Headquarters: Austin, Texas Description: Limestone Capital Advisors is an investment advisory firm based in Austin, Texas. We provide a full spectrum of investment advisory services, ranging from deal sourcing and due diligence to investment monitoring and management. We specialize in a wide variety of transaction types from direct private equity investments to asset sales and joint ventures. Additionally, we manage several early and growth stage direct-investments from our previous private equity and venture capital fund experience. “Our differentiating factor is our team’s vast experience, strong relationships, and comprehensive knowledge base that stems from decades of leadership at the highest levels of both the private and public sectors.” Recent Investments: Renoix $28.6M / Venture Zift Solutions $32M / B Series Website: www.limestoneca.com Tom Inman has over 14 years of private equity/venture capital investing experience and over 13 years of operational experience. Prior to co-founding Limestone, he served as a Principal at Gefinor Ventures, and was actively involved in evaluating new investment opportunities, performing due diligence and worked with several investments including Collider Media (acquired by Videology Group) and SiVerion (acquired by LogicVision, NASDAQ:LVGN) and serving as Interim COO at BlueSpace Software. Prior to his private equity and venture capital career, he gained valuable experience in information technology at Motorola as a business systems analyst where he led and implemented several Data Warehousing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software development and system integration projects. Prior to that, he served for over 7 years as a pilot in the U.S. Navy, earning the rank of Lieutenant and gaining valuable leadership and program management experience.

Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee Sectors: Software, Analytics, K-12 Education Description: SSM Partners is one of the largest and most experienced private equity firms in the Southeast. Having invested in more than 50 companies across four private equity funds, our successful record is the result of the partnerships we have formed with gifted entrepreneurial managers. Starting with a relationship built on trust, we offer our entrepreneur-partners a thorough understanding of the growth company lifecycle and a patient approach to building great businesses. SSM primarily invests in rapidly growing, privately-held companies most often in the business, healthcare, and consumer services industries. SSM primarily invests in rapidly growing, privately-held companies most often in the business, healthcare, and consumer services industries. Portfolio companies have differentiated and proven business models, large market opportunities, and the ability to generate high returns on invested capital. “With many years of growth-company investment experience, we have expertise in a wide variety of private equity transactions. We will invest to fund organic growth strategies, acquisitions, and re-capitalizations to provide liquidity for shareholders as long as the business has the characteristics mentioned above.” Recent Investments: Apixio $19.3M / Series D (Lead) Zift Solutions $14M / Series B (Lead) Skycure $16.5M / Series B (Lead) Novu, LLC $20M / Private Equity DialogTech $30M / Series E Website: www.ssmpartners.com Hunter Witherington focuses on investments in Software & Technology, Internet & Consumer, and Healthcare companies. Prior to joining SSM, he spent several years in investment banking with Stephens Inc. working on mergers and acquisitions, private placements, and public offerings for middle-market companies across numerous industries. Hunter received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California Sectors: Marketing Technology, Financial Technology, Consumer, Energy, Software, Enterprise Software, Clean Technology, Design Description: Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. This venture capital firm is dedicated the proposition that one entrepreneur’s idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. Their current total funds raised are at $607M. They invest in seed, early stage venture, late stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology and marketing technology. “We are, quite simply, a venture capital firm where the venture matters more than the capital. Where purpose, and hard work, count.” Recent Investments: Revlo $2M / Seed Brave $6M / Seed Skycure $16.5M / Series B (Lead) ForUsAll $9.5M / Sereis A (Lead) Website: www.foundationcapital.com Warren Weiss, also known as Bunny, invests primarily in emerging software companies — both licensed and SaaS. He enjoys catching emerging technologies early. Warren’s close ties with leading universities and research labs give him a window into innovations in their purest form, and he cherishes the chance to work with the smartest minds in business, whether first-timers or Nobel Prize winners.Warren is on the boards of Trufa, Cyphort, ForgeRock, Moxie Software, SilkRoad Technologies, Silver Spring Networks, and Visier. His past investments include CliQr Technologies (acquired by Cisco), eMeter (acquired by Siemens) and MarkMonitor (acquired by Thomson Reuters). Warren identifies superstar entrepreneurs and builds winners with them. He was also named the 2012 Forbes Midas list of Technology’s Top Investors for his work with Silver Spring Networks.

Headquarters: Birmingham, Alabama Sectors: Healthcare Services, Healthcare IT, Financial Services, FinTech, Business Services Description: Founded in 2001 New Capital Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on high growth companies in the healthcare and financial sectors located primarily in the Southeastern U.S. and Texas. While New Capital is headquartered in Birmingham they have opened a secondary office located in Dallas, Texas. Since 2001, the firm has managed to collect $372M for private equity and economic development funds. “Our portfolio companies grow in size and value by building on the foundation of one core goal – providing exceptional value and service to each company’s customers.” Recent Investments: Teladoc $50.25M / Series C OptiMine Software $7.24M / Series B Teladoc $18.6M / Series A Senior Whole Health $16M / Series B Website: www.newcapitalpartners.com Danny Despot joined NCP in 2014 after being in the private sector. Prior to New Capital Partners, Danny founded Capstone Technologies in 1996 by raising capital to build a proprietary biometric monitoring service for offenders on house arrest. Capstone became a leader in biometric monitoring in the US and sold to a Canadian public company in 1999. Danny also co-founded Summit Document Services in 1994 and grew it to 150 employees in seven locations in five states. He sold that company in 2004 and has been working in the private equity industry since 2005. He created six funds for projects up to $12 million. These projects focused on the oil/gas, service companies, real estate development and automotive sectors. Danny currently serves on the Board of Directors for Big Spring Environmental, Petroleum Investments, and Talladega Ford. At NCP, Danny is responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities in NCP’s chosen industries and markets.

Headquarters: Austin, Texas Sectors: Enterprise Software, Social Media, Digital Media Description: LiveOak Venture Partners is an Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs who use disruptive technologies and business models to challenge the status quo. While many of their investments begin at the seed stage, LiveOak is a full life-cycle investor focused on technology and technology-driven service companies primary based in Texas and the Southwest. For over a decade, the Founders of LiveOak have helped entrepreneurs create industry-leading companies. “LiveOak partners with visionary entrepreneurs who use disruptive technologies and business models to challenge the status quo.” Recent Investments: Ranzure Networks $13M / Series A (Lead) CS Disco $18.58M / Series C Data.world $14M / Series A NSS Labs $16M / Series C Website: liveoakvp.com Krishna Srinivasan is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners and has been investing in early stage Texas based companies and entrepreneurs since 2000. Prior to founding LiveOak, Krishna was a Partner at Austin Ventures. Before joining Austin Ventures, Krishna was with Motorola where he wrote large scale optimization software for supply chain planning and worked with a variety of business units on strategic and operational issues. He started his professional career at SEMATECH. Krishna received his MBA from Wharton where he graduated with highest academic honors as a Palmer Scholar. He also has an MS in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, where he graduated with the highest all-round honors.

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California Sectors: Energy, Enterprise, Health Care, SaaS, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology, Manufacturing Description: GE Ventures combines capital, technical and commercial expertise to scale great ideas that drive growth for partners and GE. Focused on the areas of software, healthcare, advanced manufacturing and energy, GE Ventures helps entrepreneurs and startups accelerate their ideas by providing access to GE’s global network of business, customers and partners. Offering a tailored approach and unparalleled resources through its Global Research Center, GE Ventures helps reduce development cycles and accelerate time to market for entrepreneurs and companies. “We scale ideas and grow companies that advance industries and improve lives.” Recent Investments: Lora Health $75M / Series D Evidation Health $3.4M / Series B Clearpath Robotics $30M / Series B Sarcos $10.5M / Venture Website: //geventures.com Ty Findley is a Sr. Associate where he focuses on early stage and growth equity investments in advanced manufacturing technologies. Ty joined the GE Ventures team after graduating from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Prior to joining GE Ventures, Ty was a product development engineer at Boeing working in the New Airplane Studies team and he also completed enterprise rotation assignments in the Engineering Leadership Development program.  Ty was also previously a Venture Fellow analyst at G51 Capital, an Austin – based venture capital firm. Ty received his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University.

Headquarters: Palo Alto, California Sectors: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Financial Technology, Design, Big Data, Internet of Things, Security, Media Description: Founded in 1983, Accel brings more than three decades of experience building and supporting hundreds of companies. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel is a leading early and growth-stage venture capital firm, powering a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. “The first partner to entrepreneurs around the world who have the uncommon brilliance, dedication and fearlessness to re-imagine it – and discover what comes next.” Recent Investments: HolidayMe $7M / Series A OpenGamma $13.3 / Series D (Lead) Moglix ₹280M / Series A (Lead) Propeller Aero $3.1M / Seed (Lead) Website: //accel.com Connor Theilmann joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on consumer hardware, vertical software, infrastructure, cybersecurity and mobile businesses.  Connor started a company called Emerald Exam (desktop software for secure in-class testing) and an app called “Treat” (a mobile, student discount card).  He grew up in Dallas and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.