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BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. (BNYMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1951 and formerly known as The Dreyfus Corp. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). BNYMIA serves as an investment advisor to mutual funds, such as the BNY Mellon Family of Funds and The BNY Mellon Funds Trust, and as sub-investment advisor to non-affiliated mutual funds. Formed in 2009, Dreyfus Cash Investment Strategies (Dreyfus) is a division of the BNYMIA that offers money market strategies to US and non-US institutional investors.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Entrust, Inc. provides software security solutions. Its products include authentication and identity assurance, public key infrastructure and entrust cloud. The firm’s solutions include Mobile Security, Cloud Services, Strong Authentication, Physical and Logical Access, Certificate Management, Certificate Management, Secure Email and Citizen eID. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Katy, TX.

Portal Software, Inc. provides accounting services. The firm offers billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media companies. The company provides platform for the end-to-end management of customer revenue across offerings, channels, and geographies. The company was founded by John E. Little in 1985 and is located in Cupertino, CA.

D. E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios LLC (DE Shaw Laminar) is a private equity subsidiary of D. E. Shaw & Co. LP founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in New York.

BorderWare Technologies, Inc. provides messaging security solutions. It offers security solutions for defense, government, and commercial markets. The company was founded by Peter Cox and John Alsop in 1994 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Visage Mobile, Inc. provides technology services for mobile virtual network platform. Its products include MobilityCentral, VisagePulse, International Travel Roaming Alerts (ITRA) and Concur Travel Integration. The company was founded by David Fraze and Matthew Johnson in 2001 and is headquartered in Larkspur, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Royal KPN NV, Ram Mobile Data is a Belgian company that provides ICT outsourcing services such as hosting, cloud hosting, and managed security. The company focuses on the healthcare sector and government with its managed workplace and hosting services. Ram Mobile Data also offers cloud services that aim to improve the performance of its clients' ICT. The company's strategy includes transferring its Mobitex services to Entropia. Ram Mobile Data was acquired by KPN Mobile NV from Deutsche Telekom AG on March 01, 2000 for $15.38 million.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Polaris Wireless, Inc. engages in the provision of software-based location systems to the wireless carrier market. It offers wireless location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement, government agencies, and location-based application companies. The firm's products include omniLocate, a universal location platform that features standard interfaces for interconnection with other network elements and Altus, an intelligent surveillance application providing government agencies with the ability to identify, track targets and suspects. The company was founded Manlio Allegra in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

xAD, Inc. provides marketing and advertising services. It offers a global location marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers with ad targeting solutions focused on driving in-store traffic and sales. The firm focuses on capturing in-store visitation behaviors for ad targeting, insights, and measurement solutions. The company was founded by Dipanshu Sharma, Craig M. Hagopian, Chandra Kholia, and Sunil Kumar in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Akana, Inc. provides service-oriented architecture management and governance products. The firm's technology helps businesses to accelerate digital channels with Application Program Interface(API), drive partner adoption, monetize assets and achieve agility across its applications and datacenters. Its services include API Management, Microservices, Cloud Integration and Financial Services. The firm products include API Gateway, API Portal, Lifecycle Manager and API Analytics. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The Stratix Corp. is engages in provision of end-to-end mobile managed services. It designs, develops, and delivers enterprise mobility solutions to companies in the retail, field service, and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm's business activities encompass mobile consulting, mobile managed services, and mobile software products development. The company was founded by Bonney Stamper Shuman and David R. Knowlton in 1983 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Tapjoy, Inc. provides social and mobile applications. The firm operates as a mobile performance-based advertising platform that drives deep engagement and monetization opportunities for app publishers, while delivering valuable, engaged consumers to some of the brand advertisers. It has locations in Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. The company was founded by Ben Lewis, Shukla Anu, Lee Linden and Mitch Liu in 2007 and is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

Steamboat Ventures Management Corp. Inc (Steamboat Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co founded in 2000 by John R. Ball. The firm is headquartered in Burbank, California.

MegaPath Cloud Co. LLC provides cloud communications and connectivity services. It offers data, voice, security and hosted information technology services for small, medium, and enterprise businesses as well as wholesale solutions to the carrier and service-provider markets. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Palisades Media Ventures LLC provides media and advertising services. The private company is based in Washington. The American company was founded by Donald A. Baer.

Windy Hill Capital Partners LLC (Windy Hill Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Portola Valley. The firm was founded by Michael Banks in 2010.

Grey Sky Venture Partners LLC (Grey Sky Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Michael Banks and Todd McIntyre. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Part of Lazard Ltd., Lazard Freres Asset Management is a company that provides investment advice. The company is based in New York, NY.