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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.

WCM Investment Management LLC (WCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Laguna Beach, California. The firm was founded in 1976 and is a subsidiary of Thalia Street Partners LLC. WCM provides innovative, equity investment advisory services for a variety of clients, such as corporations, private individuals, public and private funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, and foundations.

PAAMCO Prisma LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2000 as Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co. LLC. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of PAAMCO Prisma Holdings LLC, a holding company owned by Pholdings LLC. PAAMCO Prisma provides investment management and advisory services to clients that are generally organized as Funds and to separately managed accounts established for institutional investors. With limited exception, interests in client vehicles are generally only available to institutional investors and certain high net-worth investors.

Siguler Guff Advisers LLC (Siguler Guff) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siguler Guff & Co. LP. Siguler Guff provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services to institutional clients, which includes corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, government agencies and financial institutions, and family office and high net worth investors.

Credit Karma, Inc. engages in the provision of credit score rewards and monitoring services. It offers personalized savings and account management programs for credit cards, student, automobile, and business loans. The company was founded by Kenneth Lin, Nichole Mustard, and Ryan Graciano in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Datalogix Holdings, Inc. provides database marketing and digital media solutions. It offers core infrastructure for data-driven marketing by connecting digital advertising to offline sales. The firm serves the retail, automotive, consumer packaged goods, and financial sectors. The company was founded by Robert W. Gierkink and Tim Wright in 2002 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

Trusted Insight, Inc. operates an online marketplace for alternative investments. It invests in alternative assets, primarily private equity, hedge funds, real estate and private companies. The firm’s users consist of pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, banks and insurance companies. The company was founded by Jonathan D. LaCrosse and Alex Bangash in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Fenwick & West LLP provides legal services to technology and life sciences clients. Its practice areas include antitrust and unfair competition, appellate, complex business litigation, copyright, corporate and securities, employment and labor, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, and IP litigation. The firm offers legal advisory services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, patent prosecution, privacy and information security. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Siguler Guff & Co. LP (Siguler Guff) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by George William Siguler, Andrew Joseph Guff and Donald Paul Spencer. The firm is headquartered in New York.with additional offices Boston, Houstan, London.

Sutter Health engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers allergy care, asthma care, gastroenterology, imaging, liver care, occupational health, pediatric, bioethics, dermatology, emergency, back and spine, heart and vascular, cancer, and fertility services. The company was founded in January 1996 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.

Sankyo Agro Co., Ltd. operates agricultural chemicals stores. It distributes pesticide and other related products. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Hulu LLC engages in the provision of online television streaming services. It offers television shows, clips, movies, and other streaming media services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Newstone Capital Partners LLC (Newstone Capital Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2006 by Timothy P. Costello and John C. Rocchio. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Vance Street Management LLC (Vance Street) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Richard R. Crowell and Richard K. Roeder. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Kapor Capital Management Co LLC (Kapor Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Freada Kapor Klein and Mitchell David Kapor. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Flipboard Inc. develops a social magazine application. It collects the content of social media and other websites and presents it in magazine format and allows users to flip through their social-networking feeds and feeds from websites that have partnered with the company. People using Flipboard can follow their favorite sources from around the world and then collect stories, images and videos in their own magazines. The company was founded by Michael McCue and Evan Doll in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Oaktree Capital Management LP (Oaktree) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Howard Marks, Bruce Karsh, and Sheldon Stone in 1995 as an LLC and was reorganized as an LP in 2007. They are a subsidiary of Oaktree Capital Management GP LLC, ultimately held by Brookfield Corp. (NYSE, TSX: BN) in Canada. Oaktree provides advisory services to clients with separately managed accounts and to private limited partnerships and other pooled investment vehicles for which either Oaktree or an affiliate acts as general partner and/or investment manager. The firm is a socially responsible investor and a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SavingStar Inc. provides digital grocery eCoupon rewards services. Its eCoupons are linked to supermarket and drugstore loyalty cards and automatically adds the value of each eCoupon redeemed into users' SavingStar accounts, enabling them to pick their pay out from cash to gift cards to charity donations. The company was founded by David Rochon and Michael Libenson in April 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Ora, Inc. provides ophthalmic services. It engages in the provision of ophthalmic services and it specializes in allergy, allergic rhinitis, dry-eye, retina, anti-infective, anti-inflammatory, glaucoma, drug delivery, and ophthalmic devices. The firm offers development services including preclinical models, clinical research and development, regulatory strategy, statistics and data management, medical writing, and marketing and advertising. The company was founded by Mark Barry Abelson in 1985 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dorm Room Fund makes investments in college-bound startups in Philadelphia, focusing primarily on Penn and Drexel. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of technology services. It provides financing for seed stage capital requirements.

Kisoji Biotechnology, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company which develops cancer therapeutics through antibodies and stem cells. The company was founded by David S. Young and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Remiges Ventures Inc. (Remiges Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Taro Inaba. It is headquartered in Cambridge, United States.

Convivialité Ventures LLC (Convivialité Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pernod Ricard SA founded in 2017 by Stephane Longuet and Brandon Yahn. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Transpose Platform Management LLC (Transpose Platform) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Trang Thu Nguyen and Alex Bangash. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Homebrew Management LLC (Homebrew Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Satya Patel and Hunter Walk. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Transparent Collective, Inc. provides guidance and leadership support to women and minority entrepreneurs. The American company was founded by Clayton Bryan.