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VantagePoint Management company (aka VantagePoint Venture Partners) provides long-term capital to primarily technology and health care companies ranging in development from start-up to pre-IPO. VantagePoint is organized around its target markets: information technology, health care, clean technology (which focuses on the application of technology to energy, water, and materials), and Asia. The firm has a dedicated clean tech investment team and oversees one of the largest active venture capital efforts in the sector with more than $1 billion in investments.

VenCap® was founded in 1987, and has over 20 years of experience of selecting and participating in investment vehicles launched by top tier venture capital firms. As a result, we are one of the longest-established and most experienced fund-of-funds managers in the private equity industry today. In addition, due to our long-term presence in the private equity industry, we have many long-term relationships with highly regarded US venture capital firms that have helped to generate strong returns over the past 20 years.VenCap® is supported by a select group of high-quality institutional investors that includes leading endowments, pension funds and insurance companies from across the globe. We currently have US$2.0 billion in funds under management, spread across twelve fund-of-funds, the most recent of which was a US$450 million investment vehicle raised in 2007.VenCap® is based in a single office location in Oxford, United Kingdom. Our team, which has over 196 years of private equity experience, is led by Michael Ashall, who founded the firm in 1987. Our six-strong investment team is led by Tim Cruttenden, who has been active in the venture capital market for over fifteen years.

Venrock was founded in 1969. Venrock is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm may also consider second round investments. It primarily invests in information technology, healthcare, media, and energy sectors and also focuses on biotechnology, nanotechnology, drug discovery and development, life sciences technology, digital media and mobile, Internet, consumer, consumer electronics, enablers, nano, healthcare information technology and services, medical devices, application software, communication, wireless, enterprise software and infrastructure, security, financial services, and semiconductors and components sectors. The firm can invests upto $10 million or more.

Since 1984, VENTANA has led multiple syndicates comprised of both domestic and internationally recognized venture investors. VENTANA creates value for Ventana investors using the know-how and know-who accumulated over more than two decades of doing business around the world. VENTANA works very closely with portfolio companies using a disciplined, value-added approach to drive each investment toward the best possible liquidity event, in the shortest time possible.VENTANA's experienced Team bring to the firm their in-depth domain knowledge and reputation as innovators. These individuals contribute proprietary advantages to VENTANA, resulting from active and successful investing in one of the largest and fastest growing technology centers of the world. With its corporate office in Orange County, California, VENTANA is in an ideal location – entrepreneurially positioned within Southern California’s burgeoning entrepreneurial “knowledge economy.” In addition to the sheer number of technology businesses located in this region, it is one of the very few in the world with leadership positions across alternative energy/cleantech, information technology, and life sciences sectors. Given its nearly 30-year history in the region, VENTANA is in an ideal position to benefit from this rich local universe of outstanding opportunities

VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and strategic acquisitions to middle market companies and management teams with a goal of building companies both organically and through a focused add-on acquisition program. VSS makes both control and minority equity investments. Since 1987, VSS has managed five private equity funds: four equity buyout funds and a structured capital fund. Over the past 20 years, VSS has managed funds with capital committed exceeding $2.8 billion. To date, VSS equity and structured capital funds have invested in more than 50 platform companies, which have together completed over 220 add-on acquisitions resulting in a portfolio with realized and unrealized enterprise values of more than $10.2 billion.VSS focuses solely on the Media, Communications, Information and Education industries in North America and Europe. The team of investment professionals at VSS is comprised of former media company operating executives as well as investment bankers, commercial bankers, consultants, accountants and lawyers who have worked closely with the media industry. VSS is well known for its expertise in the Media industry and is viewed as a value added investor which is more akin to a strategic partner than solely a financial investor.

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