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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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Higher One, Inc. provides online banking and financial disbursement services. It offers CASHNet payment platform which provides college and university campuses implement PCI-compliant processes for simplifying electronic billing, accepting payments all over campus, offering flexible tuition payment plans and creating online storefronts. The firm is focused on helping college business offices manage operations and provide enhanced services to students. The company was founded by Miles Lasater in March 2000 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

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.

Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management, Inc. (NCRAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1991 as a subsidiary of Nomura Holding America, Inc., itself a subsidiary of Nomura Holding, Inc. (TYO: 8604, NYSE: NMR) in Japan. NCRAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services to institutional investors in the US and globally.

The YMCA Retirement Fund (YRF) is the pension fund of YMCA of the USA, which is headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1921 by a special act of the legislature of the State of New York. YRF’s sole purpose is to provide retirement benefits for YMCA employees throughout the US. The Fund offers two plans to help YMCA employees build their retirement savings: the Retirement Plan and the Savings Plan. The Retirement Plan is a 401(a) defined contribution church pension plan, while the Savings Plan is available to all employees of participating Ys from their first day of employment.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

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.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC (Benchmark Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Kevin Harvey, Andy Rachleff and Bob Kagle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Top Floor LLC (Top Floor Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut.

Bain Capital Public Equity LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1996 as Brookside Capital LP. They are wholly-owned by Bain Capital LP, itself a subsidiary of Bain Capital Holdings LP. Bain Capital Public Equity provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles (Public Equity Funds). Investors in the Public Equity Funds includes high net-worth individuals, banks, thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, university endowments, corporations, limited partnerships and limited liability companies or other business entities.

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.

Rethink Education Management LLC (Rethink Education) is a venture capital subsidiary of Seavest Investment Group LLC founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in White Plains, New York.

NoRedInk Corp. provides an online learning platform to students for exercises and evaluation of grammar and writing skills. Its engine generates personalized curriculum from students' interests and adapts to their abilities with instant feedback, tutorials, and color-coded heat maps. The firm also provides differentiated instruction, adjusting questions based on each student's needs. The company was founded by Jeffrey Scheur in June 17, 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GetSetUp, Inc. operates as an information technology company which also provides education services to seniors. It provides group classes, one-one classes, and classes for businesses and teachers. The company was founded by Lawrence Kosick and Neil Dsouza in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Major League Hacking, Inc. engages in conducting student hackathons. It conducts hackathons, a programming competition where student hackers, developers, designers, and makers get together to show off their technical skills. The firm's hackathons enable students from various universities to team up and build websites, applications, and hardware hacks, as well as show them to the world. The company was founded by Mike Swift and Jonathan Gottfried in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kenzie Academy, Inc. operates technical and software coding schools. It provides Butler Kenzie joint certificates, software engineer, UX designer, and digital marketer programs. The company was founded by Leang Ooi Chok, Rehan Hasan, and Courtney Spence and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Allovue, Inc. operates as an education resource planning platform for K-12 schools. The firm’s strategic services include chart of accounts revision, professional learning and strategic consulting. It specializes in education, finance, schools, budgeting and finance management. The company was founded by Jessica L. Gartner in 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Mouse, Inc. provides technical education services. It empowers all students to create with technology to solve real problems and make meaningful change in world. The company was founded Andrew Rasiej and is headquartered in New Yok, NY.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Rethink, Inc. operates as a global health technology company. It offers cloud-based treatment tools, training and clinical supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. The company was founded by Daniel Etra, Ilana Kukoff and Eran Rosenthal in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Calvert Capital Management Co. (Calvert Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Engrade, Inc. engages in the provision of a suite of online classroom management tools. It integrates people, tools, data and curriculum in schools on one user-friendly platform. The firm provides access to student data such as grades, assessments, discipline, attendance and at-risk alerts. The company was founded Bri Holt in 2003 by and is headquartered in DE.

BrightBytes, Inc. engages in development of software as a service-based data analytics platform for education. It delivers tools and services that measure the impact of technology use on learning. It offers DataSense, a data integration service and Clarity, a data analytics setrvice. The company was founded in 2012 by Robert Stephen Mancabelli and Hisham Anwar and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

LLR Management, LP is a private equity firm founded in the year 1999 by Howard Ross, Ira Mark Lubert and Seth Lehr. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.