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Source: Company Press Release Excerpts Founded in 1995, TCV is one of the largest growth equity firms with a focus solely on technology and technology-enabled services companies. TCV partners with entrepreneurs to build market leaders. In our history, TCV has invested nearly $9 billion in leading technology companies. TCV continues its investment strategy today with TCV IX, a $2.5 billion fund, from which we typically make equity investments in a multitude of transaction types. We are flexible, active, and long- term investors who stay involved with and continue to invest in our portfolio companies through all stages of growth. SNAPSHOT OF TCV For a complete list of TCV investments, visit www.tcv.com/portfolio-list Selected Exits Unilever Acquires Dollar Shave Club July 20, 2016 – Unilever announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Dollar Shave Club. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Venice, California, Dollar Shave Club (DSC) has grown into a full male grooming business with a lifestyle brand empowering 3.2 million members. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Microsoft To Acquire LinkedIn June 13, 2016 – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash. Dentsu Aegis Network To Acquire A Majority Stake In Merkle August 8, 2016 – Dentsu Aegis Network and Merkle announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Merkle, a global data-driven, technology-enabled performance marketing agency and the largest independent agency in the U.S. for CRM, digital, and search. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Sitecore Partners With EQT As New Majority Investor April 1, 2016 – EQT has taken a majority equity stake in Sitecore from its founders, Technology Crossover Ventures and other minority shareholders in a transaction valuing Sitecore at approximately €1 billion. Selected Recent Investments Global Online Marketplace For Home Vacation Rentals Q3 2016 - Financing Round Led by TCV and Google Capital (amount undisclosed) Leading Cloud Provider Of Tax Compliance Automation For Businesses Of All Sizes September 22, 2016 – $96M Round (follow- on investment by TCV) Leading Multi-channel Provider Of Prescription Eyewear In Germany June 29, 2016 – €45M / $50M Round Led by TCV TCV Board Members: John Doran, Simon Breakwell World's Largest Professional Network Q1 2016 — Open-market purchase (amount undisclosed) World's Leading Internet Television Network Q3 2016 — Open-market purchase (amount undisclosed) TCV Board Member: Jay Hoag Leading Provider Of Online Money Transfer And E-commerce Payment Services October 5, 2016 - $180M Round Led by TCV TCV Board Member (pending regulatory approvals): Woody Marshall Portfolio Of Real Estate And Rental Marketplaces Q1 2016 – Open-market purchase (amount undisclosed) TCV Board Members: Jay Hoag, Erik Blachford Selected Portfolio Company M&A News Alarm.com To Acquire Two Business Units From Icontrol Networks June 23, 2016 – Alarm.com announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two business units, Connect and Piper, from Icontrol Networks. Connect provides an interactive security and home automation platform that powers several service providers' solutions. Piper designs, produces and sells a Wi-Fi- enabled video and home automation hub. The Connect and Piper units from Icontrol offer technology infrastructure, talent, key relationships and new hardware devices that are expected to complement the Alarm.com platform and Genesys Announces Investment from Hellman & Friedman at $3.8 Billion Valuation July 21, 2016 – Genesys announced that affiliates of Hellman & Friedman will make an approximately $900 million investment to acquire a substantial equity stake in the company from existing equity holders. Following the investment, the Permira funds, along with TCV and the other original investors, will continue to own a majority stake in the company. Source: Company Press Release Excerpts help accelerate innovation to keep Alarm.com's service provider partners ahead in a dynamic market. Genesys to Acquire Interactive Intelligence to Create the World’s Premier Omnichannel Customer Experience Company August 31, 2016 – Genesys, a market leader in omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions, and Interactive Intelligence Group announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Genesys will acquire Interactive Intelligence in a transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion. The combined company will provide customer experience solutions for organizations of all sizes around the world that support billions of customer interactions each year. GoDaddy Acquires FreedomVoice To Accelerate Delivery Of Communications Services To Small Businesses May 17, 2016 – GoDaddy, the world's largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase FreedomVoice. The addition of FreedomVoice's team and its cloud-based communications products furthers GoDaddy's commitment to helping small businesses succeed. GoDaddy Acquires ManageWP To Offer A Single Destination For Best- In- Class WordPress Management And Hosting September 6, 2016 – GoDaddy announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ManageWP, a leading WordPress site management tool that enables web designers and developers to manage multiple WordPress sites from a single dashboard. WordPress is a content management system for building websites globally and GoDaddy is one of the largest Managed WordPress provider. With the acquisition, GoDaddy now provides one place for web developers and designers to manage and maintain all their WordPress sites easily and efficiently. Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Becomes Equity Investor In OSIsoft April 5, 2016 – OSIsoft announced that Mitsui & Co. has become an equity investor in the company. Mitsui will support the expansion of OSIsoft's PI System through its global network of affiliated customers and business partners and will look to develop new Internet of Things solutions with OSIsoft. Mitsui will also promote its digital transformation initiatives through the implementation of the PI System as well as explore developing new business models for delivering these technologies. Webroot Extends Cybersecurity Leadership With Acquisition Of Cyberflow Analytics September 19, 2016 – Webroot, the market leader in next-generation endpoint security and threat intelligence, announced it has acquired the assets of CyberFlow Analytics, an innovator in applying data science to network anomaly detection. This acquisition enhances Webroot’s ability to address the explosion of internet-connected devices and an increasingly complex threat landscape. Consumer Marketing: Q&A with Erik Blachford "Good marketing is storytelling." says Erik Blachford, Venture Partner at TCV. "And as an undergraduate theater major and sometimes playwright, it's in my blood." Erik has remained true to his passion. His first marketing job was at Butterfield & Robinson, a luxury active tour operator, writing brochure copy an experience that convinced him to leave the adventure travel world for Columbia Business School. An internship at advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather helped him learn about marketing as a profession. He helped establish online travel agency Expedia within Microsoft in 1995 and built the OTA into one of the world’s top travel brands as the company’s SVP of marketing. He later served as the president of Expedia North America, and ultimately was named President and CEO in 2003. In time, Blachford rose to President and CEO of IAC Travel, managing all of IAC’s travel assets including Hotels.com, Hotwire, and Expedia. He is currently a Venture Partner at TCV. In this exclusive interview, Blachford discusses: The coming "Always Be Marketing" era Why privacy concerns will create new challenges for marketers How artificial intelligence could transform marketing TCV: Sometimes it seems marketing technology is moving at a thousand miles an hour. How are brands supposed to stay on top of it all? Blachford: There's never been a more exciting environment for consumer marketers because there are so many channels through which they can reach potential customers. The flip side is complexity; marketing plans are increasingly difficult to manage. As a marketer, I'd stay focused on the two most compelling trends: 1. Online video advertising, which is rapidly going to make the 30-second TV spot obsolete; and 2. Influencer endorsements, which are seeing a resurgence among YouTube stars who recommend products and services to their millions of monthly viewers. TCV: Consumers are being overwhelmed by ads like never before. Are we reaching a point where marketers might no longer be able to rise above the noise? Blachford: It's true that consumers have already developed heightened sensitivity to marketing messages, but we are entering a period where marketing and advertising will be even more ubiquitous than it has seemed so far. The most precious commodity is consumer attention, and marketers will stop at nothing to grab it. We are entering the era of ABM"Always Be Marketing". And that goes for a lot of consumers too, by the way, as everyone works their social media feeds tending to their personal brands. TCV: How can brands best engage consumers in an ongoing dialogue? Blachford: The last thing most consumers want is an ongoing dialogue with a brand. The more interesting challenge is to figure out how to cement an association between a brand and a given need or moment for a consumer. When someone looks up a home, for example, there's a nano- second where they are deciding whether to use Zillow or Trulia. There's no ad in front of that person; it's a cumulative thing. That's where real loyalty lies. TCV: How has marketing changed in the years since you first started out? To read the rest of this interview: Visit Medium.com » Staff News PROMOTIONS Congratulations to John Doran and Kapil Venkatachalam on their promotion to General Partner. John Doran General Partner Kapil Venkatachalam General Partner NEW MEMBERS Michelle Peluso Executive Advisor Allison Walker Principal & Head of Human Capital Matthew Robinson Vice President Justin Da Rosa Associate Przemek Gotfryd Associate John Haesler Associate Albert Koh Associate Rikhil Patel Associate A.J. Tus Associate Read Our Team Bios » If you are interested in learning more about how we partner with great management teams or know of a business that might interest us, let us know. PALO ALTO 528 Ramona St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Tel: +1 (650) 614-8200 NEW YORK 280 Park Avenue 26th Fl East New York, NY 10017 Tel: +1 (212) 808-0200 LONDON 11 Charles II Street London SW1Y 4QU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7004 2620 This newsletter is intended solely for informational purposes for prospective portfolio companies and their agents regarding TCV's potential financing capabilities, and is not an offer to sell to any person, or solicitation from any person of any offer to buy, any securities. Certain information contained in this newsletter consists of portions of press releases issued by our portfolio companies. Such information is presumed to be reliable but has not been independently verified by TCV, and TCV does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information. Numbers of IPOs and M&A exits refer to the aggregate number of IPOs and sales that resulted in a gain to a TCV fund at any time since TCV's inception. Numbers of TCV professionals and investment team members include Venture Partners and Executive Advisors who are typically consultants and not employees of TCV. "Selected Recent Investments" and "Selected Exits" includes publicly reported investments and exits (where TCV has substantially exited its investment) occurring since January 1, 2016 in excess of $10 million (excluding the sale or distribution of public securities in transactions not involving a sale of the entire company). The portfolio companies described in this newsletter are presented for illustrative purposes only, are not a complete list of TCV's investments and no assumption should be made that the investments identified herein were or will be profitable or that they are representative of TCV portfolio companies' experiences generally. No assumption should be made that any recommendations made in the future will be profitable or equal to the performance of the companies identified above. For a complete list of TCV investments (other than certain public company investments), visit us at www.tcv.com/portfolio/. For additional important information regarding this newsletter, please see "Informational Purposes Only" at http://www.tcv.com/terms-of-use/. ©2016

