Funded Companies List - Venture Capital and Private Equity Financings

K Health is the first health tech company to empower people with access to personalized health information based on "People Like Me". Founded in 2016, K Health has built the first HIPAA compliant AI primary care app 100% fueled by data, empowering users worldwide to take control of their health. By working with a unique data set of over a billion health interactions, K Health is able to generate better and more accurate insights based on PLM (a.k.a. "People Like Me"), a new approach to understanding our health that looks at other people like us who have had similar experiences. K Health partners with a network of providers for same-day appointments and remote advice for more efficient care.

K2 is a leading provider of business application platforms and solutions that empower people to build and run business apps, from the very simple to the highly complex, limited only by their imagination. The low code platform allows users to create customized business applications -- using workflows and forms -- that stretch across roles, departments, and data sources. Understanding the importance of getting the right information to the right people at the right time, K2 allows business users to make smarter, data-driven decisions, fast. In this fast-paced environment, workforces can stay focused on building and growing the business, instead of managing processes.

K2 Cyber Security has developed the first cloud workload protection platform purpose built to defend hybrid cloud environments against sophisticated attacks. Powered by K2's breakthrough Optimized CFI technology, the K2 platform enables real-time detection and prevention of known and unknown attacks, without false positives. K2 has also developed an innovative approach to application micro-segmentation based on workload identities that prevents the lateral movement of threats in dynamic cloud environments Founded in 2017, K2 is a venture-backed private company based in San Jose.

K94 Discoveries is a biotechnology company developing novel targeted anticancer drugs based on discoveries by scientists at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and research at the Feist Weiller Cancer Center. The company's initial product is a drug conjugate that combines the naturally-occurring anticancer substance curcumin with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) that targets the hormone receptors present in large numbers on the surface of cancer cells.

Kaarta is the innovator of real-time mobile 3D reality capture, mapping complex environments with unprecedented speed, fidelity and ease. Kaarta works without external signal infrastructure such as GPS or Wi-Fi. Kaarta's patent-pending technology, rooted in advanced robotics, accurately transforms the real world into multi-dimensional 3D digital models, streamlining workflow, reducing time, lowering cost, and providing a new level of understanding of spaces for humans and autonomous machines alike. Now the spectrum of stakeholders across architecture, engineering, construction, and property owner/operators, facilities planners and managers, and mobile robotics developers can work from the same truth.

Kabbage, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is pioneering the first financial services data, technology and marketing platform for the millions of small and medium businesses that make a living selling online. Kabbage leverages data generated through merchant activity across various marketplaces and channels to understand business performance and craft financing options that meet their needs. Kabbage is venture funded and backed by Thomvest Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, with additional investors including: Ron Conway's SV Angel, David Bonderman, founder of TPG Capital, Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens Inc., H. Barton Asset Management, and TriplePoint Ventures

Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a leading developer of improved treatments for diseases that affect mucosal tissues. Using its proprietary mucus penetrating particle (MPP) technology platform, Kala is able to formulate active pharmaceutical ingredients so they are able to pass through human mucus secretions, in diverse organs, including the respiratory tract, eye, cervicovaginal tract and gastrointestinal tract. Kala's formulations result in a rapid, uniform distribution of drug-loaded particles in human mucus leading to enhanced local efficacy and reduced systemic exposure. The company is advancing its own internal pipeline while establishing research and development collaborations with select partners. Kala was co-founded by Colin Gardner (formerly of TransForm Pharmaceuticals/Johnson and Johnson, and Merck), Justin Hanes (Johns Hopkins University) and Robert Langer (MIT) and has an exclusive license to intellectual property from the laboratory of Dr. Hanes at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Filling an observed hole in the current market of CBD products, Kaleidoscope offers a semi-customized CBD based capsule utilizing a microencapsulation technology to increase the bioavailability of the CBD and the other ingredients in each pill. Kaleidoscope's five formulations are meant to be stacked, mixed, and combined. Users complete a questionnaire online and the brand creates a customized recommendation based on user wellness goals and needs. Unlike a tincture or other CBD products that might yield varying doses of CBD, the Kaleidoscope design ensures you're getting a regular, singular amount with each capsule.

Kaleo Software's cloud-based network improves the efficiency in which knowledge is obtained and delivered both within the enterprise and extended enterprise. Rather than combing through documents on a portal, searching through threads in a social network or sending emails to gain knowledge, Kaleo focuses on delivering validated expert answers to questions to users from within the applications they are working or through their mobile devices.

Founded in 2010, Kalila Medical is a privately held medical device company, formed by Shifamed LLC. Kalila's first product, the VadoTM Steerable Sheath, is redefining precision and control with an innovative platform of specialized delivery and access catheters. The procedural benefits of Kalila's proprietary truVector technology can be leveraged across a growing number of endovascular applications including atrial fibrillation ablation, mitral valve repair, ASD/PFO closure, left atrial appendage closure, transseptal puncture, and LV lead placement.

Kallyope is a platform biotechnology company dedicated to unlocking the therapeutic and nutritional product potential of the gut-brain axis. The company integrates cutting-edge technologies in sequencing, bioinformatics, neural imaging, cellular and molecular biology and human genetics to provide an understanding of gut-brain biology that will lead to transformational therapeutics and products that improve human health and nutrition. The company's founders are Charles Zuker, Ph.D., Lasker Award winner Tom Maniatis, Ph.D. and Nobel laureate Richard Axel, M.D. Headquartered at the Alexandria CenterÂ® for Life Science in New York City, the company's founding investors include Lux Capital, Polaris Partners and The Column Group.

Kaloom is an emerging company developing a fully automated, programmable data center networking software solution that will disrupt how cloud and data center networks are built, managed and operated for enterprises, cloud providers, gaming companies, data center operators and 5G wireless providers. Kaloom comprises technology veterans with proven track records of delivering large-scale networking, analytics and AI-based solutions for the world's largest networks. The company is backed by leading investors including Fonds de solidaritÃ© FTQ and Somel Investments.

Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, transforming the way people work, learn, and entertain using online video. The Kaltura platform engages hundreds of millions of viewers by providing media companies advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase their reach and monetization and simplify their video operations. Kaltura improves productivity and interaction among millions of employees by providing enterprises powerful online video tools for boosting internal knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration, and for more effective marketing. Kaltura offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond.

Kaminario is the leading provider of enterprise-class all-flash storage, delivering unparalleled cost efficiency, with an average price of $2/GB and the industry's only guaranteed effective capacity. Built from the ground up to take advantage of the most modern flash SSD capabilities, Kaminario K2 is the only product to feature a true scale-out and scale-up architecture that allows organizations to grow capacity and performance based on their needs. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Yoqneam, Israel, Silicon Valley and New York City, and backed by Sequoia, Pitango, Globespan, Tenaya, Silicon Valley Bank and others.

