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Q2 | Gro

Gro's mission is to bring the best practices of ecommerce to financial services. We help banks and credit unions add new customers and sell more products to existing customers. Gro supports retail deposits, credit cards, loans, business accounts and more. Our flagship product, Gro Checkout uses the best of the mobile world while also supporting desktop users, allowing your organization to on-board the digital native easier and in less time. Whether online, on the go or at the branch, your organization can open and fund new accounts in the less than 4 minutes. Our customers see incredible growth in assets through improved conversion and enhanced marketing capabilities.

Peel Therapeutics

Over the course of millions of years, nature evolved to create the world’s most awe-inspiring, life-changing health outcomes. Peel Therapeutics translates these evolutionary outliers to develop medicines for patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases. Using scientific and medical expertise, state-of-the-art technology and drug development knowledge, we redesign what nature offers into medicines for patients by tackling solubility, scalability, and bioavailability. Our clinical stage therapeutic pipeline treats a spectrum of devastating conditions, with a near-term focus on cancer and inflammation. At Peel Therapeutics, we push the limits of biology to develop highly effective and safe medicines for patients that transcend the incremental.

HavocAI

Havoc is the leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc was founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Learn more at havocai.com.

Reedley College

Reedley College is located in Reedley, California, 30 miles southeast of Fresno. In this rural setting, the campus community enjoys the unique combination of urban sophistication and rural values. Reedley College provides day, evening, and Saturday classes. Operated on an 18-week semester system, the college offers a fall and spring term, as well as six-, eight- and 10-week summer sessions. Courses are offered at the main campus in Reedley and at the Madera and Oakhurst Centers. The Madera Community College Center is located 18 miles north of Fresno. This agriculturally rich area is also becoming an area for new business development. Several unique programs are offered at the Madera Center including a Licensed Vocational Nursing Program. The Madera College Advantage Program (MCCAP) is designed to help high school seniors successfully transition from high school to college. The Center for Advanced Manufacturing includes a Maintenance Mechanic program as well as career technical courses that address local manufacturing business needs. The Oakhurst Community College Center is located in the Southern Sierras just minutes from the south gate of Yosemite National Forest. It serves 500 students from the foothill communities. The center has a science lab, a computer lab, and an open computer lab. Reedley College and its Centers are part of the State Center Community College District which covers an area of 6000 square miles in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. The SCCCD includes Reedley College, Madera Center, Oakhurst Center, Clovis Community College, and Fresno City College.

KinetiTec, Inc.

KinetiTec™ is poised to define a new category of care: in-bed mobility intelligence. We’re tackling hospital-acquired complications and immobility harm to reduce costs to healthcare systems and extend the reach of physical therapy. Our mission: break the cycle of immobility and hospital-acquired deconditioning, a critical and often overlooked healthcare challenge that costs the U.S. over $800M annually. Alarmingly, nearly one-third of patients leave the hospital more debilitated than when they arrived — primarily due to prolonged immobility. Our innovative solution is designed to tackle this issue head-on, addressing key pain points for patients, healthcare providers, and institutions alike. KinetiTec Spark™ addresses a critical gap in inpatient mobility by objectively quantifying strength maintenance and activity progression. By transforming recumbent movement into measurable data, SPARK supports more informed clinical decisions around mobility readiness, discharge planning, and post-surgical recovery pathways. We aim to impact the time it takes for vulnerable individuals to return home and regain their independence. We are committed to patients and caregivers and to supporting a healthcare environment where mobility is prioritized, recovery is accelerated, and lives are changed for the better.