BioHiTech offers cost-effective technology-based solutions for waste disposal geared toward providing a true zero landfill environment while disrupting an industry that has remained unchanged for decades. BioHiTech processes millions of pounds of food waste yearly from hundreds of its eco-digesters in 38 states, 17 countries, and on 4 continents. With its cloud-based data platform, BioHiTech IoT helps its customers save millions of dollars by analyzing billions of data points. Some of its customers include The Cheesecake Factory, The Federal Bureau of Prisons, General Electric, Fairway, Marriott, Veteran Canteen Services, and Marina Bay Sands Singapore.

BioHiTech Renewables provides a proven, cost-effective, clean alternative to landfills for the disposal of solid waste throughout the United States. The High Efficiency Biological Treatment (HEBioT™) process, developed and patented by its European partners EntsorgaFin SpA, utilizes a combination of automated sorting equipment, enhanced biological composting, and mechanical refinement to convert waste into an EPA recognized, clean alternative fuel while achieving as much as 80% landfill diversion.

www.biohitech.com

Launched as a spin-off of the Lockheed Martin’s aquaculture line of business and named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of the year in 2012, Forever Oceans creates end-to-end sustainable aquafarms by combining leading technology with advance biology to offer the most sophisticated approach to aquafarms in order to grow healthier, more sustainable fish in better conditions while keeping operations simple and reliable for their farm customers. With this investment, VPEG is established as co-investors with world-renowned technology leader Lockheed Martin in a transformative opportunity. This innovative and patented technology and extraordinary team puts Forever Oceans at the forefront of the marine culture industry. This investment will accelerate the delivery of a valuable “global impact” seafood product and process.

www.foreveroceans.com

ZEEP is an Austin-based clean energy company engaged in the development of world scale projects that upgrade low-value feedstocks into premium fuels and chemicals.  ZEEP’s management team has significant experience in implementing major energy projects with a particular focus on North America.  ZEEP principals have led in the design, construction and financing of approximately $100 billion of energy and chemicals projects worldwide over the last 20 years and bring executive level experience from organizations such as TransCanada, Cheniere, Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, the U.S. DOE, TXU Corp., Fluor, Mustang Engineering and Koch Industries. Currently ZEEP is building the largest Natural Gas to Methanol plant in North America in St. James Parish, Louisiana. ZEEP anticipates building several additional plants in the next 3-5 years.

www.zeep.com

Thirteen lune is an e-commerce destination designed to inspire the discovery of beauty brands created by Black and Brown founders that resonate with people of all colors. It reframes how Black and Brown beauty brands are perceived not only from an industry perspective, but also for the consumer giving each brand a platform to educate and engage a wider audience.

https://thirteenlune.com/

Hyperice is the global industry leader in recovery technology and pioneer of percussion, vibration, dynamic air compression and thermal technology.

Over the past 10 years Hyperice has built a recovery/health technology international brand. The company’s suite of award winning products are used by 2.5 million consumers in over 60 countries.

Hyperice’s patented devices allow you to move better and recover faster so you can feel your absolute best. The Company’s key strategic partner’s include:

Hyperice has been recognized as one of Inc.’s Fastest 500 fastest growing companies for each of the past five years. The Company is also recognized by Fast Company as one of worlds most innovative companies.

https://hyperice.com

SkinTē is the first ever collagen sparkling tea.  The brand was founded by 3 women (a doctor, a chef and a biz brain) who all went through major life transitions (health issues, divorce, loss of a child). They channeled all that energy to create an innovative beverage at the intersection of Beauty and Wellness.

SkinTe’s mission is to unleash health and beauty from the inside out, every day. It includes a powerful blend of the highest quality kosher bovine collagen peptides, organic teas, super herbs, 100% DV vitamin C and smart ingredients (no soy, dairy, gluten, dyes, added sugar or artificial sweeteners). Each ingredient was handpicked for its emotional, spiritual and physical impact on well-being. The 3 flavors currently in market are White Tea Ginger, Green Tea Grapefruit, Hibiscus Vanilla (caffeine free) and Lemon Lime (caffeine free) .

