Michael Payne

Zoo creates infrastructure for hardware design. Design demands have outpaced todays hardware design infrastructure. Were laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit, so that you can create new design tools never before possible.

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

Zoo creates infrastructure for hardware design. Design demands have outpaced todays hardware design infrastructure. Were laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit, so that you can create new design tools never before possible.

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

Outset Ventures is a start-up studio based upon the model provided by the traditional film industry, where a central studio fosters successful development of multiple production companies by providing operating expertise, packaging and team building, relationships, know-how and capital to develop ideas into companies. Outset is not an incubator or a venture firm. It is an operator focused on turning valuable ideas into operating companies with exit velocity through business jumpstarts, turnarounds or combinations. Outset XL (www.outsetXL.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Outset Ventures, invests in, reorganizes and consolidates proven early stage companies in market spaces where a consolidation is destined to occur. In these companies, aggregation with other like or vertically integrated companies can create a long term financial success. Outset believes that 2016 and 2017 represent a very interesting opportunity for consolidation of quality companies in key markets as the pendulum for availability of capital swings back and investors and Boards are faced with very difficult decisions about the ongoing support of existing investments.