Emergence is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage enterprise companies. Its mission is to be the most valuable partner to the companies changing the way the world works. In 2017, the firm was named Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Business Insider named Emergence one of the Top 10 Best Performing Venture Funds that launched at the turn of the decade, and posted returns as high as 50%. The firm’s investments include companies such as Salesforce (CRM), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Box (BOX), Zoom (ZM), SuccessFactors (SFSF, acquired by SAP), Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Zoom, ServiceMax (acquired by GE) and Intact (acquired by Sage). For more information on Emergence, visit http://www.emcap.com and follow @emergencecap.

Emergence

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology. DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investing partners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses. DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

DCM Ventures

August Capital is an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six active investment professionals -- David Hornik, Eric Carlborg, Howard Hartenbaum, Tripp Jones, Villi Iltchev, and Lisa Marrone -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $2.5 billion and have invested in hundreds of companies across the technology spectrum. From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. They are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.

August Capital

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early stage fintech.  Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, TTV makes B2B and B2C investments in categories across the financial technology landscape.  Our distinct approach combines deep industry knowledge with connections, resources, and founder-friendly relationships.  TTV’s portfolio includes more than 100 market leaders and emerging pioneers across payments, banking, investing, crypto, embedded finance, among others.

TTV Capital

Based in Palo Alto, CA, Icon Ventures is a specialty venture capital firm focused on leading Series B or C financings. With over $780 million under management, Icon invests with the world’s leading venture firms in companies that are category winners at their earliest stages of momentum. Icon Ventures investments include iconic, market-leading companies such as Aster Data, FireEye, 41st Parameter, Infinera, MoPub, Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint. For more information visit: iconventures.com.

Icon Ventures

Financial Partners Fund is a proprietary investment fund that seeks to provide special situations capital to financial services business.

Financial Partners Fund

Scale Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software with a Scaling Platform that has helped companies like Box, Bill.com, Hubspot, Docusign, JFrog, and WalkMe move from founder-led growth to a repeatable go-to-market machine. ScaleVP partners with entrepreneurs to support accelerated growth from the first customer to market leadership.

Scale Venture Partners

Bank of America is a financial institution, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk management products and services. They serve approximately 51 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,300 retail banking offices and approximately 16,350 ATMs and award-winning online banking with 30 million active users and more than 13 million mobile users. It offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in more than 40 countries. Bank of America is a wealth management company specializing in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals around the world. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

Bank of America

Napier Park Global Capital is an independent alternative asset management firm with a core focus on alternative credit and structured equity investments that manages approximately $6.7 billion. The firm manages a diversified product mix including hedge funds, bespoke client separate accounts, private investments and CLOs for large, sophisticated institutional investors.  Financial Partners seeks to provide primary, secondary and special situations capital to financial services businesses and companies servicing financial institutions. The strategy provides equity, debt or hybrid capital for event, special situation, or growth, acquisition or recapitalization financings.

Napier Park Global Capital

American Express Ventures is American Express's strategic investment group. They invest in innovative startups in order to enhance American Express’s core capabilities and accelerate the company’s efforts in consumer commerce and B2B services.

American Express Ventures

Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company, that specializes in small business, retail banking, investments, and mortgage.

Fifth Third Bank

At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed to helping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.

Commerce Ventures

West Capital Advisors co-manages strategic venture funds for corporations and manages a venture capital fund for high-net-worth individuals. They provide venture capital management and advisory services for corporate venture and innovation programs, and financial institutions.

West Capital Advisors

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven international operations.   Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

Silicon Valley Bank

Temasek Holdings is a lender provider. The company offers debt financing and focuses on transforming economies, increasing middle-income populations, developing comparative advantages, and emerging champions. Financial services, transportation, industrial, consumer, real estate, telecommunications, media, technology, and life sciences are among the industries served by the firm.

Temasek Holdings

JP Morgan is a financial institution. It offers asset management, commercial banking, investment banking, merchant services, securities services, treasury and payments, and wealth management services.

JP Morgan

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s 500:registered: Index. Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California. The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Franklin Templeton

Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers. It also provides IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance services to its clients. Fidelity provides its services to individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. Fidelity invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make its investments.  It helps over 32 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manage employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and support more than 13,000 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. Headquartered in Boston, Fidelity serves its customers through 12 regional offices and more than 190 Investor Centers in the United States.

Fidelity

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Mastercard

Cross Creek is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 inside of Wasatch Advisors, Inc. Through its direct investment strategy and fund investment strategy the firm seeks to invest in what we believe are high quality late stage companies and top-tier venture capital funds. The strategies are mutually beneficial in their goal to strengthen ties between private and public investors and to achieve above market returns for limited partners.

Cross Creek

Kayne Anderson Rudnick is an investment firm specializing in investments in its various US and international equity strategies.

Kayne Anderson Rudnick (KAR)

Burch Creative Capital is a Creative Capital Firm with a decidedly different approach to creating value.  The company’s investment philosophy is an expression of Christopher Burch’s entrepreneurial values and his vision for new market opportunities, using a creative skill set along with sound financial practices to create, incubate, support, and scale disruptive brands and businesses.  In his 30-year career as an investor and entrepreneur, Christopher Burch has participated in the rise of more than 50 companies. By combining an intuitive understanding of consumer behavior with international and direct sourcing experience, he has a built a long track record of connecting innovation to impact. Creative Capital represents the evolution of venture capital based on Chris’ belief that the activity of successful investing also includes creativity.  In the past, we were investors looking for existing opportunities. Today, we are entrepreneurs who invent and attract new ones. We apply more than funding to earn a return. We invest our creativity, passion, and insights to create value.  Burch Creative Capital’s brand portfolio includes the recent introductions of Nihiwatu Resort, Poppin and ED by Ellen to a list of established brands previously embraced by Chris including the Faena Hotel + Universe, Jawbone, Next Jump, Powermat, Tory Burch and Voss Water.  The company is currently supporting the development of several lifestyle and consumer products brands ranging from retail, apparel and home furnishings to the hospitality, mobile device and technology industries

Burch Creative Capital

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BILL (NYSE: BILL) is a leader in financial automation software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). As a champion of SMBs, we are dedicated to automating the future of finance so businesses can flourish. Hundreds of thousands of businesses trust BILL solutions to manage financial workflows, including payables, receivables, and spend and expense management. With BILL, businesses are connected to a network of millions of members, so they can pay or get paid faster. Through our automated solutions, we help SMBs simplify and control their finances, so they can confidently manage their businesses, and succeed on their terms. BILL is a trusted partner of leading U.S. financial institutions, accounting firms, and accounting software providers. BILL is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, visit bill.com.

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