inc. develops and operates telecommunications tower sites. It provides tower sites for wireless carriers, broadcasters, and public safety organizations. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA

Nantero, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor devices. It develops a new generation of memory called NRAM (non-volatile random access memory) that can enable a variety of exciting new features and products in both consumer and enterprise electronics. The company was founded by Thomas Rueckes and Greg Schmergel in March 2001 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

BrightRoll, Inc. operates as a video advertising network company. It engages in the production of advertisements and video ad campaigns. The firm's proprietary technology connects buyers and sellers of digital video advertising to help them reach audiences across web, mobile, and connected television. The company was founded by Tod M. Sacerdoti in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Magnetic Media Online, Inc. develops online advertising services. It operates as a digital technology company which specializes in retargeting solutions that combine intent data with display advertising to power brand awareness and direct response campaigns. The firm searches data queries and a proprietary bidder to programmatically buy and reach audiences who have signaled either interest or purchase intent where they spend their time online-on news sites, blogs, eCommerce sites and social networks. The company was founded by Joshua Shatkin-Margolis in April 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Affirmed Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of network functions virtualization solutions. It offers mobile core solutions, content and security services, virtualized wireless fidelity, service automation, virtual probe and analytics, and network slicing. The company was founded by Anand Krishnamurthy, Harris A. Fishman, Tim Mortsolf , Mohammed Shanableh, Terry Durand, Hassan M. Ahmed, Stephan Noll, and Paul Sherer in 2010 and is headquartered in Acton, MA.

Orchestra, Inc. develops applications to provide information through social networks. It offers its services to the communications, software, and information technology sectors. The company was founded by Gentry Underwood on October 11, 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pullstring, Inc. develops web and mobile-connected game applications. It offers an entertainment technology platform that includes a talking teddy bear and a web interface. The company was founded by Oren Jacob, Martin Reddy and Renee Adams in August 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm is founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rho Capital Partners, Inc. (Rho Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Joshua Ruch. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Yantra Corp. develops software products and services for supply chain management. It focuses on distributed order management, networked warehouse management, supply collaboration, inventory synchronization, reverse logistics, logistics management, and delivery and service scheduling. The company was founded by Devdutt Yellurkar in 1995 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.

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

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.

Highland Capital Partners LLC (Highland Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm is founded in 1987 by Paul A. Maeder and Bob F. Higgins. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Oportun, Inc. provides consumer financial services. The firm focuses on offering unsecured credit to under-banked Hispanic families that lack FICO scores, credit histories, and traditional banking relationships. It provides loans without collateral to clients who lack credit history by using its sophisticated risk-scoring system that emphasizes a client's true capacity to afford a loan and engages with customers in their neighborhoods, in their language and with familiar faces from the community to build relationships of trust that lead to a lifetime of growth and prosperity. The company was founded by James Gutierrez and Gabriel Manjarrez in 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Scribd, Inc. operates a digital documents library. It allows users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents in various languages. The firm offers premier subscription book service. The company was founded by John R. Adler III, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam in March 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rethink Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for production and research environment. The firm introduces robotics into processes that uses common sense to perform tasks and vastly improve productivity and one that safely works side by side with its human counterparts, who are able to train it with no programming or engineering expertise. The company was founded by Rodney Allen Brooks and Anne Whittaker in July 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

AlienVault, Inc. provides security management solutions. It offers open source tools for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring, security intelligence, security information and event management. The company was founded by Julio Casal and Dominique Karg on May 1, 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Altius Education, Inc. provides online associate degree programs. It offers virtual learning systems, student services and educational pathways in order to provide students with a personalized university education. The company was founded by Paul Freedman and Cam Cruickshank in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tophatter, Inc. provides online auction services. The firm conducts live online auction every day where buyers and sellers can interact, chat and transact. The company was founded by Ashvin A. Kumar, Philip Kaplan and Christopher T. Estreich in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Session M, Inc. provides mobile application software. The firm offers SessionM, a cloud-based marketing automation and loyalty platform that gathers customer behaviors across all channels, appends the data to each individual’s profile instantaneously, and triggers personalized responses through a real-time rules engine. The company was founded by Lars Albright, Mark E. Herrmann and Scott N. Weller in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

OneLogin, Inc. provides on-demand single sign-on and identity management solutions. Its products include single sign-on, unified directory, user provisioning, web access management, strong authentication and mobile identity. The firm serves technology, education, retail, manufacturing and financial service industries. The company was founded by Christian Pedersen and Thomas Bruno Pedersen in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Social+Capital Partnership LLC (Social Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Chamath PalihapitIya, Ted Maidenberg and Mamoon Hamid. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Atlassian Corp. Plc is a holding company, which engages in the design, development, license, and maintenance of software and provision software hosting services. Its products include Jira software, Jira Align, Core, and Service Desk, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Bamboo, Opsgenie, and Statuspage. The company was founded by Michael Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar in 2002 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Aspen Designs, Inc. provides computer software development and applications. The company was founded by Scott Cannon and George Underwood and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ResortPass, Inc. engages in the provision of online booking platform for access to resorts and hotels for the pool, spa, fitness, and activities. It offers ResortPass, which features inventory management and reservation system, and marketing. The company was founded by Amanda Szabo in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Shield Capital LLC (Shield Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.