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Difference Capital Financial, Inc. is a venture capital company, which engages in investing in growth companies. Its portfolio inludes financial technologies, internet, media and media technologies, technologies, healthcare, and other. The company was founded by Henry Kneis, Paul D. Sparkes, and Michael A. Wekerle on January 14, 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Ciclofilin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops cyclophilin inhibitors for infectious, inflammatory and degenerative diseases. It offers antiviral drug development, liver disease, viral co-infection, cyclophilin inhibition, macrocycle chemistry and protein folding. The company was founded in 2014 by Robert T. Foster and is headquartered in San Diego, PA.

Founded in 1995, GMP Securities LP is broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto with additional offices in Calgary and Montreal. The firm is a subsidiary of GMP Capital, Inc. (GMP: Toronto). They offer institutional sales, research, trading, investment banking and underwriting and advisory services. GMP Securities primarily focuses on the biotechnology, technology, mining, oil and gas, oil and gas income trusts, industrials, special situations and non-bank financial services sectors.

National Securities Corp., a subsidiary of National Holdings Corp., is an international, full-service, independent brokerage firm with a diverse base of retail and institutional clients. National Securities was founded in 1947 in Seattle, Washington with the goal of providing a full suite of financial products and services to its registered representatives and clients. The firm and their subsidiaries are headquartered in New York City and Seattle and have a multitude of domestic and international offices that provide a broad range of securities brokerage, financial planning, and investment services, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. National Securities' representatives are primarily independent contractors who operate their business with freedom and flexibility in advising their clients. The firm is a member FINRA/SIPC.

Macquarie Asset Management, Inc. (MAM) is an asset management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Group Ltd. (ASX: MQG) in Australia. MAM manages assets for institutional and retail investors.

Aquyre Biosciences, Inc. is a biotech company that created Celtivity™, a rapid digital specimen adequacy assessment tool that can identify the presence of cancer cells and immune cells in a biopsy in just two minutes. The company is based in Weston, MA and was founded by Bertrand Le Conte de Poly, Claude Boccara. The assessment is presented as a cellular heatmap, making analysis and detection of cancer, granuloma, and immune cells such as lymphocytes relatively easier than traditional cancer diagnostic methods. Floyd Samuel Eberts has been the CEO of the company since 2023.