The Hedera Hashgraph Platform is a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of Hedera. For more information, visit https://www.hedera.com.
The Galton Team at Mariner Investment Group
Galton Capital Management (“Galton”) is a distinct investment team within Mariner Investment Group, LLC (“Mariner”) that is dedicated to investing in residential mortgage and consumer assets. Galton manages approximately $1.4 billion in assets across the liquidity spectrum including long-only separately managed accounts, hedge funds, and longer-lock private debt structures. Kevin Finnerty, Matt Whalen, and Paul Park established Galton in 2008 and have grown the team to 32 employees and 5 consultants. Collectively, the founders have an average of 30 years of experience in the areas of origination, capital markets, trading, and portfolio management of mortgage and consumer-related assets. Mariner is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor founded in 1992 with $8.4 billion in AUM (including Galton), which specializes in fixed income relative value strategies and private debt offerings.
FINTRX
Powered by Cap Hedge Ventures, the FINTRX Platform is the leading family office data, research, and intelligence platform to the alternative investment industry & private capital markets. Leveraging their intuitive user interface, coupled with the largest and most comprehensive family office research tool, FINTRX continues to raise the bar for asset raising solutions.
eSentire
Managed Detection and Response
eSentire Managed Detection service (MDR) provide a spectrum of threat protection capabilities that go beyond alerting to disrupt threats. We detect threats traditional security defenses miss and respond on your behalf. By focusing on the threats that matter instead of the noise that does not, your business continues operating and your risk is mitigated.
Risk Advisory services
Expert consultants will help your organization assess your current risk profile, identify potential vulnerabilities, build an implementation plan, and measure your results. Choose from our suite of services that helps you benchmark and consistently evaluate your cybersecurity posture.
Managed Prevention
A unified next-generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response solution, powered by Carbon Black Defense and dedicated eSentire’s elite SOC experts. Our security experts rapidly deploy and optimize this industry-leading endpoint solution and tailor it to your unique threat landscape
Diamond Standard
Diamond Standard is the first natural diamond commodity. A fungible, physical and digital asset, that is transacted on the blockchain. When held by custodians, the diamond commodity provides a decentralized reserve to asset-back any digital contract or currency. Diamond Standard Co. is the commodity manufacturer, and market maker for a member-owned, digital loose diamond exchange. Launching in 2019, the commodity has been pre-ordered by institutional investors with more than $7 trillion of assets under management, and approved by 19 ETF funds.
Develop LLC
Develop LLC is the first independent advisory firm for Opportunity Zone Funds, project developers and wealth managers seeking to deploy capital into Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs). The QOZ program is the largest community development tax incentive in a generation, designed to attract hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector capital for long-term equity investments in real estate, renewable energy, infrastructure, operating businesses, and start-ups located in low-income communities around America.
Develop’s mission is to be the leading force in building this new QOZ marketplace, by enabling Opportunity Zone Fund managers and other stakeholders to tap into its unique, best-in-class expertise and national network of relationships. Develop's turnkey services include marketplace intelligence, fund structure and strategy, investment guidance, investor communications, regulatory clarity, legal and accounting resources, wealth management and banking partnerships, pipeline development, branding and marketing, and government relations.
Develop was founded by Steve Glickman, a former senior economic advisor to President Barack Obama, and the co-founder and former CEO of the Economic Innovation Group, the architect of the QOZ investment program. Steve has already advised hundreds of investors and developers, worked with dozens of communities, and is regularly sought after as an expert by industry groups and the media.
CoPlace
CoPlace activates its projects from the inside out by bringing value to local leaders, investing in local businesses and most importantly preserving the valuable culture that is already present.
CoPlace’s distributed infrastructure systems work like building blocks that are re-configured based on local community needs in months not years.
CoPlace has completed multiple socially and economically impactful projects, which have received awards and garnered international attention from industry, governmental, and academic groups. The company’s success has motivated Opportunity Zone funds, project developers, and municipalities to seek out CoPlace’s team as advisors.
