Volition Capital is a growth equity firm that principally invests in high potential, founder-owned companies across different technology sectors. The firm specializes in partnering with founders to help them achieve their fullest aspirations for their business.  One form of the partnership comes through investing capital for the purposes of accelerated growth, strategic acquisitions, and shareholder liquidity. Another form of the partnership comes simply from bringing all of its resources to bear to help its founders be successful.  The company has a team that has 75 years of collective investing experience helping dozens of companies navigate to successful IPOs and acquisitions. Assets invested in the current portfolio of 26 companies are approximately $400 million. Much of their success has come from investing in capital-efficient technology companies in sectors such as software, the Internet, information services, and tech-enabled services. The firm gravitates towards high-growth companies that have demonstrated traction in the market and are looking for a partner to help them achieve clear market leadership. In 2010, Sean Cantwell, Roger Hurwitz, Rob Ketterson, Larry Cheng, and Andy Flaster headquartered Volition Capital in Boston, Massachusets.

Volition Capital

The Halo Fund is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage investment services to technology startups. It was founded in 2000 by Carol Sands and is based in California.

The Halo Fund

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

Lead Edge Capital is a $5 billion growth equity firm investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled services businesses globally. The firm has invested in a number of major software and internet companies around the world, including Alibaba Group, Arrive Logistics, Asana, Azul Systems, Bazaarvoice, Benchling, Clearscore, Duo Security, Grafana, GrowthZone, Holistiplan, LeanStaffing, LiveView Technologies, Pacemate, Safesend, Signal Sciences, Tempo, Toast, Wise, and YouSign. Lead Edge has invested in more than 100 companies worldwide and has seen over 60 portfolio companies achieve an exit.   One of the main drivers of Lead Edge’s success is its unique investor base, a group of 700+ executives, entrepreneurs, and dealmakers who have built and run some of the world’s most successful companies. In addition to providing flexible capital, Lead Edge leverages this global advisory group to connect portfolio companies with the customers, partners, talent, and advisors needed to accelerate growth. Lead Edge Capital was founded in 2011 and has offices in New York City and Santa Barbara.

Lead Edge Capital

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

Mack Capital is a single angel investor who puts an emphasis on B2B SaaS companies with a focus on analytics and data.   Ralph is the Principal of Mack Capital LLC, where he invests in real estate, distressed investments, and, his passion - new venture opportunities. Ralph has participated in the seed round for more than thirty start-up companies over the past twenty years. As an active angel investor, Ralph is often instrumental in helping his portfolio companies' management teams with sales, marketing and operational strategies. He typically invests in the first round, subsequent financing rounds, and he proactively assists in raising additional seed capital to get his portfolio companies funded. As the porfolio companies begin to grow, Ralph uses his extensive network of contacts to introduce them to new potential customers, partners, and, where appropriate, investment bankers.   Prior to founding Mack Capital, Ralph worked on Wall Street for 25 years where he brought companies public, raised debt capital, sold corporate bonds, and invested in distressed debt. Ralph received a BS in economics with majors in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He later complete his MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Mack Capital

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

Ensighten

Ensighten is a comprehensive website security company, offering next generation client-side protection against data loss, ad injection and intrusion. Through the Ensighten MarSecTM solution, organizations can assess privacy risk and stop unauthorized leakage or theft of data, as well as comply with the CCPA, GDPR and other global data privacy regulations. The MarSecTM platform protects some of the largest brands in the world from data leakage whilst ensuring maximum web page performance.

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Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Ensighten

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