Ficks Beverage Co is a San Francisco based beverage manufacturer set on making the bar better-for-you. Our hard seltzers are the simple combination of real fruit juice, sparkling water, and alcohol made from fermented California oranges for authentic taste. All of our mixers are made with all natural ingredients and contain about half the calories and sugar found in traditional mixers.

Part of Cox's Strategic Business Development team as part of New Growth, Cox Communications' innovation organization. Our team activates strategic partnerships, investments and acquisitions for key thematic areas including IOT, Edge, Healthcare, Digital Marketing and more. We love to identify what's next for our organization as well as collaborate with startups, VC's, and enterprises to bring innovation to life

Axon’s mission is to protect life.We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of the police record so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day. As a product manager working within Axon’s Training organization, I am collaborating with designers, developers, and development partners to create the future of law enforcement training in Virtual and Augmented Reality. I am focused on building upon existing products as well as launching new ones from scratch, with a specific focus on introducing VR/AR to the first responder market.

The USC Marshall Venture Fund invests and receives equity in ventures led by USC students, alumni, faculty, and staff. The mission of the fund is to help bridge the funding gap for USC-related companies by participating in early-stage rounds; amplify the impact of USC-related companies by participating opportunistically in later-stage rounds; train students to evaluate, make, and manage venture investments; involve and leverage enthusiastic alumni, advisors, experts, and donors to support and accelerate USC-related companies; and contribute to the economy, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystem of Southern California.

PLG Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm providing pre seed and seed capital to technology-enabled startups. PLG Ventures works hands-on with the founding teams developing their leadership skills and emotional intelligence abilities. In addition, we will help your company put in place the best foundation to allow for scalable and successful growth.

M Ventures is a uniquely positioned and constructed early-stage venture firm.We invest not only our capital, but also our time, relationships and expertise into technology companies that use software and the internet to create innovative consumer or enterprise products and solutions.Our team brings unique experiences from differentiated fields of media, entertainment, politics, finance and technology as both operators and investors to find, invest in, and grow the leading companies of the future.

NextNav, LLC was founded to solve the indoor positioning problem, taking into account ecosystem issues, high-precision performance requirements and the economics of the location market. NextNav is now deploying its urban and indoor positioning service across the U.S. Backed by telecommunications investors with a track record of success, and with an experienced management team that has built and operated multiple national wireless systems, NextNav is revolutionizing urban and indoor positioning for public safety and commercial applications.