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Majority Owner, Catherine D. Wood, founded ARK in 2014 on the belief that innovation is key to growth. Rooted in over 40 years of experience, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around genome sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. ARK manages and sub advises long-only global public equity portfolios across a variety of investment vehicles, including a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and separately managed accounts. Our investments are backed by an open research ecosystem designed to identify innovations with the potential for long-term growth. As of December 31, 2021, the firm managed approximately $54.7 billion in assets. ARK is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all employees and strives to maintain an environment free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, or any other protected category or characteristics as defined by federal, state, or local laws. If you want to learn more, visit our “Philosophy” page to understand how ARK differs from traditional investment firms. We also encourage you to meet the ARK team.

Varys Capital is a total return fund providing secure access to the digital asset class through its dual approach to investment returns in venture capital and quantitative trading strategies. In order to accomplish this goal, Varys Capital relies on its 3 Pillars. 1. RELATIONSHIPS Deep connections in the blockchain landscape and an unblemished reputation take time and effort to secure, foster, and cultivate. This integrity is the fiber running through each interaction in and outside our investor base. At Varys Capital, an investor isn't just a financial asset but rather a confidant leveraged to make only the most calculated of decisions. Each LP is carefully handpicked taking into account a number of factors, with value add serving as the cornerstone of our strategy rather than financial contribution capacity. Collective perspectives are one of our biggest holdings. 2. INFORMATION The digital asset landscape is constantly evolving - historical data is limited and consensus approaches to quantifying asset values and relationships are scarce. This presents a unique opportunity to exploit market volatility, but only with the use of pre-emptive intelligence and carefully assessed risk. The fund employs quantitative analysis to invest in primary and secondary opportunities leveraging market extrapolations and automated trading practices closely monitored and adjusted daily. To complement Varys Capital's quantitative approach, the fund also takes event-driven discretionary positions and special situation-type trades across physical and derivative markets. 3. MANAGEMENT Being proactive as opposed to reactive is a necessity in respects to capital placement and management within the digital asset ecosystem. Developing a fine-tuned infrastructure is only possible with the aid of high caliber personnel employing formats of internal checks and balances, as well as adhering to a set of standards that unequivocally produce results. Varys Capital's efficiency originates from the management team, each possessing over a decade of experience in cross-complementing arenas. Operating as a true meritocracy, the entire fund is united under the same mandate. Venture Varys Capital only invests in projects with true utility and long-term viability after careful consideration of multiple proprietary factors. The portfolio is now heavily focused on decentralized financing (DeFi) related platforms and services. The market landscape has shifted the fund's portfolio emphasis to be centered on early-stage investments and equity plays matched with well-defined exit strategies. Trading Varys' quantitatively-driven, ultra-low-latency and high-frequency strategy stack, seeks to maximize risk-adjusted returns and minimize downside volatility, leveraging both to exploit profit-rich opportunities. Asymmetrically weighted position and risk exposure enable the trading desk to not only constantly seek alpha, but to minimize risk concurrently.

BNY Mellon has the pre-eminent capital markets platform, integrating data, technology, and investment solutions – placing the Bank in a leading position to meet the evolving and complex needs of financial institutions. To build on this strong foundation and capture emerging opportunities, the Bank recently launched Growth Ventures. A new business that focuses specifically on identifying, developing, and executing break-out commercial opportunities that are adjacent to BNY Mellon’s strategic priorities, but ‘more-than-incremental’ to existing solutions. Growth Ventures is the Bank’s platform for investing in and standing up new businesses. These businesses integrate existing capabilities into new commercial models, deliver new capabilities to market often through partnerships with clients and other industry stakeholders, and enter new markets in unique ways that benefit clients and the overall ecosystem. Growth Ventures also includes BNY Mellon’s market-leading software and data management business, with approximately $45 trillion in assets under data management and proprietary technology infrastructure that is a foundation for a broad suite of analytics, services, and solutions. Growth Ventures is bringing to market a new business to deliver solutions to the alternative investment ecosystem. The business will leverage, connect, and enhance existing capabilities across BNY Mellon’s Investment Management, Wealth Management, Asset Servicing, Pershing, PershingX, and Data & Analytics offerings while also developing a number of new products and features to support a broad set of clients. In doing so, these solutions will deliver a one-of-a-kind integrated ecosystem and superior end-to-end client experience. The specific markets being targeted are measured in trillions of dollars and with revenue pools measured in billions – yet they are generally viewed as nascent and on the precipice of accelerating growth.

With decades of combined experience in financial services, regulatory agencies, and startups, we are more than just investors. We bring industry expertise and operational knowhow to each company we partner with, and are committed to embodying our core values of excellence, diligence, and collaboration in everything that we do. We are early partners to founders creating a sustainable and positive impact on the financial system. If you are building a company in lending, payments, capital markets, data analytics, financial infrastructure, crypto or asset management, please reach out to us.

Since 2013, Pantera has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with the full spectrum of exposure to the space. Involved from the start Pantera Capital was founded by former Tiger Management Head of Macro Trading and CFO Dan Morehead. Pantera’s global macro strategy invested over $1 billion of institutional allocations. In 2013, Pantera created the first blockchain hedge and venture funds in the United States. 4 Office locations spread across the Bay Area, New York, and Puerto Rico $242 million Pantera Venture Funds have realized $242 million on $57 million of invested capital across 28 companies. 210 Pantera has led about half of 210 investments since 2013. A history of firsts Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the U.S. when bitcoin was at $65 /BTC in 2013. The firm subsequently launched the first blockchain-focused venture fund. In 2017, Pantera was the first to offer an early-stage token fund. Pantera at a glance$3.7bn Assets Under Management 3 Fund Strategies 75% Deals Led (Blockchain Fund) 100 Venture Investments 110 Early-Stage Token Investments 40% Investments Outside U.S. Investment typesVENTURE EQUITY: Exposure to equity in companies building products and services in the nascent blockchain ecosystem. Our long standing reputation and technical edge allows us to see virtually every deal in the market, and lead about half of our portfolio company investments. EARLY-STAGE TOKENS: Exposure to new, efficient, and scalable protocols. Similar to venture capital equity, but investing in tokens (not companies) during the private stage at a discount to the listing price. LIQUID TOKENS: Exposure to the largest and most liquid digital assets. We use our deep market and technical expertise to trade tokens while exploiting market inefficiencies.

We are a diverse team of investment professionals that has worked together for up to ten years managing a family multi-asset investment fund, from our townhouse office in Mayfair, London. Our clients have been entrepreneurially successful for nearly two centuries and are now in their sixth generation. Our investment portfolio generally includes bonds, equities, shares in private companies, precious metals and third-party funds.