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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.

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm, with more than $90 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake's portfolio companies collectively generate more than $243 billion of revenue annually and employ more than 586,000 people globally.

Adams Street Partners is an investment manager headquartered in Chicago with offices worldwide. We have investment funds targeting private equity, venture capital, credit, co-investment and other private markets asset classes. We invest both directly and through fund of funds strategies. In growth equity, we invest directly in rapidly growing, multi-stage, category-leading software, mobile, healthcare, security, and financial technology companies. In private credit, we invest across the entire capital structure, targeting middle-market companies with enterprise value of $150 - $750 million. We also have separate primary, secondary and co-investment fund strategies.

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.

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm's founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.