Paul Damato

Elevate K-12 is passionate about creating high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students. We are on a mission to make zip code free teaching available to all students, irrespective of where they live. Schools and districts partner with Elevate K-12 for high-quality live, online instruction. Get ready for a new way to classroom!

We are a late-stage ophthalmic biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapies for retinal and refractive disorders. Ocuphire’s pipeline currently includes two small-molecule product candidates targeting significant unmet needs.

CertifID is a digital identity and device verification solution used by title companies, law firms, lenders, realtors, and home buyers and sellers to prevent wire fraud. In the United States, wire fraud is the most significant risk impacting the real estate industry. By validating the credentials of parties in a transaction and securely sharing bank details, CertifID provides peace of mind and up to $1 million in direct insurance coverage on every wire it protects. CertifID is integrated with the leading title production software systems and allows busy title and escrow operators to eliminate time-consuming, manual processes from their workflow. With tens of thousands of transfers and zero insurance claims, CertifID helps safeguard billions of dollars every month from fraud. Built by title company owners and wire fraud victims, CertifID is a purpose-built solution ready to take on the industry's biggest risk.

Born from Trimble’s acquisition of Ryvit in 2023, Data Xchange is Construction’s leading technology interoperability suite. Our strategic partners and AEC customers continue to push the boundaries of conventional wisdom by exploring new avenues for technology in the face of complex operational workflows, labor shortages, supply chain constraints, and rising resource costs. One such technological advancement includes the first-ever CDX-Listed and CDX-Validated integration, as recognized by the Construction Progress Coalition. With Data Xchange, AEC companies no longer have to settle for anything less than their preferred, best-in-class tools for each department. The math is simple. Our customers report an average savings of 400 hours per year after implementing their first connector. No more duplicate data entry. No more costly errors. No more mind-numbing copy/paste repetition in spreadsheets. Data Xchange eliminates all the unnecessarily wasteful manual activity that keeps your teams from focusing on the most important task at hand. New integrations are launching every month to supercharge your back office, empower your field teams, and keep your project stakeholders accountable.

Change Dynamix provides a continuous threat detection, as a platform or provided as a fully managed service. We give mid-sized companies a near-effortless way to detect changes in behavior that are indicators of malicious and abusive activities. Our approach provides a clear path of action for security teams, delivering reliable detection that leaves even the most sophisticated attacker, inside or out, no place to hide.

Tolera Therapeutics, Inc. is a research company based out of 350 E Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

We’re the company that set the standard for enterprise-grade integration for IT monitoring. We believe that data is dimensional, not flat, and health and performance metrics must include their relationship to other components in the IT stack to truly provide insights. We deliver this Dimensional Data using the industry’s first IT monitoring integration service (MIaaS), BindPlane. For more information, visit bluemedora.com.

The largest, fastest-growing high school sports marketing and media network. Partnered with over 20% of the nation's high schools, VNN connects local sports communities together.

Elevate K-12 is passionate about creating high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students. We are on a mission to make zip code free teaching available to all students, irrespective of where they live. Schools and districts partner with Elevate K-12 for high-quality live, online instruction. Get ready for a new way to classroom!

We are a late-stage ophthalmic biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapies for retinal and refractive disorders. Ocuphire’s pipeline currently includes two small-molecule product candidates targeting significant unmet needs.

Growing Businesses – Growing Michigan. The two go hand in hand and Grand Angels is committed to both. Through mentoring, strategic advice, expanding networks and connections to customers, management and venture capital, Grand Angels investments fuel the entrepreneurial economy of innovative companies throughout the West Michigan region. Grand Angels was founded by former Grand Bank founder and CEO Charles C. Stoddard and serial entrepreneur, Craig T. Hall. They recruited community leaders willing to join them in the vision of making “investments with a difference.” In 2005, Jody D. Vanderwel was recruited to serve as president of the organization. Upon her retiremenr in 2016, Tim Parker became their second president. Grand Angels now has 65 active members. The organization supported by membership fees and generous corporate and academic sponsorships. Grand Angels is a member of the Angel Capital Association, an organization sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, MO), which continues to provide leadership and resources for angel investors across the country.

CertifID is a digital identity and device verification solution used by title companies, law firms, lenders, realtors, and home buyers and sellers to prevent wire fraud. In the United States, wire fraud is the most significant risk impacting the real estate industry. By validating the credentials of parties in a transaction and securely sharing bank details, CertifID provides peace of mind and up to $1 million in direct insurance coverage on every wire it protects. CertifID is integrated with the leading title production software systems and allows busy title and escrow operators to eliminate time-consuming, manual processes from their workflow. With tens of thousands of transfers and zero insurance claims, CertifID helps safeguard billions of dollars every month from fraud. Built by title company owners and wire fraud victims, CertifID is a purpose-built solution ready to take on the industry's biggest risk.

Born from Trimble’s acquisition of Ryvit in 2023, Data Xchange is Construction’s leading technology interoperability suite. Our strategic partners and AEC customers continue to push the boundaries of conventional wisdom by exploring new avenues for technology in the face of complex operational workflows, labor shortages, supply chain constraints, and rising resource costs. One such technological advancement includes the first-ever CDX-Listed and CDX-Validated integration, as recognized by the Construction Progress Coalition. With Data Xchange, AEC companies no longer have to settle for anything less than their preferred, best-in-class tools for each department. The math is simple. Our customers report an average savings of 400 hours per year after implementing their first connector. No more duplicate data entry. No more costly errors. No more mind-numbing copy/paste repetition in spreadsheets. Data Xchange eliminates all the unnecessarily wasteful manual activity that keeps your teams from focusing on the most important task at hand. New integrations are launching every month to supercharge your back office, empower your field teams, and keep your project stakeholders accountable.