70% of our skin and 30% of our total body protein is made of collagen—it’s the protein that literally holds us together. SkinTē’s consciously sourced collagen is perfectly proportioned for max benefits and max yumminess.

https://skinte.com

Café Agave is a completely unique cream liqueur that turns the normal into the extraordinary. Founded by beverage industry veteran Mark Scialdone, Café Agave enhances the rich taste of fine coffees by creating intensely flavorful drink concoctions. Selected as winner in the 21^st annual Convenience Store News “Best Products” Awards competition in the liquor category, Café Agave comes in four unique flavors: Café Mocha, French Vanilla, Salted Caramel and Toasted Coconut. In 2018, Café Agave will introduce its innovative line of Spiked Cold Brew available in four different flavors: Café Mocha, Vanilla Cinnamon, Salted Caramel and Espresso Shot. Named as a ‘Top Innovation’ by Beverage Industry News in its October, 2017 cover story, Café Agave Spiked Cold Brew is a fermented alcohol product that can be legally sold in establishments that are only licensed for beer and wine. Scialdone’s business partner is Ami-Lynn Bakshi, who spent over 20 years in marketing and innovation at Diageo.

www.cafeagave.com

POP! Gourmet, LLC (“POP”) produces, distributes and wholesales ultra-premium gourmet popcorn, potato chips, and other snack products.  Its products are innovative, and have won multiple national and international awards including a gold SOFI in 2013, a silver SOFI in 2014, and the Sweets and Snacks Show “Most Innovative Product” awards in both 2013 and 2014. POP was named the “Snack Producer of the Year 2015” by Snack and Bakery magazine. The Company has leveraged its brand awareness and market penetration through co-branding with companies like Brown and Haley (Almond Roca), Rogue Creamery (gold SOFI 2013), Rhythm Superfoods (kale), Huy Fong Food’s iconic Sriracha sauce and the Tajin family of products. Current customers include Starbucks, Kroger’s, Costco, Wal-Mart, Sams Club, QFC, Fred Meyer, Alaska Airlines,  Hudson News, Dean & DeLuca, and Wegmans among others.

www.popgourmetpopcorn.com

Recovery Force USA is producing next generation performance apparel with embedded Active Compressions™ Technology. Their team has developed the ability to actively control shape-changing memory fibers in real-time using proprietary methods and algorithms while on the body, with no noise, no bladders, no motors, no cords. The patented shape-changing fibers embedded in garments produce therapeutic, variable, sequential compressions on the body that can be worn during work, rest or play. The result is a line of lightweight wearable garments that improve recovery and enhance tissue health through controllable dynamic compression.

The company has received U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its Class II 510(k) Active Compressions™ product, the RF 1400. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Recovery Force a $244,167 Phase I Small Business Innovation Grant to further its research with its patented shape-change technology.

Recovery Force’s line of wearable garments will address a wide customer base including:

• Athletes: reduce injury and enhance recovery
• General population: with muscle, joint and related pain (lower back device will launch in Q4 2017)
• Patients: reduce risk of blood clots (DVT), painful edema and lower extremity vascular insufficiency
• Military: reduce injury, enhance performance and reduce risk of micro blood clots or edema
• Pets: suffering from anxiety

“The device is a marvel of engineering.” National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 2016 Reviewer Critique

www.recoveryforceusa.com

COMET is an energy trading platform that facilitates the negotiation and execution of custom, confidential, bilateral (primarily physical) transactions in 16 energy asset classes. With 300 members, including Shell, BP, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Gazprom, Total, Mitsubishi, and many more, COMET earns revenue by charging for the volume of energy units successfully transacted. It utilizes AWS cloud technology, requiring no in-house infrastructure. COMET supports confidential internal collaboration and can integrate into its customers’ existing systems, allowing straight-through processing of transactional data.

COMET is well suited to the current COVID-19 environment. First, COMET’s price and capabilities do not change whether it is used in the office, at home, or on the road. All that is required is an internet connection. Second, the natural gas and power markets have held up well throughout past crises and are holding up well now. Lastly, there is a race to digitization and process automation, both of which are COMET core competencies. The platform continually evolves towards future markets. Currently, the focus is shifting to LNG and renewable Power Purchase agreements, both global, massive and growing markets.

COMET provides a unique, timely, and compelling growth platform, and is the newest addition to the VPEG portfolio.

https://www.trumarx.com

Navitus is a private oil and gas partnership with management controlled by the VPEG General Partners.  Through its partnership with a publicly traded oil and gas corporation, it is actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and production of oil and natural gas properties. The Partnership holds interests in properties and producing wells located onshore in Texas and New Mexico.

Victory Oilfield Tech (OTCQB: VYEY), is a publicly held oilfield energy-tech products company focused on improving well performance and extending the lifespan of the industry’s most sophisticated and expensive equipment. The Austin, Texas-based company exclusively licenses intellectual property related to amorphous metal alloys for use in the global oilfield services industry. Armacor Victory Ventures, LLC is an affiliate of Liquidmetal Coatings and the grantor of the license to Victory Oilfield Tech.  Liquidmetal Coatings Armacor® branded materials harness a revolutionary amorphous metal technology discovered in conjunction with NASA. Considered one of their top discoveries, it has the potential to fundamentally change the paradigm in material science and the industries for which Liquidmetal Coatings makes products. They harness this technology to produce the world’s leading wear and corrosion solutions.

The unique amorphous metal technology protects drill pipe, casings, and other critical assets to a degree that competitors have historically proven unable to match. This allows oil and gas producers, drillers and even applicators to maximize their asset management and field efficiencies.  The innovative, ruggedized, RFID enclosure allows assets tracking and optimization of production tubing in harsh environments and enables related and potentially valuable data services. Experts in the field have described the product as “revolutionary, with global impact.”

www.vyey.com

Blackacre Resources (BAR) is a VPEG portfolio company that sources and exploits O&G development opportunities that are large enough and scalable enough to attract institutional investment. Currently BAR controls acreage with an estimated 2 million barrels of recoverable oil and 100 billion cf of recoverable natural gas. BAR is managed by VPEG GP that have over 100 years of combined oil and gas experience.

World Champion Fantasy is the best user experience on any esport platform for players and viewers alike.  WCF provides in-game analytics to make the fantasy experience that much more enjoyable for the user.  WCF’s AI technology gives users a competitive edge and enhances their gaming experience by helping make smarter choices and conveying updated models using newly collected data.

https://worldchampionfantasy.com/

Revelator is transforming the creative IP landscape by applying a data-driven fintech approach to music IP royalties and payments.  Revelator leverages AI/ML, smart contracts and streaming data from online platforms to forecast, predict, settle and pay royalties faster than anyone. The company operates at the convergence of Business Applications, Data, Entertainment, Financial Services and Future Of Work.

https://revelator.com/

By virtue of its investment in Tusk Ventures, VPEG has equity participation in multiple disruptive companies with considerable upside potential including a direct investment in FanDuel. Founded in 2009, FanDuel is the leading daily fantasy sports provider with the sole mission of making sports more exciting. FanDuel has redefined fantasy sports; offering a multitude of one-day game options for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and college football and basketball, with new public and private leagues forming daily, ranging in size from two to thousands of players.

Fantasy sports has rapidly become an enormous industry and continues to grow. Daily games will generate an estimated $2.6 billion in entry fees this year and are projected to grow 41% annually, reaching $14.4 billion in 2020. Research analysts point to latest polling figures to show that even with this rapid growth in the industry, there is still room for increased participation in daily fantasy sports. FanDuel has raised $363 million in funding from investors including KKR, Google Capital, Time Warner/Turner Sports, Shamrock Capital, NBC Sports Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Pentech Ventures, Piton Capital and Bullpen Capital.

www.fanduel.com

META is NYC based media entity that creates multi-sensory live experiences with cutting-edge technology (AR/VR/XR), design and storytelling. These experiences are developed to combine intelligence, craft and artistry with live, immersive creative technologies to generate unforgettable, awe-inspiring, highly shareable and measurable live moments.  

https://meta.is

Visionary Media Group (VMG) is a multi-media entertainment development company, and wholly owned subsidiary of VPEG.  VMG is a next-generation American media and technology company that employs world-class talent and technology to engage community, empower artistry, and amplify storytelling.

VMG is committed to bold storytelling and creativity across artistic mediums, from feature films, documentaries and TV programs, to platform development. By developing top-tier artists and songwriters to maximize their content across the digital and physical landscape, VMG is powering the future of music.

VMG’s record label affiliate, focuses on the development of artists and songwriters by providing the resources and domain expertise to maximize economics from their content across the digital landscape. VMG is based in, and maintains an office in Nashville, TN.

www.visionarymediagroup.com

Blockfills was founded in 2018 as a technology and financial services firm focused on servicing institutions in the digital asset space.  The Company has successfully built and deployed a cutting edge multi-asset technology platform that provides price discovery, electronic order matching, smart order routing and trade reconciliation solutions for institutions in the digital spot, derivatives and lending markets.

The Company offers prime brokerage services including the borrowing and lending of coins, mining services, provision of liquidity, asset management and software solutions to industry leaders in the digital space.  Blockfills has expediently built a global brand and is recognized as a progressive force in the crypto industry.