This system is uniquely suited for Opportunity Zones.
Convex Strategies Pte Ltd
Convex Strategies Pte Ltd is an alternative investment manager, headquartered and licensed in Singapore, that specialises in superior risk mitigating solutions. Our investment philosophy centres around providing our investors with value and efficiency in their defensive allocations, with expectations of positive compounded returns across a complete investment cycle.
CasperLabs
CasperLabs is building a next-generation Blockchain based on Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper pure Proof-of-Stake protocol. Fully decentralized and uniquely scalable through concurrent execution, CasperLabs’ blockchain allows for general purpose as well specialized use cases via heterogenous side chains. By basing its smart contract execution engine on Wasm, which is supported by many existing programming languages, CasperLabs’ blockchain is open to software developers of all backgrounds. For more information, visit https://www.CasperLabs.io
Bloomberg
Bloomberg is the world's primary distributor of financial data and a top news provider of the 21st century. A global information and technology company, we use our dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems every day. Our customers around the world rely on us to deliver accurate, real-time business and market information that helps them make important financial decisions.
At Bloomberg, we are guided by four core values that are the foundation of our continued success: innovation, collaboration, customer service and doing the right thing.
We harness the power of data and technology to organize, understand and improve our world.
It's our purpose. Come find yours.
Bloq
Bloq is a leading blockchain technology company, founded by prominent industry pioneers. Bloq provides comprehensive, enterprise-class blockchain solutions and applications that are open source, interoperable, and decentralized. Bloq believes the future state of the blockchain frontier to be multi-network, multi-chain and multi-token – building the software infrastructure to engage with tokenized networks via BloqEnterprise, and creating tokenized networks and applications via BloqLabs. For more information, please visit www.bloq.com and follow us on Twitter at @bloqinc.
Align
Align is a leading global provider of technology infrastructure solutions, managed IT services and data center deployment. For more than 30 years, our team has worked tirelessly to ensure our clients’ technologies are leading-edge, secure and sized to their business requirements.
AI Capital
AI Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm making late seed and growth stage venture and private equity investments in companies spanning the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. Investment opportunities include business applications utilizing AI tools as well as select AI core technologies.
Growth Stage: AI Capital generally invests in Series A with follow on to Series B and will consider compelling initial late seed stage investments. The portfolio companies must offer solid products and revenue beyond proof-of-concept and pilot implementations.
Enterprise: AI Capital’s bias is to invest in software companies that have the promise of long-term recurring revenue from midsize to large enterprises.
Applied: Software companies in which AI Capital invests must be solving real business challenges. Their products provide demonstrable metrics on their impact to their customer’s business which are repeatable at subsequent customers. AI Capital will opportunistically invest in core technology.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Capital team's depth and breadth of experience is able to critically evaluate underlying AI technologies and business models. This competitive advantage affords the ability to assess scalability of the business model and the resulting impact on margins and growth.
West Side Advisors
West Side Advisors, LLC is a boutique investment manager specializing in relative value strategies within U.S. structured products, including Agency MBS, CMBS and student loans. The firm was founded in 1997 by Gary Lieberman who has over 38 years of experience trading mortgages and fixed income related instruments, and managing portfolios through various economic cycles and trading environments. The investment team seeks to uncover market inefficiencies and identify opportunities in structured products and commercial real estate whole loans to deliver investors outsized and non-correlated returns. West Side Advisors, LLC is an SEC registered investment advisor.
Waterfall Asset Management
Waterfall Asset Management, LLC is an SEC-registered institutional asset manager focused on structured credit (asset-backed securities and loans) and private equity investments. Waterfall was founded in 2005 by Tom Capasse and Jack Ross, two individuals who were early leaders of the ABS industry, and who together have over 60 years of proven ABS/Loan credit analysis, trading, banking and servicing experience. Capasse and Ross started the ABS Group at Merrill Lynch in the 1980s and conducted the first ABS issuances for many of the more than 40 ABS sectors in which Waterfall invests. Waterfall has approximately $7.6 billion* in assets under management (*estimated as of 12/1/18).
