Steve Biafore

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Redseal, Inc. provides proactive security management solutions. The firm’s solutions include compliance, incident response, vulnerability management and cyber insurance. The company was founded by Scot Malloy, Alain J. Mayer and Brian Laing in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

iVentster, Inc. engages in the provision of market research monetization platform. It services offers monetization, advertising, and research. The company was founded by C. Prosper Nwankpa, M. Noman Ali, Murtaza Huzzain, and Ali A. Moiz in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SET Media, Inc. operates as a digital video technology company that connects brand advertisers with consumers through quality, targeted, and brand safe campaigns at scale. The firm's proprietary classification and video-specific reporting platform enable brands to see every video they've sponsored, ensuring complete brand safety and certainty in digital video advertising. The company was founded in 2007 by Michael Sullivan and Bobby Impollonia and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

DevonWay, Inc. provides on-demand utility business management solutions. It offers continuous improvement solutions, such as Continuous Improvement Suite, which support and advance corrective action, problem identification and resolution, operating experience, human performance improvement, key performance indicators, trend analysis, operational assessments, employee recognition, and root-cause analysis; and enables organizations to measure, manage, and report on performance gaps, and respond to internal oversight and external regulatory findings. The company was founded in Robert W. Felton and Richard W. MacAlmon in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Gain Credit, Inc. provides a range of financial services products to underbanked consumers. The firm designs and produces computer platforms that provides risk assessment on a per-transaction basis. The company was founded by Krishna Gopinathan and Purna Patnaik in 2003 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Joberate, Inc. engages in talent search and provides people analytics technology platform. It offers predictive analysis for HR and recruitment that enables companies to gain actionable insights from publicly available digital footprint of their current employees or prospective candidates. The company was founded by Michael Beygelman and Aki Kakko in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

LFV Management LLC (Leapfrog Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Pete Sinclair. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. operates as a holding company. It engages in providing specialty insurance, reinsurance, risk assessment, and risk consulting services. The firm also offers technical underwriting skills, risk assessment resources and engineering expertise services. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Hotel Booking Solutions, Inc. provides management technology solutions for travel industry. It offer travel connectivity, bringing suppliers and distributors. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

hi5 Networks, Inc. provides social network portals for social entertainment and gaming services. The company was founded by Yalamanchi Ramu in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MMIM Technologies, Inc. was established in September 2004, has the world's leading mobile multimedia communications and information services technology is based on the mobile network, while mobile networks and Internet applications to connect an industry leader; the company received from the global venture capital fund IDG, Blue Run, and Crosslink tens of millions of dollars in investment. PICA (PICA) - Personalized Information Communication Assistant, is infinitely Information Technology Co., Ltd. Beijing hands the core product, it is the first specifically designed for mobile networks and users a comprehensive real-time communication software, but also the nation's largest mobile Internet community, In addition to the provision of services for personal users, the hands of the unlimited provision of services for corporate customers to meet the needs of enterprise customers. The company always had an open attitude and various partners in the strategic, marketing and content to work with. PICA in SYMBIAN, LINUX, K-JAVA, BREW different mobile operating platform, with the major mainstream handset manufacturers to achieve business closely integrated, the company has five major operators, including Hong Kong and Macao, including domestic and international mobile operators various forms of cooperation and the inauguration of its services; and Microsoft's MSN formed a strategic partnership to jointly create a mobile MSN.

Ace Metrix, Inc. engages in the provision of on-demand television advertising analytics. It operates a platform for evaluating video advertising that companies can use to access TV and video data analysis to optimize their advertising campaigns. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

QED Investors LLC (QED Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Frank Rotman, Caribou Honig and Nigel William Morris. The firm is headquartered in Virginia, US.

Empower Personal Wealth LLC provides financial advisory services. Its financial tools offers net worth, fee analyzer, investment checkup and retirement planner. The firm?s financial advisory services include investment strategy, advisors, private client and additional services. The company was founded by William Hamilton Harris Jr. and Robert Foregger in 2009 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

The Claro Group LLC provides financial, economic and management consulting services. It focuses on disputes, claims, investigations & regulatory compliance and advisory & analytical services. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Reltio, Inc. provides enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management services. The firm?s products include cloud master data management, reference data management, workflow and collaboration, data as a service, reltio IQ and data-driven applications. It also provides solutions in the areas of key account management, cloud master data management, mergers and acquisitions and data monetization. The company was founded by Manish Sood and Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

Carketa, Inc. engages in the development of software as a service (SaaS) application for car dealership. Its products include Carketa Recon and Carketa Condition Report. The company was founded by Jason Berry in 2019 and is headquartered in Pleasant Grove, UT.

Chime Financial, Inc. engages in the design and development of a digital banking application. Its mobile app, Chime, provides online banking, fee-free overdraft, mobile banking, automatic savings, mobile payments, and security and control capabilities. The company was founded by Christopher R. Britt and Ryan King in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Novo Platform, Inc. operates an online portal which provides application programming interface for banking services. The company was founded by Tyler McIntyre and Michael Rangel in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.