Carter Financial Management was founded in 1976 by company president Bill Carter (also no relation to President Carter nor his beer-branding brother Billy). Former US President Jimmy Carter doesn't have anything to do with Carter Financial Management, but Carter Financial Management has a lot to do with dead presidents (if not live ones). Carter Financial Management company offers asset management, tax, legal, and philanthropic services to high-net-worth individuals, as well as families, professionals, and business owners. Affiliate Carter Advisory Services performs financial planning services for estates worth $2 million to $100 million, while brokerage services are carried out by Raymond James Financial.

Founded in 1998 by Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using technology and auction processes to provide open and fair access to financial markets for all its clients. The firm’s impartial auctions have dramatically changed the traditional investment banking landscape by allowing the market to determine pricing and allocations.The OpenIPO® auction, for example, levels the playing field in initial public offerings, allowing individuals and institutional investors to bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a price determined by the auction. The OpenBook® auction for corporate bonds, is an online system that offers transparent, real-time price discovery. OpenFollowOn® auction extends the transparency and real-time price discovery of the OpenBook auction to follow-on equity offerings allowing interactive bidding and gives investors a view into the book as it builds.WR Hambrecht + Co continues to identify markets where auctions will benefit investors and issuers. WR Hambrecht provide underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, as well as technology driven institutional agency brokerage and a fully electronic retail brokerage platform for individual investors. WR Hambrecht + Co is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. WR Hambrecht Canadian affilliate, WR Hambrecht + Co Canada, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Global Life Science Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based at München, Germany with an additional office at Zug, Switzerland. Global Life Science Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments originating from universities, scientific institutions or industry. The firm also makes selected investments in late stage companies including buyouts. It primarily invests in the life science sector. The firm invests in companies based in United States and Europe with a focus on United Kingdom, Switzerland, and home markets in German speaking countries. It prefers to invest between €2 million ($2.57 million) and €5 million ($6.43 million) in a company per round of financing. The firm invests up to 10 percent of the total volume in a company. In the European home market, it seeks to be a lead investor or an active co-investor but prefers to be co-investor outside the home market. The firm prefers to be a pro-active syndicate partner in its portfolio companies. It also provides follow-on financing and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Founded in 1977, Matrix Partners venture capital firm primarily funds startups in the software, Internet infrastructure, communications equipment, and semiconductor markets. Matrix Partners company likes to get in on the ground floor of a new business, and it enjoyed success even during the tech wreck because it generally stays away from dot-coms. Its Matrix Partners India fund invests in a range of industries (not just tech) in that country. Matrix, which typically invests more than $10 million per company in a series of stages, has offices in the high-tech hotbeds of the Silicon Valley and Boston. It opened an office in Beijing in 2008.

Founded in 1983, Accel Partners traditionally has made early-stage investments in two sectors, software and networking, and has some $3 billion under management. Accel Partners company's investment history includes a who's who of tech powerhouses such as Macromedia, Riverbed, and Facebook. Based in Silicon Valley, Accel also has offices in China, London, and India. Accel looks to invest in companies that were founded by entrepreneurs but are run by experienced management teams. Accel provides strategic financing, recruiting, and business development, among other services.

Audiolux luxuriates in Luxembourg-based investments -- including a number that deal in audio. The investment outfit takes minority stakes in media and communications companies, especially those headquartered in its own tiny grand duchy. Audiolux invests in both startups and more advanced companies; it has taken stakes in SES Global, RTL Group, and Utopia, among others. In some cases, Audiolux takes an active advisory role as it helps to build the business of its portfolio companies. Financial firm Luxempart owns more than 70% of Audiolux.

Zone Ventures Management Company primarily provides seed, or first round, funding and invests in the Southern California area. Zone Ventures generally invests about $1 million to $3 million in these start-ups and typically takes a seat on the board. Part of the company's portfolio includes digital video developer DivXNetworks (MP3), online retailer Allpets.com, and facial recognition technology developer Neven Vision. Other services include financial strategy, executive search, and investment banking.

vCap Investments LLC company was founded as Alexander Securities in 1998 by David Granzotti, who launched the company's first hedge fund the following year. vCap Investments is an asset management firm that specializes in four areas: asset management for clients who need investment and financial planning; the private client group, through which is focuses on high-net-worth clients; alternative investments, such as hedge funds; and capital introductions, best described as introducing hedge fund managers to investors. It also offers futures and currency trading.

TradeCard, Inc. was founded in 1994. TradeCard, Inc. delivers a software-as-a-service supply chain collaboration platform that synchronizes financial transactions with physical events in the supply chain to help customers automate trade transactions from purchase order to payment and chargebacks. The company’s platform offers trading partner management services, including purchase order and terms management, settlement options, invoice presentment, 3PL integration, factory and supplier integration, partner and systems integration, and workflow and event management. Its platform also offers accounts payable and accounts receivable management services, such as document collection and match, discrepancy and resolution management, workflow and approvals, automated payments, and pay discount management. In addition, the company’s platform offers financial management services, including credit management, payment protection programs, financing programs, cash management and forecasting, end-of-period reporting, SOX reporting, and bank integration.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

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