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Ernie Knight

Venture Capital & Business Development Professional

📍 Columbus, Ohio, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 18 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
VC🌍 United States
18
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22y
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Board Member
May 2024
OMIC is a non-profit tackling the growing national need for experienced engineers – especially in the field of electronics R&D, design and manufacturing. Staffed with experienced engineers, coupled with a fully capable, small-scale electronics production facility, and a constellation of technology support partners, OMIC employs a collection of diverse engineering and allied STEM students from graduate, undergraduate and high school tech programs to address real-life needs of industry for R&D and applied engineering projects. OMIC students receive experienced mentorship, achieve industry certifications and training and enter the workforce, maybe even your workforce, with proven experience in real-life applications.
Board Observer
Dec 2022
BIOHM Health was founded by Dr. Ghannoum, the scientist who named the mycobiome, and one of the world's leading experts in medically important fungus and microbiome sequencing. Dr. Ghannoum's scientific research has resulted in over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers and his publications have been cited over 18,000 times. After making the breakthrough discovery that bad bacteria and bad fungus work together to create digestive imbalance, Dr. Ghannoum realized that today's probiotics and microbiome tests had not been engineered to specifically address the role fungus plays in digestive health. As a result, he created BIOHM: The first company that addresses the gut's total microbiome of both bacteria and fungus. Looking to power your food or beverage with BIOHM Probiotics? Visit www.BIOHMIngredients.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/biohm-ingredients/.
Board Member
Mar 2022
This simple, all-in-one management software helps you retain customers, increase sales, and transform your business operations.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
Welcome to the future of data security. Anchor has risen to new heights as FenixPyre. Join us in the revolution. Experience the innovation. www.fenixpyre.com
Board Observer
Jan 2019
At FenixPyre, we secure the Post-Authentication Data Security gap, where 74% of modern breaches succeed. Traditional security stops at authentication. When attackers use valid credentials, encryption dissolves. Data becomes readable. Activity appears legitimate. DLP triggers nothing. Endpoint tools detect nothing. Our Post-Authentication Data Security platform protects data after login succeeds. Encryption persists through access, policies follow files everywhere, and authorization evaluates continuously at the data layer. Copied, shared, or stolen data remains encrypted outside authorized context. FenixPyre doesnt replace identity, endpoint, or perimeter controls. We complete them by protecting what they cannot: data during authenticated use. The result: credential compromise no longer guarantees data loss. Breaches become containable incidents, not catastrophic failures. That is Post-Authentication Data Security.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Medpilot is a leading AI-driven patient engagement platform. Our engagement platform personalizes outreach based on a variety of patient characteristics, then uses machine learning to optimize communications between the health care provider and patient. To date, we’ve helped over 1,000,000 patients and boast a 97% patient satisfaction score.
Board Member
Jul 2018
The reimbursement landscape for nursing homes has changed. Managed care continues to rise and PDPM is here to stay, which will lead to changes in state Medicaid. This means significant strain on staff resources, payment rates and cash flow. Successful operators must innovate to continue to provide the best care while maintaining profitability. MedaSync software works to eliminate those complexities by using AI to analyze clinical, financial and insurance drivers in real-time to provide continuous data intelligence and time saving, to ensure proper service capture – before a claim or assessment is processed.
Board Observer
Jul 2018
S4 Medical is committed to developing solutions for safer and more effective catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation.
Board Observer
Jan 2008
Flexera is re-imagining the way software is bought, sold, managed and secured. Together with BDNA we’ve built the largest and most comprehensive repository of market intelligence on technology assets on the planet. And we’re connecting decision makers to it through the software tools they use every day, enabling them to finally get the value they had hoped for by enabling a common data language and view across those tools. The software industry’s first open platform for technology asset management data will connect people to the systems and information they need. The world’s largest repository of software and hardware asset, vulnerability and open source data will unite the software industry and strengthen the supply chain everyone depends upon.
Board Member
Jan 2008
HighTower Advisors acquired WealthTrust in 2017. Please visit our site at http://www.hightoweradvisors.com for more information about our company.
