Commonfund is an asset management firm founded in 1971. As one of the pioneers of investing long-term portfolios for nonprofits and other institutions, we’ve been helping investors achieve their goals for five decades. Our two-part mission is to enhance the financial resources of our clients and to help them improve their investment management practices. As a nonprofit organization ourselves, we’re able to align our interests with our clients and provide institutional quality investment programs and services that are uniquely designed to fit their needs.
Golub Capital is a nationally recognized credit asset manager with over $20 billion of capital under management. For over 20 years, Golub Capital has provided credit to help medium-sized U.S. businesses grow. The firm’s award-winning Middle Market Lending business provides financing for middle-market companies and their private equity sponsors. Golub Capital’s credit expertise also forms the foundation of its Late Stage Lending and Broadly Syndicated Loan businesses. Golub Capital has worked hard to build a reputation as a fast, reliable provider of compelling financing solutions, and we believe this has inspired repeat clients and investors. Today, the firm has over 300 employees with lending offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.
HLM provides venture capital to early- to mid-stage healthcare information technology, healthcare services, and medical device companies. HLM has helped over 75 privately-held healthcare companies turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses. The Company’s investment professionals have over 125 years of collective expertise in the healthcare industry, an accumulation of knowledge and experience that is invaluable to the leadership of its portfolio companies.
Founded in 1993, Montreux Equity Partners is a private investment firm focused on making growth capital investments in the leading companies of tomorrow. Our portfolio companies address the most compelling domestic and global trends in health. We are currently investing out of our fifth fund. We focus on commercial-stage companies that possess highly differentiated products, technologies, and services. Our capital fuels product expansion, new market entry, and strategic acquisitions. We have a cohesive team that works closely together across all aspects of the investment process, from diligence to investment decisions, to portfolio management. Our team is complementary with unique operational, financial, and sector expertise. We leverage this expertise through active support of our investments.
OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on helping technology companies turn their visions into reality. Everything we do is focused on finding, capitalizing, and assisting expansion stage technology companies and accelerating their pursuit to become market-leading organizations. We’ve built our team around the idea that we will provide meaningful value to each and every portfolio company. To that end, we devote every person, every skill, and every advantage to making sure that each and every one of our portfolio companies succeeds.
StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
Stripes partners with technology-enabled and branded consumer businesses. Within the technology-enabled space, we like B2B/B2C internet and SaaS companies. Specifically, sectors we focus on include IT business services, digital media, e-commerce, consumer internet, enterprise software, and IT services. Within branded-consumer, we are most excited by companies that have distinctive products with strong consumer value propositions.
Toba Capital is an early-stage investment firm committed to helping create incredible technology companies. At Toba Capital, we look for businesses capable of long-term growth and teams with the potential to fundamentally shift markets for the common good. Toba Capital has approximately $1.3 billion in assets under management. The firm was founded in 2012 by Vinny Smith, the former CEO of Quest Software, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
The sustainability of the healthcare system. The firm was founded on the premise that investing in healthcare requires both a sophisticated understanding of the healthcare system, including the prevailing market forces and resulting opportunities, as well as deep connections with decision-makers across key providers, payers, and digital health innovators. Transformation Capital is an investor in digital health companies across the ecosystem, including Health Catalyst, Datavant, LetsGetChecked, Olive, Unite Us, and Vera Whole Health.
Founded in 1996, Vivo Capital is a healthcare investment firm focused on investing in and building high-quality companies. Vivo employs a unique multi-pronged strategy of identifying and working with companies with promising development and commercial-stage products. Since its inception, the firm has approximately $5.8 billion in assets under management. Vivo Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei.