Upfront Ventures

We are an early-stage venture capital investment firm headquartered in Seattle that primarily invests in companies located on the west coast. Our investment focus is on three key areas: Cloud Infrastructure, Big Data, and Data Driven Applications. Divergent Venture Partners likes to invest in companies at the first institutional round. We will invest at the seed stage, but prefers to see product validation and some customer traction. We will also participate in follow-on rounds for our portfolio companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome challenges.

Blue Cloud Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City. The firm provides expansion capital to high-growth B2B SaaS and cloud software companies across stages.

Romulus Capital is a Boston-based seed and early stage venture fund that invests in technology startups. Romulus focuses on company-building, rather than betting on companies. Rather than investing in dozens of startups, we go all-in on a few companies a year on capital, team recruitment, customer introductions, and GTM strategy. We frequently invest in first-time entrepreneurs affiliated with top universities and incubators. We bring the same level of grit and hustle as our founders. Romulus Capital was originally founded out of MIT in 2008.

Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund is an impact-focused private equity fund managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management, investing in early-stage technology companies.

Early-stage venture firm investing in aerospace, defense, and national security 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.

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.