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We focus on a small number of high conviction opportunities each year and support a select group of visionary entrepreneurs working to create breakthrough technologies and transform industries. Our investors include families who control the most iconic businesses across media, fashion, luxury, hospitality, healthcare, telecom, automotive, financial services, food, beverage, construction, and education. Green bay’s mission is to connect the most innovative and important companies of this generation with flagship customers from our investor ecosystem.

Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color. A quick look at Kapor Capital$106M invested in technology-driven companies with gap-closing solutions 170+ portfolio companies 62% founders identifying as underrepresented people of color and / or women 60+ students who have graduated from Kapor Capital Fellows program since 2011 Inclusion makes dollars and sense We believe that your economic future shouldn’t be determined by who you know or the zip code you live in. We support founding teams from all walks of life who want to make a difference in their chosen communities. 34% of first-time investments in racially underrepresented founders. 38% of first-time investments in woman-identifying founders. Our ever-expanding portfolio features over 170+ startups creating new economic opportunities across every sector, including education, work, finance, justice, food, health and more. We invest at the Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series-A stage for many reasons, not least of which is that we enjoy helping entrepreneurs establish their foundational social impact and diversity plans. Our portfolio companies commit to reporting on these accomplishments in their investor updates, which reinforces the link between business and diversification. We offer a number of tailored services to our foundersExclusive Resources & Training: We invest in people ops technology (POT), training programs, and resources that assist with mitigating bias in the employment life cycle (e.g. sourcing, hiring, promotion). We also host diversity and inclusion sessions to learn what works and what doesn’t. Connecting Talent with Founders: We are always on the lookout for exceptional individuals to fill a multitude of job openings across our portfolio of over 178 groundbreaking startups. Establishing Goals & Additional Support: We assist with strategy, problem solving, growing the business, and fundraising. A core part of our engagement is helping our founders establish diversity and inclusion goals that are appropriate for their company’s funding stage, employee size, customer base, and core business. Our Investment Criteria The business world has changed. Today, impact drives profit, making it a crucial measure of success. Founders, consumers, and employees are socially aware and responsible. They care about the impact of the companies they create and support. We invest in tech-driven early stage companies who are committed to making a difference and closing gaps of access in low income and communities of color in the United States. We are particularly interested in those that address the problems within African-American and Latinx communities. We have specific criteria for evaluating businesses that help us ensure that the companies we work with are driving change, and creating economic value for founders, their employees, our limited partners, and the communities they work in. We work with entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, especially people of color, women and other groups that have been historically underrepresented. We believe real life experience helps entrepreneurs identify rapidly-scalable, market-based solutions others have overlooked, and that gap-closing startups have an advantage when their teams reflect the demographics of the markets they serve. Our Founders’ Commitment requires all new portfolio companies to make diversity and inclusion a core part of their business. You will likely fit our criteria if: Your startup is tech-driven, in the early stage, and has potential for large-scale economic success Your startup closes a significant gap of access, opportunity or outcome for low income communities and/or communities of color in the U.S. You are committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive company culture as guided by The Founders’ Commitment You do NOT fit our criteria if: You have passed the pre-seed or seed stage of investment Your product has not yet been built or deployed Your company does not have a direct impact on underrepresented communities and / or communities of color Our investment process, demystified Over the years we have developed a process that allows us to thoroughly evaluate every pitch that is submitted through the lens of the most critical opportunities of the moment. Our investment team reviews your submissions: Our team gives every pitch their undivided attention to find out if your business meets our investment criteria before taking the next step. A series of calls are scheduled with you over two weeks: We find out more about potential founders and the businesses you have created during a series of phone calls. 30 minute intro call 45-60 minute demo and Q&A Partner meeting Our due diligence begins: We take an in-depth look into every aspect of your business, assessing the potential of financial growth and impacting social change in our most vulnerable communities. A decision is reached: We make an investment decision with input from our investment team and the managing partners emeritus. The final decision is made by consensus between the two managing partners. Next steps: Once a decision is made, we start working closely with the founding team, helping develop foundational strategic, social impact and diversity plans, that will give the business a competitive edge and change outcomes for Latinx and African-American communities. The Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment The key problem we face and address is the significant influence that the tech industry has on the types of products and services that are created in the U.S. Underrepresented communities are not included in this process, which means that the technology developed is biased towards one, more privileged, group of people. We believe that investing in entrepreneurs who are part of marginalized communities allows for new ideas, markets, and revenue streams that are usually overlooked by the majority of investors. We also believe that teams from minority groups bring a competitive advantage to tech. That’s one reason why we focus on seed-stage startups. The earlier founders establish diversity and inclusion as a core value, the more likely it will become a part of the company’s DNA and positively impact its development and success. The Kapor Capital Founders’ Commitment helps portfolio companies focus on equality and social impact. We believe in equal opportunity amongst all people, of all genders, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, educational backgrounds, religions, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, immigration statuses, and more. Initiated by a group of Kapor Capital founders in the summer of 2015, the Founders’ Commitment officially launched in January 2016. It has evolved into a set of four actions known as “G.I.V.E.” that all new founding teams agree to uphold, and all pre-2016 portfolio founders have the choice to opt into. G.I.V.E.: The Four Pillars of the Founders’ Commitment Goals – Establish diversity and inclusion goals that are appropriate for your company’s funding stage, employee size, customer base, and core business. Include progress on diversity and inclusion in quarterly investor updates. Invest – Invest in people ops technology (POT), training programs, and/or resources that assist with mitigating bias in the employment life cycle (e.g. sourcing, hiring, promotion). Volunteer – Organize volunteer opportunities for your employees to engage with underrepresented communities, especially those that reflect the company’s customer base. Educate – Participate in diversity and inclusion sessions to learn what works and what doesn’t. These sessions will be hosted by Kapor Capital and will be made available for virtual participation as needed. In addition to aligning the Kapor Capital portfolio around a shared set of diversity and inclusion actions, the Founders’ Commitment establishes the firm’s commitment to provide exclusive resources, training, and recruitment opportunities for our founders. As we develop best practices from these engagements, we will make them publicly available. Positive gap-narrowing social impact is already a key driver for Kapor Capital companies. Now, with the Founders’ Commitment, developing diverse teams and inclusive workplaces will become a core competency too. Looking ahead, Kapor Capital companies will be able to exemplify that it is possible to be both a great business and a great place for people from all backgrounds to work.