Waterfall utilizes a relative value approach to investing in structured credit and loan products. Leveraging the extensive experience of its founding partners and talented portfolio managers, the firm sources, analyzes, and purchases ABS and loan investments across multiple sectors globally in an effort to seek an attractive risk/return profile. This multi-sector specialization in both ABS and loans enables Waterfall to seek to provide its clients with attractive, competitive returns that are generally uncorrelated to most traditional investment sectors.
Waterfall Asset Management’s headquarter offices are located in New York City.
Sagard Holdings
Sagard Holdings is a multi-strategy alternative asset manager with professionals located in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris and Singapore. Sagard looks to generate attractive returns by matching investment opportunities with flexible capital solutions and pairing entrepreneurs with teams that have deep industry knowledge. We develop long term partnerships and empower the growth of our investments through a unique global network of portfolio companies, limited partners, advisors and other valued relationships.
Today, Sagard invests across 4 asset classes; equity, private credit (Sagard Credit Partners), royalties (Sagard Healthcare Royalty Partners), and venture capital (Portag3 Ventures and Diagram Ventures).
Sagard Holdings is a wholly owned subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada (“PCC”) and was founded in 2005 as a complement to its global investment holdings.
Parallax Volatility Advisers
Established in 1996, Parallax Volatility Advisers specializes in trading volatility as an asset class and developing strategies with low correlations to other asset classes. Parallax has approximately 60 employees and currently offers two funds: Parallax Master Fund and Cygnus Alpha. Parallax Master Fund is a global relative value volatility trading strategy that was launched in 1996 and has approximately $2.7 billion in AUM. Cygnus Alpha is a systematic hedging strategy that capitalizes on relative value opportunities in skew and term structure within index options markets. Cygnus was launched in April 2018 and has roughly $300 million in AUM. Parallax Volatility Advisers is managed and owned by William Bartlett, Dan Hutchison and Jill Armstrong.
Options Information Technology, LLC
Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services, IT infrastructure and cybersecurity. We enable our clients to deliver a dual mandate: operating world-class financial technology infrastructure today, while supporting business scalability and new technology for tomorrow.
Options has a global team and global infrastructure, allowing customers with global operations to work with one single vendor. The feature-rich global platform, built to exacting investment bank standards, is further bolstered by industry-leading transparency around pricing, a 24x7, high-touch support model and unrivalled SOC-accredited information security.
Over 200 firms globally currently leverage the Options platform, including the leading global investment banks, hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, private equity houses and exchanges. These clients span over 20 countries worldwide with seven regional Options offices supporting these firms.
Options clients leverage four main solutions:
Managed Platform - A fully managed technology and cybersecurity platform that provides customers with a single outsourced technology service encompassing all aspects of financial sector technology including cloud, desktop and mobile technology.
Managed Colocation - A managed colocation and proximity services platform providing customer access to all key liquidity centers globally, and across all asset classes (equities, derivatives, fixed income and FX).
Managed Applications - An enterprise strength, application management solution for hosting dozens of customer proprietary applications, with a standardized, full-service model for the delivery of the leading front, middle and back- office systems.
Options Advisory - A hedge fund and financial technology consultancy service.
NES Financial
NES Financial provides technology-enabled services for the efficient middle- and back-office administration of highly specialized financial transactions. Their technology-enabled solutions include EB-5 and Opportunity Zone Fund administration, 1031 exchanges, and private equity fund administration services. Many of the world’s largest financial institutions and corporations rely on their proprietary technology, unparalleled expertise, and outstanding services to ensure the secure, transparent, and compliant management of funds while also lowering operational costs, reducing risk, and improving ROI. For more information, please visit www.nesfinancial.com.
Monsoon Blockchain Storage
Monsoon is a blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide storage and cloud optimization network of users and providers based on the Monsoon Distributed Storage and Cloud Optimization Technology.