It doesn't sell a single gadget. It sells a promise - that the smart lock, the motion sensor and the hub in your hallway will all speak the same language, no matter whose name is on the box.
It owns no hotels, no theme parks, no roller coasters. Yet Visit Orlando's small team turns Orange County's hotel tax into a $94.5 billion visitor economy - and 468,000 jobs.
SCTE is the non-profit professional society that trains, certifies, and sets the technical standards for the people who build and run cable broadband networks. Founded in 1969 and a subsidiary of CableLabs since 2021, it runs the only ANSI-accredited standards program for the broadband industry, issues role-based professional certifications, delivers online and hands-on technical education, and hosts SCTE TechExpo (formerly Cable-Tec Expo), the largest cable telecommunications event in the Americas. In short: if a technician splices a fiber, proctors a DOCSIS install, or writes a Remote PHY spec, SCTE is usually the reason there's a shared playbook.
Windfall is a San Francisco-based people intelligence and AI company that estimates the net worth, career signals, and giving capacity of every U.S. household, then plugs that data into the workflows that go-to-market and fundraising teams already use. Founded in 2016 by Arup Banerjee, Cory Tucker, and Dan Stevens, it serves more than 1,500 organizations - from Make-A-Wish to the University of Michigan - and raised a $65M Series B from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in 2025.