Synovus Financial

Pawame Limited is a company focused on providing off-grid solar home systems to households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame develops solar kits that include solar panels, LED lights, wall switches, flashlights, radios, and phone chargers. The company employs a pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) model, allowing customers to access these systems through affordable monthly subscription payments. This innovative approach not only provides reliable electricity but also aims to enhance the quality of life for off-grid communities. Additionally, Pawame's platform leverages customer data to offer a range of life-changing products and services, such as electrical appliances, micro-insurance, education loans, and remote health services, contributing to broader goals of financial empowerment and poverty alleviation.

Growve is a brand aggregator based in St. Petersburg, Florida, specializing in the acquisition and management of wellness and beauty brands. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on six key verticals: dietary supplements, beauty, food, sports nutrition, pet products, and household wellness. Growve operates a platform designed to acquire, operate, and enhance brands, leveraging in-house expertise in marketplace management, digital marketing, creative services, manufacturing, and supply chain management. This comprehensive approach enables brands across various sectors to scale and expand effectively.

FCB Financial Holdings operates as the bank holding company for Florida Community Bank, which provides a wide array of financial products and services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, and larger organizations in South and Central Florida. The bank offers various deposit products, including demand deposit accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit, as well as checking products and money market accounts. It provides consumer loans, such as personal, auto, and home improvement loans, alongside commercial credit products like lines of credit, real estate financing, and equipment financing. Additionally, the bank engages in specialty financing services for sectors such as aviation and marine, and offers credit cards, syndicated loans, and derivative products. Florida Community Bank operates a network of branches throughout Florida and targets commercial clients across diverse industries, including healthcare, retail, tourism, manufacturing, and real estate. Headquartered in Weston, Florida, FCB Financial Holdings has been in operation since 1923 and was formerly known as Bond Street Holdings.

Entaire Global Companies, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company that combines traditional financial product offerings with innovative financial strategies and proprietary lending mechanisms. Entaire’s subsidiaries market a broad range of financial products including life insurance, annuities, premium financing alternatives and Entaire’s proprietary, Leveraged Planning® strategies for funding numerous insurance, annuity, and retirement planning products. Entaire’s intellectual property holding company has patents on several of the funding mechanisms utilized in the proprietary Leveraged Planning® strategies and programs offered through its Global One lending subsidiary. Entaire’s average revenue growth has exceeded 90% annually since its formation by merger in 2003. Though the Company was originally funded by its founders and a small group of investors, the Company has since developed a broader capital base with participation from capital partners around the globe. Entaire is continually and actively seeking potential acquisition targets as well as partnership opportunities with private equity groups, hedge funds, fund managers and other investment platforms in the United States and abroad.

The Validus Group is an investment firm based in Tampa, Florida that develops, owns and manages real estate and real estate related businesses. We offer a variety of services including the acquisition, leasing and disposition of industrial, office and retail properties. Currently, our portfolio is focused in the greater Tampa area with properties throughout the Southeast.

Sunrise Bank offers personal and commercial banking services.

Trust One Bank is a commercial bank that offers personal and business banking services.