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The group has $1.7bn total assets across Secondaries, Buyouts, Ventures, and Investment Solutions. ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyouts, and Ventures. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements. ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investment exposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital. ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results. Secondaries Our Secondary strategy presents an appealing balance between risk and reward when contrasted with primary private equity. Our skill lies in procuring funds at advantageous prices and harnessing our extensive experience with general partners, sellers, and advisors. This enables us to thoroughly evaluate potential prospects, culminating in exceptional results for our investors. Buyouts Our Buyout strategy involves actively managing a private equity portfolio alongside top-performing private equity GPs in their core areas of expertise. Leveraging our broad sourcing channels, proprietary diligence, and robust network of specialist investors, we invest in market-leading companies to deliver long-term value to investors. ACE Ventures ACE Ventures is a team of operators, engineers, and investors deploying capital and expertise to empower and support outliers. ACE Ventures backs those who disrupt the norm and challenge the status quo. Our commitment goes beyond capital; we offer meaningful support, drawing on our own experience of grind and hustle. We are dedicated to fostering revolutionary shifts and creating lasting impact, focusing on genuine transformation rather than transient market trends.

Our mission is to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. We find, fund and support market leading companies across various verticals and regions to power their next phase of growth. As a listed company and through our strong team and strategic partners we support companies pre, at and post IPO and act as a gateway to public equity capital markets. Our evergreen structure allows us to act independently of usual fund lifecycles and provides our shareholders with unique access to pre-IPO market returns without any restrictions or limitations in terms of investment size and term commitment.

Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private multi-asset alternative investment firms with more than $160 billion of assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into several asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity and venture capital. We leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus. With offices on four continents, our global team aligns our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.

Investing is more than just numbers at Starport Capital - it's about people. Investments in volatile markets can be challenging, and finding, researching and tracking potential investments can be time-consuming and tedious. This is especially true when individuals want to invest in more established, privately held companies without committing large amounts of capital. We can help you with this through Starport Capital. INVESTORS FACING INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGES:An overview of the financials and revenue path of a private company, as well as the status of projects Participating in primary transactions with VC funds requires a large capital commitment. Maintaining awareness of trending news, issues, and IPO plans of secretive private companies. Liquidating ISO shares in private companies on the secondary market Equity investments in late-stage, high-growth private companies diversify their portfolios. Researching private companies isn't all that exciting or fun. Individual investors should have the same opportunity to invest in Silicon Valley growth stories as big venture capital firms. Our in-depth research and analysis keep investors updated on trends, market activity, and IPO prospects. Managing private equity funds allows our investors to participate in both primary and secondary transactions across multiple industries while making the process as painless and enjoyable as possible. ​ In addition, we never lose sight of who is behind the investment dollars. It is our goal to tailor recommendations to meet individual investors' preferences, and we don't recommend opportunities we wouldn't invest in ourselves. Our investors are never left in the dark after transactions are closed. Our IPO Watch Newsletter educates, entertains, and enriches the lives of our investors with periodic updates.

DB1 Ventures’ vision is to be a strategic partner of choice for early-stage to growth-stage fintech start-ups along the capital markets infrastructure value chain. Through targeted start-up investments, we aim to gain access to innovations and technologies that are core or adjacent to Deutsche Börse Group’s strategy, generate attractive investment returns and add strategic value to the growth plans of our portfolio companies. Our mission DB1 Ventures considers itself as Deutsche Börse Group’s “eyes and ears” in the global venture capital and fintech ecosystem. Its focus is set on areas of strategic interest to the Group to help the company drive innovation. Investment strategyGeography agnostic €5–25 million investment size Active investment philosophy Minority, significant minority stakes Lead and co-participate in investments Return targets: 1) Financial KPIs; 2) Strategic value Focus on early-stage to growth-stage companies (post-Series A) Fintech start-ups, with a specific focus on capital markets infrastructure Value proposition We help early-stage and growth-stage start-ups scale better from a technical and business connectivity perspective by working closely with our product, technology and operations teams. We provide connections to the financial world from issuers to intermediaries, traders and investors, who appreciate our neutrality and the high quality of market services we provide. We understand what it means to operate within the capital markets space and can help start-ups strategically with our expertise and connections to relevant players in the space. We bring the experience and brand of one of the largest market operators – a strong brand in the industry, standing for quality, independence, reliability and innovation.