Crosspoint Venture Partners was founded in 1970 and is based in Woodside, California. Crosspoint Venture Partners is no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializes in investments in early stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in e-business services; and software and broadband infrastructure industries. It invests in companies based in the Western United States. The firm invests up to $40 million per project and can also provide up to an additional $10 million in follow-on financings. It takes a board seat and prefers an equity participation of 20 percent or more in its portfolio companies.

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore), incorporated on July 20, 2005, is an independent investment banking advisory firms in the world based on the dollar volume of announced worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A). The Company provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic corporate transactions. Evercore also includes an Investment Management business through which it manages institutional assets for institutional investors, provide wealth management services for net-worth individuals, provide specialized investment management, independent fiduciary and trustee services to employee benefit plans of large corporations and manage private equity funds.The Company operates in two business segments: Advisory and Investment Management. In April 2010, the Company announced that the acquisition of MJC Associates, a commercial real estate advisory boutique.

Finance Wales plc was formed in 2001 and is based in Cardiff, United Kingdom with additional offices in Swansea, United Kingdom; St Asaph, United Kingdom; and Newtown, United Kingdom. Finance Wales plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start up, seed, spin-out, development capital, early venture, expansion capital, buy out, management succession, and mezzanine investments in small and medium sized enterprises. It seeks to invest in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in new technology and innovative companies. It primarily invests in companies based in Wales. The firm invests between £5,000 ($7.253) and £1 million ($1.45 million) in its portfolio companies and makes commercial investments from £5,000 ($7.253) to £2 million ($2.9 million). It prefers to invest in companies with turnover not greater than €50 million ($61.50 million), balance sheet total not greater than €43 million ($52.89 million), and with employees not greater than 250. In equity investments, the firm invests between £10,000 ($14,506) and £0.75 million ($1.08 million) in its portfolio companies as equity investments. In mezzanine investments, it invests in development technology and business succession investments.

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. was established in 1978 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in George Town, Cayman Islands and London, United Kingdom. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, acquisitions, and growth capital financings of mature and underperforming companies. The firm does not invest in middle market. It invests in the manufacturing, services, and information technology sectors. The firm invests in companies based in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. It also identifies and evaluates potential opportunities in France and the Benelux countries. The firm focuses on non-core divisions of large corporations.

Founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley, the firm became independent in 1998. It has completed more than 80 transactions in its history; its current portfolio consists of about 10 firms. Mason Wells focuses its buyout efforts on middle-market firms in the Midwest that are involved in engineered products, specialty paper and packaging, and outsourced business services. Target companies typically have annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Mason Wells prefers to be the lead investor and majority shareholder in its portfolio companies; it usually holds onto investments for four to seven years.

Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

Founded in 1985, Domain Associates, L.L.C. is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences. With $2.5 billion of capital under management, Domain is headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a second office in San Diego, CA. Domain’s three major investment segments are pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, while additional areas of interest include biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and diagnostics. The Partners of Domain have a total of close to 200 person-years of experience among them in the healthcare/venture capital industries and have been involved in the formation and growth of more than 220 life-sciences companies. The highly focused network, experience, and reputation of this team have made it one of the top private-equity groups participating in the healthcare field.

Charles Stanley & Co., the firm offers individual and institutional investors brokerage services, investment advice, and asset management through nearly 30 offices around England. The acquisitive Charles Stanley has continued a growth spurt that began in 1997 with the purchase of competitor Shaw & Co. Charles Stanley Group plc latest purchase came in 2008 with the addition of the financial services division of Griffiths & Armour, an insurance brokerage.

Founded by Paul Singer in 1977, Elliott Associates is one of the oldest hedge funds under continuous management. Elliott means action: Hedge fund firm Elliott Management takes an activist approach to investing, frequently amassing significant but minority stakes in distressed or underperforming companies and attempting to foment change. Elliott Management Corporation company manages hedge funds Elliott Associates and Elliott International, which together manage more than $16 billion of capital for large institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Elliott Associates invests in corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt (most famously with its 1995 $20 million investment in Peru), with investments in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Since 1982, Sierra has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world begin—and grow—successful technology companies. Sierra Ventures capital firm invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on such sectors as telecommunications, software, semiconductors, security, storage, and Internet-related and mobile applications in North America, Europe, China, and India. Its initial investments typically range between $2 million and $25 million. Financial institutions, university endowments, pension funds, and high net-worth individual investors make up most of Sierra Ventures' investment partners.

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