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Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (Westfield) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1989 and is majority-owned by WMS Management LLC. Westfield provides quality investment management services to institutions and wealthy individuals.

HarbourVest Partners LLC (HarbourVest Partners) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 1982 by David Brooks Zug. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices around the world.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

IGN Entertainment, Inc. provides internet and media services. It focuses on the video game and entertainment markets. It offers gaming and entertainment content for 18-34 year old men online; gaming technology services for online game developers; and iPhone UI Toolkit for iPhone developers. The firm also operates Direct2Drive, an online site that allows consumers to purchase and download PC games, comics, and anime titles directly from the Web to their desktops; FilePlanet, a video game download site that provides free game patches, mod files, game demos, and trailers; AskMen.com, a men's lifestyle Website; and UGO.com, a men's entertainment site. The company was founded by Mark A. Jung, Peer Schneider, Kenneth H. Keller and Christopher Anderson on September 29, 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 1890, Cambridge Trust Co. is a state chartered commercial bank headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATC).

Security Investors LLC (dba Guggenheim Investments) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Rydex Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Security Investors provides investment advisory services to separately managed accounts (SMAs) and pooled investment vehicles that are registered as investment companies. They focus on the return and risk needs of insurance companies, corporate and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, wealth managers, and high-net-worth investors.

Springbok Services, Inc. provides prepaid credit card solutions. The firm's services include program development, card designing and fulfillment, transaction processing, and risk management. The company was founded by Dwayne Jones and Taylor Ohlsen in 1998 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

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.

SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (SSgA FM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1978 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA FM provides investment advisory services to US investment companies and certain pooled investment vehicles.

Deloitte LLP (New York) engages in the provision of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory solutions. It offers services relating to tax, consulting, audit and assurance, Deloitte private company services, mergers and acquisitions, risk and financial advisory, analytics, and cloud. The company was founded by William Welch Deloitte, George A. Touche, Charles Waldo Haskins, and Elijah Watt Sells in 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM) is a State-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, PRIM manages the assets of the Pension Reserves Investment Trust (PRIT) Fund for public employee pension benefits on behalf of Massachusetts State Employees, Massachusetts Teachers’, and Boston Teachers’, as well as local participating retirement systems throughout the Commonwealth that elect to invest with PRIM.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Great Hill Partners LP (Great Hill Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Christopher S. Gaffney, Steve F. Gormley and John G. Hayes. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Madison Atlantic Partners LLC provides turnaround, crisis management, financial advisory and wind-down management services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Ad Club provides marketing and communication services. The non-profit company is based in Boston, MA.

Progress Partners, Inc. provides financial advisory services. The firm specializes in digital media, sell-side M&A, mergers & acquisitions, buy-side M&A, private equity, software, corporate strategy. The company was founded by Nicholas Morse MacShane in 2002 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

ADI BPO Services Pvt Ltd. is an Indian company that provides platform, learning, and content solutions. The private company is based in Noida, IN. and has subsidiaries in Switzerland, United States, Germany and India. ADI BPO Services was established as a subsidiary of Macmillan Limited in 1970 to change the way the world learns. After a change of majority stake in 2011-12, the company developed significant momentum as a result of consistent reinvestment in the business and six acquisitions in six years. MPS is listed on major stock exchanges and nearly 2,500 associates power the company across seven development centers in India, two subsidiaries in the US, and five client offices in the world. The company has been at the forefront of market changes, introducing new ways of learning and driving impact from each learning experience through engaging content and advanced platforms. The company was founded by Nishith Arora and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (WEAS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wealth Enhancement Group LLC (WEG). In October 2019, private investment vehicles affiliated with TA Associates Management LP (TA Associates) acquired an indirect majority interest in WEG. WEAS provides investment advice to individuals, high net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations, corporations and other businesses, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

CompStak, Inc. provides commercial real estate information solutions. The firm operates a crowd sourced real estate platform for the exchange of commercial lease comps where brokers, landlords, appraisers and researchers use the site, and submit comps on completed commercial lease transactions. It builds a database of all of the commercial lease deals completed in a given market, and they sell this data to real estate private equity funds, asset managers, banks, REITs and hedge funds. The company was founded by Vadim Belobrovka and Michael Mandel in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Progress Ventures Inc (Progress Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Progress Partners Inc founded in 2008 by Nick M. MacShane and Sam Thompson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Yahoo, Inc. operates as a tech-powered, diversified media company that reaches their users around the world, bringing them closer to what they love from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news with the trusted products, content and tech. For partners, they provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media. Yahoo was originally founded on August 13, 1998 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Impact Engine (Impact) is a private Equity and venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Schwartz Capital Group is an entrepreneurial family investment firm that invests in and builds scalable businesses and partnerships for the long-term. The private company is based in Chicago, IL and was founded by Theodore Schwartz. The company has investment platforms such as Strand Equity Partners, which is a growth equity fund focused on investing in emerging and dynamic consumer brands. The company also has Schwartz Capital Real Estate, which partners with entrepreneurial and differentiated multi-family operators throughout the nation. Additionally, they have Schwartz Capital Opportunistic Equity, which invests in special situations or companies where a non-correlated risk-adjusted return can be achieved.

Artera, Inc. provides messaging platform and application ecosystem. It offers information technology, patient experience, revenue cycle, physician practice, and integration solutions. The company was founded by Joe Tischler and Guillaume de Zwirek and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

IndustryMaps operates a platform that allows users to access information about the evolution of different industries. The American company was founded by Sam Thompson.

Colorful Capital (Colorful Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Megan Kashner and William Burckart. The frim is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

L.E.K. Consulting Group Ltd. operates as a management consulting firm. The company was founded on June 16,2017 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.