Willard L. Simmons

IGN Entertainment, Inc. provides internet and media services. It focuses on the video game and entertainment markets. It offers gaming and entertainment content for 18-34 year old men online; gaming technology services for online game developers; and iPhone UI Toolkit for iPhone developers. The firm also operates Direct2Drive, an online site that allows consumers to purchase and download PC games, comics, and anime titles directly from the Web to their desktops; FilePlanet, a video game download site that provides free game patches, mod files, game demos, and trailers; AskMen.com, a men's lifestyle Website; and UGO.com, a men's entertainment site. The company was founded by Mark A. Jung, Peer Schneider, Kenneth H. Keller and Christopher Anderson on September 29, 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BzzAgent, Inc. provides marketing and research services. The company was founded by David Balter and Jonathan O'Toole in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

InnerWireless, Inc. provides wireless technologies for businesses. The company was founded by Ed Cantwell in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Cartera Commerce, Inc. provides card-linked marketing solutions. It offers services via multiple digital marketing channels including websites, online banking, email, mobile, social media and browser apps. The firm provides marketing solutions to merchants, banks, card issuers and loyalty programs. The company was founded by David L. Andre, Kimathi Marangu and Lay Ping in 2005 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Valore, Inc. operates a shopping site which offers education loan products. The firm has a collection of online brands including ValoreBooks, SimpleTuition and Boundless, that provides innovative solutions to help students pay less for their education by providing cheaper textbooks, more affordable student loans and resources that help graduates get debt-free faster. The company was founded by Kevin R. Walker, Patrick Kandianis and Robert J. Brannigan in 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Institute for Corporate Productivity, Inc. provides workforce and human capital productivity, and human resource solutions. It offers solutions for human resources, learning, talent, and other business functions including membership, executive search, Exitmetrix, organizational effectiveness assessment, and working groups. The company was founded by Kevin Oakes, Debbie McGrath, and Jay J. Jamrog in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Plastiq, Inc. provides electronic payments for big purchases. It enables cardholders to make payments for tuition, cars, tax, boats, rent, and real estate. The company enables selecting card payments in North America. Plastiq was founded by Daniel J. Choi and Eliot L. Buchanan in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PillPack, Inc. operates as an online subscription pharmacy. It receives prescription from doctors and packs medicines as per the prescription and dosage, and delivers it in a dispenser containing PillPack packets. The firm offers vitamins and OTCs, inhalers, cream tubes, testing supplies, and other pharmacy items. The company was founded by Elliot Cohen, Timothy Parker and Brian Hoffer in 2013 and is headquartered in Manchester, NH.

Threat Stack, Inc. operates as an online security system for businesses that provides a firewall. It provides security monitoring for public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures protecting servers, and the data they access, from intrusion and data loss. It also offers protection, intelligent detection, and forensics data that enables to rapidly respond to malicious threats. The company was founded by Dustin Webber, Jason Meller and Jennifer Andre in November 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Exeter Venture Management Company LLC (Exeter Venture Management Company) is a venture capital subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc. founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in New York, New York.

Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Teachable, Inc. provides a platform for teachers to sell their courses online. Its platform enables users to build a course website and control their branding, student data, and pricing from one place; import text, images, audio, video, and other content from Dropbox. The company was founded by Ankur Nagpal and Conrad Wadowski in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gotuit Media Corp. delivers metadata driven video products. The company was founded by James K. Vaughn in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

BlueTarp Financial, Inc. provides commercial trade credit and marketing services. It offers an automated reporting system that tracks and reports various purchases by job and job phase levels, and information-based tools for the building material dealers and contractors. The company's trade credit programs provide commercial sized credit lines. BlueTarp Financial was founded in 1998 by Michael Rigney and is headquartered in Portland, ME.

For more than 30 years, Facing History and itself has believed that education is the key to combating bigotry and nurturing democracy. The firm works with educators throughout their careers to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, as well as their students' academic performance and civic learning. Through a rigorous investigation of the events that led to the Holocaust, as well as other recent examples of genocide and mass violence, students in a Facing History class learn to combat prejudice with compassion, indifference with participation, and myth and misinformation with knowledge. Facing History's impact in supporting teachers' effectiveness and promoting students' academic development and civic learning has been demonstrated in more than one hundred studies by independent researchers and Facing History evaluators. Since it was founded in 1976 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Facing History and itself has grown from an innovative course taught in a single school district to an international organization with more than 150 staff members in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Memphis, New England, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Toronto, and partnerships in Northern Ireland, Israel, Rwanda, China and South Africa. These offices and partnerships, as well as projects throughout North America and around the world, support a network of more than 29,000 trained educators who reach nearly two million young people annually.

