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Iconic Spaces

Spectacular Event Spaces and Best-in-Class Related Companies

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GOTHAM HALL

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A spectacular landmark building that once housed Greenwich Savings Bank, Gotham Hall is truly an iconic Manhattan event space. Gotham Hall features a 9,000 square foot Ballroom with a 70-foot soaring ceiling and an ornate stained-glass skylight. Located on Broadway at 36 th Street, Gotham is one of only a handful of class A standalone event spaces in Midtown.

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ZIEGFELD BALLROOM

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In 2017, Apple Core redeveloped the famed Ziegfeld Theater and converted it into a dramatic event space which now serves as a Manhattan mecca for society galas and corporate events.  The Art Deco-inspired space is as iconic as the historic theatre from which it takes its name: both steeped in heritage and equipped with cutting edge technology.  Located just of 6th Avenue on 54th, the Ziegfeld Ballroom is the most centrally located class A event space in Midtown.

Birch Event Design

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Led by creative visionary designer, Josh Spiegel, Birch is a collective of designers, producers, and florists dedicated to the creation of unparalleled design experiences.  From weddings to fundraisers to celebrations, and beyond, Birch is ALL IN for its clients creating environments for events like no other.  

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RAM CATERERS

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On of New York City’s most premier and innovative Kosher caterers since 1978, Ram Caterers adapts your needs and desires into exceptional, well-planned events that consistently surpass our clients’ expectations.

Core Properties

Real Estate with an Attitude

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1200 OCEAN DRIVE

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Located on the corner of Ocean Drive and 12th Street in the heart of South Beach, 1200 is an ocean front property that houses the Pink Taco restaurant and a small hotel.

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The Park at Topaz Riviera

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This 256-unit multifamily complex offers unique lakeside living, just steps from historic Downtown Sanford Florida.  The property offers a spectacular location with amazing views of Lake Monroe and just minutes to Interstate 4, the Central Florida Zoo, and the Orlando/Sanford Airport.

The Park at Topaz Cay

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A 197-unit multifamily complex in the heart of Melborne, Florida, a fast growing submarket of Orlando.

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Gotham Hall

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A spectacular landmark building that once housed Greenwich Savings Bank, Gotham Hall is truly an iconic Manhattan event space. Gotham Hall features a 9,000 square foot Ballroom with a 70-foot soaring ceiling and an ornate stained-glass skylight.

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ZIEGFELD BALLROOM

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The Art Deco-inspired space is as iconic as the historic theatre from which it takes its name: both steeped in heritage and equipped with cutting edge technology.  Located just of 6th Avenue on 54th, the Ziegfeld Ballroom is the most centrally located class A event space in Midtown.

THE SHOPS AT PALMETTO BAY

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A two story outdoor mall, located in the heart of Palmetto Bay, Miami Florida.

Core Ventures

Investments in Cutting Edge Technologies and Companies

Acquired by Uber

Drizly
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  • Area: DTC

  • Round: Seed

     

  • Beer, wine and liquor delivered to your doorstep

  • Drizly (acquired by Uber) offers a simple way to choose from thousands of alcohol products online and have them delivered to your doorstep in under 60 minutes. Haha. THE FUTURE!

  • 2014

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Socure
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  • Area: Enterprise Tech

  • Round: Seed

  • Identity Starts Here

  • Trusted by 1,000+ top financial institutions, government agencies, and enterprises, Socure is the only graph-defined identity verification platform that utilizes every element of identity – delivering the most accurate fraud detection and identity verification in real time.

  • 2014

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Acquired by google

Siemplify
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  • Area: Enterprise Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Respond at lightning speed. Regain your thunder.

  • Siemplify (acquired by Google in 2021) automates and speeds up company’s threat response with the #1 cloud-native SOAR platform.

  • 2015

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plainID
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  • Area: Enterprise Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Authentication Management Plain and Simple

  • PlainID provides the leading authorization and access company providing cutting edge solutions through its Policy Manager and Partner Manager product lines.

