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Creative Planning is a nationally recognized wealth management firm providing comprehensive financial and business planning services, all in-house. We offer expert guidance in financial planning, investment management, strategic tax planning, estate and trust administration, insurance, and business services. Our tailored approach ensures every element of your wealth and business strategy works cohesively. Whether you need retirement income planning, business valuations, outsourced accounting, payroll services, or legal advisory, we provide customized solutions to help you achieve financial success. With a commitment to fiduciary excellence, we focus on delivering tax-efficient, cost-effective, and holistic financial strategies​​.

Choice Bank is a PeopleFirst bank built for entrepreneurs who are building, scaling, and navigating what’s next. We show up as partners, not just bankers. Our team takes the time to understand your business, your goals, and what’s ahead. From day‑to‑day banking and cash management to flexible lending and growth planning, we combine practical guidance with modern technology and local decision‑making. Whether you’re just getting started or scaling what you’ve built, Choice helps you move forward with confidence.

Carlson Partners is a Minnesota-based commercial real estate advisory firm that focuses exclusively on representing owners and occupiers of space. The firm helps companies make strategic real estate decisions, including relocating, renewing, expanding, or optimizing space, while minimizing risk and maximizing value. Services span site selection, lease negotiation, acquisitions, dispositions, portfolio strategy, and project management. Carlson Partners specializes in complex transactions and multi market portfolios across office and industrial sectors. Its conflict-free, tenant representation model ensures unbiased guidance. Acting as a strategic partner, the firm helps clients reduce costs, improve efficiency, and align real estate with growth, culture, and business objectives.

EntreBank is focused on serving entrepreneurs – those that take calculated risks, make bold moves, and have positive impact. Our clients appreciate the following about us:
– We put in the work to understand our clients’ businesses so we can provide trustable guidance that feels like it comes from their own team.
– We are attentive & responsive, providing proactive communication, timely responses, and dedicated attention to keep our clients’ goals on track.
– Our vision is creative, and we help our clients see new opportunities and solve tough challenges.
– Technology is our ally; we offer next-gen technology tools to make banking more efficient, intuitive, and convenient.

With more than 1,250 attorneys, Taft is a modern law firm offering both large, full-service offices and smaller, specialty offices with attorneys practicing from New York City to the Mountain West. Our attorneys represent a multitude of high growth companies across a broad range of industries in every stage of development. We have participated in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture fund transactions on behalf of our emerging growth clients. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide cost-efficient and practical solutions with the flexible terms that high-growth companies desire.

As a premier financial planning and wealth management firm, Voyage Wealth Architects, a member of OnePointBFG Wealth Partners, empowers clients to live abundantly by aligning wealth with personal goals & values. Our truly comprehensive approach integrates advanced investment strategies with risk management & tax mitigation, while focusing on outcomes achieved, not simply market returns. Through these outcome-driven strategies, and in our role as your accountability partner, we help clients foster a healthier relationship with money and navigate both the financial and emotional complexities that come with wealth creation and management. Let us help you ascend beyond wealth with a financial relationship built for life.

Astride Health is a medical membership service that is proactive, preventive and built for high performing people. We assess your health with a holistic set of assessments to get a complete view of your health, mind and body. Then we build a Precision Health Plan unique to you to proactively address your biggest opportunities. You work continuously with an MD, Exericise Physiologist and concierge to stay on track and make progress. Our goal is to optimize your health today and for decades to come. 

Founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, Crux Rubicon delivers institutional-grade M&A advisory to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We’ve built, advised, and exited businesses — so we know what’s at stake. Specializing in sell-side and buy-side transactions, we guide entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, private equity groups, and corporations through every stage of a deal. Backed by 150+ completed transactions, our proprietary process evaluates every financial, operational, and strategic dimension of your business — ensuring due diligence readiness before the market ever sees you. When the deal matters, Crux Rubicon delivers the expertise, process, and judgment to get it done.

EPIQ Partners is a registered investment advisory firm providing comprehensive wealth management and financial planning services. We operate as fiduciaries – legally bound to act in our clients’ best interests at all times. Our practice is built around:

∙        Institutional-caliber investment management grounded in evidence-based portfolio construction

∙        Holistic financial planning encompassing tax strategy, estate planning, risk management, and cash flow optimization

∙        A deep understanding of founder-specific challenges: concentrated equity positions, liquidity event planning, and the intersection of business and personal wealth

Pivotalogic serves growing SMBs facing rising cyber risk and compliance pressure without the internal resources to keep up. We work alongside your team to build and strengthen security and compliance programs, not just advise on them. Because this is our sole focus, we bring the depth, discipline, and day-to-day expertise regulated organizations need when the stakes are high. Our work reduces risk, builds trust, helps you win more business, and keeps security and compliance from pulling your team off mission. That frees your organization to move forward with clarity and confidence, focused on the work you exist to do. That is how we help secure your mission.

Titus Talent Strategies: We help organizations win through talent by acting as strategic partners, not transactional recruiters. Using data-driven tools like Predictive Index and deep discovery, we diagnose role needs, team dynamics, and leadership gaps before recommending solutions. Our approach aligns hiring, coaching, and workforce planning to business outcomes, ensuring every talent decision drives performance. We don’t just fill roles—we build systems that attract, select, and retain the right people. From talent diagnostics to embedded recruiting support, we equip leaders with clarity, insight, and repeatable processes that elevate teams and accelerate growth so organizations can scale confidently with the right people in place.

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The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is a multi-platform media company providing in-depth coverage of local business and breaking news. Through print, digital products, and events, The Business Journal offers leaders many avenues for making connections and giving a competitive edge locally, regionally, and nationally. We offer premier media solutions for companies that target business decision-makers. Whether through exclusive content, premium events, or tailored advertising, our platform ensures you connect with the change-makers driving economic growth in the region.