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Johnson & Johnson is a diversified healthcare company operating across 260 subsidiary companies with approximately 138,000 employees globally.

BiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesNew Brunswick, US

Okta provides identity and access management products designed to protect the identities of workforce and customer users.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Jose, US

Todd McKinnon(Co-founder)Frederic Kerrest(Co-founder)

Neurosom develops a wearable sleep therapy device called Sleep WISP that uses EEG monitoring and AI-driven electrical stimulation to improve deep sleep and reduce dementia risk.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesPortland, US

Don Tucker(Chief Science Officer and Founder)Viral Sheth(CEO and Founder)

HealthtechWellness & FitnessKirkland, US

John Koster(Director)Jo Masterson(Executive Officer, Director)Brandon Masterson(Executive Officer)Eric Larsen(Director)

A Kids Company produces children's books and podcasts covering challenging and important topics for kids, plus a companion app.

ConsumerEdTechMedia & Entertainment

Apptio provides AI investment management software that helps organizations track, optimize, and align AI spending across infrastructure, talent, and tooling from prioritization through ROI measurement.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBellevue, US

Ajay Patel(General Manager of Apptio and IT Automation at IBM)Larry Blasko(President, Field Operations)Eugene Khvostov(Chief Product Officer)David Buitrago(Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer)Ashok Aletty(Head of Engineering)JOHN MCADAM(Director)

AscendArc builds low-cost, high-bandwidth small geostationary (GEO) satellites using volume-production methods adapted from LEO manufacturing, aimed at rapid deployment and lower-cost satellite communications.

Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech

CleantechConsumerPortland, US

Mathew John Franken(Executive Officer, Director)Anthony Goodin(Executive Officer)

Auth0 is an authentication and authorization platform that secures applications, AI agents, and internal tools by providing identity management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and fine-grained access control capabilities.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBellevue, US

Monica Enand(Director)Carlos Eugenio Pace(Executive Officer, Director)Sunil Nagaraj(Director)Jonathan I. Gelsey(Executive Officer, Director)Peter van Hardenberg(Director)

BoardKaran Mehandru(Director)

Hello Backpack provides mental health therapy and coaching services for children, teens, and young adults.

HealthtechMental Health

Bigleaf provides intelligent software for internet connectivity, automatically resolving networking issues in real time to keep organizations connected to cloud-based tools.

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US

JOHN DESMOND(Director)BRUCE CHATTERLEY(Director)JEFF BURCHETT(Executive Officer)JOEL MULKEY(Executive Officer, Director)

Biomotum develops wearable robotic systems for gait rehabilitation that assist individuals with neurological impairments such as cerebral palsy and stroke.

HealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsPortland, US

RAYMOND C BROWNING(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)ZACHARY L LERNER(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechPortland, US

Stewart Yaguda(Director)Sam Kolbert-Hyle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardStephen Marsh(Director)

Careismatic Brands manufactures and sells uniforms and apparel for healthcare professionals through a portfolio of market-leading brands.

ConsumerHealthtech

Cartogram provides indoor and outdoor wayfinding navigation solutions for hospital patients, visitors, and staff.

HealthtechKirkland, US

Gary Rubens(Director)Steve Kondik(Director)William Stryker Clausen(Executive Officer, Director)

CHELA MEDIA is a creator-focused content ecosystem that produces and distributes content to millions of monthly users.

Creator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

ChEmpower develops an abrasive-free, environmentally sustainable chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process and consumables such as polishing pads for semiconductor fabrication, aiming to increase chip yields, simplify fab processes, and recycle water and recover metals.

CleantechNew MaterialsSemiconductorsBeaverton, US

SUDHANSHU MISRA(Executive Officer, Director)Sudhanshu Misra(CEO)SV Babu(CTO)

BoardSCOTT SHAW(Director)OWEN LOZMAN(Director)JESSICA FREYER(Director)

MediLedger is a blockchain-based platform that provides real-time contract pricing and customer eligibility alignment between pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, GPOs, and health systems to reduce chargebacks and revenue leakage.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareHealthtech

Samantha Radocchia(Cofounder)

Community Energy Labs develops energy management technology that optimizes building energy use in alignment with renewable energy production and occupant comfort.