Kango is an award-winning app-based rideshare and childcare service for busy families, providing trusted rides to get kids wherever they need to go. Founded in 2012, Kango was designed to meet the ride and childcare needs of working parents - as experienced firsthand by working mom and founder Sara Schaer - and has been the choice ridesharing service for thousands of parents throughout California. Additionally, Kango partners directly with schools, camps and other youth organizations to safely shuttle children within those groups to designated activities. With a dedication to safety and unique level of personalized customer service, Kango is an integral part of daily life for many families who use the service to get kids to school, activities and everywhere in between.

Kannuu provides cutting-edge search, discovery and findability solutions for quickly finding video content in today's multi-screen environment. Combining sophisticated delivery infrastructure, advanced search algorithms, proprietary recommendation techniques, flexible business rules and unique and intuitive user interfaces, Kannuu enables device manufacturers, service providers, software companies and application developers to maximize the full value of video content. By providing a fast, easy and vastly superior user experience, Kannuu satisfies consumers and drives revenue for service suppliers.

With an intuitive and playful user experience, Kapitall is the next generation investing platform where modern investors can learn about the market, research stocks and funds, share investing ideas, and build virtual and real brokerage portfolios. Interacting with company stocks is as easy as drag, drop and tradeSM. Founded in 2008 by video game entrepreneur Gaspard de Dreuzy and financial technologist Serge Kreiker, Kapitall uses the gaming experience to break the established online trading mold, as the leading investing platform for emerging investors. Jarrett Lilien, former E*TRADE President and COO, joined the team as CEO in 2012.

Founded in October of 2017, Kapwing (pronounced kaPWing) is a free online video editing suite for modern media. The website has quietly become the internet's most popular meme maker and a leading tool for trimming, subtitling, and resizing videos for social media. More than 100,000 people use Kapwing every month, publishing more than 4000 videos daily. Designed to empower casual creators with no video editing expertise, Kapwing users can simply and easily create formats like vertical video, stop motions, collages, and loops for YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit from any device.

Karamba Security provides industry-leading autonomous cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles. Karamba's software products automatically harden the ECUs of connected and autonomous cars, preventing hackers from manipulating and compromising those ECUs and hacking into the car. Karamba's Autonomous Security prevents cyberattacks with zero false positives, no connectivity requirements and negligible performance impact. Karamba has been recognized with the 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Automotive New Product Innovation and by Forbes Israel as one of Israel's Top 10 Most Promising Cybersecurity Companies. It was also chosen to join Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's delegation to Israel earlier this year.

Founded by Jim Miller, KARDIOFIT, INC. is a data-driven, device agnostic, corporate wellness rewards program that implements behavioral economics & innovative reward schemes to incentivize, sustain & reward behavior change related to diet, fitness & chronic disease. KARDIO's BodyMediaÂ® for ExerSpyÂ® body sensor armband objectively captures & feeds anonymized employee fitness data into a self-administered wellness dashboard. Customers consist of benefit consultants, insurance carriers & corporations.

Kareo is the only medical office software and services provider dedicated to serving the small practice. Kareo believes that, with the right tools and support, small practices can do big things. Over 16,000 medical professionals count on Kareo to manage their offices intuitively and affordably. Quick to set up and simple to use, Kareo's cloud-based software helps doctors get paid faster, keep cash flowing, and see the financial big picture through medical billing and practice management tools. Founded in 2004, Kareo's mission is to free doctors' hands for important work of patient care.

Karius is a life sciences company focused on conquering infectious diseases through the innovative use of next-generation sequencing to analyze microbial cell-free DNA. The company's genomics platform delivers unprecedented insight into the microbial landscape, providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of identifying more than a thousand pathogens directly from blood and helping industry accelerate drug development.

Karmic Labs, Inc. is the creator of the Dash App and is dedicated to developing products and services that combine payments and business applications. Karmic Labs founding team includes early engineers from Pinterest, Netscape, Shutterfly, Google and they bring extensive experience from payments companies including American Express, Visa and FIS where they built and launched successful, global card programs. Based in San Francisco, California, Karmic Labs, Inc. is privately held and backed by institutional investors

Kasisto, Inc. is an SRI International spin-off offering intelligent conversational capabilities through branded virtual specialists to dramatically improve usability of enterprise mobile applications. Kasisto's conversational artificial intelligence platform offers a comprehensive technology stack, including speech recognition, natural language understanding and generation, and artificial intelligence reasoning. Kasisto's user interface provides multi-modal capabilities that let consumers easily and quickly access information and perform simple and complex tasks using voice or text on their smart devices. The company leverages decades of research and development in artificial intelligence by SRI International.

Kateeva is driving new advances in OLED production technology. The company has pioneered an inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution that enables flexible and large-size OLEDs to be produced over large areas and in high volume -- with longer lifetimes, higher yields and lower production costs. It's the industry's first economically viable and production-worthy technique to use printing for low-cost mass-production of OLEDs. Kateeva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, maintains a wholly owned subsidiary in Korea, and is backed by leading Venture Capital firms and other investors.

Since its launch in 2009 as a blog, Kaufmann Mercantile has steadily grown, with a lifetime revenue of nearly $6 million and almost 180,000 products sold to date. From home accessories and kitchenware to one-of-a-kind sundries and outdoor tools, each product has been thoroughly researched and then tested by product specialist. The company's dedication to sourcing and selling ethically-made and hand-picked items carries across in its careful consideration and selection criteria as well as its commitment to it telling the stories of those who made them.

Kaymbu is an iPad-based documentation and media management solution for early education centers to keep teachers, families and administrators better connected with the children they care for and love. The company offers a turnkey solution that includes all software, web services and iPad devices for schools. Teachers use a dedicated app tailored specifically for classroom workflow that allows them to efficiently capture classroom activities for internal documentation and secure communication with families. Located in Cambridge, Mass., Kaymbu was conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by parents seeking to harness the power of web and mobile technologies to strengthen relationships between preschool teachers, families and their children.

Keas is the most engaging wellness program in the workplace. Keas promotes healthy behavior and teamwork with an interactive application platform that delivers relevant, personalized content to hundreds of thousands of employees. Keas has a proven track record of supporting corporate HR in increasing retention, productivity, teamwork, collaboration and competitiveness. By rewarding people for achieving simple exercise and nutrition goals, employee health is improved and overall healthcare costs are decreased

Keen Home, the connected home startup that helps your home take care of you, creates proactive devices that enhance the core functions of the home. The company identifies sleepy devices and awakens them by adding intelligence through innovative hardware and software solutions. By 'waking up' these core systems, Keen's customers benefit from increased comfort, improved energy efficiency, and a better maintained home. The company's first product, the Keen Home Smart Vent is a wirelessly networked home air vent that enhances the efficiency and comfort of a home's heating and cooling system by intelligently redirecting central HVAC airflow. Headquartered in New York City, Keen Home was founded in 2013 by Ryan Fant, Nayeem Hussain and Will McLeod and participated in the inaugural R/GA + Techstars Accelerator class.

