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Ryan, Beck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1946. They are headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Boca Raton, Florida, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Richmond, Virginia.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

Gazillion, Inc. develops and publishes free-to-play online games. The firm operates massively multiplayer online games and services for wide audiences. The company was founded by Robert Hutter, Bhavin Shah, and John Romero in 2004 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

LiquidSpace, Inc. operates as an online marketplace for finding and booking flexible office and meeting space. It provides desks, meeting rooms and private offices to freelancers and virtual companies. The firm also offers a central directory of what is available, handles reservations, collects fees and performs the necessary back-office accounting tasks. The company was founded by Mark Gilbreath and Marinaro E. Douglas, Sr. in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Founded in 1999, Advanced Equities, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in Chicago with additional offices in New York City and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Advanced Equities Financial Corp.

Trautman Wasserman & Co., Inc. (TW) is a private equity and investment management firm headquartered in New York City.

Rembrandt Venture Management LLC (Rembrandt Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm which was founded in 1997 by Gerald Casilli. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Part of Conecta, Linquia Link Development SL provides business advice on the computer market. The company is based in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain. Linquia Link Development was acquired by Conecta from AB Consultores on October 15, 2008.