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Origin Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that focuses on software, marketplace and B2B/B2C. Origin is composed entirely of former operators and engineers with extensive venture investing experience. We invest in technology startups across America from our offices in Chicago and Salt Lake City. We primarily focus on Series A investments into companies in large, growing categories and who have demonstrated product/market fit, although we will back exceptional entrepreneurs in earlier stages who are looking to disrupt or create markets through unconventional, innovative approaches.

Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups with a mission to close gaps of access and promote social impact.

Detroit Venture Partners is an early-stage fund that invests in seed and early-stage technology companies headquartered in Detroit. We look for founders who are creative, disciplined, and trustworthy. We offer unrivaled mentorship and connections throughout the Quicken Loans Family of Companies and to the broader businesses and leaders committed to seeing Detroit's entrepreneurs succeed. Detroit Venutre Partners was founded in 2010 by Josh Linkner, Founder & Chairman of ePrize, Dan Gilbert, Founder & Chairman of Quicken Loans and Majority Owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, and Brian Hermelin, Founder & Chairman of Rockbridge Growth Equity.

Lavrock Ventures invests in frontier technologies for national security, focusing on real demand-driven startups in space, quantum, deep tech and more.

Playground Global is a venture firm investing in early-stage deep-tech startups focused on AI, engineered biology, next-generation computing and hard science.

Boston Seed Capital is a venture firm investing at pre-seed and seed in technology companies across consumer, B2B SaaS, and infrastructure.

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.

Vista Equity Partners is a Texas-based growth and private equity fund that invests in software, data and technology companies. Vista typically invests in companies that are at or near profitability, past the venture stage of their lifecycle. In most cases, we are the majority shareholder and only outside investor. This reduces the distractions commonly associated with having multiple financial investors and permits us to take a differentiated, long-term perspective. We are flexible and creative and pursue investments using a variety of transaction types.Vista Equity Partners has investment teams managing separate private equity, public equity, and credit strategies. We are a value-added investor, contributing professional expertise and multi-level support to help companies realize their full potential. Our investment approach is anchored by a sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions, and proven management techniques that yield both flexibility and opportunity. Since our founding in 2000 we have completed more than 350 transactions.

Bain Credit, part of the Bain Capital group, provides flexible capital around the world across credit strategies including distressed, high yield, and special situations.

Adams Street Partners is a private-markets investment manager with primary and secondary fund investing, buyout and growth-equity co-investments, private credit, and direct venture growth.

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

Huizenga Capital Management is an investment firm founded by the Huizenga family in 1990. It invests directly in private opportunities, including operating companies, real estate and oil and gas partnerships, and with external money managers.