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Andreessen Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to building the next major franchises in technology. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm provides entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights in innovation, executive and technical talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory affairs, business development, and marketing and brand-building.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm's founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

TPG Capital is a global multi-strategy asset manager headquartered in California that invests in private equity, credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. TPG begun as a private equity investor before expanding into other strategies, and that remains the largest part of the business with more than $60bn under management, representing about 60% of total capital. TPG Sixth Street Partners (the Credit and Special Situations fund) manages $30bn of investments. TPG Real Estate manages $11bn in equity and debt investments. TPG Public Equity Partners manages $2bn of assets. hello ;) TPG was founded as the Texas Pacific Group in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

H.I.G. Capital is a private equity and alternative assets investor based in Florida, USA. HIG has its origins in control private equity investments, but today also manages funds dedicated to growth equity, real estate, credit and biotech. Our team of over 350 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology and financial management experience, and we contribute these resources to help build value in our portfolio companies. HIG invests throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America. HIG manages its debt/credit strategies through its affiliates WhiteHorse Capital and Bayside Capital.

The Merchant Banking Division (MBD) is the investing and lending division of Goldman Sachs, and is one of the largest asset managers in the world. The capital of MBD is a mixture of Goldman's balance sheet plus external capital it has raised through a series of funds. MBD invests globally across almost all asset classes, including senior debt, mezzanine debt, late stage venture capital and growth equity, control private equity, infrastructure and real estate. Note that in certain markets, including in Australia and China, the Merchant Banking Division is known as the Principal Investment Area (PIA). Prior to August 2019, when all of the investing divisions of Goldman Sachs merged, Goldman Sachs had a separate investing and lending division known as the Special Situations Group (SSG). SSG focused on investing the firm's balance sheet in a wide variety of asset classes. It had no external capital. SSG was formed during the Asian Financial Crisis, and originally specialised in distressed lending and acquisition of distressed assets. However, SSG quickly expanded into a broader special situations investor, focusing on areas where other forms of capital were not flowing efficiently, or where returns are out sized versus in-house perceptions of risk.