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Huue uses biotechnology to create the world’s most sustainable dyes for the industries that are shaping the future of Earth. Our first mission: indigo blue for denim makers. Based on UC Berkeley-invented bioengineering research, we've been supported by world class investors and institutions in our space including IndieBio, Fashion for Good, and Melinda Gates' Female Founders Competition. We value putting people first and doing good in the world.

FortressIQ is the creator of a cognitive automation platform that powers and accelerates digital transformation through imitation learning. Using an innovative type of AI that combines computer vision, natural language and sequence modeling, FortressIQ learns how a business functions through live activity analysis. By radically lowering the cost, effort and time required to document business processes, enterprise organizations can use FortressIQ’s platform to quickly gain the insights necessary to improve business operations and implement automation. The FortressIQ platform automatically discovers, maps, and documents all the digital processes executed by an organization’s workforce. From web-based apps, to legacy systems, virtual desktops & green screens, we eliminate the need for APIs and access to event logs, requiring no configuration and zero integration, delivering a time to value in weeks. With AI-driven technology, the discovery method generates process documentation automatically, allowing customers to map processes in record time, and transparently providing the most holistic view of their current state digital operations. Founded in 2017, FortressIQ is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Learn more about FortressIQ: Website: https://www.fortressiq.com/​ Blog: https://www.fortressiq.com/blog/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fortressiq YouTube: http://bit.ly/2Z12Eu8 Listen to our hello, Human Podcast Series: https://www.fortressiq.com/hello-human/​

Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers’ attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. We are committed to making the world more secure by harnessing a talented, vetted community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management, with actionable results. Synacks PTaaS platform has uncovered more than 71,000 exploitable vulnerabilities to date, protecting a growing list of Global 2000 customers and U.S. agencies in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment.

Skedulo’s leading Deskless Productivity Cloud solution powered by AI and machine learning empowers organizations to manage, engage and analyze their deskless workforce, supporting the 80% of global workers who don’t work in a traditional office setting. Skedulo’s platform helps enterprises intelligently manage, schedule, dispatch, and support deskless workers on the go, whether they are in fixed location facilities or mobile field workers on the frontline. Founded in 2013, Skedulo is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Australia, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom. Skedulo has enabled hundreds of organizations, including The American Red Cross, DHL, and Sunrun, to seamlessly schedule and service over 35 million appointments worldwide. The company has secured over $115 million in funding to date, led by Softbank, Microsofts venture firm M12, Costanoa Ventures, and Blackbird. For more information, please visit www.skedulo.com.

SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeover, safeguard employee and consumer accounts, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. SpyClouds data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and successful phishes also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include more than half of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 200 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now. To learn more and see insights on your company’s exposed data, visit spycloud.com.

Incortas Operational Lakehouse is the only company that delivers analytics on live, detailed operational data at scale. This provides the best data foundation for GenAI and all your analysis. Enabling you to take advantage of live opportunities and respond to urgent questions with unparalleled data access from all your complex operational source systems.

Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, enabling business leaders to make better decisions by providing a snapshot into the company’s future. Our predictive analytics technology allows business leaders to understand and quantify the impact of external factors as part of their strategic planning and forecasting. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, our external insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future economic threats or opportunities to business performance. Our team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2019 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, Prevedere is the world’s leading provider of predictive analytics technology and solutions based on econometric modeling. To learn more, visit prevedere.com and follow @Prevedere on Twitter.

WorkSpan is the #1 co-sell management network that empowers companies to turbocharge and scale their co-sell revenue growth. Partnership and Sales teams use WorkSpan’s secure SaaS solution to collaborate with partners on deals, exchange co-sell referrals from inside their CRM, manage shared pipeline, and track performance on a live dashboard. As the industry’s leader in Ecosystem Business Management, we power the top 10 business ecosystems in the technology and communications industry today, managing over $50 billion in joint pipeline, 6x faster speed to market for joint solutions, and 2x partner manager productivity. Customers include Microsoft, Cisco, SAP, VMware, HPE, Accenture, Ericsson, Citrix, Red Hat, and others.

CognitiveScale pioneered the concept of ‘Trusted AI”, paving the way for responsible Enterprise AI development worldwide. Backed by 164 AI patents, the Cortex platform empowers data scientists and citizen developers to build, understand and analyze intelligent, transparent & trusted AI systems using any data, on any cloud. By simplifying the development, deployment and management of AI systems, CognitiveScale is revolutionizing how organizations across industries–healthcare, financial services, insurance and digital commerce– engage with customers, optimize services and deliver on bottom line goals—all while protecting them from business risk. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, CognitiveScale is recognized by the World Economic Forum for positively impacting business and society through AI with active investment from Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM Watson, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), and USAA.

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Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information on Thomson Reuters, visit tr.com and for the latest world news, reuters.com.

Huue uses biotechnology to create the world’s most sustainable dyes for the industries that are shaping the future of Earth. Our first mission: indigo blue for denim makers. Based on UC Berkeley-invented bioengineering research, we've been supported by world class investors and institutions in our space including IndieBio, Fashion for Good, and Melinda Gates' Female Founders Competition. We value putting people first and doing good in the world.

FortressIQ is the creator of a cognitive automation platform that powers and accelerates digital transformation through imitation learning. Using an innovative type of AI that combines computer vision, natural language and sequence modeling, FortressIQ learns how a business functions through live activity analysis. By radically lowering the cost, effort and time required to document business processes, enterprise organizations can use FortressIQ’s platform to quickly gain the insights necessary to improve business operations and implement automation. The FortressIQ platform automatically discovers, maps, and documents all the digital processes executed by an organization’s workforce. From web-based apps, to legacy systems, virtual desktops & green screens, we eliminate the need for APIs and access to event logs, requiring no configuration and zero integration, delivering a time to value in weeks. With AI-driven technology, the discovery method generates process documentation automatically, allowing customers to map processes in record time, and transparently providing the most holistic view of their current state digital operations. Founded in 2017, FortressIQ is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Learn more about FortressIQ: Website: https://www.fortressiq.com/​ Blog: https://www.fortressiq.com/blog/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fortressiq YouTube: http://bit.ly/2Z12Eu8 Listen to our hello, Human Podcast Series: https://www.fortressiq.com/hello-human/​

Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers’ attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. We are committed to making the world more secure by harnessing a talented, vetted community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management, with actionable results. Synacks PTaaS platform has uncovered more than 71,000 exploitable vulnerabilities to date, protecting a growing list of Global 2000 customers and U.S. agencies in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment.

M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund. We invest across key focus areas in the most promising early-stage companies that are disrupting markets in the business of today and tomorrow.