  • 2015

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Acquired by Fortinet

Concourse Labs
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  • Area: Enterprise Cloud Security

  • Round: : Seed

  • Security-As-Code

  • Concourse offers the most innovative Security-as-Code architecture to deliver the most powerful Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, providing continuous runtime controls that catch drift, rogue pipelines, and attas in real-time.

  • 2015

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Acquired by Suse

StackState
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  • Area: Enterprise Technology Infrastructure

  • Round: A Round

  • Topology-Powered Observability

  • Stackstate uniquely provides a complete picture of the state of a company’s technology stack at every moment in time, preventing some issues entirely and crushing resolution times of others.

  • 2019

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FieldPulse
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  • Area: Enterprise Tech

  • Round: Seed

  • Grow your top line and maximize profits

  • FieldPulse helps thousands of service contractors boost sales, increase margins, and put their business in the pest position to grow.

  • 2017

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Acquired by salesforce

Bonobo.ai
Bonobo Technologies
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  • Area: Enterprise Tech

  • Round: Seed

  • Make your chatbox data actionable

  • Bonobo Technologies (acquired by Salesforce) is an AI platform that captures and analyzes 100% of the textual and conversational data produced by organizations, producing real-time actionable insights that help close more deals, decrease churn rates and provide a great and personalized experience for clients.

  • 2018

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elastio
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  • Area:  Cloud Security

  • Round: A

  • Elastio detects ransomware before and after detonation.  When existing cloud security measures fail to protect against cyberattacks, Elastio detects and precisely identifies ransomware in the data and assures rapid post-attack recovery.  Recover in minutes - not weeks.

  • 2023

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Memcyco
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  • Area: Enterprise Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Keep your customers, partners and employees safe from cyber attacks.

  • Memcyco provides a unique, innovative technology that provides a Proof of Authenticity Solution that protects brands & their users from malicious impostors.

  • 2022

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Acquired by Blattner Technologies

Superwise.ai
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  • Area: Enterprise AI Ops

  • Round: Seed

  • Streamline your model observability

  • Superwise delivers machine learning (ML) stack monitoring and gives a company everything it needs to deploy, maintain and improve ML in production.

  • 2015

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Velotix
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  • Area: Enterprise Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Data Protection Solution for the DATA ACCESS LIFECYCLE

  • Velotix is a secure, self-service, holistic data access platform powered by a dynamic AI engine that does all the heavy lifting, empowering organizations to do more with their data, compliantly.

  • 2022

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Geneyx
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  • Area: Life Sciences

  • Round: Seed

  • Better Data for Better Health

  • Geneyx is an Israeli based AI genetics analysis and interpretation platform, interpreting the genome sequencing data to improve precision medicine and disrupt the existing bioinformatics market.

  • Q2 2022

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Reflectiz
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  • Area: Enterprise Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Connected Websites Need Connected Security

  • Reflectiz provides protection for a company’s web assets from the risks created by third-party apps, with no installation and zero impact on performance.

  • 2020

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Cybord
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  • Area: Enterprise Tech

  • Round: A

  • Electronics components analytics platform

  • The Cybord Deep Visual-AI platform aggregates and analyzes images and data from 100% of the electronic components. It combines existing production data and unique new visual data collection, and ensures product quality, authenticity, and traceability, for OEMs and EMSs.

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Revenue Roll
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  • Area: Ad Tech

  • Round: Pre-Seed

  • We scale your revenue the right way

  • Revenue Roll provides cutting edge digital advertising analytics at a very attractive price, provides performance marketing for its analytics customers, and helps finance their customers growth.

  • 2021

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OpenAds.AI
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  • Area: Adtech

  • Round: Pre-Seed

  • Open Ads is building the SSP for Generative aI with prompt-relevant ads that fit your UX.  Your ads should be as smart as your AI.

  • 2022

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Smarty.AI
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  • Area: Consumer Tech

  • Round: Pre-seed

  • Your Productivity Sidekick

  • Schedule anything, automate eeryting, use natural language & do it all in one tool. Smarty is the #1 productivity tool to simplify, streamline, and scale yourself and your business.

  • 2021

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NGrow
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  • Area: Adtech

  • Round: Seed

  • Boost revenue and engagement

  • Ngrow uses multiple AI algorithms for push notifications adjusting timing, frequency and message for maximum revenue growth. And they do it with a no-code integration to your that ties into a company’s analytics platform.