Our mission is to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts. We manage funds for institutions and individuals that invest in for-profit, positive-impact businesses in private markets, and we bring community together in service of building the impact investing field. HISTORY Impact Engine was launched in 2012 as an accelerator fund with the goal of identifying promising entrepreneurs starting businesses with the potential to drive both attractive financial returns and positive social impact. Impact Engine raised two subsequent accelerator funds in 2013 and 2014, all focused on investing in pre-seed stage companies. Across the three accelerator funds, Impact Engine invested in a portfolio of 23 companies. Between 2015 and 2016, Impact Engine shifted its investment strategy and raised a $10 million venture fund, which invested in 22 companies. Between 2018 and 2019, we began operating as a public benefit corporation, raised a $25M second venture fund and raised a $31.5M first PE fund, allowing us to invest in impact funds for the first time. INVESTOR COMMUNITY Our investors include institutions, family offices, foundations, and individuals who believe in investing for both financial return as well as social impact. We also provide sub-advisory services for AllianceBernstein Private Wealth. Our goal is to help our investors learn from each other and leading-edge impact investors who deploy capital across asset classes and geographies. INVESTMENT STRATEGY We invest in business models that align financial and social or environmental impact returns such that there is minimal or no tradeoff between the two. Ideally, they mutually reinforce each other: the impact drives value creation in the business and the business growth brings the impact to scale. Specifically, we invest in three types of impact outcomes which we have found over the years to be the most well-aligned with this investment strategy: Economic Opportunity - Improving educational outcomes and equity across the lifespan and improving access to higher quality jobs and affordable essential services, including financial products and housing Environmental Sustainability - Better conservation and management of water, energy, carbon emissions, and waste Health Equity - Improved outcomes and access to healthcare, particularly for underserved populations We invest across early and late stage private equity, allowing us to see the trajectories of companies and trends over the years, and we invest both directly into companies as well as into other impact funds. Investing in both companies and funds allows us to create synergies in the impact investing ecosystem, by supporting the creation of high-impact syndicates (to the benefit of both our company and fund portfolios) and bringing even deeper perspectives to our own understanding of each impact sub-sector and theme.

