Manish Thakur

Option3 Ventures LLC (Option3) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Manish Thakur. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

HSBC Holdings Plc engages in the provisions of various financial services. It offers different kinds of investments and private banking, trade services, cash management, treasury and capital market services, insurance, consumer and business finance, pension and investment fund management, trustee services, and securities and custody services. The company was founded on September 6, 1990 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Hudson Fairfax Group LLC is a hedge fund manager located in New York City.