CleantechEnergyEnterprise Software

CrowdStreet is a platform that provides individual investors access to private market investments including commercial real estate, private equity, venture capital, and private credit funds.

B2B MarketplacesFintechMarketplacesPortland, US

Jeffrey Hinck(Director)Dan Laun(Executive Officer)Steve Drew(Executive Officer)Michael Walsh(Director)Ian Formigle(Executive Officer)Marshall Clark(Executive Officer)

Complete solution for hardware crowdfunding, acquired by Mouser Electronics.

B2B MarketplacesHardwarePortland, US

Louis J Doctor(Executive Officer, Director)Scott Torborg(Executive Officer)Joshua H Lifton(Executive Officer)

BoardAngela Jackson(Director)Robert Fanini(Director)

Diode provides blockchain-based security infrastructure including encrypted private AI deployment, zero-trust networking via P2P WireGuard, and end-to-end encrypted team collaboration tools.

CybersecurityEnterprise Software

DocVocate develops AI software designed to detect shifts in payer behavior and automate denial recovery for healthcare providers.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS

Enduring Planet provides non-dilutive working capital financing to climate-focused businesses through contract advances, revolving lines, and term loans.

Climate TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechPortland, US

Erin Davis(COO)Vsevolod Kozinsky(Director)Olympia DeCastro(Director)Dimitry Gershenson(CEO)

This appears to be a news and analysis website covering energy storage technologies, companies, and market developments rather than a company operating its own product or service.

Media & Entertainment

Esri develops ArcGIS, a geospatial platform that enables organizations across industries to create digital twins, conduct spatial analysis, and optimize operations.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareGovTechRedlands, US

Jack Dangermond(Founder & President)

Frontdoor provides home maintenance and repair services for homeowners, combining technology with over 50 years of industry experience to simplify home ownership.

PropTech

Geoloqi provided location-based services and geotrigger technology that enabled businesses to send personalized offers, alerts, and messages to customers based on their geographic location.

IoTMarketing TechPortland, US

Green Canopy NODE Capital is a fund manager providing investor and capital management services focused on impact investments addressing housing, environmental sustainability, and climate challenges in high-growth cities.

CleantechClimate TechConstruction TechFintechHardwareImpact & Social GoodPropTechSeattle, US

Bec Wilder(Founder)inDon Bunnell(Founder)inSam Lai(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Wolverton(Executive Officer)Aaron Fairchild(Executive Officer, Director)

Tigard, US

Jennifer Ferguson(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tina Thede(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardNitin Rai(Director)

Hemex Health develops and commercializes the Gazelle diagnostic platform, including point-of-care readers and tests for conditions such as sickle cell disease and hemoglobin variants.

Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesPortland, US

Prakash Agarwal(Director)Mohan Uttarwar(Director)Patricia White Seminario(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Peter Galen(Chief Innovation Officer, Co-Founder)Susan Morgensztern(Director)Annette Mulee(Director, Promoter)

HerdDogg develops technology solutions for the agriculture industry, focusing on livestock management and monitoring.

AgTechHardwareIoTSeward, US

Andrew Uden(Executive Officer, Director)THOMAS TRONE(Director)MELISSA BRANDAO(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Michael Peck(Executive Chair)Jonathan Moyes(VP of Engineering)

BoardJason Wrone(Director)

HILOS develops digital design and manufacturing tools for footwear brands and designers, serving major fashion companies and independent creators.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningCleantechDeveloper ToolsHardwarePortland, US

Hydrolix is a real-time data analytics platform that enables sub-second analytics at global scale for petabyte-scale log data, reducing infrastructure costs while providing instant insights from both real-time and historical data across distributed environments.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Marty Kagan(Founder & CEO)Hasan Alayi(Founder)

Icon provides a portable retirement plan (PRP) that enables small and midsize businesses to offer retirement savings benefits to employees without sponsorship or compliance burden.

