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Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. develops tissue-based diagnostic solutions. It designs and delivers medical diagnostic systems and slide-based cancer tests. Its products include absolute Eosinophil count (AEC) detection kit intended for laboratory use to identify targets by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue or frozen tissue on a BenchMark and BenchMark XT instrument and DISCOVERY XT research instrument that brings automation, reproducibility, and productivity to IHC and in situ hybridization (ISH) slide preparation and processing. The company was founded by Thomas M. Grogan in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

The Options Clearing Corp. provides equity derivatives clearing services. It provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to stock exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC provides securities listing, trading and information products and services. The company is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

OCA Venture Partners LLC (OCA Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jim A. Dugan, John J. Dugan and Peter A. Ianello. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

St. Vincent's Birmingham is a non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of inpatient, outpatient, and outreach services. It specializes in the oncology, cardiology, women’s and children’s services, orthopedics and sports medicine, neurology, community and corporate wellness services, and surgical services. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

The Personalized Medicine Coalition promotes the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine concepts, services, and products. The private company is based in Washington and was founded by Patrick F. Terry.

GETCO Europe Ltd. provides electronic liquidity services. It is a member of several European Regulated Markets and Multilateral Trading Facilities The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in London, GB.

Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc. provides business services. The company is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Aravive Biologics, Inc. develops novel targeted therapeutics in oncology. The company was founded by Amato Giaccia and Albert Koong and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Immatics US, Inc. develops adoptive cell therapies (ACT) for the treatment of cancer. The company’s ACT therapies are intended to use human T-cells that have been multiplied outside the body before being infused into a cancer patient. It also offers XPRESIDENT, a target discovery engine that enables users to identify, quantify, and prioritize tumor-associated peptides that are recognized by T-cells. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh-Jasuja, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans-George Rammensee, Steffen Walter, Peter Brossart and Hansjorg Schild in June 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tribeca Early Stage Partners (Tribeca ESP) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Rushmore. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Millennium Ladieswear Manufacturers Ltd., KCG Holdings Ltd. leases and operates real estate properties. The company is based in St. Albans, UK and was founded in 2016.