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Freenome is a high-growth biotech company on a mission since 2014 to create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. To achieve this mission, Freenome is developing next-generation blood tests to detect cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages using our multiomics platform and machine learning techniques. Our first blood test will detect early-stage colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas. We have raised more than $1.1 billion from leading investors like Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Roche Venture Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Novartis and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Ventures. A ‘Freenomer’ is a mission-driven employee who is fueled by the opportunity to make a positive impact on patients lives, who thrives in a culture of respect and cross collaboration, and whose work makes a significant impact on the company and their career.

PlanGrid builds simple, powerful software construction teams love to use. The company’s mobile-first technology gives general contractors, subs, owners and architects access to information in real-time, enables greater collaboration and provides actionable insights. With PlanGrid, any construction team member can manage and update blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, punchlists and other information from any device. PlanGrid is used on 1.5 million projects across commercial, heavy civil and other industries in 100+ countries. With over 150 million digital blueprints on its cloud-based platform, PlanGrid is also the largest digital blueprint repository in the world. PlanGrid was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco. The company was acquired by Autodesk in 2018.

Collective Health is the leading health benefits platform that brings together medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and program partners into an integrated solution that better enables employees and their families to understand, navigate, and pay for healthcare. By reducing the administrative lift of delivering health benefits, providing an intuitive member experience, and helping control costs and improve outcomes, the company guides employees toward healthier lives and companies toward healthier bottom lines. *We value respectful and constructive conversation. Comments that are offensive, inappropriate, or unrelated to the discussion may be removed.*

Kespry’s drone-based aerial intelligence platform enables enterprises to transform how they capture, analyze and share insights about their business, providing the information needed to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use, Kespry’s platform delivers the data needed to close claims faster, measure stockpiles, survey mines more accurately, and operate earthworks projects more efficiently, all while being simple enough for any user. Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe and Australia, including Colas, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, Oldcastle, and Martin Marietta.

Each year, people spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter products, new fad diets, and the latest fitness crazes believing that these choices will improve their health and help them reach their goals. But this behavior neglects one critical factor: we're all different. Vitagene celebrates these differences by providing the ultimate tool to discover a healthier future - the most science-driven, complete, and affordable DNA test. By learning who you are and where you came from, you can build the ultimate lifestyle by nourishing your body with tailored diet, exercise, and supplementation.

Rhumbix is Field & Workforce Management software built for Construction. Easily capture time and utilization data around labor, equipment, and materials to deliver powerful insights and rapid daily and weekly reports like timekeeping.

Reflektive is a performance management company built for top performers and growing businesses. With Reflektive, you can scale constructive, ongoing conversations that keep your people and your business continuously improving. More than 500 forward-thinking customers — including AAR, Allbirds, Dropbox, FabFitFun, PagerDuty, and Protective Life Insurance — trust Reflektive to modernize people and performance management. Reflektive is now part of Part of PeopleFluent and LTG.

NextVR is the world’s best virtual reality platform for delivering live sports and music in VR to fans globally. Launched in 2009, the company has patented technology that delivers an unparalleled VR experience providing fans extraordinary access and profound immersion. NextVR has world-class partnerships with leaders in sports and entertainment including the NBA, FOX Sports, Live Nation, International Champions Cup and more. NextVR was founded by industry leaders with decades of experience in 3D stereoscopic imaging, compression technology and VR broadcasting. For more information, visit NextVR.com.

With team members all over the world, Duettos cloud technology is improving the lives of hoteliers everywhere by providing pricing, financial forecasting and group business solutions that optimize for the small decisions -- so you can focus on the big decisions and executing your revenue strategy. Let us unlock your data so you can unlock more revenue. Learn more at www.duettocloud.com.

Our mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. We do that through smarter lending products, better tools, and relentless focus. Our approach is shaped by real stories and real challenges, and we’re building solutions that actually help. How we work matters just as much as what we’re building. Our five cultural principles guide how we show up, make decisions, and deliver for our customers every day: Every Second Counts. Choose to Do Hard Things. Pursue Excellence. Lead Together. Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously. We’re a remote-first team, moving fast and having fun while doing meaningful work. Perks include a $1,000 Earniversary travel perk, generous PTO, an annual office stipend, and swag drops throughout the year. Sound like your kind of place? Explore open roles at earnest.com/careers. Earnest Operations, NMLS #1204197 nmlsconsumeraccess.org

MeMed is a leading med tech and bio-convergence company, having developed innovative diagnostic host immune response testing methods that address complex clinical dilemmas and improve patient outcomes. Our mission is to translate the complex signals of the immune system into simple diagnostic insights that transform the way we treat infectious diseases and inflammatory disorders – at the right place and the right time.

Acquired by Saama Technologies (August 2019). Comprehend provides a suite of cloud applications and consulting services that dramatically improve the clinical trial process. Our solutions deliver actionable risk and performance insights across studies, systems, sites, and vendors. By using elements of our Clinical Intelligence Platform to unify, monitor, and analyze data across all sources, sponsors and CROs alike are able to reduce risk, achieve milestones on time, and stay within budget. As a trusted partner, Comprehend helps speed the time to quality results. Find out more at comprehend.com.

Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the safer way to buy and sell new and used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in communities across Canada, the United States and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS and Android.

Independently named by FastCompany as one of the world’s most innovative companies in data science, Arimo’s Behavioral AI software is aimed at delivering predictive insights in commercial IoT applications. Arimo's capabilities harness the behaviors of machines, devices, customers, and other entities to provide the most accurate predictions utilizing Deep Learning. With Arimo Behavioral AI™, leading companies are creating competitive advantage through new predictive insights, and delivering new services to their customers. Our strong team includes executives with deep product and engineering experience. They have held senior positions at Google, Yahoo, Amazon, SAP, Microsoft, and VMware. Team members hold advanced degrees in computer science and business from leading universities. Arimo was previously funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta. To learn more, visit us at https://arimo.com/ For all media and event inquiries, please contact marketing[at]arimo.com

Karius sees a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. We are a clinical metagenomics company focused on elevating patient care through microbial insights. By leveraging the power of clinical metagenomics, our vision is to create a world where every patient gets a clear and timely diagnosis.

Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Castelion, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more. Learn more at lsvp.com. The content herein does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or investment advisory services. Certain information contained herein is based on information from various sources prepared by third parties. While such sources are believed by Lightspeed to be reliable, neither Lightspeed nor its affiliates assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information, and such information has not been independently verified by Lightspeed. Unless otherwise indicated, the inclusion of any third-party firm and/or company names, brands and/or logos are for representational purposes and does not imply any affiliation with these firms or companies and also does not imply their endorsement to the views expressed by the authors. For additional disclosures, please see https://lsvp.com/legal/

Blameless offers the only complete reliability engineering platform that brings together AI-driven incident resolution, blameless retrospectives, SLOs/Error Budgets, and reliability insights reports and dashboards, enabling businesses to optimize reliability and innovation.

Freenome is a high-growth biotech company on a mission since 2014 to create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. To achieve this mission, Freenome is developing next-generation blood tests to detect cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages using our multiomics platform and machine learning techniques. Our first blood test will detect early-stage colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas. We have raised more than $1.1 billion from leading investors like Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Roche Venture Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Novartis and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Ventures. A ‘Freenomer’ is a mission-driven employee who is fueled by the opportunity to make a positive impact on patients lives, who thrives in a culture of respect and cross collaboration, and whose work makes a significant impact on the company and their career.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.