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Melissa Kaufman

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The Garage at Northwestern University

About

Melissa Kaufman is the executive director of The Garage at Northwestern. She is a former Googler, startup veteran, and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at consumer technologies companies in Silicon Valley. Currently, she is a committee member of ChicagoNEXT (Mayor Emanuel’s technology council), a member of the Chicago Technology Initiative, and a venture partner at Chicago Ventures. She was named to Chicago Inno’s 50 on Fire in 2017 and Crain’s Tech 50 in 2018. Melissa received her BA in computer science from Dartmouth College.

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Celebrate Failure

Company Spotlight in Tech

One North Interactive

SourceOne Global Partners

ANKO Technologies Corp

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Elements Holdings Group & Subsidiaries

CBIG Consulting

SMB Help Desk, Inc.

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Chicago Innovation Exchange

The LISA App, LLC

Robert Richmond

SoloInsight Inc.

Intelligent Medical Objects

Frank Naeymi-Rad

Dolphin Rose Music and Media Worldwide

onShore Security

KENTECH Consulting Inc.

Sarah Eck-Thompson

SURYA Electronics

Bruce Gianpetro

City Tech Collaborative

First Communications

Waident Technology Solutions

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