ApplePie Capital is an innovative financial solutions provider dedicated to franchising. ApplePie provides a wealth of financial choices for franchise entrepreneurs at every stage of their development, with a diverse network of capital providers and financing solutions, including flexible, fixed-rate growth capital, SBA, and equipment/remodel financing. ApplePie’s franchise finance experts are focused on matching clients with the right capital solutions to fit their needs, maximizing growth, and reducing the headaches of working separately across individual lenders.

Delightree is an all-in-one franchising tech platform designed exclusively for emerging franchise businesses looking to scale without compromising their brand promise, making their journey of opening and managing locations effortless.

Delightree's easy-to-use tech enables franchises to launch new locations faster, onboard and train teams, achieve operational excellence through automation, and increase communication and engagement among all teams, resulting in consistent customer experiences and franchise business growth.

At First Bank of the Lake, we take the time to listen, understand and respond to the needs of our customers by putting the strength of a full spectrum of banking products and services to work for you. We’ll help you with all your financial needs, create opportunities and realize your dreams. We have real solutions for your life and put our years of experience to work for you.

Knowing our customers makes us a better bank. At First Bank of the Lake, you have a financial partner you can count on. Talk to us about yourself or your business and where you want to go. We’ll help get you there. Find out what it’s like to work with a bank who puts you first.

Pulse is a retail services provider. For nearly a decade, Pulse has been helping retailers and manufacturers to increase profitable sales growth. We specialize in retail environments where a meaningful connection between staff and customers is required to deliver Remarkable Customer Experiences.

We increase profitable growth by improving the ability of the team responsible for service delivery to deliver. We have positively impacted more than 1,500,000 retail associates across and more than 70,000 retail outlets globally.

Express Employment Professionals offers a full range of employment solutions for area businesses and jobseekers, including professional search and contract, temporary and contract staffing, evaluation and direct-hire, flexible staffing, and onsite services. With more than 850 locations worldwide and nearly 40 years of experience, Express is the professional choice for managing your workforce. Express provides services in a wide variety of industries, including administrative, professional, and commercial.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs around the world. Our clients operate franchising and distribution systems in domestic and international markets. We handle a broad range of issues for our clients, including: structuring franchise and distribution systems, M&A and other transactions, litigation and arbitration.

Elevate franchisee performance with proven education that drives profitable growth. Build system-wide financial confidence with our engaging online training. Certify your team as Profit Lab Facilitators to lead transformative learning experiences. Deliver results with our high-energy speakers for keynotes and workshops.

NetSuite is the leading integrated cloud business software suite, including business accounting, ERP, CRM and ecommerce software.

Franchise Real Estate works with franchisees of growing brands in site selection, lease negotiation and market development. From tenant representation to market maximization and growth strategies, Franchise Real Estate can be your best resource in one market, or act as your fully-developed real estate department. The sites we present to your franchisee will reflect the best in the market. Franchise Real Estate is an important part of your development team, providing a complete market profile, ready to introduce your prospect to your concept in their town.

Franchise Expo South (FES) provides franchisors the opportunity to meet face-to-face with qualified candidates. This regional expo, serves the southeasterners’. as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. Along with a comprehensive conference program, FES brings together the leading concepts in franchising and the region's most qualified attendees.

At Reimagine CRE, our passion is helping franchisees embark on a new journey, which all starts with finding the right real estate. We provide expert guidance and education to franchisees for whom real estate strategy is too important to get wrong. We do this by leveraging our 30+ years of combined commercial real estate experience with our nurturing and highly structured real estate process, which delivers the highest value and results to our franchisee partners. ​

While all our technology and demographic software is the best in class, our most important differentiator comes down to our principals and brokers and how they interact with franchisees. The Reimagine CRE team has an unwavering work ethic and proven record of accomplishment in delivering white glove service to franchisees. Our team brings youthful charismatic energy to the real estate process and keeps franchisees positive and engaged.​

Harmonyze makes it easier for franchisors to run exceptional and profitable businesses. Using AI agents, Harmonyze centralizes and automates operational and legal compliance, monitoring and reporting, and rapid two-way experimentation across scaled franchise networks. By reducing a franchisor’s team’s manual compliance-focused tasks, Harmonyze increases their bandwidth for high-value, strategic work, such as investing in closer relationships with franchisees, building the overall brand, and developing new intellectual property.