Neil Kapur

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill., New York and London. Founded in 2005, Magnetar was built on the belief that new opportunities existed for a firm specifically structured to remove common barriers among various investment styles – like quantitative and qualitative, short and long duration, and beyond. Our core businesses – Alternative Credit & Fixed Income, Healthcare and Systematic Investing – enable us to cater to a wide-range of investor needs. We foster a collaborative work environment and supportive culture based on three key values: insight, integrity and passion. Philanthropically, we’re on a mission to ensure all high school students have access to a quality financial education course. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐨: At Magnetar, we are innovators, dissatisfied with the status quo. We seek to generate tomorrow’s diversifying return streams by challenging today’s investment norms. We embrace the creative challenge of building novel structures that produce positive outcomes for our investors. We work to identify differentiated opportunities where we believe we can create a strategic advantage by engineering and scaling our processes and attempting to structure our investments to be profitable across a wide array of outcomes. We are purposeful in how we source, analyze, structure and manage the risks of our investments as we seek to achieve quantifiable, repeatable results. As part of our mission to deliver diversifying returns to investors, we invest growth capital in businesses that drive the real economy. We invest across geographies, in both public and private transactions.

Velos Partners is a consumer growth capital firm investing in companies at the intersection of consumer and technology where the exponential pace of innovation is transforming traditional consumer behavior and business models. The firm invests across three sectors: retail innovation, health and wellness, and luxury and entertainment. Selected portfolio companies (past and current) include: Silvercar; Eat Just; Surf Air; ChowNow; Oscar Health; Hopscotch; and 99.co.

TTV Capital invests in fintech businesses that serve the widely varying needs of the financial services sector and the consumers of financial products. Our team of experienced technology and financial services professionals has more than 100 years of venture capital and highly relevant industry operating expertise acquired across three decades and multiple economic cycles. We create value for entrepreneurs and investors by using our knowledge, experience, and relationships to help businesses grow and succeed.

B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $9 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on seed to early- and late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and resilience tech sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital has an integrated, global team across nine locations in the U.S. and Asia. The firm’s value-add platform, together with the consulting expertise of its strategic partner, The Boston Consulting Group, provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to scale quickly and efficiently, expand into new markets and build market-leading businesses. For more information, click here.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill., New York and London. Founded in 2005, Magnetar was built on the belief that new opportunities existed for a firm specifically structured to remove common barriers among various investment styles – like quantitative and qualitative, short and long duration, and beyond. Our core businesses – Alternative Credit & Fixed Income, Healthcare and Systematic Investing – enable us to cater to a wide-range of investor needs. We foster a collaborative work environment and supportive culture based on three key values: insight, integrity and passion. Philanthropically, we’re on a mission to ensure all high school students have access to a quality financial education course. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐨: At Magnetar, we are innovators, dissatisfied with the status quo. We seek to generate tomorrow’s diversifying return streams by challenging today’s investment norms. We embrace the creative challenge of building novel structures that produce positive outcomes for our investors. We work to identify differentiated opportunities where we believe we can create a strategic advantage by engineering and scaling our processes and attempting to structure our investments to be profitable across a wide array of outcomes. We are purposeful in how we source, analyze, structure and manage the risks of our investments as we seek to achieve quantifiable, repeatable results. As part of our mission to deliver diversifying returns to investors, we invest growth capital in businesses that drive the real economy. We invest across geographies, in both public and private transactions.

Velos Partners is a consumer growth capital firm investing in companies at the intersection of consumer and technology where the exponential pace of innovation is transforming traditional consumer behavior and business models. The firm invests across three sectors: retail innovation, health and wellness, and luxury and entertainment. Selected portfolio companies (past and current) include: Silvercar; Eat Just; Surf Air; ChowNow; Oscar Health; Hopscotch; and 99.co.

Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Adaptive Payments is a payment authentication company that enables fast, easy and authenticated transactions to occur using the cardholders PIN, voice, challenge word or other data that is known to the cardholder to authenticate debit, credit and other transactions. The company has developed payment solutions for a funds disbursement product called AccelaCash for pay day lending and other applications where getting funds to a consumer on a same day basis is an important need. AccelaCash uses the consumers debit card number as a means to deposit funds to the checking account that is linked to that card. For more information go to www.adaptivepayments.com