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Source: Company Press Release Excerpts

Founded in 1995, TCV is one of the largest growth equity firms with afocus solely on technology and technology-enabled servicescompanies. TCV partners with entrepreneurs to build market leaders.

In our history, TCV has invested nearly $9 billion in leading technology companies. TCVcontinues its investment strategy today with TCV IX, a $2.5 billion fund, from which we typicallymake equity investments in a multitude of transaction types. We are flexible, active, and long-term investors who stay involved with and continue to invest in our portfolio companies throughall stages of growth.

SNAPSHOT OF TCV

For a complete list of TCV investments, visit www.tcv.com/portfolio-list

Selected Exits

Unilever Acquires Dollar Shave Club

July 20, 2016 – Unilever announced that ithas signed an agreement to purchase DollarShave Club. Founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Venice, California, DollarShave Club (DSC) has grown into a full malegrooming business with a lifestyle brandempowering 3.2 million members. Terms ofthe transaction were not disclosed.

Microsoft To Acquire LinkedIn

June 13, 2016 – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) announced they have entered into adefinitive agreement under which Microsoftwill acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in anall-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion,inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash.

Dentsu Aegis Network To Acquire AMajority Stake In Merkle

August 8, 2016 – Dentsu Aegis Networkand Merkle announced the signing of adefinitive agreement to acquire a majoritystake in Merkle, a global data-driven,technology-enabled performance marketingagency and the largest independent agencyin the U.S. for CRM, digital, and search.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Sitecore Partners With EQT As NewMajority Investor

April 1, 2016 – EQT has taken a majorityequity stake in Sitecore from its founders,Technology Crossover Ventures and otherminority shareholders in a transactionvaluing Sitecore at approximately €1 billion.

Selected Recent Investments

Global Online Marketplace ForHome Vacation Rentals

Q3 2016 - Financing Round Led by TCV andGoogle Capital (amount undisclosed)

Leading Cloud Provider Of TaxCompliance Automation ForBusinesses Of All Sizes

September 22, 2016 – $96M Round (follow-on investment by TCV)

Leading Multi-channel Provider OfPrescription Eyewear In Germany

June 29, 2016 – €45M / $50M Round Led byTCV

TCV Board Members: John Doran, SimonBreakwell

World's Largest ProfessionalNetwork

Q1 2016 — Open-market purchase (amountundisclosed)

World's Leading Internet TelevisionNetwork

Q3 2016 — Open-market purchase (amountundisclosed)

TCV Board Member: Jay Hoag

Leading Provider Of Online MoneyTransfer And E-commerce PaymentServices

October 5, 2016 - $180M Round Led byTCV

TCV Board Member (pending regulatoryapprovals): Woody Marshall

Portfolio Of Real Estate And RentalMarketplaces

Q1 2016 – Open-market purchase (amountundisclosed)

