Investors in Marketing

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on making control and non-control investments in growing businesses valued at up to US$400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 480 transactions and has an international portfolio including more than 80 companies.

Insight Partners is the most trusted scale-up firm in the software industry. Their team of industry-leading experts partner with companies to drive extraordinary success that is fueled by know-how, grit, and hands-on collaboration. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity.

SV Angel is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in angel, seed/startup, early stage, and later stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in financial technology. It typically invests in the Caribbean, Latin America, and United States of America. It typically invests between $25,000 and $100,000 per company and also provides advisory services to its portfolio companies. SV Angel was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SOSV is venture capital firm and an accelerator specializing in technology startups. The firm also specializes in seed, early venture, growth capital, venture and growth-stage funding to disruptive startups. The firm typically invests in information technology with a focus on hardware, software, leap motion, sales and biotechnology, telecommunications, energy efficiency technology, energy, green energy, medical devices, transportation, robotics, internet, and social media; it also invests in the food sector. It seeks to invest globally with a focus on United States, Europe, and Asia including China. The firm typically invests between $0.01 million and $0.05 million and offers a two-four month program in exchange for equity. The firm prefers to invest as the lead investor. SOSV was founded in 1995 and is based in Princeton, New Jearsey with additional offices in United States of America, Europe, and Asia.

Pereg Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, start-ups, and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to focus its investments in Post-Seed, Series A, and Series B. The firm primarily invests in ventures that solve real-world marketing problems, including market intelligence technologies, management technologies, wireless networking equipments, spend management tools, advertising solutions, retail tech, e-commerce, digital marketing, CPG, media and behavioral research, artificial intelligence, big data, block chain, and data management and online and mobile enablers, online direct marketing, development tools, marketing technology, and ventures delivering innovative market intelligence and analytics solutions for consumer-driven corporations. The firm prefers to make investments in United States and Israel. Pereg Ventures LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Stagwell is working to build an investment portfolio of marketing services companies. We are putting digital first in all investments without being weighed down by legacy assets. Our portfolio will only have one or two of each kind of agency from: digital media buying to market research to public relations and beyond to allow for true cooperation. Most importantly, we know great talent needs to be valued and nurtured to achieve best in class growth that will allow for generous incentives and financial rewards. To facilitate that growth, we will act as value added investors, not simply managers, through new business development, strategic counsel and add-on acquisitions that keep agencies on the cutting edge of marketing innovation.

Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is a leading global advertising and marketing communications services company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to more than 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

Snow Phipps is a private equity firm focused on middle-market control investments. With $1.5 billion of assets currently under management, Snow Phipps targets platform companies with enterprise values ranging from $100 million to $500 million. The firm utilizes an operating partner model to invest across select industries and seek value creation through an operationally focused strategy.

Media Ventures is an private venture capital company headquartered in Cologne, Germany. In their search for teams and ideas, they provide help at all stages, from start-up to growth, all the way until a company reaches maturity. they concentrate on Europe, with an emphasis on Germany, and have a broad market focus that is not industry-dependent. The package of services they offer is unique.

Founded in 1993, WI Harper Group is an investment firm based in Beijing. The firm invests in start-up companies.