Localytics is a leading mobile engagement platform, giving companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement and retention efforts. Their platform is used in more than 37,000 apps on more than 2.7 billion devices by companies such as ESPN and Fox.
Baird & Company is a private investment firm focused on investments in technology and financial services companies.
Open Systems Technologies (OST) is a global technology consulting company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They help enterprises determine how and where to run technology to provide the flexibility, availability and security the business needs. They also help non-technical leaders leverage technology for market differentiation.
Atlas is a strategic professional services company enabling Fortune 100 and emerging corporations to re-engineer their workplace to drive efficient teams and hone their competitive edge. Through Consulting, Managed Services, and IT Solutions, Atlas helps clients increase value in business lines such as IT, HR, finance, legal, regulatory governance and administration.
DoubleDutch believes in the power of digitizing live engagement to supercharge business outcomes. The DoubleDutch Live Engagement Platform powers events, conferences, and trade shows for more than 1,700 customers.
IntelePeer delivers complete business communications solutions including full-service cloud calling directly integrated with Cisco Spark unified communications, complete Cloud Contact Center, Enterprise Voice Services and SIP Trunking, and Unified Communications Enablement for Carriers and Hosters.
Founded in 2001, Bendon Inc. is the leading children's coloring and activity supplier with more than 80 licensed brands such as Disney, DreamWorks, Universal and Nickelodeon. Bendon serves all major retailers and is placed in more than 82,000 stores.
Relay Network is a mobile communication platform for businesses to easily and effectively educate, service and transact with their customers to increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. Users connect with businesses to receive a personal stream of interactive and service-based communications.
Entertainment Technology Partner is the parent company in the live events industry, and includes LMG, EventEQ, and Premier Event Technology. ETP encompasses a collection of exceptional brands with a shared philosophy embraces a distinctive approach to quality, service, and support.
RF Code provides a platform to manage the physical asset business processes within complex data centers by delivering reporting, location, alerting, analysis, and trending capabilities all in real-time using an IoT sensor network and CenterScape software.
MCM Staffing provides temporary, temp to hire, long term-contract and direct staffing services in Metro Detroit & Louisville, Kentucky. They provide hourly and salaried personnel in the Manufacturing (Food, Auto, Aero), Hospitality, and Contact Center industries.
Axis is a leading Business Intelligence and Analytic solutions provider. They stand out from other BI firms by excelling at putting all the pieces of the puzzle together. Axis recognizes that people, processes, and technology must all fit together to deliver a successful solution.
GSI Health enables healthcare providers of various types to organize into distributed care teams to jointly manage care for their common patients, leveraging our software-as-a-service platform.
nLIGHT is a vertically integrated supplier of high-power semiconductor laser that enable industrial, defense and medical applications.
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data, that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. The company reaches more than 700M monthly active devices.
CipherCloud, the industry pioneer and leader in cloud security, data protection and governance solutions, enables enterprises to adopt cloud with trust and confidence. CipherCloud, backed by premier VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, won the coveted "Best Security Product of the Year" award by SC Magazine.
IntegriChain is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company, offering the leading cloud for channel data aggregation, analytics, and applications for life sciences suppliers. Today IntegriChain is the trusted partner for 13 of the top-15 life science companies and more than 80 other suppliers.
Physique 57 is a global fitness company that operates upscale, full-service exercise studios in the United States, Thailand, India and the UAE. The studio offerings are complemented by fitness retail boutiques, online workouts and a widely celebrated book, The Physique 57 Solution.
Centric Digital is a leading digital transformation solution partner, helping traditional enterprises (across healthcare, financial services, retail and other industries) revive their business models, customer experiences, and operations through their playbooks, labs and experts solutions.
Button connects the mobile economy, making it easy for consumers to discover & purchase what they want, when they want it at the tap of a button. The company provides the easiest way for brands to connect, facilitating discovery & transaction among consumers with a contextually-relevant experience.
