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CALADAN

CAPITAL

Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments

Caladan Capital continues to hold a portfolio of legacy investments from Insight Equity, as well as new investments from Caladan Capital. Those investments include, but are not limited to:

Venture Capital:

Caladan Oceanic: A marine technology company focused on developing and deploying systems for ultra-deep water exploration.

Colossal Biosciences: An innovative company leading the efforts to “de-extinct” species such as the Woolly Mammoth and Dodo Bird through the use of novel genetic and other synthetic biology tools.

Caladan Therapeutics: A firm dedicated to discovering genetic-based cures for incurable diseases that avoid immune responses by maintaining a latent presence in the human nervous system.

AstroForge: A space technology firm that seeks to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods. Its next mission, a reconnaissance and technology-demonstration spacecraft to an "M-class" (metal) asteroid, is scheduled for launch in early 2025.

Sceye: Ultra-long endurance, stratospheric airships and technology to provide high-bandwidth relay and staring reconnaissance for telecommunications, environmental and other applications. Bridges the gap between cell phone towers, high-endurance aircraft, and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations with far lower operating costs and higher payload capability.

Abyss Defense Industries: A subcontractor to US Navy and commercial ship construction firms that uses advanced robotic, vision systems, and artificial intelligence to fabricate modular ship structures in the United States to compensate for the lack of specialized marine construction labor in the country. First contracts are scheduled to begin execution in two US ports during 2025.

Digital Harmonics: Founded by an accomplished acoustics and software engineering team, the firm has developed significantly enhanced digital compression technologies for use in live commercial streaming as well as developing significantly improved imagery transmission for medical and defense applications. First deployment of the technology with a major commercial customer to begin in 2025.

Sofant Technologies: A firm based in the UK which has developed highly advanced antenna systems using a combination of Micro Electro-Meachanical (MEM) devices combined with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) controls. Their products allow for significantly higher data throughput with lower power consumption and substantially reduced waste heat. First deployment of broadband antennas into commercial aircraft slated for 2025.

Ghostfire: Developer of bio-luminescent plants for private and commercial aesthetic use, as well as advancing gene-editing technology to advance genetic engineering tools for botany and other disciplines. A spin-off from Colossal Biosciences.

Form Bio: An advanced technology life sciences firm building a comprehensive suite of tools to enable accelerated cell and gene therapy development and computational biology at scale. A spin-off from Colossal Biosciences.

Industrial Private Equity:

Precision Holdings / Midstate Machine: Precision metal machining primarily for military and commercial jet engine products as well as turbine-based power generation equipment.

Virtex: A contract manufacturer of electronic components or finished goods for the defense, aerospace, and specialty industrial customers across eight locations in the US and Mexico. Also provides wire harness assemblies for SpaceX's Raptor rocket engines.

CSAT Industries: The largest provider of contract warranty repair services for Apple laptop products as well as for Dell, Lenovo, HP, and certain medical products.

LDX Solutions: An industrial pollution control designer, manufacturer, and systems integrator across a variety of industries including paper, pulp, wood pellet, steel, manufacturing, and other industries.

Emerald Transformers: Commercial and residential electrical power transformer decommissioning, repair, and sales.

Panolam Surface Systems: A manufacturer and distributor of a variety of commercial surface systems primarily used for high-durability retail or commercial settings.

Eddy Foods: Packages primarily beef and pork products for a variety of retail clients across the United States, based in southern Texas.

Easy Way Products: Builder and distributor of high-end outdoor furniture cushions primarily for Restoration Hardware with the majority of production occurring in Mexico.

Clearly Clean: Manufacturers premium, highly recyclable PET food trays for mass-market and specialty retailers as an alternative to conventional Styrofoam.

Endurance Lift Solutions: A Texas-based firm that supplies advanced technologies and services for lifting oil and gas products to maximize well productivity and environmental sustainability.

Special Situations:

Caladan Capital Trading: Provides highly liquid capital for short-term trading opportunities in the worldwide capital markets.