Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

Heritage Partners wants to help companies keep their affairs all in the family. The investment firm specializes in acquisitions and equity-based recapitalizations of private family-owned businesses. Heritage Partners generally targets establilshed middle-market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, health care, business services, and consumer goods with annual sales of at least $30 million. Through its trademarked "Private IPO," Heritage Partners makes a substantial equity investment in a company while allowing its owners to further build their business and maintain control. Portfolio companies include OneSource Distributors, REACH Air Medical Services, and manufacturers Centra and Saunders & Associates.

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.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) provides business consulting services. It offers early stage business growth advisory, financial planning, business strategy development, taxation planning, and market research services. Additionally, the company provides business performance improvement, financial assistance, international networking, recruitment, and work-based training services. It caters to aerospace, chemicals, digital media, electronics, energy, financial services, food and beverage, and life sciences industries.

ABS Capital Partners was founded in 1990 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in San Francisco, California and Waltham, Massachusetts. ABS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of mid to late stage growth companies. The firm prefers to invest in strong growth companies that have moved beyond the start up phase favored by venture capital firms, but which are not yet on the radar screens of later stage buyout firms. It seeks to invest in the healthcare, technology, business services, software, media, and communication sectors. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $30 million in a company. It typically invests in companies based in the United States. The firm prefers to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies and leads the financing rounds. It makes both majority and minority stake investments.

Old Mutual (US) Holdings is the holding company for a group of about 20 asset management boutiques collectively known as Old Mutual Asset Management (US), or OMAM (US). The firm's multi-manager structure allows it to offer more than 100 different investment strategies across a range of asset classes, from domestic and international equities to fixed-income and alternative investments. Its offerings include retirement plans, mutual funds, trust services, and separately managed accounts. OMAM (US) and its affiliates have some $260 billion of assets under management for institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. was founded in 1985. WisdomTree Investments, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sponsors exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and develops security indices. The company also licenses its indexes to third parties for proprietary products, as well as offers a platform to promote the use of WisdomTree ETFs in 401(k) plans. It develops index using its fundamentally weighted index methodology. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, WisdomTree Asset Management Inc. (WTAM), is an investment advisor registered with the Securities Exchange Commission. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, WisdomTree Retirement Services, Inc. (WTRS), markets with selected third parties an open-architecture, platform that offers ETFs to the 401(k) marketplace.

Fillmore Capital Partners, LLC ("FCP") is a private real estate equity firm specializing in structured investments in operating intensive sectors. Fillmore Capital current investment portfolio exceeds $5.7 billion and outstanding capital commitments exceed $1.0 billion. FCP serves a growing list of large institutional pension funds and a select group of private investment companies. FCP invests on behalf of its clients in large healthcare, lodging and operating company platforms.The senior managers of FCP have focused, throughout their careers, on both debt and equity transactions in virtually all commercial real estate sectors. For the past two decades their focus has been on real estate sectors dependant on operating company platforms. They have been most active in the lodging and healthcare sectors, which continue to be the primary focus of FCP.Looking forward, FCP will develop investment funds that capitalize on Fillmore Capital operating expertise as a substantial part on the return expectations of future investments. Today, Fillmore Capital iew value creation, in real estate dependent, on better management, a timeless statement. The greater the degree of management dependence, the greater the impact on investment returns. Fillmore Capital therefore continue to focus our investment activity on real estate operating company platforms.

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