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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP (GSEC) is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1931. The firm is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GSEC provides brokerage services to their clients.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ingalls & Snyder LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1924 by Roscoe C. Ingalls and John T. Snyder. Ingalls & Snyder provides investment management and related services to private clients and institutional investors. The firm also serves as investment advisor to several private investment funds.

Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC (Charlesbank Capital Partners) is a private equity firm co-founded in 1997 by Michael Eisenson, Kim Davis, Tim Palmer, Michael Thonis, Mark Rosen and Brandon White. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Robotti & Co., Inc. provides investment advices. It specializes in applying research methodology in identifying undervalued securities and offer personalized investment management targeted to clients long-term equity investment needs. The company was founded by Bob Robotti in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1981, Wall Street Access, formerly Wall Street Clearing Corp., is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wall Street Access Corp.. They offer a full array of investment services to corporations, hedge funds, pension funds, trust banks, investment advisors, money managers, mutual funds and high net-worth individuals. They focus on healthcare, mergers & acquisitions, oil & gas, electricity, natural gas, machinery/agribusiness, small-cap equities and special situations sectors. The firm's merger arbitrage research platform enables investors to track both historic and real-time deal information. Wall Street Access offers best-in-class execution through their fixed-income trading platform that creates aggressive, two-sided markets on a large inventory of fixed-income securities. The firm also provides their clients with traditional sales coverage. They provide execution services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Agencies to a network of over 2,000 global customers. Wall Street Access' approach creates both market transparency and liquidity in a marketplace that has historically not been served with these essentials. The firm seeks to provide best-in-class trade execution and generation of trading ideas. They actively assess and manage risk while executing innovative transactions in a fast-paced and constantly changing global market. Wall Street Access provides superior service, expertise and speedy execution in equities, options, bonds and currencies. The firm seeks to achieve superior execution through electronic connectivity to multiple exchanges combined with their access to significant pools of liquidity. Wall Street Access is an agent, managing trading volumes and finding liquidity in a discrete manner for their institutional clients. The firm's Prime Brokerage division serves small and medium sized hedge fund clients. Wall Street Access maintains a large institutional equity and options desk, as well as a 35-person fixed-income desk. The firm acts as an introducing broker to Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP. , L.P., so your investors can be confident their assets are safe and secure at a leading custodian. Wall Street Access is a member of NYSE, ISE and NASDAQ OMX, as well as other exchanges.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP (Charterhouse Cap Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Charterhouse Development Capital Ltd /Bonnyman/ founded in 1934 by Stuart Douglas Simpson. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Exeter Venture Management Company LLC (Exeter Venture Management Company) is a venture capital subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc. founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in New York, New York.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Tricor Holdings Ltd. operates as a business expansion specialist. Its solutions include busines, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, and corporate trust and debt services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

CapFinancial Partners LLC, do-business-as CAPTRUST Financial Advisors (CAPTRUST), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. The firm was founded in 2003 by James Miller and David Perkins. CAPTRUST provides investment advisory services to retirement plan fiduciaries, endowments, and foundations and wealth planning services to executives, business owners, and families.

Investcorp Corporate Investment Group is a private equity arm of Investcorp Holdings BSC founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices across the globe.

T. Maco & Associates LLC provides accounting and tax preparation services. The firm provides services to individuals and businesses. Its services include bookkeeping, tax planning, and other accounting services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.

Tricor Services Ltd. provides accounting and consulting services. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Partners Group (Private Equity) (Partners Group-PE) is the private equity division of Partners Group AG, itself a subsidiary of Partners Group Holding AG (SW: PGHN), founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. The firm seeks opportunities to create value through working with investee management teams to expand their businesses and attain leadership positions in their markets. Partners Group-PE aligns interests by investing alongside clients.

Part of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc., Kellogg Capital Markets LLC is a company that provides market making and institutional broker-dealer services. The company is based in New York, NY.

HomeStreet Bank provides banking and financial services. Its services include business banking, business lending, consumer banking, mortgage lending, residential construction financing, income property financing and insurance services. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Pacific Lake Partners LLC (Pacific Lake Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Coley Andrews and Jim Southern. The firm is headquartered in California.

Underscore.VC Management Co. LLC (Underscore.VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Michael J. Skok, John Pearce & Richard Dulude. The firm is headquartered in Massachusetts. The firm was previously known as Assemble.VC Management Co. LLC.

Cirrus Research LLC is an independent investment strategy research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Satya Pradhuman in 2007. They provide small-to-mid cap equities research insights. Their clientele includes active portfolio managers, fundamental and quantitative managers, research analysts, strategists, asset allocators, and risk managers at some of the largest global institutions. The firm’s approach is idea driven, supported by quantitative discipline.

Healthworx is a venture capital subsidiary of CareFirst, Inc. founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mangrove Partners (Mangrove) is an independent investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Nathaniel August and Victor Wong in 2010. Mangrove provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to privately offered pooled investment vehicles intended for sophisticated individual and institutional investors.

Brixey & Meyer Capital LLC (Brixey & Meyer Capital ) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by David S.Brixey. The firm is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Winesellers Ltd. imports and markets wines to the U.S. market. Its portfolio includes Malbec, Carbernet, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Tempranillo and Sweet Red. The firm’s products are imported from Argentine, Australia, Canada, Italy and Portugal. The company was founded by Yale Sager in 1977 and is headquartered in Niles, IL.

XFactor Ventures (XFactor Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Exeter Venture Management Company LLC founded in 2017 by Anna B. Palmer and Chip M. Hazard. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ecomachines Ventures Ltd (Ecomachines Ventures) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Ilian Iliev. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

MBA Fund /Venture Capital/ (MBA Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Hansae Catlett, Josh Hoffman-Senn, Hiro Tien and Sieva Kozinsky. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Contrary Capital Management LLC (Contrary Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Eric Tarczynski. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.