Everyday, millions of drivers record their federally regulated Hours of Service on paper and send their logs to their fleet managers via fax or mail. We thought it was time for a better option so we built the KeepTruckin Electronic Logbook App for Drivers. The response has been tremendous -- drivers love it. Now its time to get the folks who manage fleets for a living on board with KeepTruckin for Fleets -- a complimentary web application that lets fleet managers and dispatchers view and audit their drivers' logs, track their location, exchange messages, and much more.

Kendra Scott is a leading fashion accessories brand inspired by the personal experiences, travel and sense of community of its CEO and Designer, Kendra Scott. A true omni-channel business, Kendra Scott is sold at premiere retailers including Nieman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Von Maur and over 600 specialty boutiques worldwide, the brand boasts a thriving web business and over 50 stand alone retail stores across the United States. The brand is well-known for its comprehensive suite of elegantly designed jewelry pieces as well as lifestyle categories such as beauty, home goods and fine jewelry. The brand also offers the Kendra Scott Color Bar™, an innovative jewelry customization experience.

Kenna Security is a leader in predictive cyber risk. The Kenna Security Platform enables organizations to work cross-functionally to determine and remediate cyber risks. Kenna leverages Cyber Risk Context Technology to track and predict real-world exploitations, focusing security teams on what matters most. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kenna counts among its customers many Fortune 100 companies, and serves nearly every major vertical.

KenSci is building the world's first vertically integrated machine learning platform for healthcare, making it more proactive, coordinated and accountable, fast. KenSci's platform is engineered to ingest, transform and integrate healthcare data across clinical, claims, and patient generated sources. A library of over 150+ prebuilt models and modular solutions for clinical and operational risk prediction enable customers to ask and answer harder questions faster, with average deployment taking 10 weeks and ROI visibility in 90 days. KenSci was incubated at University of Washington's Center for Data Science at UW Tacoma and designed on the cloud with help from Microsoft's Azure4Research grant program.

Kensho is empowering the largest financial institutions in the world with technology that brings transparency to markets. Kensho is pioneering real-time statistical computing systems and scalable analytics architectures-the next generation of improvements to the global financial system. Kensho harnesses massively-parallel statistical computing, user-friendly visual interfaces and breakthroughs in unstructured data engineering to create the next-generation analytics platform for investment professionals. Addressing the most significant challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today-achieving speed, scale, and automation of previously human-intensive knowledge work-Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capable of answering complex financial questions posed in plain English, and in real-time. Kensho was founded out of MIT and Harvard in 2013. Kensho's engineers come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and Facebook.

Kensho is a health company that lives in LA, operates on the internet, and promotes a whole-person philosophy of care: mind, body, and spirit. The company, founded and led by proven entrepreneurs Krista Berlincourt and Danny Steiner, pairs scientific research with personalization technology to take the guesswork out holistic health, whether you're looking for an honest answer or a trusted provider. Berlincourt is known for nurturing and scaling some of the most loved emerging technology brands like Simple, Acorns, and Microsoft from the ground up. Steiner was a digital innovation change agent at NBC, Conde Nast, and Hulu before breaking into health and wellness with Brami, a venture-backed superfood company. In addition to their entrepreneurial work, Berlincourt is a Professional Certified Coach, while Steiner is a Meditation Teacher. The two were brought together by their shared interest in behavioral science and an unrelenting mission to help people get better and be better.

Kenshoo is a global software company that engineers cloud-based digital marketing solutions and predictive media optimization technology. Brands, agencies and developers use Kenshoo Search, Kenshoo Social, Kenshoo Local, and Kenshoo SmartPath to direct more than $200 billion in annualized online client sales revenue through the platform. Kenshoo is the only Facebook strategic Preferred Marketing Developer with native API solutions for ads across Facebook, FBX, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, Bing, Baidu and CityGrid. Kenshoo powers campaigns in more than 190 countries for nearly half of the Fortune 50 and all 10 top global ad agency networks. Kenshoo clients include CareerBuilder, Expedia, Facebook, KAYAK, Havas Media, iREP, John Lewis, Resolution Media, Sears, Starcom MediaVest Group, Tesco, Travelocity, Walgreens, and Zappos.

Kentik is a cloud-based network visibility and analytics solution that provides a panoramic view of any network. Kentik processes tens of billions of data records per day, equipping service providers, Web enterprises and network operations teams with actionable, usable insights that enable making quick, cost-effective decisions. The company was founded by network and big data technologists and executives from companies like Akamai, CloudFlare, YouTube, and Netflix, who have decades of experience in operations, architecture, and distributed systems.

Kenzie Academy, a tech apprenticeship program that develops modern tech workers, reimagines higher education, combining training in the latest tech skills, real-world work experience, and mentorship from industry experts. Kenzie training courses are paired with paid apprenticeships, closing the gap between school and employment. Kenzie Academy is headquartered in San Francisco. Its first campus launched in Indianapolis in January 2018. For more information, visit https://www.kenzie.academy/.

Keona Health builds healthcare software and automation solutions to ease the burden of telephone triage on medical practices and help medical professionals better communicate with patients. Triage calls cost healthcare providers $15-20 each, and most go unreimbursed. These calls may cost a clinic upwards of $150,000 per year in lost revenue. Keona Health's automation solution was recognized at the Allscripts Open App Challenge for best supporting clinical, financial and performance improvement results.

Keros Therapeutics harnesses the knowledge of leading physician researchers and medical experts in the discovery and development of novel proprietary therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Keros Therapeutics is led by President and CEO Dr. Jasbir Seehra, who has over three decades of hands-on experience creating first-tier drug therapies. An expert in both biologic and small-molecule drug development, Dr. Seehra leads the Keros team as it explores approaches to treating some of the most intractable neuromuscular diseases, such as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). The innovative work Keros Therapeutics is pursuing could bring relief to those who suffer from rare and ultra-rare neuromuscular diseases.

Kespry is the leader in commercial drone and data intelligence, enabling companies to better collect, analyze and share information to improve their business operations. The Kespry Drone System is the most advanced on the market with a full-stack design and automated customer operation. Kespry has been rapidly deployed with proven results at dozens of leading companies across the aggregate, construction and surveying industries. Founded in 2013, Kespry lead investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM Ventures in Silicon Valley.

