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Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Talon Midco 2 Ltd. is an investment holding British company. The private company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2022.

Magnus Health Technology, Inc. provides web-based student medical record solutions. Its primary focus is streamlining the collection and secure storage of student health information. The firm also provides support and data services. The company was founded by William Pittman and Charles W. Scarantino in 2006 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) is a software company that created ActiveBatch software, which helps organizations automate and manage their business and IT processes in a single platform. The company is based in Morristown, NJ and has subsidiaries in the United States and Netherlands. ASCI's software enables companies to reduce costs by eliminating human error and allowing them to redeploy resources into more high-value tasks. The company was founded in 1981 by Ben Rosenberg, and the CEO is Reed Overfelt.

ActiveState Software, Inc. develops anti-spam software solutions to enterprises and professional tools for open source language programmers. The firm products include the ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl dynamic language distributions, as well as the Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE. The company was founded by Dick Hardt in 1997 and is located in Vancouver, Canada.

Invicti Security Corp. is a web application security company that provides dynamic and interactive application security products to help organizations in every industry scale their overall security operations. Invicti Security is based in Austin, TX, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and the United States. Invicti's best-in-DAST solutions enable DevSecOps teams to continuously scan web applications, shifting both left and right to identify, prioritize, and secure a company's most important assets. Invicti has employees in over 11 countries serving more than 4,000 organizations around the world. The company was founded in 2018, and Michael G. George has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Netsparker Ltd. develops automated web security scanner. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Netsparker Ltd. is a British information technology services company. The private company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2009.

Applied Training Systems, Inc. develops performance management software solutions. The company was founded by David Martin in 2001 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Sucuri, Inc. provides website security solutions. Its products include website firewall, website antivirus, website backups, wordpress security, and enterprise services. The firms solutions include DDoS protection, malware detection, malware removal, malware prevention, blacklist removal. The company was founded by Daniel Cid and Tony Perez in 2007 and is headquartered in Menifee, CA.

Voxterm, Inc. engages in the development and operation of a voice and messaging platform. It offers call routing, database solutions, emergency 911 service, phone number (DID) origination, text messaging, toll-free voice, and voice API integrations. It serves application development, competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), contact centers, education, financial services, healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider industries. The company was founded by Aaron Leon and Michael Tindall in 2009 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Redwood Software, Inc. provides system integration services and software components. It offers workload automation, job scheduling, financial process automation, and enterprise report management solutions. The company was founded by Tijl Vuyk in 1993 and is headquartered in Morrisvill, NC.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

NextEquity Management LLC (NextEquity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Fred Anderson, Adam Hopkins, Rami Reyes and Avadis Tenvanian Jr. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Vector Capital Management LP (Vector Capital Management) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1997 by Alexander R. Slusky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

MPK Equity Partners LLC (MPK Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Patrick K. McGee, Nicholas Z Huerta and Douglas L. Kennealey. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Patchmaster Franchise LLC is a franchisor of drywall and plaster repair services. Patchmaster offers fast, same-day, professional service across its over 110 locations in 26 states. The American company's technicians can blend plaster textures and match paint to make imperfections disappear, making walls and ceilings look new again. Patchmaster specializes in high-quality drywall service for all those small holes, dings, dents, and more, leaving it like it never happened. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Chester, NJ.

Energynet.com LLC offers an oil and gas auction and sealed bid transaction service that facilitates the sale of producing working interests, overrides, royalties, mineral interests, and non-producing leasehold. The company was founded by William W. Britain and Jim J. Brewer in 1999 and is headquartered in Amarillo, TX.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP engages in the provision of legal services. Its practices include: antitrust and competition; banking and finance; capital markets; copyright, trademark and false advertising; cyber, privacy and data innovation; employment law and litigation; energy; financial services litigation; global compliance and regulatory, infrastructure; intellectual property; patents; public finance; real estate; securities litigation; supreme court and appellate; tax advocacy; technology transactions; trials; and white collar, investigations, securities litigation and compliance. The company was founded by John R. Garboe in 1863 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Mailgun Technologies, Inc. develops email delivery platform to send, receive, and track transactional and marketing emails. It offers email API, email validation, managed services, and burst sending. The company was founded by Ev Kontsevoy and Taylor Wakefield in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Perkins Coie LLP provides corporate, commercial litigation, and intellectual property legal services. Its practice areas include business law, environment and natural resources, estate planning and trust services, finance, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, product liability, real estate and land use, regulatory and government affairs, and taxation. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

DecorMatters, Inc. engages in the provision of interior design mobile application for home decor and decorating ideas from interior designers. The company was founded on May 13, 2016 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Zenstone Venture Capital LLC (Zenstone Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Farris Wu and Fay Yang. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Harbin Institute of Technology provides educational services. Its offers various courses through its different schools such as architecture, astronautics, chemical engineering and technology, civil engineering, computer science and technology, economy and management, electrical engineering and automation, electronics and information engineering, energy science and engineering, food science, foreign language, humanities and social sciences, law, materials science and engineering, mechatronics engineering, transportation science and engineering, science, software, new media and arts, and life science and technology. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Harbin, China.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm is founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) is a diversified holding company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm provides services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through their wholly-owned subsidiaries: Raymond James & Associates, Raymond James Financial Services and Raymond James Ltd. Raymond James operates through eight segments: Private Client Group (PCG); Capital Markets; Asset Management; Raymond James Bank (RJ Bank); Emerging Markets; Securities Lending; Proprietary Capital; and Other. The Private Client Group segment provides securities transaction and financial planning services to client accounts through the branch office systems of the company's subsidiaries. The Capital Markets segment's activities consist primarily of equity and fixed income products and services. The Asset Management segment provides asset management services for individual investment portfolios and mutual funds. The RJ Bank segment provides corporate, residential and consumer loans, as well as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insured deposit accounts, to clients of the company's broker-dealer subsidiaries and to the general public. The Emerging Markets segment operates securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and equity research businesses. The Securities Lending segment conducts its business through the borrowing and lending of securities from and to other broker-dealers, financial institutions and other counterparties. The Proprietary Capital segment consists of the company's principal capital and private equity activities, including various direct and third-party private equity and merchant banking investments. Raymond James' capital markets reach within the financial institutions segment focuses on community and regional banks and thrifts including equity research, sales, trading and investment banking resources and services. Raymond James is one of the largest research organizations in the brokerage industry and serves institutional investors domestically and abroad. The firm's capital markets activities are based on insightful, timely and comprehensive equity research. They publish research on over 1,000 companies in their core industries. Raymond James seeks attractive niches within broader industries and then covers these sectors deeply to develop differentiated sector expertise and relationships. Although their focus is mid- and small-cap companies, their coverage includes large, medium and small companies across each sector. Raymond James' Institutional Trading division is organized into 3 specialty departments: Sales Trading, Principal trading and Agency Trading. Their Sales Trading division covers over 800 domestic and 1,300 international financial institutions throughout North America and Europe. The firm's Principal Trading division consists of industry-focused teams and their OTC Principal Trading department makes markets in over 680 domestic stocks, 85% of which are covered by Raymond James Institutional Research department. Their Agency Trading department services the trading needs of over 5,500 financial advisors located in 2,500 retail offices across the US.

Founded in 2012, KLR Group LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in Houston, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of KLR Group Holdings LLC, a full service investment and merchant bank. KLR focuses on the natural resources sector including oil & gas, metals & mining and agriculture. Their area of expertise includes exploration & production companies, service providers and midstream/infrastructure carriers and processors.

Spring Creek Investment Management LLC (Spring Creek Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.