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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.

Manning & Napier Advisors LLC (MNA) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Fairport, New York. The firm was formed in 2011 as the successor to Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc., which was founded as a partnership in 1970. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manning & Napier Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Callodine Midco, Inc. MNA provides investment advice to individuals and institutional clients. The firm also acts as the sub-advisor to affiliated and unaffiliated advisors and to certain registered and unregistered commingled investment vehicles.

Sands Capital Management LLC (Sands Capital) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1992 by Frank Sands and is majority owned by Sands Capital Management LP. Sands Capital provides investment management services to both US and non-US clients who may have taxable or tax-exempt status. These institutional and high net worth clients, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies and pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, state and municipal government entities, sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions, corporations, non-US pension funds and superannuation funds.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Homestead Advisers Corp. is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 1990 as RE Advisers Corp. and became Homestead Advisers Corp. in 2022. The firm is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Homestead Financial Services Corp. (formerly RE Investment Corp.), which is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of NRECA United, Inc., a holding company of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Homestead Advisers provides investment supervisory services to investment companies, employee benefit plans, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations and other business entities. They also provide retirement planning services to individuals that participate in NRECA’s sponsored 401(k) Pension Plan or Retirement Security Plan.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Adage Capital Management LP (Adage) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Phil Gross and Robert Atchinson in 2001 and is owned by Adage Capital Partners GP LLC. Adage provides investment advisory services to its sole client, Adage Capital Partners LP (ACP), a private investment fund. The firm does not manage any separate accounts.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

Balyasny Asset Management LP (BAM) is a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm’s predecessor, Balyasny Capital Management LLC (BCM), was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley. In 2003, BCM converted from a limited liability company to a limited partnership. Then, in January 2004, their name was changed to Balyasny Asset Management LP. They are a subsidiary of Balyasny Asset Management Holdings LP. BAM provides investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients through privately offered pooled investment funds.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

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).

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Ventures Energy Corp. is a financial services company that provides solutions to corporations, governments, and institutions. The company is based in New York, NY. JPMorgan Ventures Energy offers a commercial card program to help employees spend less time on expense data processing. Additionally, the company hosts an annual Technology, Media and Communications Conference for investors in those industries. The company's expertise in financial services is reflected in its ability to provide forecasts for stocks, commodities, currencies, and emerging markets.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Founded in 2001, Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd. (ASX: MBL). They provide coverage of the following industries: resources, healthcare, security/defense, transportation, financial services, retail/consumer products, TMET (telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology), oil & gas, diversified manufacturing/distribution and infrastructure/utilities. Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a member of FINRA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

ABS Capital Partners, Inc. (ABS Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Don Bruce Hebb and Tim Thaddeus Weglicki. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Safeguard International Management LLC (Safeguard Intl Mgmt) is a private equity subsidiary of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc founded in the year 1953. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Education First offers scholarship programs. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Plant Response, Inc. is engaged in providing agricultural biological services. It offers cybelion, power coat, biohp, neptunion, biopath and PRB9 products. The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Bricksolve, Inc. engages in the operation of an online platform for store shopping. It allows retailers to activate web and mobile browsers to deliver more primed-to-purchase customers into their local stores. The company was founded by David Munczinski in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Branch Metrics, Inc. provides deep linking technology to mobile application developers. It offers organic growth, higher activation rates, paid growth optimization and web to application optimization services. The company was founded by Mada Seghete, Alexander Austin, Mike Molinet and Dmitri Gaskin in May 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood city, CA.

Validic, Inc. develops and provides health technology platform. It offers Validic, a mobile health technology platform used for accessing data from mobile health devices, wearables, in-home devices, and patient healthcare applications. The firm serves wellness companies, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical, and health plan companies. The company was founded by Ryan Beckland and Drew Schiller in 2010 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

MediaMath, Inc. operates programmatic marketing technology which provides digital advertising services. It offers enterprise software which is used to launch, analyze, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across displays, native, mobile, video, audio, social, digital out of home, and advanced television formats. The company was founded by Joseph Zawadzki, Gregory Dale Williams, and Erich Wasserman in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

XFactor Ventures (XFactor Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Exeter Venture Management Company LLC founded in 2017 by Anna B. Palmer and Chip M. Hazard. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kaiser Permanenente Ventures LLC (KP Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente, Inc. founded in 1996 by Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Novomer, Inc. manufactures biodegradable plastics, polymers, and other chemicals from renewable substances. It specializes in commercializing a family of low-cost, high-performance, sustainable polymers and other chemicals. The company was founded by Geoffrey William Coates, Anthony Romey Eisenhut and Scott D. Allen in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

Perceptive Advisors (Private Equity) (Perceptive Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Perceptive Advisors LLC founded in 1999 by Joseph Eric Edelman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Goldman Sachs Real Estate Principal Investment Area is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Dune Real Estate Partners is a real estate investment firm founded in 2004, Headquartered in New York.