Kettlebell Kitchen offers meals that are designed by nutritionists, prepared by chefs, and conveniently delivered right to your gym or home. The company was founded in 2013 by two brothers and a chef with a mission to help people change their lives through food. KBK's meals are made from whole, real ingredients that are free of gluten, dairy, soy, and artificial sweeteners. The company's personalized meal plans ensure that your body gets the nutrients it needs to achieve your goal, no matter if that's muscle gain, fat loss, or endurance. Kettlebell Kitchen's food is available for pick up in more than 1,000 locations as well as for nationwide delivery.

KeVita Sparkling Probiotic Drink, recently named one of the 25 Most Innovative Consumer and Retail Brands by Forbes, is delicious vitality in every sip. At the heart of KeVita is its proprietary culture with four strains of live probiotics handcrafted in its own facility in Southern California. KeVita offers a variety of low calorie flavors including Lemon Cayenne Daily Cleanse, Mojita Lime Mint Coconut, Living Greens, Coconut, Lemon Ginger, Mango Coconut, Pomegranate and Strawberry Acai Coconut. Known for its light and refreshing taste, KeVita is certified organic, non-GMO Project Verified, dairy free, gluten free and vegan. KeVita is available in the refrigerated cold case at local co-ops, natural foods stores and select grocers nationwide including Safeway, Vons, Kroger, Ralphs, Sprouts, Whole Foods Market, The Fresh Market, Giant Eagle and Wegmans.

KEW Group Inc. (KEW) provides multiple services to oncologists to assist in treatment decisions for cancer patients. KEW provides genomic testing for patient tumor samples (KEW MDx) and genomic information important to diagnostic and treatment decisions that assist physicians and are detailed in cancer-specific Therapeutic Pathways (KEW TPx). KEW MDx's CancerPlexSM test is the first of the company's diagnostic services designed to assist community oncologists in providing state-of-the-art genomic testing that previously had been available only at large cancer treatment and academic centers. KEW is currently working with seven oncology practices in six different states to refine Therapeutic Pathways for seven types of cancer (breast, colorectal, lung, melanoma, lymphoma, thyroid and pancreatic). These seven practices all participate in a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Grant, which is developing and testing a Community Oncology Medical Home model, known as COME HOME. The grant is administered through Innovative Oncology Business Solutions, Inc., the organization that oversees and manages COME HOME. KEW's Treatment Pathways integrate newly emerging cancer genomic information that follows evidence standards essential to how and when to perform molecular tests, as well as inform care decisions.

KeyedIn helps organizations simplify business processes, improve performance and drive results through an innovative combination of SaaS business solutions, including KeyedIn Manufacturing, configurable cloud ERP software designed exclusively for custom manufacturing; and KeyedIn Projects, a strategy-led project management solution that gives organizations complete visibility into their projects, portfolios, and resources.

KeyMe offers a quick, easy and convenient way to copy keys and solve lockouts, available via its mobile app and in-store kiosks. Users can scan and store digital copies of their keys in the cloud and create duplicate copies anytime they need them. Founded in 2012, the company is funded by Battery Ventures, White Star Capital, 7-Ventures LLC, Ravin Gandhi, the founder of Coinstar, and the co-founder of Virigin Mobile, among others.

KEYPR is a cloud-based guest experience and management platform for hotels, casinos and residences. The platform delivers a personalized, friction-free guest experience, while creating new operational efficiencies and additional revenue opportunities for property owners and operators. Guests can access a directory of services, including dining, entertainment, third-party content and more through an in-room tablet and custom mobile app. The app also allows guests to bypass the front desk via KEYPR's Keyless Entry.

Keyto is a health and wellness company that combines a scientifically proven program with a unique device to achieve unprecedented results. The company's core principle is to use rapid feedback to modify user behavior and achieve weight loss over a sustained time period. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, it is founded by team of metabolic and weight loss experts with deep product design experience, including Dr. Ethan Weiss, Dr. Ray Wu, Liana Nakamura and Gareth Everard.

Kickboard is a web-based school analytics platform that allows educators and school leaders to capture, analyze and securely share critical student performance data. The platform's features include simple yet powerful dashboards that increase the real-time visibility of student performance across classrooms, traditional and standards-based grading, one-click behavior data capture, easy to read charts and graphs and immediate performance reporting, including customizable report cards.

KidPass is a new website that allows parents to discover and book thousands of kids activities using one easy membership. Parents can get access to art classes, sports, playspaces, date-night drop-offs, music lessons, museums, and more at up to 75% off of traditional retail prices. Founded by NYC parents, the company's mission is to help fellow parents find the best activities that can enrich the lives of their children.

KidsLink is a family management tool designed for savvy, connected parents to streamline their family's world. The secure dashboard provides a customized platform for aggregating essential documents and alerts users to key developmental milestones and seasonal events. Loved by parents because it allows them to bypass the lack of technology at medical and educational institutions, KidsLink is the missing link in modern family organization.

Kilopass Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded NVM intellectual property, leverages standard logic CMOS processes to deliver one-time programmable (OTP) and many-time programmable (MTP) memory. With 58 patents granted or pending and more than 800,000 wafers shipped from a dozen foundries and Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs), Kilopass has more than 150 customers in applications ranging from storage of firmware and security codes to calibration data and other application-critical information.

Founded in 2007, KIN is the global leader in lifestyle, empowering lifestyle creators around the world to do what they love. Based in Santa Monica, CA, KIN Community is the number one lifestyle network on YouTube, delivering high-quality, female-focused video content across verticals including food, health, beauty, parenting, home and entertainment. KIN Community reaches consumers in honest and inspiring ways through world-class original lifestyle video and Emmy award-winning scripted series. In addition, KIN Community incubates new online video talent and produces custom content programs with major brand advertisers. Since 2011, KIN Community has attracted more than 20 million network subscribers and over 4 billion lifetime video views.

Kin Insurance is a home insurance startup (backed by an A-rated carrier) that's here to fix home insurance. How? We use data to make the application process as simple as possible and to recommend the right coverage for each home. We cut out the inefficiencies that plague traditional carriers. They typically pay out only 50% of premiums in claims. Where does the rest go? TV commercials, building naming rights, and golden parachutes for high-paid executives. We skip these things so we can keep costs down.

Kindara is devoted to giving women the knowledge, support, and tools to understand their health and meet their fertility goals. Founded by Kati Bicknell and Will Sacks, Kindara designs products that delight women and improve their lives. Kindara Fertility Tracker for iPhone and Android, is a top rated fertility app, helping hundreds of thousands of women get pregnant faster, avoid pregnancy naturally, and understand their bodies. Wink by Kindara is an advanced basal thermometer that syncs with Kindara apps to provide a seamless fertility management experience.

