Caroline Newman

Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.

Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm, with approximately $114 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake’s portfolio companies collectively generate more than $307 billion and employ approximately 433,000 people globally.

We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures

Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale.

At Bee Partners, we passionately believe today’s decades-long supercycle of AI-enabled machines will transform our world via software, hardware, and biology. Innovation favors adaptive, technical, and bold founders, aligning perfectly with our investment ethos. The inception-stage remains the best for producing exceptional returns, especially through close collaboration with founders to drive profound change. Here is what we are looking for. Bee Partners invests at inception in deepTech startups, deploying $500k - $1.5M per company. Our commitment goes beyond capital; we build genuine partnerships founded on integrity and trust, facilitating strategic introductions to customers, advisors, employees, and capital sources. We underwrite every investment to return the fund, with a Partnership Model that centers around collaboration as the highest form of value addition. Our strategy is grounded in team expertise, extensive research, and comprehensive support from our advisory network. We have established engines of innovation that drive deal flow, from universities such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Georgia Tech, alongside angel networks and our Founders network. Our track record over the past 15 years demonstrates our commitment to deep tech investing long before it was widely recognized as a bastion of venture return generation. Our model has resulted in a 60% matriculation rate to Series A, with over $2B in follow-on capital raised from the worlds leading VCs. With $150 million under management, we are currently investing out of our fourth flagship fund.