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We aspire to partner with leading entrepreneurs and families, backing them with patient capital and supportive advice to foster sustainable growth of their businesses. Our purpose is to create enduring value, for everyone. Our goal is to create sustainable economic value by supporting owner-led and innovative growing businesses We believe the entrepreneurial spirit that characterises owners of many family businesses and growing companies is a source of economic and social progress. We intend to support these entrepreneurs and innovators in their quest for outstanding governance, sustainable growth and inclusive development. We believe successful entrepreneurs need long-term, knowledgeable and well-connected partners to be competitive and responsible in a globalised market We provide patient capital, global networks and strong expertise and advice to support growing entrepreneurial and innovative companies as a reliable long-term partner. Few other equity providers can match our depth of connections and experience. Our heritage and culture make us unique Relationships and alignment are at the heart of what we do. Our investments are stories of shared values, friendships, ambitious projects and healthy incentives gathering partners, entrepreneurs and their teams. By being faithful to our human-centric approach, we aspire to be the preferred investment partner of all like-minded stakeholders.

Adyen operates a financial technology platform that processes €970.1 billion in payment volume annually for global enterprises including Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in the Netherlands, the company built a single unified system to handle payment acceptance, data management, and financial products - replacing the fragmented infrastructure that preceded it. The platform maintains a 99.999% uptime target across 28 offices supporting global commerce operations. The company's technical architecture centres on in-house engineering across payments processing, financial infrastructure, and high-availability systems. Adyen employs over 4,000 people representing 115+ nationalities, with technical capabilities spanning APIs, SDKs, machine learning, and MLOps. The platform serves clients across technology, mobility, retail, and enterprise software sectors, processing the first payments from Amsterdam and subsequently expanding to support cross-border transactions globally. Adyen's business model focuses on providing end-to-end capabilities through a single platform rather than modular third-party integrations. The company develops payment acceptance services, payment-related data management tools, and financial products for merchant clients. This approach reflects a long-term development strategy emphasising reliability and consolidated infrastructure over incremental feature additions.

Zendesk, founded in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour, operates a cloud-based customer service platform serving over 100,000 companies worldwide. The company, which began in Copenhagen before expanding to San Francisco and establishing US headquarters, now manages millions of customer conversations daily across its global client base. Under CEO Tom Eggemeier, Zendesk positions itself as a service-first CRM company building AI-powered software for customer and employee service delivery across multiple channels. The company's core platform addresses what its founders identified as a market gap in 2007: existing customer service tools were costly, complex, and oriented toward IT departments rather than support agents and customers. Zendesk's cloud-based architecture integrates AI agents and intelligent workflow automation designed to accelerate issue resolution while maintaining what the company describes as a "beautifully simple" user experience. The platform's technical foundation spans conversational support management, automated workflows, and AI-driven customer service capabilities. Zendesk operates within the customer service SaaS vertical, competing in the helpdesk and support software market. The company's scale - processing millions of daily conversations for a six-figure client base - reflects sustained adoption since its founding nearly two decades ago. Its early development, characterized by informal brainstorming sessions around a Copenhagen kitchen table, contrasts with its current position as a global customer service software provider serving diverse enterprise and mid-market segments.

Distro operates an AI-powered recruiting platform designed to automate manual recruiting workflows for companies building remote engineering teams. Led by CEO Chad Ingram, the US-headquartered company positions itself as a remote-first organization focused on combining automated processes with human judgment in talent acquisition. The platform targets the intersection of recruiting technology, engineering hiring, and distributed workforce management. The company's core offering replaces traditional manual recruiting tasks through two primary products: the Distro platform, which uses intelligent vetting systems to surface candidates, and an AI Recruiting Assistant that automates outreach, scheduling, reminders, and follow-ups. The platform is designed to optimize for speed and precision while allowing recruiters to concentrate on relationship-building rather than administrative coordination. Distro's technical approach emphasizes human-in-the-loop integration, positioning automation as a complement to rather than replacement for recruiter judgment. Distro's value proposition centers on operational efficiency claims: enabling faster hiring cycles, reduced costs, and improved candidate quality for globally distributed teams. The platform's intelligent vetting component is positioned to identify qualified candidates that conventional applicant tracking systems might overlook. The company frames its approach as removing procedural bottlenecks in the hiring process while maintaining an emphasis on fairness - specifically highlighting that its system aims to provide candidates with equal evaluation opportunities without bias. As a remote-first organization itself, Distro designs its workflows specifically for companies managing distributed engineering talent across geographies.

We are former entrepreneurs and operators that partner with early-stage and late-stage businesses poised to transform their market. We work with our founders to solve real problems. Our portfolio generates durable economics and societal value that we continue to support in the long-term, whether they are disrupting a mature industry or creating a new one. We focus on emerging and mature industries where secular shifts are creating new business models that can scale quickly. Our funds identify opportunities based on investment theses grounded in our domain expertise and experience. We partner with founders leading early-ecosystem companies to run funds leveraging access and control.

Marquee Ventures is an early-stage fund that spun out of the Chicago Cubs. Like the iconic marquee that has illuminated Wrigley Field for almost 100 years, our investment strategy shines a light on companies with innovative ideas and exceptional growth potential. We actively partner with visionary founders and management teams, providing them with the resources, guidance and networks required to reach scale. How We Win Powerful Global Network: We can unlock a powerful global network of builders and leaders across the ecosystem. We know what our strengths are, and we know where we can help companies scale. Throughout our decades of combined leadership in these sectors, we understand that people ultimately drive results, so we have cultivated relationships with advisors and potential partners for our portfolio companies. True Partners: We are collegial and work as true partners. Early-stage companies are hard and working with people who share our "people first" attitude makes it a meaningful journey focused on shared success. We like to work with people who are just as happy debating ideas in the board room as they are doing it at an afternoon Cubs game. Expertise in Brand and Customer Experience: We have a unique understanding of the power of brand and customer experience. Nothing is more powerful than trust that a brand builds through its ongoing relationship with its customers. We have seen this firsthand both scaling new brands and managing historic ones. Transforming regular customers into meaningful fans can be the ultimate moat.