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Mercatus has officially rebranded to Charles River for Private Markets in order to simplify how we represent ourselves to our clients and the marketplace. Please Follow us @Charles River Development for further private markets updates This rebrand will streamline our conversations with prospective clients, especially those that are increasingly looking for holistic solutions across their public and private portfolios. If any of the challenges below sound familiar, Charles River for Private Markets is for you: ✔ We are too dependent on manual & error-prone processes to report our investment data. ✔ We cannot run rapid valuation & scenario analyses across our portfolio. ✔ We are overly reliant on Microsoft Excel. ✔ We can’t meet the growing transparency demands from our LPs. ✔ We can’t keep hiring more people as we raise more capital. ✔ Our existing systems are too rigid to meet our unique investment requirements. If your current system struggles with any of the above, its likely time to reassess your technology. Request a demo of Charles River for Private Markets (formerly Mercatus) to see what youre missing: https://www.crd.com/solutions/private-markets/ Charles River for Private Markets (formerly Mercatus) is an investment management solution for institutions investing in Private Credit, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Funds. Our cloud-based technology solution helps investors who need both flexibility and centralization for their investment data.

Wrkr has developed a software platform allowing employers of hourly workers to scale their workforce on demand. Companies are spending thousands of dollars a week on overtime and still losing business because they don’t have enough staff to service customers. With Wrkr, companies can shorten wait times, improve customer satisfaction, and increase revenue.

Core Business and Operations: The Moncada Energy Group is one of the leading independent operators that started in Italy in the field of renewable energy. Its core business focuses on wind energy (including small wind energy), photovoltaic energy, and biomass energy​​. The company is also involved in the development of technologies related to these sectors, indicating a commitment to innovation in renewable energy production​​. Geographic Presence: While the company is primarily based in Italy, with its headquarters in Porto Empedocle, it also has a presence in the United States, specifically in San Francisco, California. This international presence underlines its ambition and reach in the renewable energy market​​​​. Renewable Energy Portfolio: Moncada Energy Group has made significant strides in renewable energy, with a diverse portfolio. The company has been particularly active in wind energy but is also expanding its focus to include solar energy, biomass, and merchant line projects. Their portfolio includes projects totaling 340 MW, illustrating the scale of their operations in the renewable energy sector​​. In summary, the Moncada Energy Group represents a key player in the renewable energy industry, with a diverse range of projects and technologies, and a presence that spans both Italy and the United States. Their focus on wind, solar, and biomass energy, coupled with their substantial project portfolio, demonstrates their significant role in advancing sustainable energy solutions.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of December 31, 2025, Ares Management Corporations global platform had approximately $623 billion of assets under management with approximately 4,200 employees operating across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention: https://www.aresmgmt.com/fraud-awareness

Elettranova is a single-shop integrator of global engineering and consulting services, based in the Silicon Valley. Our team of experts includes highly trained scientists, engineers, analysts, and security advisors as well as business process, legal and regulatory affairs specialists. Our customers have a diverse range of needs and we work with each customer to design a dynamic and highly-skilled team to execute to their projects with diligence and excellence. Our areas of practice include: - Design & Engineering - Energy & Cleantech - Research & Development - Defense & Security

Founded in 2008, BootstrapLabs, an Ares company, is a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. BootstrapLabs was one of the first VC firms to build an AI-first investment strategy and seeks to invest in visionary founders who solve some of today’s most important and valuable opportunities by applying Artificial Intelligence. BootstrapLabs is often the first institutional money and acts as a lead investor in the early stages, with follow-on capital at the growth stages. Through our Venture Studios and Venture Capital funds, we are investing in Artificial Intelligence applied to The Future of Work (FoW)/Productivity, Mobility, Health, Financial Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, Energy/Climate, and AI-enabling technologies. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know it takes an experienced team amplified by a nurturing community to build successful companies, so we stand by our founders in good times and bad times, because the road to success is paved with setbacks, challenges, and lessons learned from past failures – and building something big is hard. Ultimately we believe technology should always be used to create a positive impact on society, and that founders should always place fellow humans at the heart of their vision.

BFV is a venture capital and family office fund that works with innovators and entrepreneurs to address pain points in climate sensitive and resource limited markets in: 1. clean and efficient energy generation, infrastructure, and storage; 2. water treatment and conservation; 3. air quality; 4. food security and sustainable agriculture and 5. health care diagnostics and therapeutics. BFV’s investment strategy is based on the hypothesis that population growth up to a peak of 11 to 12 billion people (vs. 7+ billion currently) will place a tremendous burden on resource availability for a growing earth population having increasing amounts of discretionary spending capability. All nations must have access to energy, food, and water free from threat of shortages and with minimal impact on the environment. BFV defines the superordinate limitations in each market we address. BFV also applies both impactful and multidisciplinary technologies to transform the way people do things or think about things. The outcome is to realize potential for growth, crisis resilience, and strong returns. We believe that competently organized and executed multidisciplinary technologies are usually four times more likely to achieve disruptive outcomes by also changing the context, and the way we do things. An individual technology more often does not disrupt than does disrupt. When multidisciplinary technologies are combined, it is disruptive when the outcome results in new ways of making products, new businesses, or services.