Since inception, the Company has onboarded over 350 B2B accounts in over 50 countries and is currently connected to over 25 liquidity venues around the world.  With offices in Chicago, New York and London, the Company has quickly become a one-stop-shop for astute digital asset participants globally.

https://blockfills.com

The Power of Preparedness (TPOP) is a workplace violence and shooter preparedness training program designed to save lives. TPOP’s eLearning course offers companies clear guidance for identifying, preventing, and surviving any type of workplace violence especially an active shooter event. TPOP’s baseline, eLearning course covers all the critical topics: Early Recognition: Identifying, de-escalating, and preventing violence, Situational Awareness: Maximizing your safety in any situation, Recognizing Gunfire, Surviving an Active Shooter Event: Scenario based Run, Hide, Fight and more, and Response to Injury: Critical life-saving instruction for the minutes before medical help arrives. 

https://thepowerofpreparedness.com

Lemonade is a technology-first, legacy-free insurance carrier that offers an instantaneous, un-conflicted property & casualty (renters and homeowners) product powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics combined with a peer-to-peer user platform. The company provides consumers with a seamless user experience while replacing the bureaucracy that plagues incumbents in the insurance industry. Social good is another aspect of the business model, where underwriting profits go to nonprofits of the customers’ choice, in the company’s annual “Giveback.”

Co-investors alongside VPEG include Softbank, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, General Catalyst and Allianz. Lemonade was also recognized as one of the top 25 tech companies to watch by the Wall Street Journal in 2017.

www.lemonade.com

McCarvill Capital Partners (MCP) is an independent private placement firm dedicated to raising large-scale institutionally-focused capital for a wide range of investment funds and private placements. MCP’s team is comprised of successful senior professionals from top tier Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Societe Generale who have advised and secured capital for best-in-class alternative investment managers and companies, both domestically and internationally.

The McCarvill team has collectively raised over $70 billion to date, and has represented and executed on behalf of the highest quality fund managers and established firms across multiple market sectors including Disruptive Technology, Energy, Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Real Estate and Credit/Hedge Funds.

This investment formalizes a long-standing relationship giving VPEG access to opportunities that are typically only available to large institutions; and provides access through MCP to institutional growth capital, as appropriate, for a number of VPEG’s portfolio companies. VPEG’s relationship with MCP has already rewarded our Partners with investment opportunities in the Tusk Venture Fund (which includes the highly touted Lemonade) and FanDuel.

www.mccarvillcapital.com

Tusk Venture Partners I, LP (“TVP”) is the maiden fund of regulatory catalyst Bradley Tusk. Previously, Bradley served as campaign manager for Mike Bloomberg and communications director for US Senator Chuck Schumer. His work with startups began in early 2011 when he agreed to work with then-brand new transportation startup Uber to help the company overcome regulatory issues posed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) of New York City.

Tusk Ventures is the first political strategy firm focused primarily on helping startups navigate the political, regulatory, and media hurdles that come with reshaping entrenched industries. The company’s investment professionals and in-house team of political and regulatory experts partner directly with high-growth companies entering highly regulated sectors and work with them to accomplish their goals through direct advocacy, campaign management, narrative development and strategic execution.

Tusk Ventures works with a dedicated portfolio of startups to overcome regulatory hurdles, take advantage of new opportunities, and go to market. The companies in their portfolio include Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Eaze, Nexar, Ripple and Coinbase.

www.tuskventures.com

BioQ Pharma is a late stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a portfolio of large volume ready-to-use infusible pharmaceuticals. BioQ Pharma’s vision is to set a new standard of care in the presentation and administration of infusible pharmaceuticals via a proprietary unit-dose infusion system that can be deployed quickly and conveniently at the point of care with one touch. BioQ Pharma’s infusion platform is intended to address some of the most pressing unmet needs in infusion today: cost, medication error, sterility, efficiency, and patient quality of life.

www.bioqpharma.com

IDM LabTrack has been developing and deploying comprehensive business information management systems for healthcare applications since 2007. Its LabTrack™ solution is a unique, track and trace system combining advanced radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and proven data gathering and analysis capabilities to help control laboratory costs, significantly reduce errors and risk, and ensure patient safety. LabTrack™ provides solutions for the clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories for hospitals and commercial laboratories.