TCV Board Members: Jay Hoag, ErikBlachford

Selected Portfolio Company M&A News

Alarm.com To Acquire TwoBusiness Units From IcontrolNetworks

June 23, 2016 – Alarm.com announced thatit has entered into a definitive agreement toacquire two business units, Connect andPiper, from Icontrol Networks. Connectprovides an interactive security and homeautomation platform that powers severalservice providers' solutions. Piper designs,produces and sells a Wi-Fi- enabled videoand home automation hub. The Connect andPiper units from Icontrol offer technologyinfrastructure, talent, key relationships andnew hardware devices that are expected tocomplement the Alarm.com platform and

Genesys Announces Investmentfrom Hellman & Friedman at $3.8Billion Valuation

July 21, 2016 – Genesys announced thataffiliates of Hellman & Friedman will make anapproximately $900 million investment toacquire a substantial equity stake in thecompany from existing equity holders.Following the investment, the Permira funds,along with TCV and the other originalinvestors, will continue to own a majoritystake in the company.

Source: Company Press Release Excerpts

help accelerate innovation to keepAlarm.com's service provider partners aheadin a dynamic market.

Genesys to Acquire InteractiveIntelligence to Create the World’sPremier Omnichannel CustomerExperience Company

August 31, 2016 – Genesys, a marketleader in omnichannel customer experienceand contact center solutions, and InteractiveIntelligence Group announced that they haveentered into a definitive agreement underwhich Genesys will acquire InteractiveIntelligence in a transaction valued atapproximately $1.4 billion. The combinedcompany will provide customer experiencesolutions for organizations of all sizes aroundthe world that support billions of customerinteractions each year.

GoDaddy Acquires FreedomVoiceTo Accelerate Delivery OfCommunications Services To SmallBusinesses

May 17, 2016 – GoDaddy, the world'slargest technology provider dedicated tosmall businesses, today announced it hasentered into an agreement to purchaseFreedomVoice. The addition ofFreedomVoice's team and its cloud-basedcommunications products furthersGoDaddy's commitment to helping smallbusinesses succeed.

GoDaddy Acquires ManageWP ToOffer A Single Destination For Best-In- Class WordPress ManagementAnd Hosting

September 6, 2016 – GoDaddy announcedit has entered into an agreement to acquireManageWP, a leading WordPress sitemanagement tool that enables webdesigners and developers to managemultiple WordPress sites from a singledashboard. WordPress is a contentmanagement system for building websitesglobally and GoDaddy is one of the largestManaged WordPress provider. With theacquisition, GoDaddy now provides oneplace for web developers and designers tomanage and maintain all their WordPresssites easily and efficiently.

Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Becomes EquityInvestor In OSIsoft

April 5, 2016 – OSIsoft announced thatMitsui & Co. has become an equity investorin the company. Mitsui will support theexpansion of OSIsoft's PI System through itsglobal network of affiliated customers andbusiness partners and will look to developnew Internet of Things solutions withOSIsoft. Mitsui will also promote its digitaltransformation initiatives through theimplementation of the PI System as well asexplore developing new business models fordelivering these technologies.

Webroot Extends CybersecurityLeadership With Acquisition OfCyberflow Analytics

September 19, 2016 – Webroot, the marketleader in next-generation endpoint securityand threat intelligence, announced it hasacquired the assets of CyberFlow Analytics,an innovator in applying data science tonetwork anomaly detection. This acquisitionenhances Webroot’s ability to address theexplosion of internet-connected devices andan increasingly complex threat landscape.

Consumer Marketing: Q&A with Erik Blachford

"Good marketing is storytelling." says Erik Blachford, Venture Partner at TCV."And as an undergraduate theater major and sometimes playwright, it's in myblood."

Erik has remained true to his passion. His first marketing job was at Butterfield & Robinson, a luxury activetour operator, writing brochure copy — an experience that convinced him to leave the adventure travel worldfor Columbia Business School. An internship at advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather helped him learn aboutmarketing as a profession. He helped establish online travel agency Expedia within Microsoft in 1995 andbuilt the OTA into one of the world’s top travel brands as the company’s SVP of marketing. He later served asthe president of Expedia North America, and ultimately was named President and CEO in 2003.

