Investors in Consumer Services

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.

Procter & Gamble Company is an American multinational consumer goods corporation with a mission to provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world's consumers. Its brands are trusted in millions of living rooms, kitchens, laundry rooms, and bathrooms—and have been passed down from generation to generation. The company is known for hundreds of consumer brands ranging from baby care, fabric care, feminine care, hair care, home care, to grooming products. Some of its notable brands are Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Downey, Head & Shoulders. Pantene, Gillette, Oral-B, Olay, and SafeGuard among others. The company was founded in 1837 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Accel-KKR LLC is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, debt investment and middle market investments. It also makes mezzanine investments. The firm seeks to invest in buyouts of divisions of larger companies, divisional carveouts, subsidiaries and business units or operating assets from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely held private companies; and going-private transactions of small and micro cap public companies. In buyouts, the firm specifically targets assets that are considered or are likely to be considered non-core assets that will typically include businesses with business models that are inconsistent or are incompatible with the parent and may have been under-invested in for some period. It pursues acquisition and recapitalization of private companies that prefer to remain private or which currently do not have the scale and/or growth profile to access the public markets but whose shareholder desire liquidity and/or access to growth capital including acquisition financing including founder and family owned businesses. The firm pursues going private transactions in public companies that are either subscale for the public markets or whose management teams have a business plan that is most appropriately executed as a private company. It primarily invests in technology industry including software, Internet technologies, online services, internet retail and IT enabled services as well as in various sub-segments including enterprise and infrastructure software, vertical market application software, technical software, networking software, enterprise computing and data storage, storage networking, data communications, telecommunications equipment, Internet services, business process outsourcing, supply chain, and professional IT services. It seeks to invest globally. The firm commits a wide range of capital, from less than $10 million to over $100 million, and typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $200 million. It prefers to acquire majority ownership position, control investments, and minority growth investments. The firm is an affiliate of Accel Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Accel–KKR LLC was founded in February 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia and London, United Kingdom.

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare.

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services – comprising Application Development & Maintenance, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Solutions, Assurance Services, Engineering & Industrial Services, Infrastructure Services, Consulting, Asset Leveraged Solutions and Business Process Services – delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™ (GNDM), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. The company has domain expertise in a broad set of industries, comprising Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, Manufacturing, Retail & Distribution, High Tech, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Media & Entertainment and others. Geographically, TCS operates in all five continents, with North America and Europe constituting the largest markets for our services. We derive over a fifth of our revenues from emerging markets such as India, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Middle-East & Africa.

Orange Communications SA provides mobile communications services in Switzerland. Its services include ADSL and security; hi-fi ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, videos, pictures, themes, games, and fun tones; Internet and Live TV; email, mobile email, SMS, and MMS. Orange Communications also operates an online shop that offers laptops and modems, Internet subscriptions, and mobile phones. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Renens, Switzerland.

Founded in 1982 through the combination of INA Corporation and Commercial General Corporation is a global health service company helping people to improve health, wellbeing and sense of security.

Convergys Corporation, a subsidiary of Concentrix, is a global company founded in 1998, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It provides customer management services across various industries including communications, technology, financial services, healthcare, and more. The company offers solutions throughout the customer lifecycle such as sales, customer service, technical support, and collection, as well as contact center technology and analytics. With operations in 140 contact centers worldwide, Convergys focuses on providing security, compliance, and fraud solutions, as well as personalized care and agent productivity to enhance customer experience and retention in today's competitive markets.

Building customer relationships requires time, effort and sincerity. For Sysco, it began with a promise to assist foodservice operators in providing consumers with solutions for meals consumed away from home. Since the initial public offering in 1970, when sales were $115 million, Sysco has grown to $44 billion in sales for fiscal year 2013.

Founded in 1850, American Express is a global service company that provides customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and enrich business services. The principal products are charge and credit payment cards and travel-related services. The company also focuses on generating alternative revenue on a global basis in areas such as online and mobile services and fee-based services.