Red Sea Ventures is a leading NY-based, pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in tech-enabled, user-centric consumer and B2B startups. In our first fund, we invested in category leading companies across sectors including Allbirds, Convoy, Nest, Eargo, Prose, Genies, Joor, and Sweetgreen. We are looking to partner with mission driven founders seeking to transform the economy and the lives of their teams and users. We are an entrepreneurial firm that values friendliness, humility, camaraderie, collaboration, determination, independence, and hustle with a commitment to performance. We are building RSV as a platform for community; bringing together our visionary founders, LPs, and relationships at large to support the companies we choose to partner with.

In the 1990s, Howard Schultz built Starbucks into one of the world's most iconic consumer businesses. In 1998, after taking Starbucks public, Dan Levitan and Howard founded Maveron. They recognized that digital technologies would integrate into people's lives in unprecedented ways. They equally recognized that great teams attacking consumer-focused problems would require a rigorous understanding of human behavior. This belief has remained Maveron's north star for over 25 years. Since our founding in 1998, our focus has remained consistent: early, true partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs building consumer brands. It's great entrepreneurs - with passion, curiosity and rigor, courage and integrity - that create iconic brands. As a firm, we specialize in what we do best: consumer. We invest under the premise that value creation comes through identifying where consumer behavior is changing, especially before it's obvious – and we are obsessed with observing how people live, work, learn, play, eat, and stay well. Often, we look at how technology and consumer centricity are disrupting archaic industries such as real estate, health care, finance, education, food, and energy. We seek companies that change culture and the way we live. We call it "creating a cauldron of consumer passion." do better than just profit In June 2021, on the 23rd anniversary of our founding, we proudly announced our B Corp certification, joining an ever-growing list (including portfolio companies Allbirds, Lovevery, and Nécessaire). These are for-profit companies that use the power of business to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. As investors, we partner with founders who obsess over improving the lives of consumers every single day. Additionally, a significant portion of our LP base is comprised of children’s hospitals, foundations, universities, and philanthropic families who also hold this shared mission of making the world a better place. When we do well for them, the world does too. We’re excited to continue partnering with founders and investors who understand the weight of their power and who aim to shape the future - for good. redefining consumer The makeup of a consumer business has drastically changed since the 90s until now, but the core remains the same: companies that integrate into people’s lives and make the world a better place.

As a Certified B Corporation, Five V meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency to balance purpose and profit. The core principle of Five V is alignment. We believe in full alignment between ourselves and the businesses we invest in. The Five V team is the biggest investor in our funds. We share risk and reward with the businesses we partner with and our investor network. As a result of this alignment principle, Five V has an extraordinary group of investors forming a powerful and unique network across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. Five V contributes strategically to our portfolio companies through a collaborative approach that allows each business to reach its full potential and to create value for all stakeholders. Our team is dedicated to assisting our portfolio companies by leveraging our extensive networks and international experience. Five V seeks established, leading businesses, across all industries, that are on the front foot of technology, which generate sustainable earnings and cashflow, and have opportunities for strong growth. Our aim is to support our portfolio companies to build sustainable leading positions in Australia or overseas. Five V Fund IV has in excess of $550m of long-term capital available to partner with leading founders and businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Fund IV’s capital sits alongside our Fund I, Fund II and Fund III portfolios, taking our current funds under management to over $1.3b. We are fortunate to be investors in a number of great companies including: Mantel Group, Automic Group, Penten, Openway Food Co, Monson Agencies, APP Corporation, Totara Learning, Zenith Group, Universal Store, Probe Group, Education Perfect, Plenti, Madman Entertainment, Canva and SiteMinder.