BlackRock, Inc.

At Salesforce, we believe trust is our #1 value and the foundation of everything we do. We call our community of employees, customers, and partners "Trailblazers" - people who reach across roles, companies, and industries to help one another learn, grow, and succeed. Since 1999, we've pioneered software as a Service (SaaS), bringing Customer Relationship Management to the cloud and continuously innovating to help our customers succeed. Our founders launched the 1-1-1 model, committing 1% of our equity, technology, and employees' time to improving education, equality, and the environment for everyone. We're not a typical company, and that's by design. Our core values - trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability - guide everything we do. We've been leaders in AI for over a decade, and with Agentforce, we're defining a new era of customer engagement where autonomous agents work alongside humans. When our customers succeed, we succeed, which is why over 150,000 companies worldwide trust Salesforce to drive growth. We believe business is the greatest platform for change, and we're passionate proponents of stakeholder capitalism, committed to doing well by all our stakeholders - customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society as a whole.

For over 110 years, Black & Veatch has been at the forefront of engineering critical human infrastructure that powers communities, protects the planet, and enables progress around the world. As a 100% employee-owned company with more than 12,000 professionals operating globally, the team brings deep technical expertise to solve the world's most pressing infrastructure challenges - from transforming coal plants into renewable energy hubs and engineering resilient power delivery systems, to building water infrastructure that sustains communities and developing innovative process solutions like hydrogen and ammonia for a lower-carbon future. The company's employee-ownership model drives accountability and long-term thinking, ensuring every project reflects personal commitment to client success and sustainable impact. Headquartered in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Black & Veatch combines innovation with execution certainty across Energy, Water, Digital Connectivity, and Government Services. Their bolder vision approach transforms coastlines to withstand climate threats, delivers LNG and hydrogen infrastructure bridging to cleaner energy, and powers the data centers and manufacturing facilities driving the digital economy. With a purpose of Building a World of Difference®, the company's 7,000+ active projects demonstrate how strategic planning, deep technical capabilities, and collaborative partnerships create infrastructure that serves both today's needs and tomorrow's potential.

We're Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global company specializing in prepaid and payment network services. Since our founding in 2001, we've been dedicated to helping businesses engage with the audiences that matter most to them - employees, customers, and communities. Our core operations encompass the distribution of payments on an international scale through a global fintech stack that leverages modern technologies to enhance payment issuing and processing. Today, we operate as the preeminent issuer of digital payments, handling millions of payments in multiple currencies every year. Our team of over 4,000 employees collaborates across various industries including automotive, utilities, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, finance, technology, and government sectors. We maintain offices in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. We got our start by introducing the concept of gift cards in grocery stores, setting a new standard for consumer convenience. Now we deliver branded payment solutions through prepaid products, technologies, and networks that connect brands and people worldwide.

Vertex is the leading and most-trusted provider of comprehensive, integrated tax technology solutions. For over 45 years, Vertex has helped businesses around the world tackle the increasing complexity of indirect tax management. The rapid changes in global business, technology, and regulatory environments have created compounding effects on tax complexity, putting unprecedented pressure on corporate tax functions. Vertex exists to solve this problem with intelligent solutions that enable businesses to satisfy tax obligations and support growth opportunities. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Vertex serves over 4,000 customers worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. The company's software, content, and services address the complexities of global commerce by reducing friction, enhancing transparency, and enabling confidence in meeting indirect tax obligations. Vertex's solutions are fueled by over 300 million data-driven effective tax rules and support compliance in more than 19,000 jurisdictions globally. As a pioneer in tax automation since 1978, Vertex continues to innovate, helping enterprises transact, comply, and grow with confidence through cloud-based and on-premise solutions that integrate seamlessly with ERP, CRM, procurement, billing, POS, and e-commerce platforms.

We're a global software company that's been helping manufacturers design, make, and service better products for nearly 40 years. Our portfolio of solutions - including CAD, PLM, ALM, SLM, IoT, and augmented reality - helps companies manage product complexity from concept through delivery. What makes us different is our deep industry expertise and collaborative approach: we don't just sell software, we work alongside our customers as partners in their digital transformation journey. With 95% of Fortune 500 discrete manufacturers as customers, we've seen firsthand how the right tools can unlock innovation across the entire product lifecycle. Our team of nearly 7,000 people worldwide embraces values like 'Customers Matter' and 'Team PTC' because we win together. We're committed to continuous innovation - not just in our products like Creo, Windchill, ThingWorx, and Onshape, but in how we work. We're actively transforming to a SaaS model, embedding AI throughout our solutions, and helping manufacturers tackle sustainability challenges. At our core, we believe technology should empower people to solve real problems and create products that make a difference in the world.

In 2023, three founders with deep roots in engineering and logistics realized something profound: while AI was transforming consumer technology, the industries that move our physical world - supply chains, freight, logistics - remained stuck in manual, inefficient processes. Pablo Palafox, his brother Javier Palafox, and Luis Paarup saw that these real-economy businesses were drowning in repetitive communication tasks: endless phone calls to book loads, check shipments, and coordinate schedules. They understood the solution wasn't just better chatbots, but an AI-native operating system that could truly handle end-to-end work with human-like intelligence. So they built HappyRobot - an AI workforce platform that doesn't just augment human workers but autonomously manages complex operations across phone, email, messaging, and documents. Starting with logistics and industrial operations, HappyRobot has grown rapidly, deploying AI workers across over 150 enterprise customers including DHL and Ryder. With $62 million in funding from top-tier investors like Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, the company is now expanding to redefine how the real economy operates, freeing humans to focus on strategy and creativity while AI handles the patterned work at scale.