Benjamin Thomas

Quebecor Media, Inc. operates as a media company. The company was founded on August 08, 2000 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the design and development of semiconductor integration technology. It helps lower manufacturing and packaging costs and as well as increase yield associated with the manufacturing of Backside Illuminated (BSI) CMOS image sensors (IS), high-speed logic, stacked memory and memory-on-processor. Its technologies are enabling the creation of true 3D integrated circuits (ICs) at the gate level by delivering advantages including: reduced silicon cost, size reduction, reduced NRE, shorter time-to-market, lower power consumption, and increased system speed and performance. The company was founded in October 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Cato Digital, Inc. provides software-defined power solutions for next-generation data centers. The company is based in Milpitas, CA. The company's Virtual Power Systems (VPS) technology platform, Intelligent Control of Energy (ICE), dynamically adjusts power delivery as demand fluctuates across data-center workloads, servers, and racks, enabling data center and cloud providers to generate significant additional revenue within existing power and IT footprints while avoiding millions of dollars in capital expenditures and operating expenses. Additionally, VPS empowers enterprise customers to reduce power infrastructure wait times and costs. The company was founded by Shankar Ramamurthy. Dean Nelson has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

MediaSpan Group, Inc. provides digital content management, online marketing, advertising, and business productivity solutions for media companies. It includes local newspapers, broadcast properties, design services, and website management. The company is headquartered in Bingham Farms, MI.

Brazos Private Equity Partners LLC (Brazos Private Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Patrick McGee. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Intersouth Partners (Intersouth Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985 by Dennis Dougherty and Roy Rodwell. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Infoglide Software Corp. provides software for government and commercial markets. The firm offers applications for retail, banking, insurance, government, data and information providers and law enforcement. It also provides the software that can resolve fraudulent identities and non-obvious relationships across disparate data sources. The firm’s technology is used to uncover risk, fraud, and conflicts of interest and is also a useful tool within Business Intelligence (BI) and Master Data Management (MDM) applications. The company founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

HexaTech, Inc. designs and manufactures aluminum nitride single crystals. It offers aluminum nitride substrates, and technology development. The company was founded by Raoul Schlesser and Zlatko Sitar in 2001 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Amplifier Management LLC (Amplifier Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jonathan Aberman. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

NC IDEA (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of NC IDEA founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Bright Hub, Inc. provides business infra structure to software developers. Its focus areas include computing, education, mobile, science, environment, electronics, multimedia, Internet, business, finances and engineering. The company was founded by Robert Smith, Joshua Andeson McWilliam and William P. Phelan in 2006 and is headquartered in Troy, NY.

Canadian Newspaper Association operates as a national organization of daily newspaper. The company is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Auberges des Gouverneurs, Inc. operates hotels. The private company is based in Montréal, Canada.

Part of Ennis Industries LLP, Prismo Road Markings Ltd. is a British company that specializes in producing highly durable traffic paint products using Plural Components, which are a sprayable combination of monomers, polymers, and pigments. Founded in 2006, the company is based in Chorley, UK. The company also offers StreetHeat Infrared Heaters, which are designed to create impressions on asphalt surfaces using heat, wire rope for stamping, and a plate compactor.

Ennis Paint UK Holding Co. Ltd. operates as a holding company. The company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Leeds, GB.

The North Carolina Technology Association operates as a statewide membership association for the technology sector. It offers technology, executives, marketing, events, public affairs, workforce development and economic development programs. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

6fusion USA, Inc. develops a Software-as-a-Service based infrastructure metering and management platform. It offers solutions for information technology infrastructure operation and acquisition. The company was founded by John D. Cowan and Delano Seymour in 2010 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

HyperGrid, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud management platform. It offers cloud infrastructure migration, cloud application migration, disaster recovery planning, cloud cost management, and cloud governance solutions. The company was founded by Kelly Murphy, Antoni Sawicki, and Tomasz Nowak in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Road Infrastructure Investment Holdings LLC manufactures and supplies pavement marking products. It offers a lineup of pavement marking materials for use on streets and highways, local roads, parking lots, crosswalks, intersections, and airside and landside uses at airports and military bases. Its products include traffic paint, hot-applied and preformed thermoplastic, raised pavement markers, plural components, traffic scapes, streetprint, colorized lanes, detectable warnings, heaters, and retroreflectometers. The company was founded on April 2, 2012 and is headquartered in Thomasville, NC.

CenterOak Partners LLC (CenterOak) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Randall Fojtasek. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Coastal Financial Holdings, Inc. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Infrastructure Masons, Inc. is a non-profit professional association that was founded in 2016 by Dean Nelson. The non-profit company is based in Beaverton, OR. The company has brought together 6,000 individuals across 130 countries, representing USD 150+ billion in infrastructure projects. Infrastructure Masons provides an agnostic platform for members to connect, grow, and give back across four strategic pillars: education, inclusion, innovation, and sustainability. The company has already contributed USD 1+ million in scholarships, launched resource groups including imwomen, armed forces, latinx, and millennials-genz, and opened regional and local chapters across four continents. In 2022, Infrastructure Masons spearheaded the climate accord, uniting leaders on carbon reduction in digital infrastructure.

Next Wave Partners LLC (Next Wave Partner) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022. The firm is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.