  • 2022

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Split
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  • Area: NextGen Commerce

  • Round: Seed

  • Share a link, split the benefits

  • Split provides influencers with links to share that share’s their commission with their followers who purchase through that link. Split links convert at over 3X the standard influencer link where all the commission is kept by the influencer making influencer sales more profitable for Brands, Influencers, and their followers.

  • 2022

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Roomie
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  • Area: NextGen Commerce

  • Round: Pre-Seed

  • A better way to plan and shop for your space

  • Roomie scans living spaces (starting with college dorms) to create accurate 3-D representations and provides a marketplace allowing tenants to drag and drop digital representations of furniture from vendors into the 3-D model of their room so you can plan layouts with precision without measuring anything.

  • 2022

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Kartera
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  • Area: Banking as a Service (BAAS)

  • Round: Seed

  • Reduce Credit Card processing fees by up to 90%

  • Kartera is a branded payments platform that helps small-to-medium sized marketplace and gig economy companies reduce processing fees and increase customer loyalty with a no-code integration.

  • 2022

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Rove Travel
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  • Area: Protech

  • Round: Seed (extension)

  • Rove Travel is technology platform creating a market for furnished luxury monthly rentals with high brand standards for finishings and amenities.  Rove is filling the gap in the marketplace for a technology platform matching tenants interested in luxury rentals for terms of 1 – 11 months, competing with rental brokers instead of other property management platforms or firms.

  • 2023

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GO
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  • Area: DTC

  • Round: A

  • The easiest, fastest, cheapest alternative to car ownership

  • Order a new car online in minutes

  • Pay no money down with monthly payments 20% - 30% cheaper than lease payments

  • 2023

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Vendo
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  • Area: NextGen E-Commerce

  • Round: Pre-Seed

  • One platform for all eCommerce marketplace needs

  • SAAS turnkey multi-vendor marketplace

  • No code or inventory required

  • 2023

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BriefCatch
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  • Area: LegalTech/AI

  • Round: Seed

  • BriefCatch provides an AI driven editing platform for Lawyers to proof their legal documents.  Founded and created by Ross Guberman, one of the recognized experts in legal writing, Brief Catch is already used by dozens of law firms large and small, Judges at courts and Law Schools around the country.  Like a “Grammarly for legal documents”, Brief Catch saves valuable lawyers time editing documents, as well as making those documents better.

  • 2023

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REBUY
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  • Area: Adtech

  • Round: A (secondary)

  • Rebuy's personalization platform helps the world's most customer-centric brands to create engaging, individualized and intelligent shopping experiences.  Over 8,000 brands use Rebuy's AI-powered shopping experience.

  • 2023

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Lunchbox
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  • Area: NextGen Commerce

  • Round: B

  • Powerful and Simple Online Ordering

  • Lunchbox provides restaurants with all the tools they need to provide online ordering, marketing, and data access to customers through direct sales to grow their direct online sales by 3x

  • 2021

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Joy
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  • Area: Consumer Tech

  • Round: B

  • The smarter way to plan your big day

  • Joy is the “operating system” for wedding planning and coordination. Experience wedding planning the way it should be – intuitive, thoughtful, and personal.

  • 2022

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Ontraport
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  • Area: Enterprise Tech

  • Round: Seed

  • Build, automate and scale your vision with Ontraport

  • Ontraport is a CRM and automation platform designed for any business that’s ready to scale, giving you all the tools you need for selling, marketing and managing a business online – in one app.

  • 2014

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Zeno Media
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  • Area: Consumer Audio Content Delivery

  • Round: Seed

  • The easiest way to create and listen to radio stations and podcasts from around the world.

  • Zeno has built a global platform for broadcasters and listeners to share, create, and enjoy audio content from anywhere around the world.

  • 2012

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Life Biosciences
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  • Area: Life Sciences

  • Round: A (via acquisition of Lua Technologies)

  • Aging can be redefined. We’re leading the way.

  • Life Biociencess is developing innovative therapies to transform howe treat diseases by targeting aging biology.

