CAVU Consumer Partners

RSE Ventures is a private investment firm that focuses on sports and entertainment, media and marketing, food and lifestyle, and technology.

Upfront Ventures is a Santa Monica (USA) based early stage venture fund that invests in startups headquartered in the United States. The vast majority of our investments are at the Seed or A-round stage, with a median cheque size of around $3 million. We can invest earlier or later for exceptional founders and have separate pockets of capital that can invest up to $40 million in a single company. We Upfront Ventures prides itself on our values. We give direct, honest feedback. What you see is what you get. We invest early, with strong views and taking strong positions. Upfront Ventures was formerly known as GRP Partners.

We invest in early-stage companies that are well-positioned to benefit from a deeper relationship with Blackstone. Our engagement with the venture ecosystem helps drive innovation forward at the firm and positions Blackstone to stay at the forefront of technological change.

Thrive Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in early and later stage technology companies. Thrive is industry and sector agnostic and has separate funds dedicated for earlier and growth stage investments. Our capital is highly flexible. We can incubate businesses (such as Oscar, Cadre and Cedar), partner with entrepreneurs through early development (e.g. Glossier, Warby Parker, Compass), and can lead later stage investments in large, category-making companies such as Spotify, Instagram, Twitch and Stripe. Thrive Capital was founded by Josh Kushner in 2009.

Sterling.VC is an early stage sports, media and real estate VC fund sponsored by Sterling Equities, the principal owner of the Mets, SNY, and OverwatchNY. Sterling VC was founded by Farzam Kamel and Rohit Gupta in 2014 and focuses on seed and Series A fundraisings.

CornerView Capital is an iGaming investment firm pursuing investments and acquisitions. Its stated approach emphasizes strategic partnerships and returns on initial investments.

Blackstone is a global alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, multi-asset, secondaries, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, life sciences, growth and energy transition strategies.

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity and alternative asset manager headquartered in Washington DC, USA. Carlyle was founded in 1987 and has grown to become one of the largest, most well known and most respected private equity managers globally. Carlyle operates across four principal strategies: Corporate Private Equity ($75bn AUM), Real Estate and Infrastructure ($44bn AUM), Global Credit ($34bn) and Fund of Funds / Investment Solutions ($34bn AUM). Carlyle was founded in 1987, originally as an investment banking boutique, by five founders: William Conway, Stephen Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel D'Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum. Carlyle went public through a NASDAQ listing in May 2012.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

Fiera Capital is one of the largest independent investment management firms in Canada. We invest in equity, credit and fund of funds opportunities globally and use a number of partners with local expertise. Our core investment platforms are Fiera Properties (direct real estate investment primarily in North America), Fiera Infrastructure (mid-market and core infrastructure investments in OECD countries), Fiera Comox (direct Agriculture and Private equity investments globally) and Fiera Private lending (real estate and business lending). Fiera Capital offers a broad spectrum of investment strategies across asset classes, styles and capitalization ranges. We are one of only a handful of independent investment firms providing extensive expertise in Canadian active and structured fixed income, Canadian and foreign equity, asset allocation and non-traditional investment solutions through a broad range of strategies and services. Fiera Capital is a research-driven investment firm. We believe that disciplined, methodical analysis and the consistent application of a rigorous investment approach produce superior performance. Our active management model stresses teamwork and the free exchange of ideas among a group of highly experienced investment professionals. Fiera Capital was formed in 2003 through the acquisition of Elantis Investment Management from the Desjardins Group.

HPS Investment Partners is a leading global debt investor. We employ various strategies across senior and mezzanine loans, asset backed debt and asset backed leasing, and private equity. We participate in both privately negotiated and syndicated deals. HPS was originally formed in 2007 as a division of Highbridge Capital Management.

H.I.G. Capital is a global alternative investment manager with private equity, growth equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure and growth-stage healthcare strategies.