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Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

D. A. Davidson & Co. is a dually SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA broker-dealer headquartered in Great Falls, Montana. The firm was founded in 1935 and is a subsidiary of D.A. Davidson Companies, a financial service holding company. They provide liquidity and execution in small & mid-cap stocks to a wide range of institutional investors, including mutual fund and money managers around the world.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.

Cushing Asset Management LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Jerry Swank in 2003 and they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swank Capital LLC. Cushing Asset Management provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to high net-worth individuals and institutional investors through Private Funds, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Closed-End Funds and Managed Accounts. They also offer discretionary investment management services as part of various wrap fee programs offered by investment advisers/broker-dealers.

Compass Point Research & Trading LLC (Compass Point) is a registered broker-dealer and full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Washington, DC. The firm was founded by Scott Dreyer in 2007 and is owned by Sooner Holdings LLC. Compass Point provides investment banking, research, and sales and trading services to institutional investors. Their clients include investment advisors, mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional accounts located in the US, Canada and Europe.

Nokomis Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 2017 and is principally owned by Brett A. Hendrickson. Nokomis Capital specializes in investment management for hedge funds and separately managed accounts for certain clients.

The Ithaka Group LLC (Ithaka) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Odysseus Management LLC. Ithaka provides investment advisory services to individuals, SEC registered investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations.

TPG Capital LLC is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 1992 by William S. Price and James George Coulter. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth with additional offices in London and São Paulo.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP provides legal services. It is a business and litigation firm with a diverse client base, includes business, financial institutions and not-for-profit organizations, government entities and individual clients. The firm represents business, financial, institutional and individual clients, including publicly held multinational corporations, large and mid-sized privately held companies, partnerships and emerging companies. The company was founded by Robert D. Klingler in 1873 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

UPC Capital Ventures LLC (UPC Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of UPC Energy Group founded in 2014 by Brian Eugene Caffyn and John Wallington. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Paybright, Inc. engages in development of a lending and payments platform. It provides consumers with pay-later solutions at retailers, both online and in-store. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Verity Venture Partners LLC (Verity Venture Partners) is an venture capital firm founded by Tina S. Bou-Saba and Matt S. Levin in 2021. Verity Venture Partners LLC is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Virtus Fund Advisers LLC (VFA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1985, the firm was originally named Trusco Capital Management, Inc. and later became RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc. and RidgeWorth Capital Management LLC. They were formerly a majority-owned subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI). They became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Partners, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS), when the latter acquired the firm in June 2017 and subsequently changed their name into Virtus Fund Advisers LLC. VFA provides discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services to institutional clients including pension and profit-sharing plans, endowments and foundations, governmental entities, and other corporate entities as well as high net-worth clients.

Equal Opportunity Ventures LLC (EO Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Ronald Fryer and William Helman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Angel Investor Management Group LLC (AIM Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Clay Corman and Jim Corman. The firm is headquartered in Opelika, Alabama.

Patient Square Capital is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded by Jim Momtazee and Maria Walker. Patient Square Capital is headquartered in Menlo Park.

IntegriChain, Inc. engages in the provision of pharmaceuticals, biopharma and specialty pharmaceuticals, generics, and medtech solutions. Its products include access analytics; access management; HCO analytics; specialty analytics; retail analytics; distribution analytics; distribution management; and platform. The company was founded by Kevin E. Leininger and Joshua I. Halpern in 2006 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.