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Global Food Exchange operates a business-to-business marketplace for the global food industry. It offers disaster, food and water relief. The company was founded by Richard L. Lackey and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

Guardent, Inc. develops managed security software systems. The company is based in Waltham, MA. The company was founded by Maria A. Cirino, Dan McCall, Ryan Kalember. Guardent was acquired by VeriSign, Inc. on February 27, 2004 for $135 million.

Proficiency, Inc. provides engineering supply chain collaboration solutions. The company offers Product Knowledge Integration and CAD Interoperability solutions. It was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Milford, OH.

Gridstone Research is a financial technology, data products, and services company serving the information needs of financial services companies. It applies some pretty nifty technology to the extraction, transformation and presentation of company fundamental financial and operational data. The firm also offers value-added services like custom data extraction and earnings modeling, and license its technology and database to commercial financial information providers. Its technology and processes make its services more efficient and reliable as compared to current methods, in-house or outsourced. The company is located in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Mumbai, India.

Vlingo Corp. provided mobile voice solutions for wireless manufacturers, carriers, enterprise-level services, bluetooth accessories and mobile content providers. The company was founded by Michael S. Phillips and John Nguyen in 2006 and was headquartered in Burlington, MA.

RPX Corp. provides new patent acquisition services. The firm offers patent risk solutions, defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. It operates through the RPX: Patent Risk Management and Inventus: Legal Discovery Management. The RPX: Patent Risk Management segment is involved in the solutions that rationalize and lower the costs of patent licensing by reducing the unnecessary legal costs associated with infringement litigation brought by NPEs. The Inventus: Legal Discovery Management segment focuses on intelligent document analysis, hosting and managed review to its clients for litigation and investigations. Inventus serves industries across the board from Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Aerospace and Defense, and Technology. The company was founded by John A. Amster, Geoffrey T. Barker, and Eran Zur on July 15, 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TerraPower LLC provides nuclear energy technologies. It focuses on improving the design of nuclear reactors and is developing a new class of nuclear reactor called a Traveling-Wave Reactor. The company was founded by William Henry Gates III and Nathan P. Myhrvold in 2008 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

24M Technologies, Inc. develops energy storage systems. It offers a battery technology that provides storage for power grid and transportation markets. The company was founded by Yet-Ming Chiang, W. Craig Carter and Throop M. Wilder in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

GrabCAD, Inc. manufactures and markets 3D printers and production systems. It operates as a social computer-aided design network. The company was founded by Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk on February 18, 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Zoba, Inc. develops and operates web application that allows organizations to interact with predictions of human behaviour. The company was founded by Joseph P. Brennan and Daniel J. Brennan and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ketch Kloud, Inc. is a company that offers the Ketch Trust by Design Platform, which is a coordinated set of applications, infrastructure, and APIs. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The platform aims to simplify privacy operations and utilize responsibly gathered data to enhance customer engagement and drive top-line growth. It was founded by Vivek S. Vaidya and Tom Chavez, with Tom Chavez serving as the CEO since 2019.

Performable, Inc. provides internet marketing services. The firm’s marketing software is ideal for professional marketers who need to measure activity across all channels, take action based on real behavior, and optimize for the entire customer lifecycle. The company was founded in October 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Drift.com, Inc. engages in the development of a conversational marketing and sales platform. Its applications are pricing plans, test drive drift and get a demo shouldn’t be included: Its platform encompasses sales, marketing, and related integrations. The company was founded by David Cancel, Elias Torres in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.