Daniel Straface

IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay meaningfully involved beyond the check. Our investors share a common foundation through the University of Notre Dame and a belief that early-stage investing works best when capital and community come together. We invest primarily at the seed stage across B2B and consumer technology, partnering closely with founders and co-investors we respect. Since 2012, IrishAngels has deployed over $65 million into more than 100 companies. More importantly, we’ve built an active, engaged community of over 250 angels who bring operating experience, pattern recognition, and long-term perspective to the companies we support. IrishAngels aims to be a trusted partner to founders and a credible co-investor to the broader venture ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, with members across the U.S.

IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay meaningfully involved beyond the check. Our investors share a common foundation through the University of Notre Dame and a belief that early-stage investing works best when capital and community come together. We invest primarily at the seed stage across B2B and consumer technology, partnering closely with founders and co-investors we respect. Since 2012, IrishAngels has deployed over $65 million into more than 100 companies. More importantly, we’ve built an active, engaged community of over 250 angels who bring operating experience, pattern recognition, and long-term perspective to the companies we support. IrishAngels aims to be a trusted partner to founders and a credible co-investor to the broader venture ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, with members across the U.S.

Walleye Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm designed to constantly innovate. From our founding in 2005 and our roots in Minnesota, Walleye Capital has grown into a global multi-strategy investment firm headquartered in New York. Today, we have 5 global offices with over 350 team members managing more than $7.7 billion in AUM. Our investment strategies span across Fundamental Equities, Volatility, Quant, and Tactical. Our mandate is simple – create an environment where our people can thrive so we can continue delivering to our investors. Walleye’s robust infrastructure and breadth of investment expertise enables us maintain exposure to highly differentiated strategies that trade across the globe and in multiple asset classes. We have the ability to put capital to work through both internal Walleye portfolio managers and external managed accounts.

Founded in 1999 by Rob Merrilees, Spot Trading was one of the first entirely off-floor proprietary trading firms amongst its peers. Spot excelled at leveraging a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, internally developed trading tools, and trader decision making to price the universe of listed equity options. As technological advances transformed capital markets, proprietary trading firms came to look more and more like applied technology firms. As a result, Spot grew from 4 employees at inception to over 150 employees - becoming proficient in the uses of high-performance computing, low latency data feeds and networks, automated trade execution, and the development of AI enhanced algorithmic trading strategies. Spot’s innovative approach to solving the “big data” challenges inherent to the equity options markets enabled the firm to monitor the pricing of over one million individual securities in real time. Spot regularly traded over 100,000 equity option contracts and several million shares of stock per day. Spot was a member of several options and equity exchanges including: CBOE, NYSE/ARCA, NYSE/AMEX, ISE, Gemini, BATS, BOX PHLX, and Direct EDGE. Spot was also a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) During its time, Spot was recognized amongst its peers for a variety of awards for excellence, including: • NABC National Best and Brightest Companies to Work for 2011 • NABC National Best and Brightest Companies to Work for 2012 • NABC National Best and Brightest Companies to Work for 2013 • NABC National Best and Brightest Companies to Work for 2014 • NABC National Best and Brightest Companies to Work for 2015 • Chicago Tribune’s Top 100 Workplaces in Chicago 2014 • Chicago Tribune’s Top 100 Workplaces in Chicago 2015 Spot Trading was headquartered in Chicago and operated from 1999 until early 2018.