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With more than 120 operations and 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, forgings, and clad products for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

The American Foundry Society (AFS) is a dynamic professional society and trade association serving the men, women and companies that comprise the $50 billion metalcasting industry. Advocacy, education and innovation are essential functions performed by the Society, its nearly 1,000 volunteers and 30 professional staff. AFS members design and produce highly engineered castings that are used throughout the manufacturing economy and modern life. Corporate Members include foundries, suppliers to the industry, and OEMs that use castings. Member foundries melt the full range of metals including iron, steel, copper, aluminum and other light metals, and use the full range of metalcasting processes. 3D printing has a growing impact in the industry and one of the Society’s 10 technical divisions is devoted to that topic. AFS also offers Individual Memberships and low-cost Student Memberships. There are 45 student chapters and 36 regional chapters. Continually evolving its programs to anticipate industry needs, AFS Corporate Membership has risen from 794 in 2015 to more than 1,070 today. There are also nearly 6,000 Individual Members. Both an advocacy leader and a research powerhouse, AFS offers a wide range of member-involvement opportunities and events throughout the year. To join AFS, contact Ben Yates at byates@afsinc.org or Kim Farrugia at kfarrugia@afsinc.org.

About Us Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making early-stage technology investments, participating in select growth rounds, and identifying and supporting the next generation of venture fund managers. Our passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. We also seek to leverage our experience and relationships as fund managers to help new and existing venture firms create industry leading investment businesses. We’re centrally located in Boulder, CO, but we invest in companies and funds across North America. What We Do We started Foundry Group in 2007 as true early-stage investors, making Seed and Series A investments to help promising entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground. As our portfolio and network grew, so did the vision of Foundry Group. This led us to raise Foundry Group Select, a fund focused on growth stage investments in the existing Foundry Group portfolio. The success of both our early stage investment strategy combined with Foundry Group Select’s growth strategy, as well as personal investments we made in over fifty venture funds, led us to institutionalize this strategy and launch FG Next – a hybrid fund of funds and growth stage direct investment vehicle. Regardless of the size of our initial investment, the size and structure of our funds allow us to continue to support our portfolio companies through their entire financing lifecycles. Our fund investments give us insight and access to a large number of venture-backed companies at varying stages. In addition to providing the necessary venture capital, we are committed to leveraging our experience in starting and growing companies, our expertise in the technology industry, and our network of relationships to help outstanding entrepreneurs and venture fund managers turn great ideas into great companies.