The HEICO Companies, LLC

The Heico Companies is the parent holding company for a diverse portfolio of manufacturing, construction, and industrial services businesses. Today, we look to acquire performing businesses that complement our existing operations. As a buy, hold, and build investor, we have owned many of our operations for over 30 years. A key factor in our growth is our commitment to reinvest earnings in support of both organic growth and new acquisitions

TechNexus Venture Collaborative

TechNexus is a Venture Collaborative, a unique combination of businesses, corporate joint-ventures, private equity funds, and a fast-growing investment portfolio. Since 2007, TechNexus has managed a robust platform to empower entrepreneurs, transform business models at scale and drive innovation through ecosystems. The company has accelerated business opportunities between dozens of leading corporations and more than 600 startups and is among the most active venture investors in the US.

IrishAngels

IrishAngels is an angel investment network that invests in seed stage startups raising rounds of $1 to $3 million. IrishAngels has 230 investors and has invested in over 40 companies, deploying $30 million in capital since its inception in 2012.

VAULT

<div class="page-title-wrapper" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1415801135708_2938" style="display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; width: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 15px 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941);"><h1 class="page-title" data-shrink-original-size="39" style="font-size: 2.8em; margin: 0px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: futura-pt; line-height: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.17948717948718em; font-weight: 400; max-width: 100%; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: inherit;">VAULT IS AN INNOVATION FIRM</h1></div><div class="page-desc" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1415801135708_5079" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 25px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); position: relative; z-index: inherit; padding: 15px 20px; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941);"><span style="font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.6em;">We help organizations envision and realize non-obvious pathways. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><p id="yui_3_17_2_3_1415801135708_5078" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6em; letter-spacing: 1px; position: relative; z-index: inherit;">We then roll-up our sleeves to unlock the value and drive breakthrough results.</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p>

Energy Foundry

Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.

JK&B Capital

<p>Invests in software, communications and information technology companies.</p>

R7 Partners

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies with ambitious innovation. We believe in partnering with extraordinary teams in thinking differently to solve real problems. All of our investments are driven by our core values.</span></p>

Kenex Holdings

Building a family of companies to last forever

Romar Partners

Romar Partners is led by Scott Wald and George Colis, serial entrepreneurs & co-Founders of SurePayroll. We invest our time, expertise and capital in contributing to the growth and success of a select number of early stage B2B technology companies. Supportive & engaged coaches, we work closely with entrepreneurs to drive outsized outcomes.

Evolv Ventures

Working with tomorrow's most innovative and disruptive companies in the food industry.

Founder Equity

Founder Equity is an early stage fund with a radically different approach. We provide cash and talent, giving founders a "startup team in a box". Founders get access to full time designers, developers, marketers, strategists and more.

Origin Ventures

Origin Ventures, founded in 1999, is a leading venture capital firm composed entirely of former operators and engineers with extensive venture investing experience. The firm’s realized performance places it in the top 5% of VC firms nationally. While Origin is based in Chicago, the firm invests across the country in emerging software, online marketplace, and digital content businesses capable of exponential growth through innovation and hard work. Typical investments are in Series A rounds in companies that have achieved preliminary product-market fit. Origin’s initial check can range from $1M to $3M. In 2015, the firm created the Origin Ventures Network, an engaged community of portfolio companies, to offer expanded opportunities for collaboration and support amongst the portfolio companies’ hundreds of employees. By providing the network with dedicated tools and resources, Origin helps its portfolio companies solve problems faster and navigate the challenges of growing into a market leader.

Ekistic Ventures

Ekistic Ventures is a fund of urban problem-solvers who are actively cultivating a portfolio of disruptive companies that bring new solutions to critical urban problems. We invest our expertise and capital in entrepreneurs and young start-ups that have great ideas to make cities more efficient and equitable.

West Loop Ventures

WLV is a seed and series A venture fund that invests in Business to Business Fin Tech. The companies we invest in will have institutions as their customers. We invest in Insurance, Banking, Trading, Capital Markets, Finance Back office, Risk, Data, Process and anything that touches finance. Target fund size is $30M. Initial check size $100-$500K

Illinois Ventures

<p>Seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, life sciences and clean technology</p>

Independence Equity Management, LLC

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Independence Equity is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies commercializing technologies that improve resource utilization.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The inspiration for the Independence Equity Fund stems from observations made by its founding partners while building, advising and investing in early-stage companies during the last decade. These observations include the growing demand for and depletion of natural resources; the ability of entrepreneurs to solve such problems through innovation; and the inefficiency of capital markets in financing early-stage technologies, especially within the Fund’s targeted investment theme (see criteria). The Fund seeks to capitalize on these observations by providing entrepreneurs with capital to commercialize their innovations and create long-term capital appreciation.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</p>

Caldera Investment Group

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Caldera Investment Group is a investment firm that provides advisory services to early stage, emerging, and middle market companies. The firm advises on strategic corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and capital raising activities. Caldera also conducts venture capital activities including making direct investments in seed-stage companies through Caldera Venture Partners, its venture capital affiliate.</span></p>

Heartland Angels

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our mission is to be a catalyst in the process of innovation. We do this by creating forums in which human, intellectual and financial capital are joined for a common purpose.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Heartland Angels' unique process has four components:</p><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; text-indent: -1.1em;">A&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Program&nbsp;</strong>to perform a stepped due diligence analysis to review investment opportunities.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; text-indent: -1.1em;">A&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strategy&nbsp;</strong>to use the multifaceted experience of professionals, academics and scientists in investigating and assessing early staged investment opportunities.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; text-indent: -1.1em;">A&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Method</strong>&nbsp;to syndicate an opt-in funding approach so as to coordinate the interests of multiple private equity ("angel") investors.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; text-indent: -1.1em;">A&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Protocol&nbsp;</strong>to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of negotiations. This maximizes communications and minimizes unnecessary risk and cost to the investor and to portfolio companies.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Heartland Angels operates to facilitate the investor-company matching process.</p>