Dermarite Industries is a high quality, cost effective manufacturer of skincare, woundcare, and liquid nutritional supplements for the healthcare industry. Its products are complemented by its unparalleled education programs, led by its team of woundcare certified clinicians, nationwide.
Puppet's platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 30,000 companies including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 use Puppet's open source and commercial solutions.
Akorbi is a U.S.-based company providing enterprise language solutions that empower companies to achieve success in the global economy. Their customizable solutions help companies connect with employees, vendors and customers in over 170 languages, 24/7, 365 days a year, in any modality, from any location.
Faction is a rapidly growing provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Faction's first-of-its-kind technology is purpose-built to enable hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, creating value and efficiency for Service Providers & Enterprises.
Hash House A Go Go is a mid-scale, casual dining concept serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu preparation and presentation represents traditional farm fresh ingredients with a preparation and presentation whimsically referred to as twisted farm food.
Mark43 makes mission-critical applications for first responders in the field. Its core platform includes records management, computer-aided dispatch, and evidence tracking multi-tenant cloud applications.
CoreDial is a leading SaaS platform provider empowering channel partners to succeed with Unified Communications as a Service. Their 600+ Channel partners sell, deliver, manage, and invoice for UCaaS services to a rapidly growing base of 20,000 businesses and over 260,000 seats in North America.
Accent Food Services is the premier provider of business break room services throughout the state of Texas, Nevada, & Mid-Atlantic region. With their ever increasing services, technology, and products, Accent Food Services has exceeded customer expectations for over 23 years.
AOS Specialty Contactors, Inc. has a long history of providing a variety of highway-heavy projects that include concrete sidewalks, driveways, curb and gutter, signage, masonry, natural stone, artificial stone, pavers, monuments, fountains, retaining walls, precast, landscape, irrigation, and other specialty items.
Tiempo Development is the leader in near-shore outsourced software development for cloud-based, enterprise applications. They help U.S.-based software and software-enabled service companies create the software to execute their business strategies.
Mobile Programming is a mobile apps development company that has been providing quality consulting services for more than a decade, focusing on bringing mobility and IoT solutions to Fortune 500 Enterprises and Startups.
Four Foods Group (FFG) is a restaurant development, investment, and management company with 97 restaurant locations and additional sites in development or under construction.
Vapor Point is a specialty engineering and environmental services company. The company's core competency is in the elimination and recovery of regulated and noxious vapor emissions, to help protect both the environment and worker safety. Refineries throughout the US recognize Vapor Point as the leader in their industry.
Zoosk is a leading online dating company that personalizes the dating experience to help singles find the person and relationship that's just right for them. Zoosk's technology is constantly learning from the actions of over 38 million members in order to deliver better matches in real time.
Simeio Solutions is a complete identity and access management (IAM) solution that provides security to anyone, on any device, on any platform, from anywhere with their "service first" philosophy. They protect more than 100 million+ identities across the globe.
Matrixx Initiatives is a consumer healthcare company that manufactures and markets ZICAM® brand homeopathic and allopathic OTC products, including its clinically proven line of ZICAM® Cold Remedy Nasal Spray and Swab, ZICAM® Cold Remedy RAPIDMELTS® and Ultra RAPIDMELTS®.
Freshly is a healthy meal delivery service, dedicated to offering delicious meals meticulously crafted with fresh, natural ingredients. They keep all meals gluten-free, and never add refined sugars or artificial flavoring. Freshly expertly balances great taste and good health.
Evergreen Enterprises is a vertically integrated, global consumer products business specializing in the design, manufacture, distribution, and retail of over 15,000 gift, garden, and home decor products.
QuantumShift is a rigorous five-day developmental experience that annually challenges 40 of America's top entrepreneurs leading successful high growth companies.
Localytics is a leading mobile engagement platform, giving companies the insights and tools they need to improve their mobile app acquisition, engagement and retention efforts. Their platform is used in more than 37,000 apps on more than 2.7 billion devices by companies such as ESPN and Fox.
Baird & Company is a private investment firm focused on investments in technology and financial services companies.
