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Aprisa LLC's Palisades Legacy I LP is the institutional platform acquiring and developing ultra-luxury homes in Pacific Palisades at meaningful discounts to replacement cost, transforming the 2025 fire-driven market dislocation into disciplined, high-conviction returns. The January 2025 fires created a rare, geographically bounded window of opportunity in one of the most supply-constrained ultra-luxury residential markets in the United States. Aprisa is executing a disciplined strategy: acquiring well-located parcels at approximately $1,500 per square foot — meaningfully below both replacement cost and the trailing twelve-month Pacific Palisades average of $1,932 per square foot — then delivering institutional-grade homes through phased, high-quality development. Our approach combines rigorous below-replacement-cost underwriting, efficient use of California’s post-fire recovery programs (expedited permitting, fee waivers, and rebuild allowances), and institutional construction practices that include mandatory WUI fire-resistant standards. The fund targets 5–8 develop-track acquisitions from a curated 23-parcel pipeline, with a base-case objective of 17% net IRR and 2.0× MOIC over a five-year primary term. Led by Founder and CEO David Fox, Aprisa has assembled a focused team of operators with deep expertise in luxury residential acquisitions, development, finance, compliance, and portfolio management. The firm emphasizes transparent governance, rigorous risk management, and alignment with limited partners through meaningful carried interest participation for key team members. Aprisa LLC is building a long-term real estate platform. Palisades Legacy I LP represents its first fund — a concentrated, high-conviction vehicle designed to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by capitalizing on a unique market dislocation while delivering exceptional homes to ultra-high-net-worth buyers.

Sapience AI specializes in creating domain-specific, vertically focused foundational models and agentic ecosystems infused with advanced human-in-the-loop collaboration from industry subject matter experts and professional communities. This blend of advanced AI and human cognition forms a genius collective "hive mind" — creating a secure, proprietary intelligent system that enhances collaboration and productivity and redefines human potential — the expert part that moves decisions, strategy, actions and ROI — to focus on the outcomes that matter most, and get them done. Harnessing the power of safe, superintelligent AI, Sapience AI delivers meaningful, lasting impact across professional communities, vertical industries, academic institutions, research organizations, and society.

The Hope Street Group is a remote-first non-profit focused on helping students across the United States build and develop their careers and economic interests. The Hope Street Group has several programs including Skilling America, Teacher Fellow Networks, and JobTok. The Hope Street Group is a 501c3 with 7 years of history helping students.

Feather is building an all-in-one financial benefits platform for startups. Our first product makes it easy and affordable for startups to offer 401(k) without worrying about compliance and administration. Feather helps startups offer 401(k) to founders and early team, while saving them time and money.

Proven is building the infrastructure for how organizations find, trust, and work with the right partners — whether that’s a startup choosing a vendor, a VC connecting portfolio companies, or a government promoting its exporters to the world. Today, vendor discovery, export promotion, and FDI attraction are mostly done with spreadsheets, static directories, and manual intros. It’s slow, relationship-dependent, and almost impossible to keep up to date. Governments struggle to showcase the full strength of their ecosystems, agencies can’t see which companies are actually winning deals, and foreign investors don’t know who they can trust. We’re fixing that. Proven is a networked platform where organizations can create living “trust networks” of companies: verified vendors, exporters, and local partners connected through real relationships, data integrations, and AI-driven matching. Governments and economic development agencies use Proven to: • Build modern, searchable directories of trusted local companies and exporters • Showcase those companies to foreign buyers and investors • Match international demand with vetted local supply in real time • See what’s working through data, not guesswork The hard problems we’re solving: making trust and track record machine-readable, turning scattered relationships into usable network data, and giving institutions a way to build and operate trade and investment networks that are dynamic, global, and actually used. In short, we’re rebuilding how economic ecosystems connect and grow.