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Obvious is a small company in downtown San Francisco, started in 2011 by Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman. We believe in the power of building systems that help people work together to make the world smarter, healthier, and just ... better.
Heavybit helps companies scale. We focus exclusively on companies building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and APIs. Based in San Francisco, our program provides capital, strategic advice, operational services, and an expansive network to help grow companies of all sizes. The Heavybit community is the only one of its kind to focus solely on turning products loved by developers into successful businesses.sit http://heavybit.com.
Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped software companies. For more than 15 years, the firm has partnered with exceptional founders and entrepreneurs across numerous end-markets. Mainsail has a team of experienced operating professionals to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses and accelerate growth. For more information, please visit www.mainsailpartners.com.
HGGC is a leading global private equity firm with over $4.3 billion in cumulative capital commitments and oversees portfolio companies that employ more than 60,000 employees globally. Over its history, HGGC has completed platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of over $17 billion.
Fenox Venture Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded by an exceptional team of seasoned entrepreneurs and proven international business leaders. Fenox VC works with emerging technology companies worldwide and specializes in helping entrepreneurs achieve global expansion into North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Our team operates out of offices across 7 different countries, including Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offers a wide range of domain expertise. Fenox VC is an early stage investment firm, working with world-class management and technical teams that are targeting disruptive opportunities in IT, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, Big Data, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, FinTech and Next Generation Technologies. Fenox VC applies a collaborative and transparent approach to working with portfolio management teams. As an advocate of the lean startup model, Fenox is dedicated to helping ideas grow quickly, obtaining market feedback, and assisting entrepreneurs in launching new products on a global scale.
Founded in 2008, BootstrapLabs is a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. As entrepreneurs ourselves we understand firsthand the needs and challenges of building a startup, and we invest early in potentially disruptive technology startups with global potential. We believe “AI is eating software”, and invest in innovative and smart software platforms that create significant value for their users in large, global markets. Key sectors of interest include Transportation, Logistic, FinTech, Future of Work (FoW), Security, Internet of Things (IoT), HealthTech and others. BootstrapLabs tracks innovation around the globe and each year connects with over 1,000 founders from 60 countries. Portfolio companies include Prezi, AngelList, Zerply, Trusted Insight, AEye, Qurious.io, Roger.ai, Vidora, Sibly and others. Additionally, BootstrapLabs has curated, and continuously engages, an incredible network of experts across industries and skills, including AI, Big Data, IP, UX/UI, Lean Methodologies, Growth Hacking, etc. via conferences, events, workshops, office hours, and its proprietary advisory platform, BootstrapWorks.
Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Since its launch over 18 years ago, Francisco Partners has raised over $14 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 200 technology companies, making it one of the most active and longstanding investors in the technology industry. The firm invests in opportunities where its deep sectoral knowledge and operational expertise can help companies realize their full potential. For more information on Francisco Partners, please visit www.franciscopartners.com.
Serent Capital invests in growing businesses that have developed compelling solutions that address their customers' needs. As those businesses grow and evolve, the opportunities and challenges that they face evolve with them. Principals at Serent Capital have firsthand experience at capturing those opportunities and navigating those challenges through their experiences as CEOs, strategic advisors, and board members to successful growing businesses. By bringing its experience and capital to bear, Serent helps growing businesses thrive.
Rubicon Venture Capital is a bi-coastal VC (SF and NYC) that invests in Late Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies. We are focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals. This includes fintech, insurance tech, hospitality tech, marketing tech, big data, AI, machine leaning, enterprise Saas, B2B and B2C. We have co-invested in disruptive companies with notable VCs and angels such as Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures, Tomorrow Ventures, Greylock Partners, Formation 8, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, HBS Angels, Sand Hill Angels to name a few. Rubicon raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful extensive global network. This provides our portfolio companies access to strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions, leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO. We enable our LPs to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Our goal is to add value to our portfolio companies providing them with access to a powerful constellation of successful Venture Partners and family offices that can help our portfolio companies reach success. Our extensive global network of limited partners and advisors enables our portfolio companies access to capital and strategic relationships resulting in partnerships, talent, advisory boards, key customer introductions and leading venture capital firms for follow on funding and ultimately introductions and advice related to buyers for M&A or IPO.
SV Angel is a San Francisco based Seed Fund. We help portfolio companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.
HGGC is a leading global private equity firm with over $4.3 billion in cumulative capital commitments and oversees portfolio companies that employ more than 60,000 employees globally. Over its history, HGGC has completed platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of over $17 billion.
HGGC is a leading global private equity firm with over $4.3 billion in cumulative capital commitments and oversees portfolio companies that employ more than 60,000 employees globally. Over its history, HGGC has completed platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of over $17 billion.
Hall Capital Partners LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor that builds and manages customized, global, multi-asset class portfolios for families, endowments, and foundations. Hall Capital Partners oversees over $30 billion in assets for approximately 130 advisory clients and a platform of pooled vehicles from offices in San Francisco and New York. Hall Capital Partners does not endorse any third party postings or commentary.
Hardware startups are hard. Hardware companies face unique barriers to design, manufacturing, distribution and retail. Highway1 offers a collaborative, hands-on environment to help startups move through these challenges and reach a looks like, works like prototype ready for funding. What our program offers: • Investment – Up to $100,000 investment in exchange for 8% equity or $50,000 for 5% • Engineering expertise – Full time EE and ME support • Prototype – 24/7 access to shared workspace and state-of-the-art prototyping labs • Scale – DFM advice from PCH manufacturing engineers • Design – Full time design staff & network with the biggest names in ID • Manufacturing demystified – an inside look at manufacturing • Community & Connections – network of hundreds of alumni, mentors and vendors • Fundraising – Refine your story and network with hardware investors Highway1 is a division of PCH, a custom product solutions company working with some of the world’s best brands.
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Founded in 1991, Calera Capital, formerly known as Fremont Partners, is a private investment partnership which has $2.8 billion of capital under management. With offices in San Francisco and Boston, Calera invests across a diverse range of industries, including financial services, business services, food and consumer, healthcare, building products, and industrial manufacturing. Calera Capital makes substantial equity investments in operating companies, typically with enterprise values up to $1 billion, and seeks to build long-term sustainable value by working with management teams to implement strategic and operating initiatives.
Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm with a mission to build enduring companies by working with, learning from and developing exceptional people. This PeopleFirst strategy involves finding great values-led CEOs and working closely with them as CEOs-in-Residence to find and pursue founder-owned businesses that are poised for growth but are looking for additional leadership post-transaction. Alpine then works to support these CEOs and invest in their continued development and growth as they lead the acquired company to new heights. Over 15 CEOs have worked with Alpine in this capacity, and the average revenue growth in a CEO-in-Residence led company has been over 200% during the life of Alpine’s investment. Alpine specializes in lower middle-market companies in the software, online and business services industries. We have raised over $900 million of committed capital and have invested in 52 companies since inception in 2001. The Alpine team includes 18 professionals with diverse investing, operations, management, and finance backgrounds. Visit us at www.alpine-investors.com to learn more.
SV Angel is a San Francisco based Seed Fund. We help portfolio companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.
The most powerful ideas, companies, and industries aren’t created overnight. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
Industry Ventures is a leading investment firm that focuses on venture capital. The firm has three investment strategies: secondary investments, primary fund of funds investments and direct co-investments. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over $3 billion of institutional capital and is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Washington, D.C.