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Benchmark Capital is a US-based venture capital firm that has invested in some of the most successful startups in the last twenty years. Benchmark Capital is one of the most recognized, successful, and unique venture firms in Silicon Valley. we focus on social, mobile, local and cloud startups. It has a flat hierarchy with no CEO, and an equal ownership and compensation structure among its six full-time partners. It remains primarily focused on American technology startups. Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 by four partners: Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff and Kevin Harvey.

Point72 is a global alternative investment manager with fundamental-equity, systematic, macro, private-credit and venture-capital strategies; its venture strategy is Point72 Ventures.

Aspect ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in the United States. We invest primarily at the Series A, and occasionally Seed, stage, and continue to back our entrepreneurs. We have deep investment expertise, having invested and worked alongside entrepreneurs across several market cycles and having backed founders who have created enduring companies and generated billions of dollars of returns. We believe in surrounding an entrepreneurial team with more than one set of insights, experiences, perspectives, and networks to maximize founder success. We are not limited by a particular check size or ownership percentage when we invest in a company. We are focused on getting the right team around the table for our entrepreneurs at every step of their company's growth - from seed to maturity.

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1988, focusing on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare companies.

DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. A decade ago, we added our Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, we have two teams investing two funds. Our Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Our Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 26 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.

Walden Venture Capital is a venture fund focused on early stage technology investments. Walden VC looks for companies at the 'sprout stage', which is defined as having demonstrated a breakthrough core technology, product or brand with mass market potential. This is broadly in line with Series A financings. In the case of core, game-changing technology, we can invest at the post prototype, pre-commercialisation stage, although we prefer the company to be more advanced. In the case of products or brands that are less about the technology, we look for companies with engaged users, even if that user base is small. Walden VC generally only takes meetings where we can trial the product, as this is core to our thesis. We are closer to angel investors in terms of our investment size, and we focus deeply on each investment. We especially like digital media and cloud services for consumer and enterprise, including infrastructure, services and content. This is our core skill set.

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.

GIC is a sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. GIC manages most of the Singapore Government's assets, with a mandate to invest for the long term across all asset classes in order to generate sustainable returns. GIC invests both directly and through other fund managers, and invests globally. Our portfolio is spread across six core asset classes: developed market equities, emerging market equities, bonds and cash, real estate and private equity.

Goldman Sachs is a diversified financial institution. Its Asset Management business provides investment and advisory services across public and private markets, including alternatives; in 2026, it acquired venture-capital platform Industry Ventures.

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.

IFM Investors is one of Australia's leading investors, with a strong track record of investment across four key asset classes: debt investments, listed equities, infrastructure and private equity. With respect to private equity, IFM looks for minority or majority investments in Australian and New Zealand mid-market ($50m to $300m valuation) growth companies. IFM is sector agnostic, however particularly likes healthcare, consumer brands, technology and business services. IFM Investors is owned by 27 Australian superannuation funds.