bright money

Bright builds for Life After Debt. It gives every consumer the path to be debt-free. It is the Artificial Intelligence Bank for consumers living with high levels of debt. Bright helps consumers delete all forms of debt (credit card, student loan, auto loan, home loan, and more) using its Ai powered app, and tailored credit products. It is trusted by over 1 million Americans and growing. The Founding team has a combined experience of 80 years in Machine Learning, and Big Data systems, with a focus on Banking products. Bright is a team of Product Builders, Data Scientists, Engineers, Service Professionals, and Digital Growth Experts who build the world’s best Ai technology to help people be debt-free.

AtoB

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken. For the hard-working men and women of this sector, the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with shady fee structures. The incumbent players in this space often overlook the economic and practical needs of this user base. We're changing that. AtoB is modernizing the payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics. Supply chains rely on the timely movement of capital to function efficiently. Our end game is a world in which that capital movement occurs reliably, instantly and fairly. Our history and background Our founding team has backgrounds in payments, working on electric and autonomous vehicles at Cruise Automation, leading ops and growth for Uber. We have senior engineers and operators from Google, Uber, Meta, Amazon, Shopify, Stripe, Revolut, Chime, Shell, McKinsey, BCG and other leading companies. We have raised $125 million+ from investors such as General Catalyst, Elad Gil, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, XYZ; founders and CEOs of companies such as Google (Eric Schmidt), Salesforce (Marc Benioff), Coinbase (Brian Armstrong), DoorDash (Tony Xu), Stripe, Instacart, Gusto; strategic investors like Mastercard. We were named to Forbes annual Next Billion-Dollar Startup List, and have just recently been selected to join the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator.

Meritage Group LP

Meritage Group LP is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") with assets under management of $12.0B as of January 1, 2024. Meritage Group LP's Form ADV may be accessed on the SEC's website. The Meritage® investment strategy started in 1997, and Meritage Group LP currently manage investments, both directly and through external managers, in public and private equity, credit and real estate. Meritage Group LP has offices in San Francisco, Greenwich, and New York City and currently has approximately 50 personnel. The senior managing directors of Meritage Group LP and its affiliates are Nat Simons, Laura Baxter-Simons, Alex Magaro and Arif Mawji.

Ascent

Ascent is built around one guiding principle: Student loans should expand possibilities, not limit them. That’s why Ascent created a new private student loan program that gives students more opportunities to qualify for a loan, with or without a cosigner. Ascent loans are originated by Richland State Bank, Member FDIC. Ascent encourages transparency and financial wellness by incorporating financial education into the application process, preserving the notion that an education is an investment where students and families should understand the return on their investment relative to the cost. Ascent offers benefits (such as 1% cash back, scholarships, a Refer a Friend Program, a Rewards Program, and more) as well as free resources that set students and families up for financial success.

runa

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are. Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Operating in more than 30 countries and 18 currencies, hundreds of leading companies rely on Runa to power instant, flexible global payouts including Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Vodafone, Coinbase and Globetopper. We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.