Open Systems Technologies (OST) is a global technology consulting company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They help enterprises determine how and where to run technology to provide the flexibility, availability and security the business needs. They also help non-technical leaders leverage technology for market differentiation.
Atlas is a strategic professional services company enabling Fortune 100 and emerging corporations to re-engineer their workplace to drive efficient teams and hone their competitive edge. Through Consulting, Managed Services, and IT Solutions, Atlas helps clients increase value in business lines such as IT, HR, finance, legal, regulatory governance and administration.
DoubleDutch believes in the power of digitizing live engagement to supercharge business outcomes. The DoubleDutch Live Engagement Platform powers events, conferences, and trade shows for more than 1,700 customers.
IntelePeer delivers complete business communications solutions including full-service cloud calling directly integrated with Cisco Spark unified communications, complete Cloud Contact Center, Enterprise Voice Services and SIP Trunking, and Unified Communications Enablement for Carriers and Hosters.
Founded in 2001, Bendon Inc. is the leading children's coloring and activity supplier with more than 80 licensed brands such as Disney, DreamWorks, Universal and Nickelodeon. Bendon serves all major retailers and is placed in more than 82,000 stores.
Relay Network is a mobile communication platform for businesses to easily and effectively educate, service and transact with their customers to increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. Users connect with businesses to receive a personal stream of interactive and service-based communications.
Entertainment Technology Partner is the parent company in the live events industry, and includes LMG, EventEQ, and Premier Event Technology. ETP encompasses a collection of exceptional brands with a shared philosophy embraces a distinctive approach to quality, service, and support.
RF Code provides a platform to manage the physical asset business processes within complex data centers by delivering reporting, location, alerting, analysis, and trending capabilities all in real-time using an IoT sensor network and CenterScape software.
MCM Staffing provides temporary, temp to hire, long-term contract and direct staffing services in Metro Detroit & Louisville, Kentucky. They provide hourly and salaried personnel in the Manufacturing (Food, Auto, Aero), Hospitality, and Contact Center industries.
Axis is a leading Business Intelligence and Analytic solutions provider. They stand out from other BI firms by excelling at putting all the pieces of the puzzle together. Axis recognizes that people, processes, and technology must all fit together to deliver a successful solution.
GSI Health enables healthcare providers of various types to organize into distributed care teams to jointly manage care for their common patients, leveraging our software-as-a-service platform.
nLIGHT is a vertically integrated supplier of high-power semiconductor laser that enable industrial, defense and medical applications.
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data, that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. The company reaches more than 700M monthly active devices.
CipherCloud, the industry pioneer and leader in cloud security, data protection and governance solutions, enables enterprises to adopt cloud with trust and confidence. CipherCloud, backed by premier VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, won the coveted "Best Security Product of the Year" award by SC Magazine.
IntegriChain is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company, offering the leading cloud for channel data aggregation, analytics, and applications for life sciences suppliers. Today IntegriChain is the trusted partner for 13 of the top-15 life science companies and more than 80 other suppliers.
Physique 57 is a global fitness company that operates upscale, full-service exercise studios in the United States, Thailand, India and the UAE. The studio offerings are complemented by fitness retail boutiques, online workouts and a widely celebrated book, The Physique 57 Solution.
Centric Digital is a leading digital transformation solution partner, helping traditional enterprises (across healthcare, financial services, retail and other industries) revive their business models, customer experiences, and operations through their playbooks, labs and experts solutions.
Button connects the mobile economy, making it easy for consumers to discover & purchase what they want, when they want it at the tap of a button. The company provides the easiest way for brands to connect, facilitating discovery & transaction among consumers with a contextually-relevant experience.
Dermarite Industries is a high quality, cost effective manufacturer of skincare, woundcare, and liquid nutritional supplements for the healthcare industry. Its products are complemented by its unparalleled education programs, led by its team of woundcare certified clinicians, nationwide.
Puppet's platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 30,000 companies including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 use Puppet's open source and commercial solutions.