Kindly Care was created to make it incredibly simple to privately hire caregivers without having to worry about sourcing, safety or compliance. It has over 100,000 caregivers in its directory, and families can review caregivers' videos before meeting them. To make the ongoing management of caregivers as seamless as possible, Kindly Care offers free iOS and Android apps that handle the scheduling, task lists, time sheets, daily reports, and messaging between clients and caregivers.

Kindred is an organization that brings communities of influential creators together with a broader ecosystem of nonprofits, purpose-driven brands and platforms to enable meaningful and productive face-to-face connections and collaborations. Our mission is to further societal progress through our engaged and influential communities who gather at the world's most impactful events, empowering the rise of the next great social movements through the power of popular culture.

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kinestral Technologies, Inc. develops technologies that transform glass into responsive, intelligent, and beautiful architectural elements. The company's research and development efforts have resulted in a growing global patent portfolio in manufacturing, device processing, and smart window control systems. Kinestral's flagship product, Halio™, is available in selected markets.

Kineta, Inc. is a Seattle-based privately held biotechnology company specializing in clinical advancement of high-need novel immunotherapeutic drug candidates. Our world class scientists are pioneers in developing life-changing classes of drugs. Kineta seeks to improve the lives of millions of people suffering from an array of diseases. Kineta's progressive business model focuses on targeting unmet medical needs and rapid achievement of important clinical milestones.

Kinetica is the provider of the only GPU database to combine data warehouse, advanced analytics, visualizations, and is optimized for running machine learning and deep learning models. With Kinetica, users can simultaneously ingest, explore, analyze and visualize fast-moving, complex data within milliseconds to make critical decisions and find efficiencies, lower cost, generate new revenue and improve customer experience. Customers in verticals such as financial services, retail, healthcare, utilities and public sector use Kinetica for fast OLAP, convergence of AI and BI, and geospatial analytics.

Kinnate Biopharma, Inc. is a precision oncology company advancing a pipeline of therapeutics to treat patients with genomically defined vulnerabilities. Kinnate's focus is on the design and development of selective small molecules with the mission to provide the right drug to the right patient. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, the Kinnate team comprises oncology experts, each with decades of experience developing small molecule therapies.

Kinsa is a mission-driven, venture-backed startup that works at the intersection of technology, design, and healthcare. We are transforming how people care for themselves and their families through elegant mobile software and unique mobile hardware products. These products also advance our overall mission: to create the world's first real-time map of human health. Our founders and executives have started successful ventures, created best selling mobile apps and smartphone-connected devices, and led programs that have put millions of people onto life-saving treatment.

Kinvey is the leading Backend-as-a-Service platform that makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet and web apps. With Kinvey's Backend as a Service, developers get a full-featured data store, along with mobile specific features like location, social, and push, and connectivity to any third-party cloud service or legacy backend. All of these backend features are easily consumed by iOS, Android, JavaScript, and Node.js libraries so that our developers don't have to write any backend code. Kinvey will auto-scale and maintain your backend, so you can put your time and money into building more valuable apps.

Kitchen United offers food entrepreneurs the flexibility and business intelligence to take the next step in starting or growing their business - regardless of size or experience. Kitchen United provides restaurant operators with a value-driven, low-risk way to easily expand into new markets, grow revenue through off-premise dining and expand existing delivery areas by removing common barriers, such as capital or technology expertise.

Kitchensurfing is an online marketplace where chefs connect with the world to sell their skills, goods, and services. Kitchensurfing Chefs will work with you to craft your perfect menu and take care of everything from start to finish, including the post-meal cleanup. From hand-crafted food stuffs to pro private chef services, Kitchensurfing is the home of - and source for - great cooks everywhere. Your next great meal starts here. Use Kitchensurfing to find local chefs to cook for you, at home.

Founded by Chef Josh Katt, Kitchfix is a Chicago-based company which creates ready-to-eat, delicious, chef-crafted meals made with nutrient dense, locally sourced, organic, anti-inflammatory, gluten-free, soy-free and dairy-free superfoods. By working with local programs including The Cara Program, Inspiration Kitchens and Growing Home, Kitchfix creates an inspiring workplace for employees as it strives to improve the health of its community and to make an impact in its neighborhood. The convenient weekly meal delivery service allows customers to order online and have meals delivered to homes, offices and gyms in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Chef Josh Katt's Paleo Granola is available online and in 23 Mariano's grocery stores. Chef Josh Katt is also the 2014 team caterer for the Chicago Cubs.

Kitchit's mission is to strengthen the social fabric of your community by empowering users to seamlessly deepen personal connections over a great meal. Kitchit is passionate about food's ability to connect people and has pioneered a powerful way to elevate the experience well beyond a traditional restaurant by bringing the experience into your home. Kitchit's headquarters are in San Francisco, CA. Kitchit also currently serves the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York markets with Kitchit Marketplace, which allows customers to book personal chefs for fully customizable experiences.

Kite & Lightning is a cinematic VR company that blends gaming, social and story to create emotionally transformative experiences. Founded by film industry veterans in 2013, the company is currently creating immersive computer-generated (CG) worlds that meld cinematic storytelling with interactive gaming. Known for its unprecedented technical and creative innovations in VR storytelling, the Los Angeles-based startup has succeeded in many genres to critical acclaim such as the Cannes Lions festival and the Toronto International Film Festival POP exhibits.

Kite Hill creates delicious plant-based alternatives to beloved traditional dairy products. With a proprietary understanding of cultured nut milks founded on a melding of deep culinary and scientific expertise, the company has developed a range of offerings that are not only great tasting, but healthier and more sustainable than their dairy counterparts. The full Kite Hill line is sold through Whole Foods Markets nationwide and is made with non-GMO almonds from California\'s San Joaquin Valley.

Kittyhawk unifies the mission, aircraft, and data to empower safe and effective drone operations. Based in San Francisco, the company develops full stack enterprise drone solutions for professional pilots and fleet managers across a multitude of missions. Established industry leaders in media, insurance, energy, rail transportation, education, law enforcement, fire, and emergency management agencies around the world all rely on Kittyhawk for their end-to-end drone operations. Founded in 2015, the company has received $6.5 million in funding from Bonfire Ventures, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Freestyle Ventures, and The Flying Object (TFO).

Founded in 2011 by executives from eBay, PayPal, YouTube, and BabyCenter, Kiwi Crate sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all of the inspiration and materials necessary for a variety of hands-on activities ranging from art, science, crafts, and imaginative play. With monthly deliveries of activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, Kiwi Crate brings hands-on fun right to your door.

