Hayward Industries

In 1966, Medline was founded with a vision to make healthcare run better by providing clinical and supply chain expertise. What started as a medical supplies manufacturer has evolved into the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions, serving healthcare providers across the entire continuum of care. Today, Medline offers over 300,000 medical products with the capability to ship within one day to 95% of the United States, supporting hospitals, nursing homes, surgery centers, and home care agencies. Medline's roots actually date back to 1910 when A.L. Mills, the great grandfather of the current owners, started the Northwestern Garment Factory sewing aprons in Chicago. This foundation of manufacturing excellence has propelled the company to become a global healthcare leader with over $25 billion in net sales and 43,000 employees worldwide. Through unique offerings that combine quality products, innovative solutions, and operational expertise, Medline continues to transform how healthcare is delivered, making it more efficient, effective, and accessible for everyone involved in patient care.

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.

In 1913, Fred H. Wells, Jr. made a $250 investment that would transform America's frozen dessert landscape. Purchasing a horse, a delivery wagon, and some milk cans, he began a small dairy business in Le Mars, Iowa, delivering milk house-to-house seven days a week. What started as a humble local operation grew into something extraordinary when Fred partnered with his brother Harry C. Wells to establish the Wells Ice Cream Company in 1925. Their commitment to quality ingredients quickly made their ice cream a regional favorite, setting the foundation for what would become the largest privately held, family-owned ice cream manufacturer in the United States. The company's defining moment came in 1935 with a "Name that Ice Cream" contest that birthed the iconic Blue Bunny brand, inspired by a local artist's son who had fallen in love with blue bunnies in a store window. From that creative spark, Wells Enterprises has flourished for over a century, expanding its family of beloved brands to include Halo Top, Bomb Pop, and Blue Ribbon Classics. Today, as an independent operating company of the Ferrero Group, Wells operates state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that produce more than 150 million gallons of ice cream annually. Yet despite remarkable growth, the company remains true to its founding principles: an unwavering commitment to quality, industry-leading food safety certifications, and a purpose-driven mission to sweeten life and create moments of joy for families across America.

applike group exists to solve a fundamental challenge in the mobile app economy: helping app publishers scale, monetize, and grow in an increasingly complex and competitive market. Every day, billions of mobile users engage with apps, yet publishers struggle with fragmented tools, ineffective monetization, and inefficient user acquisition. applike group solves this by building independent companies that cover the full value chain of the mobile app ecosystem - each venture tackles a specific pain point with laser focus, from rewarded advertising and mobile gaming to marketing automation and analytics. Through their four portfolio companies - adjoe, justDice, Sunday, and justtrack - applike group serves over 600 million mobile users globally. adjoe delivers AI-powered rewarded advertising that generates higher revenues than traditional formats. justDice leads rewarded mobile gaming with 20+ apps and millions of downloads. Sunday publishes chart-topping hybrid-casual games. justtrack provides a SaaS platform for automating mobile marketing growth. Under the umbrella of Bertelsmann, these companies operate independently while sharing technologies, data, and expertise to achieve what no single startup could alone. Backed by a $100 million investment, applike group combines the agility of a startup with the resources of a global media powerhouse, creating a unique model for sustainable innovation in adtech and mobile gaming.

We started CLARK in 2015 with a clear mission: to make insurance simple and accessible for everyone. Based in Frankfurt, we have grown into one of Europe's leading InsurTech companies, serving over 700,000 customers who trust our app to manage their insurance needs. Our team combines insurance expertise with digital innovation to help people get the full picture of their contracts and find tariffs with the best price-performance ratio from more than 180 insurance providers. What makes us different is that we are not just an app. We are your digital insurance broker that fits right in your pocket. Our platform gives you complete visibility of all your insurance contracts in one place, helps you compare and optimize them, and connects you with our independent experts who provide free, no-obligation advice via phone, messenger, or email. We have been recognized multiple times, including awards for 'Apps – Recommended by Users' and 'Digital Insurance Experts' in 2024. Our goal is to finally bring order to the insurance chaos and ensure our customers are properly protected at fair prices.

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.