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Dell, Inc. engages in the manufacture of electronic devices. Its products include laptops, desktops, tablets, thin clients, printers, monitors, software, workstations and accessories. The company was founded by Michael Saul Dell on February 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, TX.

NEON Communications Group, Inc. provides internet hosting, network services, and data processing services for enterprises. It offers single-source solution for every Internet need from management of web applications, servers, and databases, to security, streaming, network bandwidth, and collocation facilities. The company was founded in 1989 and is located in Westborough, MA.

RetailNext, Inc. provides in-store analytics solutions. Its products include people counting and conversion, staffing optimization, shopper activity maps, display and window effectiveness, mobile in-store analytics, video management, guest WI-FI and personalization. The firm’s technology delivers comprehensive, real-time analytics that empowers worldwide retailers, shopping centers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexei Agratchev, Marlie Liu and Arun Nair and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

EPM Live LLC provides information technology support services. It offers Microsoft SharePoint-based enterprise project, portfolio, and work management services to help businesses improve productivity. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

WellAware Holdings, Inc. operates as an industrial internet of things (IOT) data company that engages in the provision of end-to-end solutions for oilfield data collection, storage, visualization, and decision analysis. It offers remote production and genset remote monitoring, chemical injection automation, preventive maintenance, internal corrosion treatment, operator chemical insights, methanol injection automation, and underground injection control solutions. It serves the communications, oil and gas, and industrial markets. The company was founded by Matt Harrison and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

NewStore, Inc. provides software services. The firm provides mobile retail platform that boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. Its solutions include conversion, omni channel, fulfillment, and loyalty. The company was founded by Stephan Schambach in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Audax Private Equity (Audax Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of 101 Huntington Holdings LLC founded in 1999 by Geoff S. Rehnert and Marc B. Wolpow. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and additional office in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Upland Software I, Inc. provides project and portfolio management software solutions. The firm combines the robust project and portfolio management (PPM) functionality demanded by global organizations with the cost and speed-to-value benefits of cloud delivery and an unmatched level of flexibility. It offers a web-based tool for project and program management, tracking, reporting, collaboration and quality. The company was founded in 1998 by David Boghoss and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BlueCat Networks, Inc. provides IP address management solutions. Its products include BlueCat address manager, DNS and DHCP server, threat protection, address manager for windows server, automation manager, connectors and device registration portal. The company was founded by Richard Hyatt and Michael Hyatt in 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Upland Software, Inc., Marex Group, Inc. operates as a platform that provides liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in commodities and financial markets. The company is based in Lincoln, NE. The CEO of the company is Ian Theo Lowitt.

L.E.K. Consulting LLC operates as a management consulting firm. It offers disruption management, post-merger integration, and marketing and sales services. The company was founded by James Lawrence, Iain Evans and Richard Koch in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Hybris GmbH provides multi-channel commerce and communications software solutions. The firm's product communication platform includes the PIM suite solution that permanently stores product data for various integrated e-commerce applications and print channels, and e-commerce suite and print suite solutions, which generate various sales channels. It has operations in United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. The company was founded by Carsten Thoma, Guenther Lamperstorfer and Moritz Zimmermann in 1997 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

National Center for Arts & Technology is a non-profit organization that operates to assist communities in opening and sustaining local educational organizations. The company was founded by William Strickland in 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of Upland Software, Inc., Upland Software IV, Inc. provides workflow automation and document management software. The company is based in Lincoln, NE. Upland Software IV was acquired by Upland Software, Inc. on May 16, 2013 for $12.93 million.

Magnitude Software, Inc. provides enterprise information management software solutions. Its solutions include business intelligence, data warehousing, master data management, reporting, and analytics. The firm offers reporting and analytics, information engine, connectivity, agility multichannel, and innowera products. The company was founded on October 28, 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Activant Capital Group LLC (Activant Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino. The firm is headquartered in the Greenwich, Connecticut.

HW Holdco LLC engages in the provision of data-driven housing market solutions to the homebuilding industry. The company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

Celect, Inc. develops predictive analytics platform for retail merchandise planning and product assortment optimization. Its solutions include predictive peronalization and markdown optimization. The company was founded by Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

New Group Holdings, Inc. operates as early stage company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Skysync, Inc. provides enterprise content integration platform. It enables users to unprecedented freedom for organizations to migrate, bi-directionally sync, copy, back-up, and publish. The firm's solutions include file migration, hybrid integration, e-discovery and archive support, and user desktop and remote officer control. The company was founded by Mark Brazeau in 2012 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Bolt Financial, Inc. engages in the development of checkout experience platform. Its product, Bolt, optimizes conversions and manages hundreds of integrations and the rising risk of fraud. The company was founded by Eric Feldman and Ryan Breslow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zethos, Inc. provides human resource tools that automatically respond to lenders, landlords, and others who need to verify employment. The company was founded by Ryan Sandler, Victor Kabdebon and Ethan Winchell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Deliverr, Inc. operates as an online marketplace. It offers walmart and eBay solutions. The company was founded by Michael Krakaris on August 11, 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., Better Mortgage is a company based in New York, NY. Better Mortgage offers a seamless online mortgage experience with superior customer support. For more information about licensing and disclosure, visit better.com/about-us/licensing-disclosure. The company was founded in 2014 by Vishal Garg, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Same Page Capital LLC (Same Page Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Norm Page. The firm is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.

Gilgamesh Ventures LLC (Gilgamesh Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Miguel Armaza, Andrew Endicott and Sue Choe. The firm is headquartered in New York.