Founded in 1994, Keystone Capital is a private investment firm comprised of professionals distinguished by strong investment experience and substantive operating knowledge. Their singular focus is to acquire and grow over a 10+ year-time horizon a diverse group of exceptionally high quality, mid-sized companies that are leaders in their niche markets.  For business owners considering the sale of an enterprise, Keystone’s commitment of personal rather than third-party capital creates a risk-return profile in sync with management’s throughout their typical 7-10+ year relationship with their companies. They create true partnerships with the talented management teams of the companies they acquire, playing a significant supporting role to help each business continue to grow profitably.  Keystone also offers the strength and security of a very few, but dedicated banking relationships. This means they bring access to reliable capital in uncertain economic times, and financial support that comes with a partnership mindset.  For investment bankers, brokers and other intermediaries, Keystone also prides itself in committing to do only what they can deliver upon. Their nimble size and lack of internal approval committees means quick decision making and certainty to close – often completing transactions in 45 days or less.  To us, offering a strong value proposition for everyone they do business with is paramount. It’s how they create value in ways beyond the numbers.

Keystone Capital

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The company is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. This forward-thinking team of VCs has helped companies like Lending Club change the way money is lent and borrowed, Sunrun reinvent the residential clean energy market, and Netflix revolutionizes media distribution and consumption, among many others. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.

Foundation Capital

Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, Maker Studios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel. Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.

Upfront Ventures

Apex Venture Partners, established in 1987, has six funds and more than $600 million under management. The firm has invested in over 130 technology companies.  Apex focuses on early stage investments in software applications, technology-enabled services, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications.  Apex's guiding investment philosophy is to provide exceptional returns for our investors and build significant value in our portfolio companies. Our central location in Chicago enables us to review opportunities throughout the United States and invest in companies having the greatest potential for value creation, regardless of geography.

Apex Venture Partners

The Edgewater Funds is a Chicago-based private equity firm with $1.4 billion in committed capital. Edgewater provides capital and resources to lower middle market companies to help accelerate their growth and market leadership. Edgewater’s Partners and Advisors have been successful CEO’s and business leaders. They believe that the best financial partner is a team of investors who have successfully built, run and sold companies themselves.

Edgewater Funds

Siguler Guff & Company is a multi-strategy private equity investment firm which, together with its affiliates, has over $10.0 billion of assets under management. Founded in 1991 within PaineWebber, Siguler Guff became an independent firm in 1995. Its clients include corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, government agencies, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals.  Siguler Guff manages and co-manages several direct investment private equity funds and multi-manager funds, each targeted at carefully defined areas of market inefficiency. The Firm also provides discretionary private equity advisory services through Siguler Guff Advisers, a federally registered investment advisor.

Siguler Guff & Company

Through an active investment approach, WP Global will partner with entrepreneurs hungry to grow private companies as well as fund managers determined to achieve superior returns. WP Global’s strategy is juxtaposition to simply administering investments in companies and in funds. Our unique strategy unchains us from traditional conventions and perceived risk, ultimately allowing our partners to build long-standing, high growth, and influential organizations.  You’re more likely to see us in person than talk to us over the phone because we believe knowledge is acquired on-sight through interpersonal engagement – we are continuously attending events and visiting companies. WP Global creates quality deal flow through vigorous outbound efforts and generates investment returns through active management. We leverage our partners for their operational and domain experience and they leverage us for our network.   By proactively investing directly into hundreds of private companies, private equity funds, and venture capital funds, WP Global generates a synergy of deal flow that is unrivaled. Along with leveraging our network, WP Global employs portfolio modeling and other investment management tools to gain foresight into the market momentum of the thousands of small private companies, which ultimately provides investment conviction.

WP Global Partners

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

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Ellevest is a hybrid investment management platform that specifically targets women, with an algorithm that takes into account gender-specific factors such as career breaks, longer life expectancy, and income differences.Ellevest currently offers services under three categories: Ellevest Essential (at a monthly fee of USD 1), Ellevest Plus (USD 5 per month), and Ellevest Executive (USD 9 per month). All three offerings include portfolio customization, banking services (spending and savings accounts), access to human advisors, and on-demand learning for subjects such as investing, career, and money. Ellevest Plus is more costly because it handles retirement accounts for clients. Meanwhile, Ellevest Executive handles both retirement accounts and investment management for multiple goals. The company also offers private wealth management services for clients who wish to invest USD 1 million or more through the platform. A dedicated advisor will work together with clients to create investment plans to meet their goals.Ellevest reported assets under management (AUM) of USD 1.4 billion as of December 2021, growing 44% during the year.In April 2022, Ellevest raised USD 53 million in Series B <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9622?industryIds=28">funding </a>co-led by BMO and Contour Venture Partners. The company planned to use the funds to expand its product offering and provide personalized coaching.

FIDx provides retirement planning, wealth planning, financial advice, and planning services to protect individuals and families.

Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life. Ellevest offers a modern, engaging user experience. The same care, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail that is reflected in its beautiful, easy-to-use interface are applied to the construction of its portfolios, its selection of investments, and the development of the algorithms that drive its forecasts and recommendations.

YieldX introduces a fixed income investing with an end-to-end digital platform that powers personalization at scale. The company aims to be a portal to liquid global yield-driven opportunities. It sees a key global asset class being transformed, and we are building the tools to bring those benefits to all investors. YieldX is led by senior fixed income and fintech professionals who offer more than 70 years of collective experience at marquee capital markets and technology firms.

Dynasty Financial Partners is a provider of wealth management and technology platforms for financial advisory firms. Their service pillars include community, technology finance, investment, capital sourcing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, operations, marketing, compliance, and practice management. The firm caters to consumer products and services, information technology, and financial services sectors.

AlphaHedge Capital Partners, LLC, a Blue Bell, PA-based provider of access to long/short equity strategies through separately managed accounts. AlphaHedge investment strategies are held in brokerage accounts registered under the name of the investor with all securities directly owned and transparent to the investor.AlphaHedge is a managed account platform that provides access to liquid, long/short equity strategies in a custodian agnostic, separately managed account structure with lower minimums than typical partnership investments. Organizations can provide their clients with access to individual strategies, multi-manager models or can create custom multi-manager model portfolios targeting specific return profiles. The platform is open architecture and has the ability to include strategies from AlphaHedge’s own stable of managers and/or an organization’s proprietary or externally sourced managers.

Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) is an independent provider of technology-enabled, web-based investment solutions and services to financial advisors. By integrating a wide range of investment solutions and services, their technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to address their client's needs. They work with financial advisors who are independent, as well as those who are associated with small or mid-sized financial advisory firms and larger financial institutions, which they refer to as enterprise clients. They focus their technology development efforts and their sales and marketing approach on addressing financial advisors’ front-, middle- and back-office needs. They believe that their investment solutions and services allow financial advisors to be more efficient and effective in the activities critical to their businesses by facilitating client interactions, supporting and enhancing portfolio management and analysis, and enabling reliable account support and administration.  Their centrally-hosted technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to choose freely among a wide range of investment solutions, services, investment managers, and custodians to identify those that are most appropriate for their clients.

<div> Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) is an independent provider of technology-enabled, web-based investment solutions and services to financial advisors. By integrating a wide range of investment solutions and services, their technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to address their client's needs. They work with financialadvisors who are independent, as well as those who are associated with small or mid-sized financial advisory firms and larger financial institutions, which they refer to as enterprise clients. They focus their technology development efforts and their sales and marketing approach on addressing financial advisors&rsquo; front-, middle- and back-office needs. They believe that their investment solutions and services allow financial advisors to be more efficient and effective in the activities critical to their businesses by facilitating client interactions, supporting and enhancing portfolio management and analysis, and enabling reliable account support and administration. Their centrally-hosted technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to choose freely among a wide range of investment solutions, services, investment managers, and custodians to identify those that are most appropriate for their clients. </div>

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Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate banking services such as opening and maintaining accounts, facilitating card payments, etc.


Platforms that enable FinTechs to integrate a range of payment-related services such as one-time payments, subscriptions, and receipt management for domestic and cross-border transactions.


Companies that enable organizations to embed anti-money laundering (AML), identity verification, and know-your-customer (KYC) solutions.


Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate lending services,  by typically applying AI/ML technology to a spending analysis to analyze creditworthiness.

Companies providing APIs and integrations for FinTechs to access securities markets, facilitate transactions and clearing, and provide insights to help end-users manage their finances.

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Generated by sensors. Satellite imagery captures objects on the ground (e.g., cars in a parking lot and ships at a port), lights, pollution, and particulate matter in the air.

Generated by sensors. Collected by a variety of sensors and has many uses including agriculture and other commodities sensitive to the weather.

Generated by sensors. Data gathered from the GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth signals on mobile phones or other electronic devices, which can be used to track consumer movement such as high footfall areas, time spent at specific locations, and routes.

Generated by individuals. Includes website usage (e.g., time spent on a website, actions, and volume of queries), mobile app usage, social sentiment (based on social media posts, news, videos, and online interactions on social media), product reviews, and surveys.

Generated by individuals. E-receipts gathered from consumers on an opt-in basis provide data on user purchases and product demand. Data are anonymized and provided to corporations for targeted marketing.

Generated by businesses. Credit/debit card transaction and POS system data are structured and sought after and are used to track retail and business spending (e.g., sales volumes and prices).

Generated by businesses. Data sources used to assess consumers' creditworthiness such as income and employment information, consumer banking data, payments to specialty lenders, utilities payments, rental payments, and peer-to-peer lending records. Other data types include local prices, business banking records, commercial transactions (e.g., shipping container receipts), supply chain data, and government and corporation data.

Firms that acquire individual data streams and bundle them for sale to investors or structure/analyze the data to create data products for sale to investors.

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