Livingbridge

Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm that fuels decisions with expert insights. Founded in 2007, the company has grown into a worldwide organization with over 1,500 colleagues across 12 offices on four continents. Third Bridge provides institutional investors, private equity firms, hedge funds, and consulting companies with access to the world's largest collection of on-demand expert insights and company intelligence, covering over 65,000 public and private companies. The company's mission is to accelerate and enhance decision-making by unearthing specific expert insights across every sector, geography, and topic. Third Bridge offers a comprehensive suite of services including Expert Calls for direct conversations with industry specialists, a vast Library of instant expert knowledge, Surveys for differentiated insights at scale, Advisors to enhance client teams with deep expertise, and Data Feeds for integrated access to global insights. With an expert network of over 1.5 million professionals and robust industry-leading compliance processes, Third Bridge has become a trusted partner for the world's top consultancies and investors throughout their deal cycles.

Hamilton Lane manages over $1 trillion in assets under management and supervision across global private markets, serving institutional and private wealth investors. With 34 years of operating history, the firm has established itself as a significant player in alternative asset management, combining traditional investment management capabilities with proprietary technology infrastructure. The firm's scale provides access to deal flow and market intelligence across private equity, private credit, real assets, and venture capital strategies. The firm's operational model centers on its Cobalt analytics platform, which supports investment decision-making and portfolio management across the organization. This proprietary technology infrastructure represents a strategic investment in data analytics and full-stack engineering capabilities, positioning the firm to leverage quantitative analysis alongside traditional private markets expertise. The technology platform serves both internal investment processes and client reporting requirements, creating operational efficiencies at scale. Hamilton Lane's governance structure features co-CEOs Erik Hirsch and Juan Delgado-Moreira. The firm maintains a US headquarters while serving a global client base. The operational emphasis on technology development, combined with traditional private markets investment capabilities, reflects an institutional commitment to modernizing private markets infrastructure and analytics - a positioning increasingly relevant as institutional allocators demand enhanced transparency and data-driven insights from alternative asset managers.