Progress Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused exclusively on the emerging platforms in media and marketing technology. We partner with experienced entrepreneurs and commit capital to promising start-ups seeking to become active and integral pieces of the digital marketing and content ecosystem.

Progress Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital partnership with offices in Durham, New York and San Francisco. Through its investment funds, the firm provides equity financings from $1MM to $10MM, solo or in syndicates, to companies seeking growth capital.  As a venture fund, SJF Ventures focuses on the resource efficiency, sustainability and technology-enhanced services sectors. Representative investment areas include efficiency and infrastructure, asset recovery including reuse and recycling, sustainable agriculture and food safety, health and wellness technology, education technology and digital media and marketing services.  When assessing investment opportunities, SJF Ventures is highly selective in identifying teams, markets and business models that can achieve rapid sales, strong profitability, and premium exits. In addition, SJF looks to partner with entrepreneurs who are committed to positively impacting the world through the businesses that they are creating.

SJF Ventures

QED Investors is an investment firm that supports high-growth companies and businesses. The firm typically provides a combination of both capital and capability. But common to all the firm's partnerships is a shared conviction that information plays a decisive role in the success of the company, a mutual desire for a high degree of direct engagement, and a shared enthusiasm for experimentation and learning.

QED Investors

GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture capital firm that empowers gifted entrepreneurs. The firm seeks to invest in companies that operate within the internet, retail, financial software, media, communication, and information technology sectors. It was founded by Oliver Samwer in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Global Founders Capital

Akamai is the provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps enterprises accelerate innovation in the hyperconnected world by removing the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward. We enable enterprises to capitalize on market opportunities presented by trends like mobile and cloud while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally. The Akamai Intelligent Platform™ reaches globally and delivers locally, providing unmatched reliability, security and visibility into your online business.

Akamai Technologies

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) has a distinguished track record of fostering innovation and building market leaders. For more than 60 years, Safeguard has been providing growth capital and operational support to entrepreneurs across an evolving spectrum of industries. Today, Safeguard is focused specifically on healthcare and technology. Safeguard is a proven partner for entrepreneurs looking to accelerate growth and build long-term value in their businesses. Investors in NYSE:SFE have a unique opportunity to tap into the high potential of Safeguard's early- and growth-stage partners companies.

Safeguard Scientifics

Catalyst employs a research-driven deal flow origination process to identify high-growth sectors and businesses within technology-enabled services.  Catalyst targets  growth-stage businesses with proven business models and attractive unit economics and sectors that are being driven by fundamental, long-term growth trends and have substantial addressable markets.  Catalyst makes both control and influential minority investments, typically has meaningful influence and board representation, and seeks to create value after investment through active involvement in creating, evaluating, and monitoring a portfolio company's business strategy, performance against budget, acquisition efforts, and capital structure evolution.  Catalyst leverages its Advisory Group of seasoned industry professionals to provide portfolio companies with access to experienced industry executives and referrals to potential customers or strategic partners.

Catalyst Investors

Observatory Capital is privately-owned hedge fund that finances public equity and fixed income markets across the globe.

Observatory Capital

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm.  We invest equity capital primarily in later-stage, technology-oriented private companies.  We formed our current investment vehicle, Spring Lake Equity Partners LLC, in 2013.  The principals at Spring Lake formerly constituted the private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corp., a global hedge fund, prior to spinning off in 2013 to form Spring Lake.  Spring Lake is led by Managing Partners Bob Forlenza and Carmen Scarpa, who formed the predecessor group to Spring Lake in 1995.  Partners Jeff Williams, Dan MacKeigan, and Jon Danielson comprise the remainder of the senior investment team, which has been investing together as a group since 2001.  While at Tudor, we invested over $650 million in 75 companies across four investment funds and continue to sub-advise several of these funds today.  Our investment philosophy is simple and has remained consistent over time – we seek to partner with great management teams to take their businesses to the next level, creating value for all stakeholders.  Spring Lake strives to add value to our portfolio companies through active Board participation and accessing our network of contacts which includes our own and those of our key strategic partners, WestRiver Equity Partners, Tudor Investment Corp., and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.

Spring Lake Equity Partners

Blue Collective is a multi-strategy investment firm located in Brooklyn, NY. We believe phenomenal people build phenomenal businesses. We seek out, invest in, and support phenomenal people wherever and whoever they are.  We have 2 main strategies: 1) Early-Stage Venture Capital - focus on US companies raising Pre-Seed and Seed Rounds (the earlier the better). We are 100% category-agnostic and just interested in great founders 2) Later-Stage Buy-Out and Growth Equity - focus on global companies specifically in B2B SaaS. Looking for companies between 3-10 million ARR with a great product and looking to drive growth. If you are interested to chat with us, just email us at blue@bluecollective.com. Our job is to meet with interesting founders and operators - a cold email is as good as a warm one. Look forward to connecting!

Blue Collective

Searchlight Capital Partners is a private investment firm operating in North America and Europe. They have the ability to invest across the capital structure in both equity and debt.  They seek to invest in attractive companies across a wide range of industries and are comfortable investing in complex situations. There objective is to work in partnership with company management by providing patient, long-term capital as well as the strategic and operational support to enhance value creation for all stakeholders.  Searchlight Capital Partners was founded in 2010 by senior partners from industry-leading investment management firms (Apollo, KKR, Ontario Teachers’) with significant investment experience in a wide range of industries in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Searchlight Capital Partners

LionTree is an investment and merchant banking boutique. Mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, share repurchases, joint ventures, bankruptcy, buyouts, and initial public offerings are among the services offered by the firm. LionTree serves industries such as technology, healthcare, retail, transportation, media, and telecommunications.

LionTree

MediaMath

MediaMath is an online advertising platform. This platform develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions.

MediaMath

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