InSoundz captures, indexes, analyzes and delivers profound, clear and relevant audio content moments and is the first company to offer fully automated volumetric audio production in live events. Based in Tel Aviv, the company was established in October 2013 by key technology leaders out of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) elite intelligence technological unit. By employing ground breaking patented sound technology, InSoundz is able to quite literally reshape viewer experience and engagement KPIs, increase post-event broadcast feature optionality and potential – maximizing linear and non-linear broadcast dollars at each turn – with particular strength in live event / land based entertainment and sports offerings. The first 2 years of the company’s existence were dedicated to core development and patent applications, giving InSoundz a strong head start in the market with a portfolio of 3 granted patents and 4 provisional patents, with the opportunity to submit additional patents out of a pool of over 20 potential applications.

InSoundz is enjoying an ever-increasing ground swell of partnering opportunities with live sports and media events broadcasters, professional leagues and teams, global live event production companies, and VR / AR computer vision technologies alike. The company is actively engaged with Major League Baseball, LaLiga in Spain and Intel Sports.

www.insoundz.com

Shop4e, a Seattle based, foreign market focused, e-commerce technology company. The founder and CEO of the company, Harry Hu, spent several years as a developer at Amazon and has unique expertise in the cross-border e-commerce domain, generally, and in the challenges associated with China based e-commerce specifically. His extraordinary network in China has allowed him unique insight in to the hurdles that most e-commerce entities fail to fully understand, and access to the solution sets that competitors are unable to unlock.

Shop4e has several competitive advantages in the e-commerce industry. Using an array of patent pending technologies, the platform enables a brand or merchant’s e-commerce storefront to become instantly available globally, direct to consumer, with no up-front costs or back end integrations. With a focus on the multi-billion-dollar Chinese market, the platform solves all the major issues when trying to expand sales overseas. The technology dynamically translates all content on the site in real time, handling both language translations and unit conversions, and all updates to products and content get reflected instantly. Payment processing is done using the most common payment methods for the region (WeChat Pay, Alipay) delivered in a consistent checkout experience. In addition, there is an entire logistics pipeline in place that rivals Amazon’s logistics and fulfilment process, to allow direct to consumer shipments in to China quickly and cost effectively.

www.shop4e.co

Founded in 2018, Rocklin, California-based Luna provides outpatient physical therapy in the home setting. Through the company’s platform, patients are matched with a physical therapist at the time and location of their choosing.

Healion Bio was established by Dr. Sina Bavari and Simon Newman to develop cures and preventative medicines for diseases caused by a variety of biologic pathogens for which there are few or no good treatment options.

Healion Bio aims to improve health by rapidly developing drugs, vaccines and technologies to fight some of the world’s most troubling and unaddressed diseases.

The company combines excellence in science with entrepreneurial creativity so it can be nimble, innovative and responsive. It partners with pharma companies, universities and government labs to get to a safe, workable solution quickly. https://www.healionbio.com

MCP OWP Pharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on the lucrative “branded generic” anti-epileptic drug (AED) space.   The AED market is over $13.5 BB annually in sales. OWP currently has at least one AED in over 90% of domestic formularies that carry AEDs, and has several additional drugs in the “branded generic” pipeline.  OWP is led by CEO Scott Boyer who has over 25 years in big pharma including top management positions with Abbot and Bristol Myers Squibb

MCP OWP Pharma, LLC is an investment vehicle formed by Manna Capital Partners, LLC to invest in OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

www.owppharma.com

Predictive Health Diagnostics has developed the PULS test, which cost effectively helps in the fight against cardiovascular and other preventable diseases with the use of molecular diagnostic technologies. Developed by Dr. Douglas Harrington and independently validated through clinical trials at the National Institute of Health, the PULS test very accurately detects and measures the level of coronary heart disease present in the human body as well as assesses the likelihood of a patient experiencing a heart attack over the ensuing five years. Since 2015, the Company’s laboratory subsidiary, Global Diagnostic Biosciences (“GDB”) has completed over 10,000 PULS tests.

http://gdbiosciences.com/meet-our-ceo

The CEO of MPC presented before Congress in the Fall of 2014 stating potash found in Michigan “is the highest grade ore in the world, has the ability to double US domestic production for over 150 years, has no sovereign risk, is located in a country with a net deficiency (US imports >85%), and is strategically and critically located in an area with established infrastructural strength.”

These critical steps should see the enterprise value of MPC increase dramatically.  Upon completion of the final stages, project development will occur. VPEG has been vetting and monitoring progress on this opportunity for over a year; affording VPEG the opportunity to invest the final dollars prior to these transformative events.

www.mipotash.com

C&F Minerals is a mineral and royalty portfolio company. C&F buys producing oil and gas assets at steep discounts to current and future values. The company is owned and managed by Cliff Hair, a VPEG General Partner with over 40 years of mineral acquisition expertise.