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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 Merchant Banking Division (MBD) is the investing and lending division of Goldman Sachs, and is one of the largest asset managers in the world. The capital of MBD is a mixture of Goldman's balance sheet plus external capital it has raised through a series of funds. MBD invests globally across almost all asset classes, including senior debt, mezzanine debt, late stage venture capital and growth equity, control private equity, infrastructure and real estate. Note that in certain markets, including in Australia and China, the Merchant Banking Division is known as the Principal Investment Area (PIA). Prior to August 2019, when all of the investing divisions of Goldman Sachs merged, Goldman Sachs had a separate investing and lending division known as the Special Situations Group (SSG). SSG focused on investing the firm's balance sheet in a wide variety of asset classes. It had no external capital. SSG was formed during the Asian Financial Crisis, and originally specialised in distressed lending and acquisition of distressed assets. However, SSG quickly expanded into a broader special situations investor, focusing on areas where other forms of capital were not flowing efficiently, or where returns are out sized versus in-house perceptions of risk.

EQT Partners is a global alternative investment firm with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and public value.

Iconiq Capital is a multi-family office and investment fund based in California. Iconiq manages a large part of the wealth of a number of high-profile families around the world including Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Reid Hoffman, Jack Dorsey, Henry Davis and David Bonderman. Iconiq has evolved its business model since its 2011 founding, when it primarily offered traditional wealth management and family office services to clients (including investment allocations to other funds). Today, Iconiq directly invests into deals. At first, this was limited to venture capital style investments, but more recently it has commenced also pursuing buyouts of more mature technology companies.

Bill and Melinda Gates Investments (BMGI) is the private family investment office of Bill and Melinda Gates. BMGI manages the assets of Cascade Investments, which makes private investments for the Gates family, as well as managing the family's extensive charitable activities through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust endowment. BMGI, through Cascade, invests in a wide variety of asset classes, including global public equities, venture capital, private equity, hedge fund strategies, and investments in fund managers.

Bezos Expeditions is the family office of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. Bezos Expeditions invests in businesses at the seed, early and later stages, and looks at a large variety of sectors. Some of the large-scale investments and projects Bezos Expeditions has managed includes Blue Origin (space), Washington Post, Bezos Day One Fund and Bezos Family Foundation (impact investments), the 10,000 year clock, and a number of other portfolio companies including AirBnB, Uber and Stack Overflow