Chidinma Asonye

WYN BEAUTY by Serena Williams

BrainTrust Founders Studio is the largest membership-based platform designed for inclusive founders of beauty and wellness companies. Strengthened by our core pillars of Community, Mentorship, Education, and Capital, our platform is designed to provide founders at all stages with always-on access to expert programming and resources, from legal and financial advice to marketing strategy and retail-readiness.

WYN BEAUTY by Serena Williams

BrainTrust Founders Studio is the largest membership-based platform designed for inclusive founders of beauty and wellness companies. Strengthened by our core pillars of Community, Mentorship, Education, and Capital, our platform is designed to provide founders at all stages with always-on access to expert programming and resources, from legal and financial advice to marketing strategy and retail-readiness.

January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture. We invest early and opens doors for the visionary founders of the future. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know. January Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA and London, UK.

Prospect Partners is a leading, Chicago-based private equity firm that partners with passionate entrepreneurs in high potential companies to build exceptional platforms for long-term growth. We invest in entrepreneur and family-owned companies, typically with $3 million to $10 million EBITDA and revenues between $15 million and $100 million. Since 1998, Prospect has invested in more than 55 platform companies and completed more than 115 add-on acquisitions in niche manufacturing, specialty services, value-added distribution industries. While we invest in a diverse range of industries and ownership situations, we remain focused on how we can help our management teams build great companies. We are dedicated to providing the specialized value-added resources, guidance and capital that our partners need to execute their vision. We have deep experience with the unique opportunities and challenges faced by smaller, growing companies, and we apply a customized and flexible approach. The only constant is our dedication to a creative, partnership-oriented approach that allows all shareholders to pursue our collective long-term goals. For more information, including a look at our current portfolio companies, please visit www.prospect-partners.com.

American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq:ACAS) is a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager. American Capital, both directly and through its global asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate, energy & infrastructure and structured products. American Capital manages $22 billion of assets, including assets on its balance sheet and fee earning assets under management by affiliated managers, with $86 billion of total assets under management (including levered assets). American Capital and its affiliates invest from $10 million to $600 million per company in North America and €10 million to €300 million per company in Europe. As a publicly traded company, American Capital offers shareholders an opportunity to invest in privately held middle market companies through ownership of its stock. Since its August 1997 IPO, American Capital and the funds it manages have invested approximately $37 billion in over 730 portfolio companies. Our diverse portfolio is invested in virtually every industry sector. We have approximately 90 investment professionals in 8 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. American Capital, through an asset management portfolio company, manages three public companies American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC), American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE) and American Capital Senior Floating, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACSF) with approximately $11 billion of total net book value.