In time, Blachford rose to President and CEO of IAC Travel, managing all of IAC’s travel assetsincluding Hotels.com, Hotwire, and Expedia. He is currently a Venture Partner at TCV.

In this exclusive interview, Blachford discusses:

The coming "Always Be Marketing" eraWhy privacy concerns will create new challenges for marketersHow artificial intelligence could transform marketing

TCV: Sometimes it seems marketing technology is moving at a thousand milesan hour. How are brands supposed to stay on top of it all?

Blachford: There's never been a more exciting environment for consumer marketers because thereare so many channels through which they can reach potential customers. The flip side iscomplexity; marketing plans are increasingly difficult to manage. As a marketer, I'd stay focused onthe two most compelling trends:

1. Online video advertising, which is rapidly going to make the 30-second TV spot obsolete; and2. Influencer endorsements, which are seeing a resurgence among YouTube stars who

recommend products and services to their millions of monthly viewers.

TCV: Consumers are being overwhelmed by ads like never before. Are wereaching a point where marketers might no longer be able to rise above thenoise?

Blachford: It's true that consumers have already developed heightened sensitivity to marketing messages,but we are entering a period where marketing and advertising will be even more ubiquitous than it has seemedso far. The most precious commodity is consumer attention, and marketers will stop at nothing to grab it. Weare entering the era of ABM — "Always Be Marketing". And that goes for a lot of consumers too, by the way,as everyone works their social media feeds tending to their personal brands.

TCV: How can brands best engage consumers in an ongoing dialogue?

Blachford: The last thing most consumers want is an ongoing dialogue with a brand. The moreinteresting challenge is to figure out how to cement an association between a brand and a givenneed or moment for a consumer. When someone looks up a home, for example, there's a nano-second where they are deciding whether to use Zillow or Trulia. There's no ad in front of thatperson; it's a cumulative thing. That's where real loyalty lies.

TCV: How has marketing changed in the years since you first started out?

To read the rest of this interview: Visit Medium.com »

Staff News

PROMOTIONS

Congratulations to John Doran and Kapil Venkatachalam on their promotion to General Partner.

John DoranGeneral Partner

Kapil VenkatachalamGeneral Partner

NEW MEMBERS

Michelle PelusoExecutive Advisor

Allison WalkerPrincipal & Head of Human

Capital

Matthew RobinsonVice President

Justin Da RosaAssociate

Przemek GotfrydAssociate

John HaeslerAssociate

Albert KohAssociate

Rikhil PatelAssociate

A.J. TusAssociate

Read Our Team Bios »

If you are interested in learning more about how we partner with greatmanagement teams or know of a business that might interest us, letus know.

PALO ALTO

528 Ramona St.Palo Alto, CA 94301

Tel: +1 (650) 614-8200

NEW YORK

280 Park Avenue26th Fl East

New York, NY 10017Tel: +1 (212) 808-0200

LONDON

11 Charles II StreetLondon SW1Y 4QU

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7004 2620

This newsletter is intended solely for informational purposes for prospective portfolio companies and theiragents regarding TCV's potential financing capabilities, and is not an offer to sell to any person, orsolicitation from any person of any offer to buy, any securities. Certain information contained in this

newsletter consists of portions of press releases issued by our portfolio companies. Such information ispresumed to be reliable but has not been independently verified by TCV, and TCV does not assume

responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information. Numbers of IPOs and M&A exits referto the aggregate number of IPOs and sales that resulted in a gain to a TCV fund at any time since TCV'sinception. Numbers of TCV professionals and investment team members include Venture Partners and

Executive Advisors who are typically consultants and not employees of TCV.

"Selected Recent Investments" and "Selected Exits" includes publicly reported investments and exits(where TCV has substantially exited its investment) occurring since January 1, 2016 in excess of $10

million (excluding the sale or distribution of public securities in transactions not involving a sale of the entirecompany). The portfolio companies described in this newsletter are presented for illustrative purposes only,

are not a complete list of TCV's investments and no assumption should be made that the investmentsidentified herein were or will be profitable or that they are representative of TCV portfolio companies'

experiences generally. No assumption should be made that any recommendations made in the future willbe profitable or equal to the performance of the companies identified above. For a complete list of TCV

investments (other than certain public company investments), visit us at www.tcv.com/portfolio/. Foradditional important information regarding this newsletter, please see "Informational Purposes Only" at

http://www.tcv.com/terms-of-use/. ©2016