Trestle Partners

Our mission: to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back. We partner with Early-Stage VCs to double down in their leading companies. Small, specialist VCs are the first funders of 80% of unicorns and tech IPOs, but 90% of the time, these first funders lack the capital to follow on in their growth stage winners. Alpha is purpose built to solve this capital gap for Early-Stage VCs. As a result, Alpha invests in top-tier growth equity rounds led by the world’s best investors. Rational and Agile Capital As experienced entrepreneurs and early stage venture capital investors, we founded Alpha Partners to be an agile co-investor. We make rapid investment decisions. We’re flexible on investment size. We believe in direct communication and transparency with our partners. While we may assist with fundraising, recruiting, and strategic relationships, we rarely take board seats. Experienced at Scale Alpha Partners was founded by experienced early stage venture capital investors and former entrepreneurs with more than 75 years of combined experience. Our team, including our close advisors, have founded and helped to scale multi-billion dollar venture and private equity firms as well as made hundreds of investments themselves. Friendly The venture ecosystem can be rough and tumble. We find that our best introductions come from high-quality referred deals from our friends, our fellow entrepreneurs, and venture firms we often partner with. As a result, we aspire to be as responsive, transparent, and easy to work with as we can be. Friendly. Not a Black Box Making an investment is about capitalizing on a business opportunity as well as forming a partnership. In evaluating an investment, we weigh leadership team quality, revenue velocity, category leadership, concept simplicity, strategic partner strength, market size and growth. That said, we’ve found that companies over $5 million in annual revenue that are growing tend to stay on that growth path.

BIP Ventures consistently produces exceptional outcomes for founders and top-quartile returns for investors. We partner with people who share our passion for solving real problems and unleashing the power of innovation to create incomparable value. OUR MISSION We identify and capture opportunities for the people we serve. We are drawn to big problems that impact society and to those who see vexing challenges as opportunities. These are people who dream up ideas and then embrace the real work required to bring them to life. We connect the people who invest in possibility. OUR FOCUS We invest in companies across various stages of growth. Each has the potential to become a category leader in an emerging, high-growth market. BIP Ventures focuses on big problems, big ideas, and the bold founders and innovators who are advancing innovation to solve them. Software and tech-enabled services solving real problems 1st institutional capital (Seed, Series A, Series B) Annual recurring revenue between $100K-$100M OUR APPROACH Different by design. Since 2007, we have continued to refine our value proposition and investment platform to create advantages for investors and founders that other VCs can’t replicate. INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS FOR INVESTORS: We design investment products that increase access to capital and reduce drag on returns, allowing us to do things other VCs can’t. AN ELITE TEAM OF ALIGNED INDIVIDUALS: We balance heart, know-how, and superior experience investing in and scaling category-leading companies. BEST-IN-CLASS DATA SCIENCE: We capture unique data drivers to give our team a distinct information advantage and foundation for guidance. FINANCIAL SCIENCE & REAL OPTION THEORY: Scientific rigor grounds our investment decisions, yielding process advantages and consistent outlier returns. HUMAN + MACHINE PARADIGM: We empower our partners with timely data, producing competitive advantages at the strategic and tactical levels. PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING PLATFORM™: Our Performance Engineering efforts strengthen portfolio company competitiveness and market leverage, resulting in an increased probability of positive outcomes. A PARTNERSHIP MINDSET: We actively seek out and provide economic and social benefits for our founders, investors, and team members. SYMMETRICAL & ETHICAL TRANSACTIONS: We are high-integrity partners who seek the win-win because we are in the business of building together.

Forest Partners is a leading, independent venture capital firm in South Korea focused on investing in Korean founder-led, early-stage to growth companies. The firm has three major businesses: Venture Capital, Growth/Private Equity, and Public Equity. Our unique platform with full-stack capabilities allows us to outperform across cycles. It also enables cross-over collaboration between our Venture Capital, Growth/Private Equity, and Public Equity teams to make strategic investment decisions as our private companies crossover into the public market. Our vision is to grow together with great companies so that we can become the go-to alternative investment firm in Asia. OUR VALUES Based on trust-based partnerships, our team is committed to enabling growth and creative outcomes for all our partners. Our team is driven by the following values: Passion for Excellence: Passion for excellence permeates every investment decision and the long-term supporting role we play for the founders we back in order to secure maximized, solid returns for our investors. Independent Thinking: Our investment decisions are driven by independent thinking and we aim to make a lasting impact for companies at their pivotal moments of growth. Professional Integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professional integrity in everything we do and are committed to transparency.

Sandpiper Ventures will unlock capital and innovation through greater diversity of investors and strong connections to global markets; it will contribute to a stronger ecosystem, stronger economy and approach to investing with better businesses, deals, and higher investment returns. In addition to capital, Sandpiper Ventures provides founders with a valuable network, a unique toolkit of deep industry experience, access to growth and development partners, access to national and international customers and new market opportunities. GROWTH-ORIENTED We are focused on investing in future-fit companies, seeing returns and driving measurable results. We have a growth track-record, delivering billions of dollars in revenues, executed major acquisitions, new market entry, IPOs and exits always with underlying customer focus and deep due diligence. Our portfolio companies experience the full benefits of an international industry network, customer base and experience. INCLUSIVE Though we have a specific focus on initiatives developed and led by women, our fund is inclusive and supportive of any and all ideas that drive growth, innovation and success. Our collaborative approach and broad geographical reach provide access to unique deal flow of companies otherwise under the radar. DISRUPTIVE We are filling critical gaps in the investment ecosystem by thinking differently about investment opportunities. We are not here to level the playing field, we’re here to change the rules entirely. PROVEN Our founding partners are successful business leaders across a variety of industries, from start-ups to multi-nationals, managing national and international operations with significant complexity. The diversity and capability of our founders means we have the legacy and the results to back up our vision. We’re not just here to talk about it. We’ve done it before and have the results to prove it.

We are an Israel-based investment firm focused on early growth stage technology and tech-enabled businesses. With a dual presence in Tel Aviv and New York, our team fuses investment and operating experience, deep local Israeli roots, and an expansive global network to support entrepreneurs in their quest to build thriving technology companies. Our roots date back to 2016, when we were established by TPG Growth as an investment platform for early growth technology investments in Israel. An independent fund since 2020, our culture remains grounded in this heritage, bringing the rigor and depth of private equity to early growth investing. We continue to serve as Senior Advisors to TPG Growth, and in this context seek opportunities for collaboration on selected large-check, growth stage investments in Israel. We are grounded locally & connected globally Headquartered in Tel Aviv, we take pride in our Israeli roots – and in being natives of our market. But with an equally firm footing in the US and origins from within one of its largest private equity organizations, our DNA is unmistakably American too. We feel at home in both. We are operators & investors We are former entrepreneurs and CEOs with management, operations, and execution experience on one hand; on the other, former investment bankers and private equity professionals with the financial know-how necessary to ‘get under the hood’ and propel results. You have to embrace depth You have to forge deep relationships with entrepreneurs – and with all the stakeholders they will encounter on their growth journey. You have to possess deep knowledge in relevant subject matter, and the experience that comes with having done it before. You have to dive into the details from due diligence to exit.‍ And you have to have to have deep integrity and humility. Because at the end of the day, while we strive to cultivate growth, it’s the company and its leaders actually doing the growing.