Board Member
Jan 2006
Xceedium is the leading provider of next generation Privileged Identity Management solutions for hybrid-cloud enterprises. Large companies and global government agencies use Xceedium’s products to reduce the risks privileged users and unprotected credentials pose to systems and data. Xceedium’s award-winning product, Xsuite, enables customers to implement secure privileged identity management. Xsuite vaults privileged account credentials, implements role-based access control, and monitors and records privileged user sessions. With unified policy management, the Xsuite platform enables the seamless administration of security controls across systems, whether they reside in a traditional data center, a private cloud, on public cloud infrastructure, or any combination thereof.
Board Observer
Jan 2006
Lombardi believes that a Process-Driven approach is the best way to win. We deliver a suite of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services that enable organizations to quickly become Process-Driven. Lombardi is a recognized as a leader in BPM software for Global 2000 companies by both Gartner and Forrester Research.
Board Member
Jan 2005
Board Member
Jan 2004
SpineMatrix, Inc. is an innovative medical technology company specializing in advanced spinal diagnostics. SpineMatrix is the developer of the Lumbar Matrix™ Scan, the first and only diagnostic procedure to produce an all-inclusive physiological image of the lower back, based on patented CERSR® technology (Computerized Electrophysiological Reconstructed Spinal Regions). CERSR® technology is FDA cleared to monitor and display the bioelectric signals produced by muscles to aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of muscular disease and dysfunction.
Board Observer
Jan 2004
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2024
Board Member
May 2024
OMIC is a non-profit tackling the growing national need for experienced engineers – especially in the field of electronics R&D, design and manufacturing. Staffed with experienced engineers, coupled with a fully capable, small-scale electronics production facility, and a constellation of technology support partners, OMIC employs a collection of diverse engineering and allied STEM students from graduate, undergraduate and high school tech programs to address real-life needs of industry for R&D and applied engineering projects. OMIC students receive experienced mentorship, achieve industry certifications and training and enter the workforce, maybe even your workforce, with proven experience in real-life applications.
2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
NOT JUST A BRAND BUT A PROMISE Striving to exceed expectations we customize your flooring installation, remodel requirements or facility maintenance needs with quality and expertise. Through Ceaseless Communications we empathize with the challenges any construction project can bring. By living our core values our team will partner with you through every aspect of your project. We work with a Passion For All and Attention to Detail daily. These are our core values. Working with you is our passion, this is our brand and our promise...That’s Progressive. ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENTS OF BUSINESS If you have ever walked into a movie theater, chances are you’ve already seen our work. The lights, the flooring the feeling you get from that quiet silence only a theater setting can bring, that’s what we do, it’s who we are. Every time a company chooses to install new flooring or remodel their facilities, they are giving us the opportunity to assist them in Enhancing the Environment of their business and enrich the lives of the people they touch every day. Making beautiful happen...That’s Progressive!
2022
Board Observer
Dec 2022
BIOHM Health was founded by Dr. Ghannoum, the scientist who named the mycobiome, and one of the world's leading experts in medically important fungus and microbiome sequencing. Dr. Ghannoum's scientific research has resulted in over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers and his publications have been cited over 18,000 times. After making the breakthrough discovery that bad bacteria and bad fungus work together to create digestive imbalance, Dr. Ghannoum realized that today's probiotics and microbiome tests had not been engineered to specifically address the role fungus plays in digestive health. As a result, he created BIOHM: The first company that addresses the gut's total microbiome of both bacteria and fungus. Looking to power your food or beverage with BIOHM Probiotics? Visit www.BIOHMIngredients.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/biohm-ingredients/.
Board Member
Mar 2022
This simple, all-in-one management software helps you retain customers, increase sales, and transform your business operations.
2021
Strategic Consultant
Mar 2021
Aztec Capital Management LLC is a for-profit investment fund created to support companies across the Mid-West. We are long-term investors, dedicated to creating value by helping our companies grow. We do this through a coordinated approach that includes providing the capital necessary to support internal growth, and helping to develop new strategies for the future, while protecting the independence, culture and values that made the company successful in the first place. We are very selective and intentionally limit the number of companies in our portfolio. In this manner we can concentrate on providing the support and capital necessary to maximize each companys potential. That is why Aztec Capital Management LLC is considered a truly value-added investor.
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