Kixer is a native advertising platform that caters to the mobile web. Our powerful technology leverages advertising dollars being spent by mobile app developers to help generate new revenue streams for mobile publishers. Since mobile app developers value mobile audience more than traditional brand advertisers, Kixer is able to deliver competitive CPMs to publishers for their mobile inventory without the risk of any sales channel conflicts with brand advertisers. Kixer™s ads are currently distributed across a growing list of leading web publishers and we work with leading app developers to help generate revenue for our partners.

KIYATEC leverages its proprietary ex vivo 3D cell culture technology platforms to accurately model and predict response to approved and investigational cancer drugs targeting a spectrum of solid tumors. The company's Drug Development Services business works in partnership with leading biopharmaceutical companies to unlock response dynamics for its investigational drug candidates across the majority of solid tumor types. The company's Clinical Services business is currently engaged in the validation of clinical assays as well as investigator-initiated studies in ovarian cancer, breast cancer, glioblastoma and rare tumors, in its CLIA-certified laboratory.

Klara was founded in 2013 with the vision to change the broken healthcare experience by directly connecting doctors and patients through technology. Klara's secure and HIPAA-compliant medical messaging platform allows providers and patients to centralize all their medical communication in one simple and secure app. Doctors and their teams can collaboratively communicate with their patients, adding external providers and other medical partners (such as pharmacies, labs and insurance companies) to the conversation to streamline patient care.

Klarna is leading global payments providers and fully licensed bank, which wants to revolutionise the payment experience for shoppers and merchants alike. Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2005, we give online consumers the option to pay now, pay later or over time - offering a simple, safe and smoooth checkout experience. Klarna now works with 130,000 merchants including H&M, Adidas, IKEA, Expedia Group, ASOS, Pelotan, Abercrombie & Fitch, Michael Kors, Nike, AliExpress, Superdry, Sephora, Spotify, Wayfair, Gymshark, Samsung, Zara, Topshop, The Hut Group, Steve Madden, Boozt, Daniel Wellington, Bugaboo, Rue21, TOMS, Sonos, Agent Provocateur, Lufthansa, ETSY, ACNE Studios, Daniel Wellington, KLM, Turkish Airlines and many more. Klarna has 2,500 employees and is active in 14 countries.

Kleo is a software company that centralizes funds management, philanthropy, and ecommerce for the K-12 education space through its proprietary, hosted SaaS technology ' the KLEOplatform„¢. Kleo™s disruptive value proposition is that schools, teachers, (grade appropriate) students and parents may receive funds, donate funds, distribute funds, transfer funds, fundraise and shop all in one place, while donors and funders receive immediate transparency into how the funds get used.

Kloudless is the go-to platform for enterprise software integrations. Businesses use Kloudless' unified API products to connect to many kinds of enterprise applications like Salesforce, SharePoint, Box, Dropbox, G Suite, ServiceNow and more. With Kloudless, developers can stop building tedious and expensive one-off integrations by using Kloudless to build once and integrate many. A fully enterprise-ready platform, Kloudless provides solutions across many markets such as security, education technology, finance and sales enablement.

Knotch is a consumer-facing data company that empowers people to express their true colors with other like-minded people. The unique Knotch Color Spectrum encourages people to add sentiment to text by expressing feelings on a scale of color. Knotcher's are empowered to voice their feelings on a topic in three simple steps: select a topic, assign a color and share comments on the topic The data collected is available to be analyzed and consumed by the Knotch interest-network and world at large. Trending topics are represented in infographics found on the Knotch blog, and are available to share.

Knotel runs a network of custom locations with adaptable environments that cater to modern business needs. Introducing its 'HQ as a Service' model, Knotel delivers a new experience for business leaders looking for on-demand headquarters. Each managed location is designed to reflect each business' unique ethos. Knotel eliminates the risks of being locked into long-term contracts and is transforming traditional spaces by offering catered service terms, culture-coded environments, quick setup and move in support. Founded by hyper-aware founders who set out to build something they would want for themselves, Knotel rejects the old way of doing things.

KNOW Bio, LLC is a life science company focused on using its extensive intellectual property developed internally as well as licensed patents and applications in the field of nitric oxide across a vast majority of therapeutic applications to redefine the standard of care in a number of diseases and conditions. Vast Therapeutics, Inc. (www.vasttherapeutics.com) and PhotonMD, Inc. (www.phontonmd.com) are two companies that have emerged from the KNOW Bio platform. Corporate strategy involves forming subsidiaries to focus on specific diseases and conditions, assemble teams of experienced personnel in each and incentivize them to succeed by granting them equity in their respective subsidiary, with KNOW Bio retaining controlling ownership of each unless and until an appropriate opportunity for a subsidiary sale, IPO or other financing makes sense.

KnowBe4 is the world's most popular integrated Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing platform. Realizing that the human element of security was being seriously neglected, KnowBe4 was created by two of the best known names in cybersecurity, Kevin Mitnick (the World's Most Famous Hacker), and Inc. 500 alum serial security entrepreneur Stu Sjouwerman, to help organizations manage the problem of social engineering tactics through new school security awareness training. More than 1,500 organizations use KnowBe4's platform to keep employees on their toes with security top of mind. KnowBe4 is used across all industries, including highly regulated fields such as finance, healthcare, energy, government and insurance.

Knowlarity is India™s largest cloud telephony company. Funded by Sequoia Capital, we have grown by leaps and bounds since our inception in 2009, powering more than 6,500 companies in India and abroad. Today, we have a presence in 65 countries. Our flagship products, SuperReceptionist and SmartIVR, can process over a million calls an hour. We are headquartered in Singapore and have offices in Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore.

Knowledge Delivery Systems (KDS) is a leading provider of online strategic professional development, state certification, master's degree programs, and career advancement for teachers and administrators at every stage of their career. Hundreds of thousands of educators have taken online courses powered by KDS, classes that are research-based, practical, topical and aligned with requirements in all fifty states. KDS provides online access, 24/7 at your convenience, to courses taught by the nation's leading experts. Our courses are built by leaders in education whose insight and methodologies have had significant impact on teacher effectiveness and student performance.

KnowRe is an educational technology company developing an innovative online adaptive learning service for mathematics. KnowRe assesses an individual's strengths and weaknesses, personalizes a curriculum for each student's focus areas and engages students through game-like features, attractive graphics and social learning. KnowRe believes in the importance of a good education, the need for personalization in our educational system and that technology is the most effective tool to help bring about these goals.

Koality offers a software testing platform for growth and enterprise companies that can dramatically increase developer productivity. The platform allows engineers to test their code in a production-like environment before it's distributed to the project repository and shared with the development team. Koality's cloud-based parallelization technology not only increases test speeds by up to 64 times, making it practical for pre-push testing, but also is deployed completely behind the engineering team's firewall to ensure project security.

