Kudu Investment Management

RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is a privately owned investment management firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2000, the firm specializes in opportunistic strategies within niche markets, focusing on exploiting inefficiencies. RiverNorth provides investment management services primarily to investment companies and pooled investment vehicles, managing separately managed accounts, equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. In addition to these services, the firm also develops and manages mutual funds, hedge funds, and exchange-traded funds for its clients. Its investment activities span public equity and fixed income markets.

Apera Asset Management LLP is a private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices in Luxembourg City, Munich, and Paris. Established in 2016, the firm specializes in providing financing solutions and asset management services to lower mid-market companies across Western Europe, including the UK, DACH region, France, Benelux, and the Nordic countries. Apera focuses on senior-secured, unitranche, subordinated equity, and equity co-investments, typically investing between EUR15 million and EUR50 million. While the firm primarily engages in private equity-sponsored transactions, it also retains the flexibility to invest a small portion of its capital without a financial sponsor. Apera Asset Management aims to support businesses with strong cash flow and growth potential, contributing to their market leadership in various sectors.

GenTrust is an SEC Registered Investment Adviser that provides a full range of investment and wealth management services. The firm was founded in 2011 and currently manages over $1 billion in assets across all of its affiliates.

Gramercy Funds Management LLC, founded in 1998 by Robert Koenigsberger, is a hedge fund manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, with additional offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico City, and Silicon Valley. The firm specializes in emerging markets, providing investment solutions that encompass both alternative and long-only strategies. Gramercy is known for its expertise in distressed debt, but it has adapted its investment approach to include a broader range of instruments as the market has evolved. With a strong emphasis on fundamental analysis and bottom-up stock selection, the firm manages client-focused portfolios for a diverse clientele, including pension plans, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals. Gramercy’s investment professionals possess extensive experience in emerging markets, supported by a dedicated research team that enhances their decision-making capabilities through deep local insights and market knowledge.

Granahan Investment Management is an investment management firm located in Waltham, Massachusetts, specializing in small-cap growth equity investments. The company focuses on providing small-cap portfolios tailored for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. In addition to small-cap funds, Granahan Investment Management emphasizes Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations in its investment strategies, aligning financial objectives with responsible investing practices.

Third Eye Capital, founded in 2005 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a prominent provider of asset-based financing solutions tailored for companies that are often overlooked by traditional capital sources. With nearly $5 billion in lending commitments across more than 125 portfolio investments, the firm specializes in offering a range of financial products including debt, term loans, revolving credit lines, growth capital, and distress debt. Third Eye Capital focuses on various industries such as energy, alternative energy, mining, technology, media, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, food and beverage, and construction services. The firm adeptly navigates challenging financial situations and capitalizes on unique opportunities, actively engaging with a company's key assets to help bridge the gap between perceived and actual value, thereby enabling its portfolio companies to thrive.

Ranger Investment Management seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in growth-oriented US exchange-traded equities of small and micro-capitalization companies. Ranger’s investment team further seeks to capture and compound returns, manage risk, and preserve capital by employing a disciplined, consistent approach to both security selection and risk management. The investment team searches for quality growth companies by implementing a bottom-up, fundamental research-driven security selection process.

Douglass Winthrop Advisors, LLC is a New York City-based investment advisory firm established in 1999. As an employee-owned entity, it offers investment management services to a diverse clientele, including individuals, high net worth individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, endowments, and corporations. The firm specializes in managing client-focused equity and balanced portfolios, investing globally in public equity markets and in fixed income markets within the United States. Its equity strategy primarily focuses on value stocks, while its fixed income investments encompass U.S. government, municipal, corporate, and agency bonds. Douglass Winthrop Advisors employs both fundamental and quantitative analysis for its investment decisions and enhances its in-house research with external sources. The firm operates additional offices in Washington, D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, and West Palm Beach, Florida.

Pennybacker Capital, founded in 2006 and based in Austin, Texas, is a real estate asset management firm that focuses on the middle-market sector. The company was established by partners who aimed to create a better private equity firm by combining operational expertise with robust risk management systems. Pennybacker Capital specializes in investing in various asset types, including market-rate affordable multifamily housing, senior living facilities, retail, office, and industrial properties in sustainable growth markets across the United States. The firm employs advanced data analysis, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence tools to identify investment opportunities, particularly targeting mismanaged, undercapitalized, or undervalued properties and debt positions. This approach, centered on value investing, has allowed Pennybacker Capital to transition from a commercial real estate operator to a fund sponsor catering to institutional investors, family offices, high net worth individuals, and wealth management advisors.

Warwick Capital Partners LLP is an employee-owned asset management firm established in 2010 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in investing in European hedging markets, employing a research-driven approach to inform its investment decisions. With a focus on various sectors, including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, energy, healthcare, information technology, financial services, and materials and resources, Warwick Capital Partners aims to capitalize on opportunities in both the United States and Europe. The firm's senior team boasts extensive industry experience, with a strong corporate culture fostered through long-standing professional relationships among its partners.

Versus Capital Advisors is an asset management firm that specializes in providing unique investment strategies and advice to registered investment advisers (RIAs) and their clients. The firm focuses on making complex real asset investments, such as real estate, infrastructure, farmland, and timberland, easily accessible. By targeting fiduciary advisers and utilizing private bank and consultant channels, Versus Capital Advisors aims to deliver diversifying returns and consistent income through institutional-style investment opportunities in real assets.

TIG Advisors, LLC is a privately owned investment advisory firm based in New York City, with an additional office in Beverly Hills, California. Founded in 2006, the firm specializes in managing hedge funds and separate client-focused portfolios for institutional and sophisticated investors. With approximately $7 billion in assets under management, TIG Advisors primarily invests in public equity and fixed income markets, employing fundamental analysis to guide its investment decisions. The firm has a strong track record in identifying uncorrelated investment opportunities and provides a comprehensive operational platform that includes centralized trading, marketing, risk management, and legal compliance. This structure enables portfolio managers to concentrate on investment strategies while benefiting from robust support services.

Savanna is a vertically integrated real estate investment manager based in New York City and focused on strategic property investments throughout the City’s five boroughs.Since inception, Savanna has pursued real estate equity and debt asset investments, including major repositioning and ground-up development projects. Savanna’s equity investments generally target value-add/opportunistic returns across market cycles by aiming to add value through the implementation of an intensive redevelopment or development plan and leasing effort. Savanna also selectively invests in real estate debt instruments that have the potential to generate equity-like returns, including preferred equity instruments, high yield bridge and mezzanine loans, and B-note.