Akorbi is a U.S.-based company providing enterprise language solutions that empower companies to achieve success in the global economy. Their customizable solutions help companies connect with employees, vendors and customers in over 170 languages, 24/7, 365 days a year, in any modality, from any location.
Faction is a rapidly growing provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Faction's first-of-its-kind technology is purpose-built to enable hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, creating value and efficiency for Service Providers & Enterprises.
Hash House A Go Go is a mid-scale, casual dining concept serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu preparation and presentation represents traditional farm fresh ingredients with a preparation and presentation whimsically referred to as twisted farm food.
Mark43 makes mission-critical applications for first responders in the field. Its core platform includes records management, computer-aided dispatch, and evidence tracking multi-tenant cloud applications.
CoreDial is a leading SaaS platform provider empowering channel partners to succeed with Unified Communications as a Service. Their 600+ Channel partners sell, deliver, manage, and invoice for UCaaS services to a rapidly growing base of 20,000 businesses and over 260,000 seats in North America.
Accent Food Services is the premier provider of business break room services throughout the state of Texas, Nevada, & Mid-Atlantic region. With their ever increasing services, technology, and products, Accent Food Services has exceeded customer expectations for over 23 years.
AOS Specialty Contactors, Inc. has a long history of providing a variety of highway-heavy projects that include concrete sidewalks, driveways, curb and gutter, signage, masonry, natural stone, artificial stone, pavers, monuments, fountains, retaining walls, precast, landscape, irrigation, and other specialty items.
Tiempo Development is the leader in near-shore outsourced software development for cloud-based, enterprise applications. They help U.S.-based software and software-enabled service companies create the software to execute their business strategies.
Mobile Programming is a mobile apps development company that has been providing quality consulting services for more than a decade, focusing on bringing mobility and IoT solutions to Fortune 500 Enterprises and Startups.
Four Foods Group (FFG) is a restaurant development, investment, and management company with 97 restaurant locations and additional sites in development or under construction.
Vapor Point is a specialty engineering and environmental services company. The company's core competency is in the elimination and recovery of regulated and noxious vapor emissions, to help protect both the environment and worker safety. Refineries throughout the US recognize Vapor Point as the leader in their industry.
Zoosk is a leading online dating company that personalizes the dating experience to help singles find the person and relationship that's just right for them. Zoosk's technology is constantly learning from the actions of over 38 million members in order to deliver better matches in real time.
Simeio Solutions is a complete identity and access management (IAM) solution that provides security to anyone, on any device, on any platform, from anywhere with their "service first" philosophy. They protect more than 100 million+ identities across the globe.
Matrixx Initiatives is a consumer healthcare company that manufactures and markets ZICAM® brand homeopathic and allopathic OTC products, including its clinically proven line of ZICAM® Cold Remedy Nasal Spray and Swab, ZICAM® Cold Remedy RAPIDMELTS® and Ultra RAPIDMELTS®.
Freshly is a healthy meal delivery service, dedicated to offering delicious meals meticulously crafted with fresh, natural ingredients. They keep all meals gluten-free, and never add refined sugars or artificial flavoring. Freshly expertly balances great taste and good health.
Evergreen Enterprises is a vertically integrated, global consumer products business specializing in the design, manufacture, distribution, and retail of over 15,000 gift, garden, and home decor products.
QuantumShift is a rigorous five-day developmental experience that annually challenges 40 of America's top entrepreneurs leading successful high growth companies.
You know KPMG, but you might not know KPMG’s Private Markets Group (PMG). We’re dedicated to working with businesses like yours. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, family business, or a fast-growing company, we understand what is important to you. By providing industry perspectives and proactive guidance, our PMG professionals help private companies achieve their strategic objectives throughout each stage of the business life cycle. Through the QuantumShift program, KPMG lends real life application to the latest academic thinking.
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is a vibrant and distinctive learning community grounded in the principle that business can be an extraordinary vehicle for positive change. Through thought and action, members of the Ross community drive change and innovation that improves business and society. Housed within Michigan Ross, the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies is a leading center for entrepreneurial thought leadership and engagement.
