Vertex, Inc. provides tax technology solutions for corporations in retail, communication, leasing, and manufacturing industries in the United States and internationally. It offers tax determination, compliance and reporting, tax data management, document management, pre-built integration, and industry-specific solutions. The company sells its software products through software license and software as a service subscriptions. It also provides implementation and training services in connection with its software license and cloud subscriptions, transaction tax returns outsourcing, and other tax-related services. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

apellis pharmaceuticals is an early stage biotechnology company applying immunotherapy to auto-immune diseases, with an initial emphasis on diseases of the lungs such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), diseases of the retina such as age-related macular degeneration (amd), and rare hematological diseases such as paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (pnh). apellis believes that targeting a key element in the immune system called the complement system can have profound disease modifying benefits. we call this approach complement immunotherapy.

bandwidth is a software company that’s transforming the way people communicate and challenging the standards of old telecom. together with our customers, we’re unlocking remarkable value, questioning the status quo, and helping people interact with technology and one another, oftentimes in ways they never dreamed possible. haven’t heard of bandwidth? well you’ve probably used one of our products before. we power some of the most important communications technologies on the market today—names like google, skype and ring central to name a few. at bandwidth, we’ve got a passion for doing things the other way – imagining what they could be and uncovering opportunities to take a new approach to create what should be. we’re out to disrupt the century-old rules of the telecom industry—and that means doing things differently in every area of our business. it’s in the way we treat our people, and how we create with our customers. whether our engineering teams are crunching code during all-night

casa systems is a leading provider of fixed, mobile, optical and wi-fi network solutions for ultra broadband services, which require over 1gbps throughput today and will require 10gbps or more within the next decade. we are focused on and passionate about enabling these services, regardless of access network type. casa systems has defined a new category of software-centric ultra broadband network edge devices that allow cable and mobile service providers to intelligently and cost-effectively scale their networks to meet gigabit demands today. based on disruptive technologies to target the growing market opportunity in interactive digital video and broadband ip services, casa systems provides market-leading, docsis 3.1-enabled ccap and cmts products, universal edgeqam and intelligent video processing solutions for broadcast and unicast services, as well as mobileedge small cell and managed wi-fi solutions. quick facts: • founded in 2003 • headquartered in andover, massachusetts

Hancock Jaffe Laboratories specializes in developing and manufacturing bioprosthetic (tissue-based) medical devices to establish improved standards of care for treating cardiac and vascular diseases. HJLI currently has two lead product candidates: the VenoValveÒ, a porcine-based valve which is intended to be surgically implanted in the deep venous system of the leg to treat reflux associated with Chronic Venous Insufficiency, and the CoreoGraftÒ, a bovine tissue-based off-the-shelf conduit intended to be used for coronary artery bypass surgery.

iclick is a leading integrated advertising technology company in china connecting worldwide advertisers with the audience in china. its proprietary programmatic marketing platform (“pmp”) is the first of its kind in china that truly integrates search, display, mobile and social media advertising. the core of iclick’s pmp is supported by tremendous data and advanced technology, which help both international and domestic advertisers precisely reach their targeted customers in china through multi-channel marketing. iclick was established in 2009 and now has seven offices in asia as well as business presence in london and new york with more than 500 employees.

cue biopharma is an innovative immunotherapy company developing a novel, proprietary class of biologics engineered to selectively modulate the human immune system to treat a broad range of cancers and autoimmune disorders. we design biologics to engage and modulate the activity of disease-associated t cells in the patient’s body, offering significant therapeutic advantages while potentially minimizing or eliminating unwanted side effects. we believe our biologics allow us to target antigen-specific t cell populations in a variety of indications using a simple peptide exchange within previously-validated drug frameworks developed from the cue biologics platform. this flexibility could truncate the drug selection and development process, moving effective therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation more rapidly and cost efficiently than current industry standard timelines and costs. headquartered in kendall square, cambridge, ma, we are led by an experienced management team and sci

entera bio ltd. is a biotechnology company located in israel.

solid biosciences (solid) is a cambridge, ma based biotech company singularly focused on developing treatments and cures for duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd). solid combines sharp commercial focus with world-class science to advance promising therapies and is positioned to catalyze therapeutic development across all aspects of the disease. condition-focused, our mandate is comprehensive; improving daily life for patients and attacking the roots of dmd.