Fintech

IDgo provides device-based authentication for enterprises using mobile phone encryption to verify customer identity across phone, chat, and in-person channels.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Intrado provides emergency communication technology and services for public safety agencies, enterprise organizations, schools, and service providers.

Enterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaS

Liz Bohannon is a speaker, author, and coach who delivers talks and develops frameworks to help leaders build purpose-driven organizations and communities.

Creator EconomyFuture of WorkMedia & Entertainment

Liz Bohannon(Founder & Speaker)

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwarePortland, US

Robert Shepherd(Director)Thomas Wallin(Director)Aaron Pempel(Executive Officer, Director)

Minnow manufactures smart food delivery pods for residential and commercial properties that secure deliveries, prevent theft, and track pickups and dropoffs.

HardwareIoTPropTech

Mpathic provides red-teaming and model safety evaluation services for conversational AI systems, using a curated network of over 5,000 licensed U.S.-based clinical experts including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to surface harms, test for bias and misinformation, and design evaluation frameworks.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareMental Health

HealthStream provides software solutions for healthcare workforce management, including learning, credentialing, scheduling, and compliance tools for hospitals and health systems.

HealthtechHR TechSaaS

Onboard Dynamics builds patented natural gas compression technology, including the GoVAC FLEX and GoVAC MAX pipeline evacuation systems used during pipeline blowdowns and evacuation projects.

CleantechEnergyHardwareNot stated, US

Steven Douglas Westberg(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Witwer(Co-founder & Technical Advisor)Jeff English(Director)Rod Ray(Director)Rita Hansen(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Mitch Schmidtke(Chief Executive Officer & Board Member)

Opal is a planning platform for marketing teams that combines AI-powered content creation with campaign organization and visual calendar management.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS

OpConnect develops end-to-end EV fleet charging solutions for public agencies, school districts, commercial fleets, multi-family properties, and corporate campuses.

CleantechEnergyMobility & TransportationPortland, US

Overwatch Imaging develops autonomous intelligence software and sensors for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) operations.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardware

Panthalassa is building a planetary-scale clean energy platform designed to meet global energy demand through offshore deployment with zero emissions at ultra-low cost.

CleantechDeep TechEnergy

Portland, US

MARCELINO J. ALVAREZ(Executive Officer, Director)

Portland, US

Kanth Gopalpur(Director)Alan Holzman(Director)Peter J. Bro(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kirk Thornby(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

PUG AI is an AI agent platform that automates finding, pitching, and closing business opportunities.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

BoardIqram(Partner, Venmo Founder)

B2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkSaaSPortland, US

AMINA MOREAU(Executive Officer, Director)BRIAN HENDRICKSON(Executive Officer, Director)

Advanced ManufacturingMadras, US

Cate Havstad-Casad(President)

AI-powered manufacturing monitoring, quality control, and workforce training

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechTigard, US

Matthias Daue(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Thornton(Executive Officer, Director)Aaron Brown(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardBenjamin Johnson(Director)

GearUP provides custom youth sports uniforms and fan gear for schools, clubs, leagues, and recreation programs, setting up online team shops and shipping orders direct to athletes and families.

Direct to ConsumerE-commerceSports Tech

Reason Automation provides analytics and management software for Amazon vendors and sellers, offering financial analysis, P&L management, and demand forecasting capabilities.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

Reperio Health builds diagnostic tools and automated systems powered by AI/ML for enterprise deployment, with infrastructure for real-time data processing.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesWellness & FitnessPortland, US

DustininTravis Rush(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Wallington(Executive Officer, Director)JUSTIN AUTREY(HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN)ELIZABETH CURTIS(CHIEF OF STAFF)TORY ADAMS(SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER)

Skypoint provides an AI platform for healthcare organizations that unifies siloed data and deploys autonomous AI agents to automate workflows across operations, sales, marketing, clinical, and compliance functions.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechBeaverton, US

Tisson Mathew(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Snap2Insight provides an AI-powered image recognition platform called The Perfect Shelf that helps CPG brands optimize retail execution, visibility, and productivity.

