Kimun Lee

Firsthand Funds operates as an umbrella fund. Its investment objective is to achieve long term growth capital. The company was founded by Kevin M. Landis on November 8, 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

iShares Gold Trust is an investment vehicle, which engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its activities include issuing baskets of shares in exchange for the gold deposited with the custodian as consideration; selling gold as necessary to cover the sponsor?s fee, trust expenses not assumed by the sponsor and other liabilities; and delivering gold in exchange for baskets surrendered for redemption. The company was founded on January 21, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust is an actively managed exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Trust seeks to maximize absolute returns from its investments in certain futures and/or forward contracts that the advisor selects, following strategies that utilize quantitative methodologies to identify potentially profitable discrepancies in the relative values or market prices of one or more commodities, currencies, interest rates or certain eligible stock and/or bond indices, and seek to control the risks and volatility inherent in these investments by taking long and short positions in historically correlated assets. It was founded on July 30, 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

iShares Commodity Optimized Trust operates as a exchange traded fund. It’s objective seeks to track the results of a fully collateralized investment in futures contracts on an index composed of a diversified group of commodities futures which attempts to minimize contango and maximize backwardation. The company was founded on December 7, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. operates as a business development company which invests in companies located in the United States with revenues less than $250 million. It targets companies operating in the fields of private technology and cleantech sectors. It provides equity and debt financing in the form of equity for early, later, and growth transactions with an investment size ranging from $1 to $10 million.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC provides investment services. The company is based in New York, NY. Shannon Ghia has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

iShares Gold Trust Micro engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its objective is to reflect generally the performance of the price of gold. The company was founded in February 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.