With offices in London, New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Berlin, Sydney, Stockholm and Atlanta, as well as agents in over 20 major territories, Kobalt Music Group is the leading independent music publisher and music services company offering unparalleled transparency, online global copyright administration, creative and synch/licensing services, digital collections, label services, neighbouring rights management and pipeline advances to artists, writers, publishers, labels and other rights holders. Kobalt directly collects from 37 territories worldwide, administering more than 250,000 copyrights worldwide on behalf of over 1,200 content holders including the world's top songwriters, artists and other music publishers.

Kobiton is a powerful mobile device cloud that allows companies to manage the devices they own and access real public cloud devices for efficient, comprehensive test coverage. Simple to use, easy to access from anywhere, and highly flexible, Kobiton minimizes costs while increasing productivity, so businesses can get apps to market sooner. The mobile device cloud platform offers centralized testing history and insights to improve collaboration across teams; access to the most in-demand mobile devices to supplement existing inventory; significant cost savings; and easy integration with preferred IDEs and development tools.

Koding is headquartered in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA, and is backed by investment firms RTP Ventures, Greycroft Partners and angel investors, such as Demian Sellfors Founder of (mt) Ventures, CEO of Media Temple, Bob Pasker CTO-in-Residence at Accel Partners, Roger Krakoff CEO CloudCapital, ex-Googler Rich Chen, Nihal Mehta CEO of Localresponse. Koding's community is currently at over 40,000 developers and growing at a rate of 3000+ developer sign ups a month

Koko provides emotional support as a service for any product, including chatbots, voice assistants, and online communities. Based on technology developed at the MIT Media Lab, Koko combines artificial and collective intelligence to help promote emotional well-being. Koko is designed and built in New York City, funded by Union Square Ventures and Omidyar Network, and brought to life by our vibrant community of thousands of people from over 150 countries across the world.

The largest, most successful, global companies trust Kollective Technology to power their Enterprise Live and On-Demand video delivery, serving millions of users worldwide. From its software defined enterprise content delivery network (SD ECDN) to edge related IT tools like Network Readiness Testing, Software Delivery and Network Analytics, Kollective drives a powerful ROI and makes the flexibility of software defined networking a reality.

Komprise, the industry-leader in intelligent data management across clouds, empowers businesses to efficiently manage today's massive scale of data growth while unlocking its value. The Komprise mission is to radically simplify data management through intelligent automation. Komprise partners include NetApp, EMC, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Azure. Komprise is used by enterprises to intelligently manage data at scale.

Kona Deep represents a completely new category of water: deep ocean water replete with a unique blend of naturally occurring deep ocean electrolytes. Kona Deep is sourced from the deep ocean waters of Hawaii, 3000 feet beneath the ocean surface, where cold, pressure and natural minerals combine to create an exceptionally high quality water. Once brought to the surface, the water is desalinated and bottled at the source with absolutely nothing added.

Kona Medical is committed to alleviating the suffering and health risks associated with drug-resistant hypertension with a more effective, less invasive approach to renal artery denervation. The company was founded in 2009 by Michael Gertner, MD, with seed financing from Essex Woodlands. Kona was formed on the basis of combining Dr. Gertner's inventions in the field with the assets of Therus Corporation, a predecessor company in the field of therapeutic focused ultrasound.

Headquartered in Chicago, Konekt offers a unique toolset that makes it easy and affordable for anyone to build connected devices that work everywhere. Founded in 2013, Konekt provides global Internet connectivity with a single piece of hardware, allowing makers, OEMs and systems integrators of all sizes and levels of sophistication to build devices that easily and securely connect to the Internet with cellular connectivity.

Kong delivers a next-generation API and service lifecycle management platform designed for modern architectures, including microservices, containers, cloud and serverless. Offering high flexibility, scalability, speed and performance, Kong enables developers and Global 5000 enterprises to reliably secure, connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for modern applications. Kong is building the future of service control platforms to intelligently broker information across services.

Kony is the industry's leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the Kony Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere across all mobile devices and operating systems. Kony has 250 customers, including myriad Fortune 500 companies, the largest global bank, and global brands such as Hyatt, Huntington National Bank, Konica Minolta, Schweppes, Tyco and Carl Zeiss.

Kopari is planting its flag in coconut oil. The company's mission is to create a wide range of beauty products that are a natural extension of coconut oil's uses and benefits. The brand integrates cutting-edge chemistry and superior natural ingredients to enhance the benefits of coconut oil and provide multi-purpose formulations that deliver effective results. Current Kopari offerings include a multitasking line consisting of Coconut Sheer Oil, Coconut Body Glow, Coconut Balm and Organic Coconut Melt and a body-care line, including Coconut Crush Scrub, Coconut Body Milk and Coconut Body Oil. New launches and additional innovation will be available in 2017. Kopari utilizes 100% organic coconut oil and is free from sulfates, silicones, parabens, GMOs and other harmful ingredients. All products are cruelty-free. Kopari's coconut oil is sustainably sourced from the Philippine Islands and manufactured in Southern California. Kopari donates $1 from each direct-to-consumer sale to Waves for Water.

Education startup Koru is transforming the college-to-career landscape with an immersive, experiential learning program designed to quickly create and place workplace-ready recent college graduates inside high-growth work environments. Founded by veteran entrepreneurs Kristen Hamilton (founding partner at Onvia, COO at World Learning) and Josh Jarrett, (former head of Higher Ed Innovation for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and McKinsey & Co Consultant), Koru has raised $4.35 million in funding, led by the venture capital firm Maveron.

Payward combines years of experience in the virtual goods and currency markets with a highly skilled engineering team and a host of carefully cultivated banking and finance relationships. Kraken (https://www.kraken.com), Payward's full-featured professional digital currency exchange and trading platform, offers advanced trading tools, a sophisticated user interface, robust technical security and full regulatory compliance to traders in digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin, Namecoin, Dogecoin, and Ven. Kraken publicly launched on Sept. 9, 2013, and is now the No. 1 Euro exchange in the world. Kraken attributes this success to its robust user interface, strict regulatory compliance and professional array of advanced order types, the result of two years of development.

Kronos Bio is dedicated to the research and development of first-in-class therapies that modulate historically recalcitrant cancer targets. Leveraging industry-leading research into high-throughput screening strategies for chemical modulators of transcription factors and other challenging targets in oncology, Kronos utilizes its small molecule microarray (SMM) platform and extensive know-how in biological assay development to pursue novel therapies against some of the most important and intractable targets in cancer research.