  • 2018

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Polypid
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  • Area: Life Sciences

  • Round: Late Stage Pre-Public Round

  • Optimized Therapeutics

  • Polypid is a global clinical-stage bio-pharmaceutical company. The company’s PLEX technology is a unique platform that is anchored in the surgical site to provide controlled and continuous delivery of medications.

  • 2019

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Ford's Garage
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  • Area: Restaurant Franchise

  • Round: B

  • Prime burgers and craft beers

  • 23 locations across 6 states and growing

  • 2023

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Grey Market Labs
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  • Area: Cyber Security

  • Round: Seed

  • Preventing data exploitation. For good.

  • An investment via Capri Ventures, GML assists organizations in data protection. Their primary product is the Replica platform, which is a comprehensive enterprise-wide counter exploitation platform. It works by creating authentic virtual environments to protect data owners and empower data users.

  • 2024

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Caraway
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  • Area: Consumer Product

  • Round: Seed

  • Kitchenware designed for the modern home cook

  • Caraway designs thoughtfully designed kitchenware without the chemicals.

  • 2024

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JJ Aviation
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  • Area: Aviation

  • Round: Seed

  • Belize’s Gateway to the world

  • JJ Aviation aims to connect Central America with safe, accessible, and affordable flights. Their vision is built around the ATR 72, a twin-engine turbo prop plane that is capable of landing on short runways and is substantially more fuel efficient than a jet for short routes.

  • 2024

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Oban BioPharma
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  • Area: Bio Tech

  • Round: Seed

  • Unlocking the Power of GPCR Allosteric Therapeutics

  • Oban has adopted a streamlined approach based on computerized high-resolution allosteric pocket mapping, coupled to a multi-dimensional in silico screening process using state-of-the-art tools with compound databases comprised of more than 15 billion structures, pre-curated for drug-like chemical properties. Additional AI-based analysis of validated predictors of drug-like properties of absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME) and toxicology maximize chemotype therapeutic potential.

  • 2024

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Rivertel
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  • Area: Telecom

  • Round: Seed

  • Experience Connectivity Like Never Before

  • Rivertel is an MVNO that delivers robust phone plans at incredible prices. Rivertel caters specifically to the immigrant population and has a sizeable and growing presence in brick and mortar retail locations. 

  • 2024

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Core Funds

Partnering with Investment Funds with an Edge

Capri Ventures
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  • Fund Type: Venture – Seed Round Enterprise Technology

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Anchor Investor; Steve Klein on Advisory Board

  • Fund Description: Capri has a deep team of current and former enterprise tech senior executives and invests in early-stage enterprise tech with a focus on cyber security and AI.  Companies are often, but not always, companies started in Israel.

  • Year of First Funding: 2015

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IrrvrntVC
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  • Fund Type: Venture – Pre-seed and Seed Round Consumer Focused Technology

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Anchor Investor; Steve Klein on Advisory Board

  • Fund Description: Irrvrnt, led by digital marketing guru Andrew Gluck (co-founder of Agency Within), invests in very early stage companies where he can add value given his digital marketing expertise and network, in the DTC, AdTech & NextGen Commerce spaces. Andrew has a laser focus on founder/market fit.

  • Year of First Funding: 2021

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Abundance Partners
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  • Fund Type: Venture – Series A Round Enterprise Tech

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Anchor Investor

  • Fund Description: Abundance’s investment focus is on Enterprise Tech with exceptional teams, scalable and efficient business models, and pragmatic valuations  

  • Year of First Funding: 2012

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Shavit Capital
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  • Fund Type: Private Equity

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Early Large Investor; Steve Klein is a Venture Partner

  • Fund Description: Shavit specializes in late-stage companies in Israeli and Israeli-related companies

  • Year of First Funding: 2008

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Revenue Roll Debt Fund
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  • Fund Type: Debt

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Anchor Investor; Steve Klein on Advisory Board

  • Fund Description: Revenue Roll Debt Fund has a mandate to make short term loans to fund mainly advertising spend of Revenue Roll’s clients. Revenue Roll is an digital ad analytics and digital ad performance marketing company.

  • Year of First Funding: 2022

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Riaz Capital Opportunity Zone Fund
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  • Fund Type: Real Estate Opportunity Zone Fund

  • Apple Core's Relationship:Large LP; Steve Klein on LP Advisory Committee

  • Fund Description: Riaz Capital is a real estate development and asset management fund focused solely on investment and development in the Bay Area (with a focus on Oakland) in Opportunity Zones, providing substantial tax benefits to it’s investors.

  • Year of First Funding: 2022

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Greatwater Opportunity Capital
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  • Fund Type: Real Estate Opportunity Zone Fund

  • Apple Core's Relationship: Large LP

  • Fund Description: Greatwater is a real estate private equity investment and development fund solely focused on investment and development in Detroit Opportunity Zones, helping revitalize Detroit neighborhoods and availing investors of significant tax advantages.

  • Year of First Funding: 2021

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Core Entertainment

Entertainment Projects that Speak to Us

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Passing Strange
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  • Entertainment Type: Film

  • The last performance of Passing Strange, the Tony winning Broadway Show, captured in 16 cameras, was directed by Spike Lee and earned 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!  Steve Klein and Spike Lee produced the film with all the Apple Core Partners Executive Producing. Available for purchase on Apple.

  • Year: 2009

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Game Day
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  • Entertainment Type: Film

  • Richard Lewis stars as a brilliant college basketball coach who’s barely functional in his personal life.  After his fall from grace at major colleges, he winds up in a tiny town upstate and leads an unlikely team to the college championship game.  Steve Klein wrote and directed Game Day which is available for purchase on Amazon Prime.

  • Year: 1999

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Choices
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  • Entertainment Type: Film

  • Choices is a quirky, intense, entertaining short film by Steve Klein starring Greg Giraldo in one of his earliest film projects. Set on one rainy night in Manhattan, three Les Miz-obsessed tough guys show up and present two roommates with three difficult choices. A meta-meditation on how our choices in life always catch up to us in the ends.

  • Year: 1996

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The Total Bent
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  • Entertainment Type: Stage

  • Supported the development of this new musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (the creators of Passing Strange) at New York’s Public Theater.

  • Year: 2016

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Hello, Dolly!
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  • Entertainment Type: Stage

  • Invested in this Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of this classic musical starring Bette Midler

  • Year: 2017

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Lehman Trilogy
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  • Entertainment Type: Stage

  • Invested in this Tony Award-winning play, which transferred to Broadway from London’s National Theatre. It tells the consequential story of the Lehman Brothers from 1844 through to the spectacular collapse of the company that bears their name that triggers the largest financial crisis in history.

  • Year: 2021

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The Prom
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  • Entertainment Type: Film

  • Invested in this Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that follows four fading Broadway stars from Times Square to Edgewater, Indiana on a cross-country quest for attention and help a high school senior take her girlfriend to the prom. A film of the musical starring a megawatt cast lead by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman was adapted and directed for Netflix by Ryan Murphy.

  • Year: 2017

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The Moblees
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  • Entertainment Type: TV Show

  • The Moblees is a kids TV show that ran for many years in Canada on their public broadcasting network, CBC. It promotes health through movement as the kids who watch take an adventure with Bailey Butterfly, Carlin Caterpillar, Dasha Dog, Gisbert Grasshopper and Sylvio Snake.

  • Year: 2014 - current

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Conviction
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  • Entertainment Type: Play

  • Conviction was developed in theaters in Colorado and had a 5 week run produced by Victory Gardens Theater (Tony winner for regional theater) and Steve Klein (Drama Desk winner for Passing Strange). Conviction follows a Priest during the Spanish Inquisition who is hiding a dangerous secret.

  • Year: 2010

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Masked
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  • Entertainment Type: Play

  • Associate Producer of Masked, an award-winning play about three Palestinian brothers, which according to press notes, “tackles the cultural divide at the heart of the Middle East conflict. Masked depicts the tragedy of one family torn between obligations, kinship, principles and survival. It is the first play by an Israeli playwright about the Intifada (Palestinian uprising).”

  • Year: 2007

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