Michael Brown

Foundation Capital LLC (Foundation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Partech International, Inc. (Partech) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Vincent Worms. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with offices across nation.

X Corp. is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. It provides a network that connects users to people, information, ideas, opinions and news. The company's services include live commentary, live connections and live conversations. Its application provides social networking services and micro-blogging services through mobile devices and the Internet. The company can also be used as a marketing tool for businesses. Its products and services include Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends. Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Christopher Isaac Stone, Noah E. Glass, Jeremy LaTrasse and Evan Williams on March 21, 2006, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TechSoup Global operates as a non-profit international network of non-governmental organizations that provides technical support and technological tools to other non-profits. The firm offers help desk, tech implementation, managed IT, website and development, digital marketing and techSoup courses services. The company was founded by Daniel Ben-Horin in 1987 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ifeelgoods, Inc. provides digital promotion and marketing solutions. Its digital rewards platform offers inventory management, campaign management, and security solutions. The firm’s customers include the advertising, social media, eCommerce, customer relationship management, customer care and shopper marketing industries. The company was founded by Michael Amar, Dimitri Ducourtieux, Scott Silverman, Suchit Dash and Vida Ha in 2010 and is headquartered in Pal Alto, CA.