Krossover, a New York City-based startup, is a video coordinator that provides sophisticated data analytics technology to the sports world. With an intuitive online platform easily accessible by thousands of high school and college programs, Krossover enables coaches to use video to improve the success of their athletic programs by eliminating the time and financial impediments to managing their filmed content. With an estimated 95% of high school and college athletic programs now recording game video, Krossover is accelerating the use of indexed, on-demand video content by programs of all sizes.

Krux delivers cloud-based data management software and secure connectivity for companies to capture, analyze, protect and manage people data across all screens and sources. With Krux, companies in the U.S., EU and Asia-Pacific are delivering cooler, faster, smarter web experiences to over 1.6 billion monthly users across the globe. Companies capturing some of the world's most valuable consumer data (Meredith, YouBeauty, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Axel Springer, Washington Post, Source Interlink, Cars.com, Financial Times, AARP) depend on Krux to protect and manage their data and connect it safely with trusted partners. Digital innovators (Bloomberg, Telegraph, NBC Universal and Triad Retail Media) depend on Krux to build better brand experiences and improve revenue from commerce and advertising operations. Key investors include SAP Ventures, Time Warner Investments, Visionnaire Ventures, Temasek, Accel Partners, IDG Ventures and The Entrepreneurs Fund. Krux is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in New York, Boston, London, Singapore and Australia.

Kryptonite combines the secure key storage of a USB smart card with a familiar mobile phone interface. The Kryptonite app performs SSH signatures without revealing the private key to a paired computer. A Kryptonite SSH key can be used without modifying any servers, allowing users to secure their GitHub, AWS, and Google Cloud SSH authentication without any changes to their infrastructure. Communication with Kryptonite occurs over encrypted and signed push notifications and Bluetooth, ensuring high availability and low latency.

KSQ Therapeutics has built an industry-leading genome-scale precision functional genomics platform, called CRISPRomics, to pinpoint therapeutic nodes that directly correlate genomic function to disease with unprecedented certainty and speed. The company is deploying CRISPRomics for novel drug development across broad therapeutic areas and is currently advancing a proprietary pipeline of tumor- and immune-focused drug candidates. KSQ was founded by thought leaders in the field of functional genomics and pioneers of CRISPR screening technologies, and the company is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kuali began in 2005 as a non-profit, open-source community initiative for developing higher education administrative systems that provided better long-term alternatives to what was available. In 2014, the Kuali company was created to accelerate software development, improve the user experience, and bring Kuali products to the cloud, while continuing to support open source and expand the user community. Over the past four years, Kuali has grown to almost 100 employees and 184 customers. Kuali's solutions include Kuali Curriculum and Catalog Management, Kuali Financials, Kuali Research, Kuali Ready (business continuity), and Kuali Build (no code application development). Visit www.kuali.co to learn more.

Kukui enables success. The Kukui All in One Success Platform empowers each of Kukui's clients with quantitative data showing their return on investment, the number of new clients based on their POS system, statistics revealing their customer retention rate, and areas to improve their business through the tracking of phone calls, appointment forms, and feedback from customer reviews. Kukui enables shop owners to focus "on the business."

Kumu was founded in 2012 by a team of Stanford University Professors and Ph.D graduates with a mission to commercialize research on Wireless Full Duplex. Kumu has developed technology that cancels Self-Interference, the 'unwanted' energy that leaks into a radio's receiver while transmitting. As a result of the cancellation, the receiver hears no noise from its transmitter, freeing it to cleanly receive external signals. A radio using Kumu's self-interference cancellation technology can transmit and receive at the same time on the same frequency.

Kurbo is the first mobile subscription service to help kids and teenagers safely and effectively eat healthier and lose weight using their favorite tool- the smartphone. Based on Stanford University's renowned and research-based Pediatric Weight Control Program, Kurbo is the only system combining personalized coaching and expert advice with mobile apps for food and activity tracking to promote healthier eating and exercise habits for children and their families. Kurbo Health is part of Rock Health, a full-service seed fund for digital health startups. The company has offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto.

Kurtosys helps brands connect with their customers using the power of online and mobile communications. With robust infrastructure and outsourcing services, Kurtosys simplifies workflows and reduces costs with secure portals and document automation tools dedicated to making financial data beautiful. Kurtosys offers a broad range of digital marketing and reporting tools including Client Reporting, Secure Portals, Fund Fact Sheets, and Fund Tools. Headquartered in London, Kurtosys has offices in New York, Cape Town, and Gurgaon (India). Find out more about Kurtosys, visit http://www.kurtosys.com and subscribe to the Kurtosys blog.

Founded in 2011, Kwarter is a technology solutions provider delivering a second screen platform for brands and broadcasters. With the Kwarter platform, customers can deliver a true multi-screen experience, allowing viewers to play along live with broadcast TV, get rewarded for their participation and achievements, and share TV's most powerful moments across their social network on any mobile device. Kwarter customers include leading brands such as Bud Light, as well as broadcast networks like Turner Broadcast System.

kwik allows people to order their favorite product with a push of a button. Unlike existing solutions, orders can be delivered directly from ANY brand, retailer or home delivery service. kwik's open end-to-end solution includes a smart IoT button, interface to payment and delivery systems, and analytics dashboard that enables brands to develop direct relationships with their consumers. Current customers include Domino's, Huggies (Kimberly Clark), and Anheuser Busch. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with R&D in Tel Aviv, Israel, kwik is in advanced negotiations with some of the largest consumer packaged goods, food delivery, and retailers in the US.

Kymera Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering a transformative new approach to treating previously untreatable diseases. The company is advancing the field of targeted protein degradation, accessing the body's innate protein recycling machinery to degrade rather than inhibit dysregulated, disease-causing proteins. Powered by a proprietary predictive modeling capability and a game-changing integrated degradation platform, Kymera is accelerating drug discovery with an unmatched ability to target and degrade the most intractable of proteins, and advance new treatment options for patients.

Kyn Therapeutics is a biotechnology company advancing new immunometabolic therapies for cancer. A growing body of research indicates that key metabolites can exert broad suppressive or enhancing effects on the immune system through a complex network of cellular interactions, providing targets for new therapies that could significantly enhance patient response rates to checkpoint inhibitors. Kyn Therapeutics is advancing three development programs with targets strongly implicated in immunosuppression across a range of tumor types and via multiple immune cell effects. Kyn Therapeutics is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kyriba is the global leader in cloud-based Proactive Treasury Management. CFOs, treasurers and finance leaders rely on Kyriba to optimize their cash, manage their risk, and work their capital. Our award-winning, secure, and scalable SaaS treasury, bank connectivity, risk management and supply chain finance solutions enable some of the world's largest and most respected organizations to drive corporate growth, obtain critical financial insights, minimize fraud, and ensure compliance.