Shawn Semones

Laitram LLC manufactures automated shrimp processing, shellfish cooking, and chilling equipment. Its operating divisions include Intralox, Laitram Machinery, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop. The firm’s corporate support group provides professional services to the operating divisions, including information technology services, human resources, legal counsel, accounting, safety, and facilities and maintenance. The company was founded by James Martial Lapeyre in 1946 and is headquartered in Harahan, LA.

Wavesat, Inc. manufactures and supplies broadband wireless semiconductor solutions. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Sambazon, Inc. produces and sells organic fruit juices. It produces a?ai based juices and a?ai based products, including smoothie packs, energy drinks, sorbets, and supplements. The company was founded by Ryan Black, Jeremy Christian Black and Ed Nichols in 2000 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Agriliance LLC engages in the provision of agronomy products. The company was founded in February 3, 2000 and is headquartered in Inver Grove Heights, MN.

FreeBalance, Inc. provides resource planning software solutions. The firm’s products include accountability suite, government performance, public financials, government treasury, public expenditure, civil service, and government receipts management, transparency and eprocurement portals, and accountability platform. Its solutions encompass id projects and GRP shared services. The firm caters to the central government, agencies, authorities, and regional and local government. The company was founded by Kevin Higgins in 1984 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP (Brevan Howard) is an alternative investment firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 2002 and is a subsidiary of BH Partnership Holdings Ltd., ultimately held by Brevan Howard (Jersey) LP. Brevan Howard manages assets for institutional investors around the world including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension plans, foundations and endowments.

Degrémont SAS designs and constructs water and sewerage treatment plants. The firm also constructs desalination facilities and wastewater and sludge treatment facilities for local authorities. The company was founded by Gilbert Degremont in 1939 and is headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France.

Traditional Medicinals, Inc. engages in the manufacture of tea blends and botanical products. Its product categories include detox, digestion, good mood, green tea, heart health, herbals, immunity, joint health, laxative, nausea, pre and postnatal, probiotics, relaxation, seasonal care, skin health, sleep, stress relief, water retention, and women’s cycle. The company was founded by Drake Sadler and Rosemary Gladstar in 1974 and is headquartered in Sebastopol, CA.

LxDATA is an Oil and Gas technology company providing well monitoring systems and services. LxDATA leverages a unique optical sensing technology to provide reliable well monitoring solutions and high quality data. LxDATA develops, installs and supports reliable optical multi-point pressure and high temperature monitoring systems to permit Oil and Gas producers enhance operational efficiencies, improve recovery and lower their over-all operating costs. The LxIQ™ multi-point distributed measurement system is an effective reservoir management tool providing real time pressure-temperature data. With dynamic real-time reservoir monitoring, information can be extracted and can be used as critical input into reservoir exploitation and management decisions.

Source Capital LLC operates as a venture capital and private equity company. The firm specializes in lending investments in start-up businesses, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged management buyouts, business expansion, debt re-financing, equipment purchasing, and working capital for growth companies. The company was founded by Kevin H. Couhig and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Cycle Capital Management, Inc (Cycle Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Andree-Lise Methot. The firm is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Réseau Capital operates as a venture capital and private equity association. It promotes private equity industry in Quebec through training, information and promotion, networking, and representation. The company was founded by Jean-Pierre Chartrand in 1989 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Bayer CropScience LP provides crop protection products. The company was founded on December 3, 1999 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

CropLife America is an organization that helps ensure growers and consumers have the technologies they need to protect crops, communities, and ecosystems from the threat of pests, weeds, and diseases in an environmentally sound, safe, and sustainable way. The private company is based in Arlington, Virginia and has subsidiaries in other locations. The American company focuses on innovative conversations, regulatory integrity, and sustainability. The CEO of the company is Jay Vroom.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients Corp. engages in the manufacture of bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf and lawn care industries. Its products include GreenTRX, Organic MaTRX, SymTRX, and ANUGREEN. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Burnham in 2015 and is headquartered in Winter Garden, FL.

SolaCom Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures communication solutions for public safety and homeland security. Its products include guardian ng9-1-1 controller, guardian NG9-1-1 controller for 2-6 position PSAP, guardian intelligent workstation, guardian emergency services routing proxy, guardian mobile, guardian responder, guardian map and guardian emergency gateway. The company was founded by Franz Plangger in 1998 and is headquartered in Westchester, IL.

Energate, Inc. provides interactive energy management solutions and products for utilities and residential customers. Its products offers pioneer smart thermostat, energate foundation, load management system, in-home energy displays, load switches, ZIP connect, peripherals, core middleware, and MyEnergate consumer portal and mobile application. The company was founded by Niraj Bhargava, Michael Delage, Jerry Kathnelson, and Jorge Deligiannis in 2004 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Éocycle Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures electric generators and motors. It commercializes the EOCYCLE 25, a state-of-the-art 25 kW direct-drive wind turbine for distributed wind energy applications. The company was founded by Maxime Dubois in 2000 and is headquartered in Gaspe, Canada.

GaN Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures power semiconductors. It products include transistors for the consumer electronics, data centers, renewable energy, industrial, and automotive markets. The company was founded by Girvan L. Patterson and John Roberts in 2008 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Fraenkel Co., Inc. manufactures bedding and upholstered products. The firm’s products include box, die, leaf and spiral springs, coat racks, and chairs. The company was founded by Albert Fraenkel in 1959 and is headquartered in Ventress, LA.

Zehnder Communications, Inc. engages in the provision of advertising and integrates technology into advertising campaigns. Its offers advertising, social media, public relations, research, interactive and media related services. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Zehnderin 1999 and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

GuideStar Clinical Trials Management LLC provides administrative support services for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and physician practices. Its services include comprehensive site evaluation, resource services, audits, assessment and support. The company is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Aliment Capital LLC (Aliment Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pontifax Management Co. Ltd. founded in 2014 by Philip Robert Erlanger and Ben Belldegrun. The firm is headquartered in California, United States.

Builders VC LLC (Builders VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Alex Kinnier, Jim Kim, Jocelyn Doe and Paul Lee. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

A.A.A Taranis Visual Ltd. provides solutions for farmers that allow the user to mitigate and respond to weather and crop disease threats. It offers solution to farmers to plan the field operations; analyze the planned tasks, field level weather forecast, and monitor conditions in the field. The company was founded by Ofir Schlam, Ayal Karmi, Asaf Horvitz and Eli Bukchin in 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Valent U.S.A. LLC develops and markets biologically-based crop protection and enhancement solutions. Its products include herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and plant growth regulator products for agricultural, seed protection, and professional use. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

Tropic Biosciences UK Ltd. develops varieties of tropical crops by utilizing cutting-edge genome editing technologies. The company is headquartered in Norwich, the United Kingdom.

Pairwise Plants LLC operates as a agriculture company. The company was founded by Feng Zhang, David Liu and J. Keith Joung and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Concentric Agriculture, Inc operates as a agri-tech company that develops biological and essential plant nutrient inputs for specialty and broad acre crops. The company was founded by Margaret Bywater–Ekegärd and Ananda Lynn Fitzsimmons in 2007 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Kirchner Investment Management Corp. engages in the provision of investment management services. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.