U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CERTIFIED TRADE MISSION TO
Saudi Arabia
Join us on October 16-18, 2023
In Jeddah, Dhahran, or Riyadh
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Event Co-Chairs
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Peter Sexton
Director, Global Financial Services Team Senior International Trade Specialist U.S. Commercial Service

Brian N. Beams
Deputy Director, Global Financial Services Team U.S. Commercial Service

Carla Menéndez
Deputy Senior Commercial Officer

Kerry LePain
Commercial Officer

Tatyana Aguirre
Principal Commercial Officer

TRADE MISSIONS
GP FUNDS
There will be a total of 12-15 US funds. They will be registering over the next few months. Please check back for updates

Akkadian Ventures
Venture Capital
Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm focused on providing liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses. Akkadian offers tailored and unique solutions for companies and employees, with key benefits that include speed, tax efficiency and rigorous respect for confidentiality.

Daimyo Capital Partners
Venture Capital
Daimyo Capital Partners is a Private Investment Advisory Firm based in Irvine, California. Our funds strategies target direct Investment in U.S. based Commercial Real Estate, and offer an attractive blended return though exposure to stable monthly cash flows and aggressive equity appreciation

Health Catalyst Capital
Private Equity
Health Catalyst Capital (HCC) is a private equity firm investing in growth stage healthcare information technology, SaaS and technology-enabled service companies that automate business processes with the help of Artificial Intelligence and related technology.

Trousdale Ventures
Venture Capital
Trousdale Ventures is an innovative VC firm in search of companies that are designing the future of health, happiness, and productivity.

Linse Capital
Venture Capital
Linse Capital is a growth equity investing firm focused on late stage transportation and energy technology companies. Our portfolio companies include ChargePoint (the largest global provider of EV charging technology), Redaptive (provider of large scale portfolio wide energy efficiency retrofits for large corporations), Valens (provider of communications technologies for the professional audio visual and automotive industries) and Skydio (the world leader in autonomous drones).

Alpaca VC
Venture Capital
Alpaca VC is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in New York. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works. So we invest in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Together with founders, we kickstart real change with outsized impact. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpaca has developed a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A.

Altira Group
Venture Capital
Altira Group is a leading venture capital firm that invests in growth stage technology and software companies that are leaders enabling the massive and rapidly accelerating digital transformation of enterprises across industrial sectors. Over the past two decades, Altira has raised six funds, backed over 55 companies, and worked with talented entrepreneurs to build industry-leading companies. Altira’s advantaged model consists of its deep sector experience, company-building expertise, and its unique investor partnership with a select group of Super Independent oil and gas companies with whom Altira is able to accelerate adoption of and quickly scale its portfolio companies. The Altira team has over 60 years of combined experience investing in and building successful energy technology businesses.

DCCP
Private Equity
We are a sector-focused private equity firm that invests in middle market companies in the Government and Engineering markets. Since 1988, our proven and repeatable strategic process has yielded a long track record of delivering above market returns

IronGate Capital Advisors
Venture Capital
Our mission is to direct capital to the highest-performing ventures in the advanced technology arena, with a specific focus on innovations in aerospace, defense and intelligence, and national security that have dual-use applications in the civilian economy. IronGate Capital Advisors is managed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in finance, national security, and technology.

PRTI Inc
Infrastructure
PRTI was founded in 2013 to take a new, technology-focused approach to the global problem of waste tires. We partner with Tire Manufacturers, Waste Management Companies and State and Local Government to provide paid tire disposal services. We generate additional revenue by making energy and selling the industrial commodities we produce.

Type One Ventures
Venture Capital
Type One Ventures has the goal of advancing humanity closer to a technologically advanced Type One Civilization. We are a venture capital fund investing in Seed and Series A startups with operational expertise, capital, and industry resources. The startups we invest in have dynamic teams and are building technical products with the capability to progress humanity forward. At Type One, we help founders harness their superpowers so they can change the world.

Keeta
Business
Keeta is a global payments platform to safely teleport your money. Existing solutions face long settlement times and high costs, and we are working to solve these issues.

Shield Capital
Venture Capital
Shield Capital is a team of veteran investors, founders and national security leaders who are helping founders build frontier solutions in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, space & autonomy for commercial and government enterprises.

RedBird Capital Partners
Growth Equity
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on building high-growth companies with flexible, long-term capital in partnership with its Entrepreneur & Family Office Network. Founded by former Goldman Sachs Partner Gerry Cardinale, RedBird today manages over $8.6 billion of capital principally across its Sports, TMT, Financial Services and Consumer industry verticals.

Baron Capital
Growth Equity
Baron Capital is a premier growth equity asset manager founded by Ron Baron in 1982. The Firm is headquartered in New York City and manages $41.8 billion in assets. Since 1992, Baron Capital has earned its investors $40.4 billion in realized and unrealized gains. The Baron family and the Firm are the largest investors, accounting for $2.8 billion of the AUM. Baron Capital employs 195 people, including 43 investment professionals.

Sente Ventures
Venture Capital
Founded in 2008, We work with our investor partners and corporations to connect startups with innovative, scalable opportunities and investments. We're committed to funding innovative technology startups making a global impact. We provide our investors and corporate partners with access and opportunities for collaboration while empowering entrepreneurs at every stage in their journey.

Emkan Capital
Venture Capital
The MENA region is a rapidly emerging technology market that, with the right mentorship and capital, can join the global ranks of innovation leadership. Emkan Capital invests in best of breed technology companies, mentors them to become global players and orchestrates exits to facilitate a self-sustaining ecosystem. The fund invests primarily in early-stage technology companies; from venture formation all the way through series B, with a focus on Seed and series A.
U.S. Department of Commerce Certified Trade Mission:
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