AI & Machine LearningRetail TechBeaverton, US

Praveen Gopalakrishnan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Renish Pynadath(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Solarcore manufactures advanced thermal insulation products based on aerogel technology for consumer, commercial, and government applications.

HardwareNew Materials

Michael Markesbery(Founder & CEO)in

Solid Carbon produces concrete additives and ingredients that sequester carbon in concrete, reducing its embodied emissions and converting it into a climate solution for construction applications.

CleantechClimate TechConstruction Tech

Surgivance develops digital pathology imaging technology for analyzing tissue samples with rapid image capture and without calibration requirements.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices

Synplexity produces large-scale, cost-effective gene libraries for synthetic biology applications using microreactor technology.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech

Tellagence offers contextual AI for analyzing language-based data from social media, internal data, surveys, and press coverage.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Willow Hill(CCO, Co-Founder)

Thaena produces ThaenaBiotic, a human-derived postbiotic supplement that delivers 10,000+ molecular signatures from healthy human microbiomes to support gut health and restore microbial signaling.

ConsumerHealthtechWellness & Fitness

Dr. Andrea McBeth(CEO)

thatDot develops Quine, a real-time streaming graph engine that processes massive data streams to detect complex attack patterns and threats in milliseconds.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDefense Tech

TheDyrt is a digital marketplace that helps users discover and book camping accommodations across state parks, national parks, RV parks, glamping sites, and free camping locations throughout the United States.

MarketplacesTravel & Hospitality

Tilt is an AI-powered leave management platform designed for HR leaders and teams.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSFort Collins, US

ToolBelt is a platform that connects licensed, insured, and verified contractors in residential construction with employers and job opportunities.

Construction TechFuture of WorkMarketplacesVancouver, US

Joshua Engelbrecht(President & CEO)Ross Barbieri(Chief Technology Officer & Secretary)

BoardGlenn Butler(Director)

Trace is a platform for creating and publishing augmented reality experiences across retail, events, training, and real estate.

Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSColumbus, US

Martin Smith(Director)Melinda Gloriosa(Director)Gregory Tran(Executive Officer)

Transformative Optics develops multi-sensor computational imaging systems and array cameras for sports, defense, security, and industrial applications.

Deep TechDefense TechHardware

David Brady

Travel & HospitalityTualatin, US

Cindy Allen(Director)James Horn(Director)Jacob A Hoskins(Executive Officer, Director)Jeff Kennedy(Director)Joseph D Stevens(Executive Officer, Director)

TrovaTrip organizes ethical tourism experiences that prioritize meaningful connections and cultural respect.

ConsumerImpact & Social GoodMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityPortland, US

Christopher Nicholas Poggi(managing member)Lauren Elizabeth Schneider(managing member)Brandon Bruce Denham(managing member)

SaaSPortland, US

World Reborn is a free mobile app game available on iOS and Android that blends gameplay with real-world elements.

GamingMedford, US

Thomas Gewecke(Director)Alicia Clifton(Executive Officer, Director)Jessica Murrey(Executive Officer, Director)

Wildfang is a clothing company that designs and sells menswear-inspired apparel tailored for diverse body types and gender identities.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerPortland, US

Amy Hjorth(Executive Officer)Emma McIlroy(Executive Officer, Director)Erik Moore(Director)Kelly Dachtler(Director)Julia Parsley(Director)

BoardSarmad Saghir(Director)

YearOne is an AI-powered software engineering intelligence platform that provides data-driven insights to help development teams improve productivity, reduce burnout, and mitigate project delivery risk.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHR TechPortland, US

Zembula provides automated personalization for enterprise retail brands, generating hyper-personalized content in daily marketing emails that renders at the moment of open.

Marketing TechRetail TechSaaSPortland, US

Robert J. Haydock(President, CEO, Secretary and Director)Carl E. Thorner(Director)Carl Thorner(Co-founder & CTO)Robert Haydock(Co-founder & CEO)