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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ecosphere Ventures LLC (Ecosphere Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Adil Jafry. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Founded in 1989 by Don Rice, Jeffrey Sangalis, Jeffrey Toole and James Wilson, RSTW Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

Haynes & Boone LLP provides legal services. It offers corporate, business litigation, insurance and healthcare law, labor and employment, estate planning, real estate, bankruptcy, intellectual property, white collar crime, and antitrust. The company was founded by Richard D. Haynes and Michael M. Boone in 1964 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Energy Innovation Capital Management LLC (Energy Innovation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jeffrey Clark. The firm is headquartered in Orinda, California.

SeneXta Therapeutics SA engages in the research and development of therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. The firm provides medicines that maintain healthy brain ageing and rehabilitation after ischemic brain injury. The company was founded by Enrico Braglia and Federica Pericle in 2008 and is headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC provides legal services. The firm offers services to the communications, education, environmental, health, immigration, public finance, real estate and tax industries. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

Part of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. (USA) Ltd. provides investment advice services. The company is based in New York, NY.

The Ketera Network TM transforms business buying and selling by integrating an enterprise-class spend management solution and an active community of 250,000 business buyers and suppliers that have transacted over $4 billion in spend and actively collaborate to improve results. Using the Ketera Network, the procurement organization can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entire source-to-pay process with its enterprise-class spend management capabilities that includes sourcing, contract management, procurement, invoicing and spend analytics. In addition, the Network's supplier discovery and marketing tools help suppliers grow their business and enable buying organizations find better suppliers. Finally, its network-level analytics enable buying organizations and suppliers to benchmark and improve their business strategies. By simultaneously delivering considerable cost savings for buyers and new business opportunities for suppliers, the Ketera Network represents the next generation of business applications that benefit from a strong community multiplier effect. Ketera is located in San Jose, CA. The company has blue chip investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, Integral Capital Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, and American Express.

Part of Accenture Plc, ICG Commerce is a company that is described as "Internet Capital Group Inc". The company is based in Robbinsville, NJ. It is unclear from this description what exactly ICG Commerce does.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

Deem, Inc. develops web tools and mobile applications. Its products include travel, expense, car service, reservation and dispatch, affiliate management, reservations, mobile and desktop. The company was founded by Patrick W. Grady in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Atlantic Street Capital Management LLC (Atlantic Street Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Peter J. Shabecoff and Timothy Lewis. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

McCann Worldgroup, Inc. provides advertising and marketing services. The firm provides services through the divisions: McCann Erickson Worldwide, Universal McCann, FutureBrand and Weber Shandwick. It also offers relationship marketing services through MRM Partners and serves clients in the health care industry through McCann Healthcare. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pegasus Capital Advisors LP (Pegasus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Craig Cogut. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

WoodRock Securities LP is a private company based in Houston, TX.

Manning NavComp, Inc. provides web based GPS vehicle tracking services for fleet management purposes. Its services include development and integration of digital communications systems, target tracking systems, and state of the art control of distributed communication and surveillance platforms. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Accent-Fairchild Group, Inc. manufactures and supplies house and hardware products. Its divisions include accent, fisher, lifetime, meyer, MLM, 3D Light FX and wean green. The firm’s products include houseware storage containers and shelving, food storage containers, tool boxes, and metal and plastic parts cabinets. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.

Pixalate, Inc. provides fraud protection and data intelligence solutions for various advertisement events. Its proprietary technology analyzes data in real-time and enables media buyers to extract data, compare Ad server performance and expose waste and discrepancy within its digital campaigns. The company was founded by Jalal Nasir and Muhammad Amin Bandeali in 2012 and is headquartered Los Angeles, CA.