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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.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Ensyn Corp. produces renewable energy and bio-chemicals from wood or other biomass. The firm’s products include Bio-energy and Bio-chemicals. The company was founded by Dr. Robert G. Graham in 1984 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Mascoma Corp. develops technology for abundant biomass conversion. The firm operates through its bioprocessing technology platform, develops bioengineered yeasts and other microorganisms. It also designs and manufactures equipment that processes cellulosic biomass for further biological or chemical conversion. The company was founded by Lee R. Lynd, Charles E. Wyman and Robert J. Johnsen in 2005 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

USNR LLC manufactures sawmill equipments and supplies equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry. Its products include lumber manufacturing, optimization and controls, plywood and veneer, press systems, engineered wood, and biomass and residuals. The company is headquartered in Woodland, WA.

Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

iNovia Capital, Inc., formerly MSBi Capital, is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Shawn Abbott. The firm is headquarters in Montreal Canada.

Trinsum Group, Inc. provides management consulting services. It provides services in the areas of strategy, execution, organic growth, growth through acquisition, productivity and risk management. The company was founded by James M. McTaggart in 1978 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Open Prairie Ventures Inc (Open Prairie) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by James M. Schultz. The firm headquartered in Effingham, Illinois.

Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Blackstone Holdings Partnerships founded in 2008. Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners is headquartered in New York.

Philip Morris Italia SRL provides tobacco products. The company is headquartered in Roma, Italy.

BiognoSYS AG operates as a biotechnology company. Its products include iRT Kit, HRM Kit, Sample Prep Kit, PlasmaDive, Spectronaut and SpectroDive. The company was founded by Philipp M. Antoni, Johan Malmstroem and Oliver Rinner on September 3, 2008 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Switzerland.

Meiogenix SAS operates as a biotech company which develops breeding technologies. Its technology allows the modulation of the homologous recombination in eukaryotic cells. It facilitates the natural process that introduces genetic diversity in organisms allowing the generation of novel natural varieties. The company was founded by Giacomo Bastianelli and Alain Nicolas in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Part of Lallemand, Inc., Frontier Renewable Resources LLC engages in research and development of cellulosic ethanol. The company is based in Marquette, MI.

Synthace Ltd. produces bio-based chemical and biological products through synthetic biology. It is a synthetic biology company with a platform of technologies for the rapid engineering and optimization of novel biological production systems. The bioengineering platform is broadly applicable across multiple industry sectors, including the production of specialty chemicals from renewable feed stocks using efficient and sustainable processes. The company was founded by Sean Ward and Markus Christian Gershater in January 2011 and is headquartered in, London, the United Kingdom.

Microphyt SA researches, develops, produces and markets natural bioactive products from microalgae. Its solutions are intended to address the needs of personal-care, food and health-care industries worldwide, through a differentiated and sustainable approach and proprietary technologies allow controlled and industrial-scale supply of microalgae biomass and extracts. The firm''s Industrial scale photo bioreactors developed and patented and are designed to produce specific strains of microalgae by preserving cell integrity and yielding commercial quantities of slow-growing or biofilm-forming species. The company was founded by Arnaud Muller-Feuga in 2007 and is headquartered in Baillargues, France.

EnobraQ SAS develops yeast for the production of chemical compounds. The company was founded on November 13, 2015 and is headquartered in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France.

Elicit Plant SAS is a French agri-biotech company that aims to become a leader in the ecological transition for agriculture and address the challenges posed by climate change on large-scale crops. The company is based in Moulins-sur-Tardoire, France. The company's proprietary technology, based on the exogenous application of phytosterols, enhances plant stress resistance by eliciting their natural defenses. Extensive field trials across three continents have proven that the biosolutions from the eliterra® platform are the only ones providing farmers with a regular and sufficient return on investment for use in large-scale crops, yielding an average increase in productivity of 12%%. The company was founded in 2017 by Jean-François Dechant, who has been the CEO since 2017.

EnginZyme AB is a Swedish company founded in 2014 by Samuel Härgestam, Robin Chatterjee, and Karim Engelmark Cassimjee. EnginZyme is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a multidisciplinary team of experts in biocatalysis, organic chemistry, enzyme and process engineering, as well as AI and machine learning. The company has developed a patented, cell-free biomanufacturing platform that combines the power of biology with the efficiencies of the chemical industry. EnginZyme aims to produce better, greener, and more affordable products sustainably. The company's enzyme immobilisation technology enables biomanufacturing without living organisms, resulting in lower costs and a smaller environmental footprint. The company has been recognized as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum and was selected for the Cleantech 100 list in 2022 and 2023. Karim Engelmark Cassimjee has been the CEO since 2014.

Werewool, Inc. develops fibers. The CEO of the American company is Chui-Lian Lee.

Bon Vivant SAS produces dairy products. The company is based in Lyon, France. The French company was founded in 2021. The CEO is Helene Briand.