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Founded in 1978, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is an investment firm with an investment strategy predicated on building stronger, more profitable businesses. We work collaboratively with corporate and family business sellers on transactions to maximize value. We believe many corporations, CEOs and entrepreneurs select CD&R as their partner because of our reputation for trustworthiness and operational leadership. We practice investing as a craft, relying on a dedicated and cohesive team with a shared sense of purpose and values. Our investment approach blends skilled investment judgment with extensive experience driving growth and operating excellence.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of June 30, 2024, Ares Management Corporation's global platform had approximately $447 billion of assets under management with approximately 3,000 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Our mission at VenCap is to build a concentrated portfolio of venture funds from those VCs that consistently back the top 1% of companies and deliver strong and consistent performance to our investors. We work closely with the venture firms with whom we invest to provide insight and analytics that help inform their own decisions. We believe that this focus gives us a competitive advantage when it comes to identifying and accessing the best firms in the industry. We believe that venture capital is a long-term business that is based on strong personal relationships. We have been trusted to manage capital by many leading institutions and family offices across the world with whom we have developed strong and lasting relationships based on trust, transparency and authenticity. More information on our website: https://www.vencap.com/

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which we invest. Our more than $1 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, credit, real assets, secondaries and hedge funds.

Screendoor is a venture capital fund of funds platform for the next generation of venture capital firms. Uniquely founded by accomplished GPs alongside institutional LPs with over a decade of experience, we invest anchor LP capital in new fund managers and provide them with curated mentorship from our iconic GP Advisors. Since inception, Screendoor has evaluated over 90% of new funds launched, giving the firm unmatched visibility into the early-stage VC landscape. Screendoor is both a signal and a partner, helping new GPs get in business and scale smarter to become an enduring firm. For LPs, Screendoor offers investors differentiated exposure, early visibility into rising firms and the notoriously opaque VC ecosystem, and a refined pipeline of transparent, direct relationships. We serve as an extension of LP teams to identify and access alpha before it becomes consensus so that institutions can build stronger, more effective venture portfolios with greater precision and purpose. Backed by long-term, patient capital, Screendoor is reshaping how the next generation of VCs get their start—and how great firms are built.

TPG (Nasdaq: TPG) is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $229 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.