Avalara, Inc.

Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management is a registered investment advisor based in Los Angeles, California with approximately $7 billion in assets under management. Our clients include affluent individuals, endowments, foundations, corporations, public funds, and pension plans for who it manages a range of portfolios having a common disciplined, high-quality investment philosophy

Alkeon Capital Management aims to achieve capital appreciation through investments primarily in long or short positions of publicly-traded and private companies across sectors globally. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamentally driven, research-intensive approach to investing. On the long side, their investment program focuses on investments in the equity securities of companies that they believe are well positioned to benefit from demand for their products or services, including companies that can innovate or grow rapidly relative to their peers in their markets. On the short side, Alkeon Capital Management may affect short sales of securities when it believes that the market price of a security is above its estimated intrinsic or fundamental value.

FAM is a growth manager that uses proprietary, bottom-up, fundamental research to identify companies that are undergoing positive dynamic change. The firm invests in companies experiencing high unit volume growth and/or companies undergoing a positive life cycle change. Companies with high unit volume growth are experiencing growing revenues and unit volume, increasing market share, and an expanding business. Companies undergoing positive life cycle change may have new management, a new product innovation, may be involved in a new acquisition or may stand to benefit from new regulations. FAM offers multiple investment strategies.

The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $3.4 trillion[1] in assets. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and now the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock, with about $451 billion in ETF assets under management, as of March 2015.[3] It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to retail and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Founder and former chairman John C. Bogle is credited with the creation of the first index fund available to individual investors,[4] the popularization of index funds generally,[5] and driving costs down across the mutual fund industry.

Co-Founder at Avalara, Inc.