Go2 Media, Inc. provides mobile media and directory services It provides users with movie listings, a concert directory, local event listings, restaurants and bars and recommendations from their national network of editors. The company was founded by Lee Hancock in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

New England Venture Capital Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which operates as a catalyst, and advocate, and a resource for the innovation economy. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Maiden Lane operates as a mall. It is notable for its proximity to Union Square and its concentration of upscale retailers, including Chanel, Marc Jacobs, and Yves Saint Laurent. The company was founded by Ed Theobald and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

oneforty, Inc. provided directory of applications. The company was founded in March 2009 and was headquartered in Brighton, MA.

The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, Inc. operates internet business and marketing association. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Recorded Future, Inc. (Recorded Future) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Christopher Ahlberg, Ulf Månsson, Jason Hines, Jan Sparud, Erik Wistrand, and Staffan Truvé. The firm is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Abine, Inc. provides online privacy services. It offers protection of passwords and payment details, privacy from cyber criminals, and deletion of personal information from the internet. The company was founded by Rob Shavell, Andrew Sudbury, Jeff L. Fagnan, and Eugene Kuznetsov in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SavingStar Inc. provides digital grocery eCoupon rewards services. Its eCoupons are linked to supermarket and drugstore loyalty cards and automatically adds the value of each eCoupon redeemed into users' SavingStar accounts, enabling them to pick their pay out from cash to gift cards to charity donations. The company was founded by David Rochon and Michael Libenson in April 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Corvium, Inc. engages in the development of fist synthetic biology-based bacterial monitoring platform. Its product include Control-Pro, an EMP automation software that converts data into action. The company was founded by Bob Langer, Timothy Lu, Michael Koeris, Brett Chevalier, Micah Rosenbloom, Tanguy Chau, and James J. Collins in March 2009 and is headquartered in Woburnc, MA.

Restorando SA operates an online reservation website for restaurants. It offers real-time customer booking, as well as listings of establishments by location and Clients may also post reviews and recommendations. The company was founded by Rodolfo Francisco Martín Bujaldon, Franco Silvetti, Andy Freire, and Santiago Bilinkis in December 2010, and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

AL Talent, Inc. is a leading fund service platform called AngelList that creates products and services for venture firms, investors, startups, and fund managers. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company provides a platform for investment opportunities and fosters growth within the industry. AngelList offers everything needed to invest in top-tier startups, all in one place. AngelList was founded in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi.

Maiden Lane Ventures LLC (Maiden Lane Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Kevin Laws, Jeffrey Lyle Fagnan, and Dustin Dolginow. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

edX LLC engages in the provision of online learning platform. The company was founded by Anant Agarwal in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PageCloud, Inc. provides website creation services. It provides PageCloud, a solution that allows designers to create, edit, and design Web. The company was founded by Craig Fitzpatrick on November 25, 2013 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Accomplice LLC (Accomplice) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Ryan Robert Moore, Christopher Paul Lynch and Jeffrey Lyle Fagnan. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Freebird, Inc. provides app that enables travelers to rebook canceled or delayed flight. It offers travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offers the ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device. The company was founded by Ethan Z. Bernstein and Samuel Zimmerman and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Open Education Holdings, Inc. operates as an online learning english to students. The company is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Part of Hopper (USA), Inc., Hopper, Inc. operates as a travel agency. The company is based in Montréal, Canada. The Canadian company was founded in 2007 by Frédéric Lalonde, Joost Ouwerkerk. Frédéric Lalonde has been the CEO since 2007.

Rev Boston provides event services. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Jeffrey Lyle Fagnan, Sarah A. Downey, Diane S. Hessan.

Spearhead is a financial services firm that specializes in providing wealth management, administration, and asset management solutions to ultra-high net worth investors, family offices, and private placement markets. The private company was founded in 2012 by Naval Ravikant and Jeffrey Lyle Fagnan and is based in Massachusetts. The American company has a wealth advisory, an administrative services business for insurance dedicated assets, and an asset management division that focuses on niche, uncorrelated, and capacity constrained investment opportunities. Spearhead Capital Advisors, LLC offers advisory services, while Spearhead Innovative Solutions, LLC and its subsidiaries provide consulting and administration services. All securities are offered through Spearhead Capital, LLC, a member of FINRA/SIPC.

Zoe Ltd. is a British women-owned company that has been designing semi-custom party wear dresses for over 35 years. Zoe is based in London, UK. The company's design team works one-on-one with customers to create gorgeous gowns for any occasion. The company offers a collection of trendy dresses for girls aged 4 to 16, characterized by intricate designs with luxury fabrics. Customers can shop their collection online and purchase items directly from stores. Extra fabric and additional sizes are available upon request. The company was founded in 2017.

The Alliance for Business Leadership provides business support services. The non-profit company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by James F. Boyle, Jeffrey J. Bussgang.