Leo J. Schowalter

Lux Research, Inc. provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. Its products include subscription intelligence, market data products and consulting projects. The firm's solutions include understanding emerging technology markets, technology scouting and open innovation, formulating market entry strategies, evaluating technology companies, performing due diligence, market sizing and forecasting, establishing technology adoption roadmaps, driving economic development from emerging tech and understanding China innovation. The company was founded by Eric Greenberg, DeSoto S. Jordan, Ken Allard, Francis Mark Modzelewski and Matthew M. Nordan in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Kurion, Inc. offers nuclear waste management technologies. The firm has developed technological solutions to access, separate, and stabilize nuclear and hazardous wastes. The company was founded by John Raymont and Husain Amir in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Rho Capital Partners, Inc. (Rho Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Joshua Ruch. The firm is headquartered in New York.

BDC Venture Capital (BDC Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1975. The firm is headquartered in Québec, Canada.

True North Managers LLP (True North Managers) is a private equity firm is founded in 1999 by Michael Ahearn. The firm headquartered in Maharashtra, India.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Brainshark, Inc. engages in the creation of online mobile video presentations and provision of business communication solutions. It offers content authoring, onboarding and training, coaching and practice, content management, dashboard and analytics, and integrations platform. The firm serves the software and technology, manufacturing, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences, insurance, and financial services industry. The company was founded by Mark Yacovone, Joan Babinski, Joseph E. Gustafson, and Greg Flynn in 1999 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

JMH Capital LLC (JMH Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Michael James Mullen, Anthony W. Brooke, John A. Nies, and Scott D. Steele. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lux Capital Group LLC (Lux Capita Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Peter Hebert and Josh Wolfe. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional office in Menlo Park, California.

New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants is a non-profit organization. It provides a membership program for certified public accountants that offers in-person and online networking opportunities, Continuing Professional Education courses and conferences, the CPA Journal, and other publications. The company was foudned in 1897 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Shapeways, Inc. provides on-demand 3D printing services. The firm specializes in personalized manufacturing, mass customization, personalized production and digital fabrication. The company was founded by Robert Schouwenburg, Peter Weijmarshausen and Marleen Vogelaar in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tesora, Inc. creates virtual elastic relational database. It offers ParElastic Database Virtualization Engine which increases flexibility by enabling elastic capacity and multiples relational database servers operate as one and appear to an application as a single database server supporting workloads that exceed the capabilities of a single database server, while only provisioning, consuming, and paying for the resources needed at any given instant. The company was founded by Rugg W. Kenneth and Amrith Kumar in September 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Kymeta Corp. engages in the development of broadband satellite connectivity solutions. Its products include portable satellite terminal, aeronautical terminal, fixed satellite terminal, and mTenna core module. The company was founded in by Nathan B. Kundtz in 2012 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Hyalto, Inc. provides cloud management platform. It offers vCentre, vCloud director, vCloud air and XaaS. The company was founded by Joshua Vautour in 2008 and is headquartered in Kanata, Canada.

Auvik Networks, Inc. manages an enterprise network automation platform. The firm's cloud managed network automation platform dramatically simplifies the way Information Technology configures, monitors and manages its network. The company was founded by Marc G. Morin, David Yach, and Alex Hoff in November 2011 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.

SportLogIQ, Inc. specializes in microstat tracking and data visualization. Its VeriSkate measures the body movements of skaters in competition by using broadcast cameras to provide detailed analysis for media, skating associations, coaches and athletes. The firm also offers hockey data in the world. The company was founded by Craig Buntin and Mehrsan Javan is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Kallyope, Inc. engages in developing drugs and consumer products. Its specialties include biotechnology, gut-brain axis, nutrition, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded by Thomas P. Maniatis, Charles Zuker and Richard Axel in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aira Tech Corp. develops transformative remote assistive technology and services. It offers visual interpretation services for the blind. The company was founded by Yuja Chang, Watson Yim, Sujeeth Kanuganti, and Suman Kanuganti in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Fluent.ai Inc. offers intuitive speech to OEMs and user interface designers for products and services. Its products include wakeword, air, and hybrid. The company was founded by Vikrant Singh Tomar in 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Upchain, Inc. develops and operates customized and automated workflows for data processing. It offers cloud PLM, cloud product data management, and workflows and integrations. The company was founded by John Laslavic in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Relogix, Inc. operates as a workspace analytics platform for evolve real estate portfolio. The company was founded by Andrew Millar in 2010 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Strateos engages in the automation of chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed loop robotic laboratories that support drug discovery programs. The company is headquartered in the Menlo Park, CA.

Variant Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development of new generation of therapeutics. It focuses on traits of medical relevance and using genomics. The company was founded by Akhila Kosaraju, Kaja Wasik, and Stephane Castel in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Rho Canada Ventures is a venture capital division of Rho Capital Partners Inc founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Thentia Corp engages in the provision cloud platform services. It offers wide variety of clients throughout Canada and the United States. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, ON.

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is a company that is building space factories to revolutionize the production process. The company is based in El Segundo, CA. The company is currently the only company aiming to operate entirely on commercial supply chains and are well positioned to be the worldwide leader in commercial microgravity manufacturing. Using their spacecraft as a manufacturing platform in microgravity, they create game-changing products that defy gravity's constraints on earth. With their economical re-entry capsules, they not only bring these products back safely to earth but also pave the way for life on an orbital manufacturing platform that delivers products back to earth. The company was founded in 2020 by Daniel Marshall, Delian Tihomirov Asparouhov, William Bruey. William Bruey has been the CEO since 2020.

Osmo is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Alex Wiltschko and has been led by him since incorporation. The company fuses machine learning, data science, psychophysics, olfactory neuroscience, electrical engineering, and chemistry to digitize scent. Osmo's work is grounded in digital olfaction research, including two pivotal studies that used graph neural networks to predict the smell of a molecule from its structure and to investigate the biological underpinnings of odor similarity. The company has begun work in the flavor and fragrance market to create a new generation of better, safer, environmentally-friendly aroma molecules. Osmo expects to work in domains such as public health and agriculture on solutions that help humans detect diseases earlier, track pandemics faster, grow more food, catch food spoilage, and ward off insects.

Resson Aerospace Corp. delivers customized precision agriculture solutions. Its proprietary resson agricultural management and analytics system gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and control the farm area. The company was founded by Peter Goggin and Rishin Behl in 2013 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Thinkdata Works, Inc. provides open data solutions. It is an open data startup that allows developers, businesses, and citizens to access value data in standard useable formats. The company was founded by Bryan Smith, Brendan Stennett, and Kynan Bridge and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.