The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Dan Malven, Greg Robinson, joint managing directors, 4490 Ventures

Investment firm 4490 Ventures was set up by technology transfer body Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf) at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 and is named for its geographical coordinates.

But it is the fund’s joint managing directors, Greg Robinson and Dan Malven, who have put 4490 on the map. Most notable was the raising of $49m for the first close of the firm’s second fund in February this year.

Warf teamed up with the State of Wisconsin Investment Board to launch 4490 Ventures, with each organisation making a $30m commitment.

Robinson joined 4490 in 2014 having previously been managing director at Peninsula Ventures. Malven was hired two years later. He was previously managing director of 1347 Ventures in Chicago.

Among companies in the 4490 Ventures portfolio is PhysIQ, an artificial intelligence developer in the health sector which raised $8m in series B funding in July 2017.