Aaron Gershenberg

Founded in Norway by four-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, Play Magnus Group is a global leader in the chess industry focused on providing the premier digital experiences for the millions of chess players and students around the world. The company offers eLearning and entertainment services via its market leading brands: chess24, Chessable, iChess, New In Chess, CoChess, the Play Magnus App Suite and the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

First Move is a standards-based curriculum developed by America's Foundation for Chess that uses chess as a learning tool to teach critical thinking skills skills to second and third grade students nationwide.

Pinegrove is a venture investment platform designed to deliver tailored solutions for fund managers, founders, and limited partners in the venture capital ecosystem. Our expertise spans fund of funds, venture debt funds, venture secondaries, and co-investments.   With combined assets under management of over $10 billion and sponsors such as Sequoia Heritage and Brookfield Asset Management, the Pinegrove companies operate as a cohesive and dynamic venture platform providing access to the innovation economy.

Founded in 1999 as a division of SVB Financial Group, SVB Capital is a multi-strategy investment platform targeting the Innovation Economy with approximately $9.8B of assets under management across venture capital fund of funds, direct funds, and private credit funds. Uniquely positioned to access highly sought-after opportunities in start-up companies and venture capital funds, SVB Capital invests in fund managers and private technology and life science companies throughout the innovation economy around the world.  SVB Capital Management, LLC is an SEC registered investment adviser that provides advisory services to a variety of funds with different investment strategies and objectives, as well as risk tolerances. It is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. All SVB Capital Management, LLC trademarks, service marks and logos used in this material are trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of SVB FG. SVB Capital Management, LLC is permitted to use such trademarks, service marks and logos under a non-transferable and exclusive license.

Founded in Norway by four-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, Play Magnus Group is a global leader in the chess industry focused on providing the premier digital experiences for the millions of chess players and students around the world. The company offers eLearning and entertainment services via its market leading brands: chess24, Chessable, iChess, New In Chess, CoChess, the Play Magnus App Suite and the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

First Move is a standards-based curriculum developed by America's Foundation for Chess that uses chess as a learning tool to teach critical thinking skills skills to second and third grade students nationwide.

Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The IDD community that Best Buddies serves includes, but is not limited to, people with Down syndrome, autism, Fragile X, Williams syndrome, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, and other undiagnosed disabilities. Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.