Investor Directory

At 1 Bold Step, we believe marketing should play a key role in optimizing your end-to-end revenue cycle. We also believe the best way to do that is by applying LEAN principles to create efficient systems, increase demand, and deliver a return on your marketing investment. That's what we do. We help you transform your sales and marketing from overhead into a driver of predictable business growth.

42 North Partners is a single-family office founded by Mike and Sue Jandernoa located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Following the example set by Mike and Sue and bolstered by their continued leadership, our team of experienced professionals focuses our efforts primarily in three areas: investments, entrepreneurship, and community. Our values have inspired us to support entrepreneurship and a wide variety of non-profit and community-based initiatives throughout our home state.

Abstraction Syndicate (AbsyAi) is a collective of engineers, data scientists and designers, who are focused on building Generative AI (GenAI) tooling, simplifying your day-to-day work. Resulting in time saved, but remaining human.

Acrisure is a leading national brokerage with local insurance and benefits agencies and specialties. Through their agencies, they offer a broad spectrum of insurance related products, consulting services, and enhanced carrier relationships to their numerous personal and commercial clients. Acrisure is one of the top 15 largest privately held insurance agencies in the nation. They built their strength on the reputation of their local agency offices in combination with the vast resources of Acrisure, to better service their clients and prospects.

Nestled near the convergence of the Grand and Thornapple Rivers several miles east of Grand Rapids lies Ada Township. Here, natural scenic beauty mingles with progressive business, excellent medical, educational and cultural facilities to create an ideal place to live, work and play. Ada's scenic beauty includes gently rolling woodland terrain, meandering rivers, lush meadows, several working farmlands, and a historic Village.

ADAC is a supplier of engineered products to the world automotive industry. Their mission is to continually create customer satisfaction, enabling their business to prosper, thereby providing jobs for their employees and a reasonable return for their shareholders. ADAC is a member of VAST (Vehicle Access Systems Technology), a partnership which operates in the global automotive marketplace to provide products and services to strategic customers. ADAC’s services include Product Design, Product Validation, Product Data Exchange, Structural Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Modal Analysis.

We’ve streamlined the process of ADHD diagnosis and treatment so that you can get the care you deserve.

With over 125 years combined experience, the Advantage family has built an impressive and extensive client group. Our leadership will help you construct a long term strategic plan with maximum value to both employee and employer by benchmarking your plans, leveraging the market, incorporating consumerism, providing employees real and valuable choices, and managing health and retirement risks. The result is a successful benefits plan that helps our clients meet their financial goals and recruit and retain top talent.

We have the best, brightest, and most experienced commercial real estate advisors in West Michigan that specialize in industrial, office, retail, investment, land, and multifamily sectors. Our in-house marketing and research professionals provide a wide range of services to fit the unique needs of our clients. Through our depth of expertise, we can provide local and national landlords, tenants, and investors with creative and strategic solutions to all their real estate needs.

From Fortune 500 to small, family-owned businesses, AEBetancourt is experienced in hiring and implementing talent development programs for a diverse range of organizations. We have the professional expertise to match your unique talent demands. AEBetancourt helps our clients implement a comprehensive Human Capital solution to find, select, train and motivate talent. We are dedicated to increasing our clients profitability, by using the best resources to match our clients needs and through transparent and honest work.

Alpine Township is located northwest of metropolitan Grand Rapids, Michigan, and encompasses 36 square miles of which about 75% remains prime farm land. Alpine Township's mixture of soils, climate, and terrain make it especially suitable for apple production, among other crops and dairy products. The Township is known as the beginning of "The Ridge" - an area of farmland extending northwest through Ottawa and Kent Counties, east to Belding. "The Ridge" produces 40% of Michigan's apples. Kent County, of which Alpine Township is a part, has the greatest number of apple trees in Michigan.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Earth’s best employer, and Earth’s safest place to work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon.