Gold Sponsors
Nebrodi Partners is an investment firm focused on middle and lower middle market private equity fund investing and co-investing. We focus primarily in North America and secondarily in Europe.
Nebrodi’s partners collectively have over 75 years of private equity investing experience. All of that time has been spent investing together as a team.
Throughout our history, we have consistently helped our clients successfully navigate through uncharted and often challenging macro economic environments as well as private equity’s unique challenges.
Founded in 2004, Crestview is a value-oriented private equity firm focused on the middle market. The firm is based in New York and manages funds with over $10 billion of aggregate capital commitments. The firm is led by a group of partners who have experience and backgrounds in private equity, finance, operations and management. Crestview has senior investment professionals focused on sourcing and managing investments in each of the specialty areas of the firm: industrials, media and financial services.
wiggin(x)® is a division within Wiggin and Dana LLP, designed to meet the needs of emerging and high-growth companies, their investors and their founders. Our lawyers work with clients, not as detached legal experts, but as trusted advisors and integrated team members who intimately understand our clients and their issues. We guide clients through formation, expansion and, ultimately, exit. In addition to providing sophisticated counsel on a wide range of funding transactions, wiggin(x) attorneys provide a full stack solution with areas of specialization that include M&A, secured finance, intellectual property, licensing and tech transfers, employment, immigration, tax, fund formation, international trade compliance, dispute resolution, commercial contracting, real estate, and more.
Silver Sponsors
Provost Scott Strobel is Yale’s chief educational and budget officer. The Office of the Provost oversees academic policies and activities university-wide. The provost is an ex-officio member of every faculty and governing board and of all committees concerned with educational policy or faculty appointments. They have direct oversight of all academic support units and hold institutional responsibility for the allocation of resources. In collaboration with the vice president for finance, the provost presents the university’s annual operating and capital budgets to the president and to the Yale Corporation. The vice, associate, and assistant provosts, together with the provost’s administrative and operations staff, support the provost in carrying out these responsibilities.
Hickory is setting a new standard in sustainable residential heating & cooling — acquiring and scaling best-in-class HVAC businesses, headquartered in NYC and expanding nationally. We combine deep industry knowledge and disciplined operational strategy with cutting-edge AI capabilities to build an enduring, high-growth platform. Regarding our role in the ecosystem, residential HVAC is a large, durable, and highly fragmented industry with strong fundamentals — repeat customers, meaningful barriers to entry, and powerful tailwinds from electrification and climate-driven demand. Unsurprisingly, private equity investors have established a heavy footprint here.
Hickory was founded via ETA (entrepreneurship through acquisition) by partners with roots in both early-stage entrepreneurship as well as established PE. Our model takes a different angle: we’re backed by investors with much longer time horizons and strategic alignment, allowing us to prioritize long-term value creation, talent development, and sustainability (including a major commitment to heat-pump adoption). We’ve expanded rapidly in the last few years — 11x revenue growth since 2017 and on track to 2x this year.
Bronze Sponsors
The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) supports students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines in seeking innovative ways to solve real-world problems. Launched in 2017, Tsai CITY serves students from across Yale’s campus through programs, funding, and mentoring designed to offer diverse entry points into innovation and entrepreneurship.
Yale Ventures partners with Yale innovators to translate university research into new ventures that benefit society. As the home for Yale's technology transfer office, we partner with innovators to protect and license intellectual property developed at Yale.
Alumni Ventures is America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we offer professional-grade venture capital portfolios to individual investors. Blue Ivy Ventures is an Alumni Ventures fund investing for Yale alumni and other friends of the community through diversified venture portfolios of Yale-connected startups.
Eagle Rock Properties is a full-service real estate firm offering investment management, property management and construction management services. Eagle Rock focuses primarily on rental apartment communities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S.
Conference Partners
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