Ray Ingleby and Fred Mendelsohn founded Axiomlab in 2000. Axiomlab Group shops locally, dropping pounds in Scotland and the north of England. The company holds stakes in five companies providing financial backing in addition to offering strategic and operational support. Axiomlab Group company's portfolio consists of technology, material sciences, and pharmaceutical development companies. Of the five companies that Axiomlabs owns stakes in three are publicy traded. Axiomlab likes to watch its money closely, taking an active operational role with start-up, early-stage, and existing businesses.

Safra National Bank of New York was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Private bank Safra National Bank of New York serves high-net-worth individuals, local businesses, and international corporations through branches in New York and Miami. It offers certificates of deposit, investment funds, money market instruments, alternative investments, and gold bullion. In addition to wealth management, the bank also performs equity brokerage services, bond trading, and correspondent banking. Safra National Bank is owned by the Safra family, benefactors of hospitals, synagogues, and universities in the US and abroad.

Coimex Empreendimentos e Participações (know as Coimexpar) is a holding company which operates, through subsidiaries, primarily in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Its foreign trade business, Coimex Trading, deals in such commodities as coffee, sugar, and ethanol. Its logistics arm, which includes subsidiary Coimex Logistica Integrada, provides storage, distribution, and transportation services to customers in the auto, IT, and telecom industries among others. Coimexpar's other investments include a thermal electricity plant, a highway concession, and auto and real estate financing provider. Its latest venture is Embraport, a $180 million project which will expand the port of Santos.

Founders Jean Deleage, Garrett Gruener, and Guy Nohra had been partners at venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., before they left in 1996 to form Alta Partners. Alta Partners offers companies an alternative to raising cash on their own. The firm invests venture capital primarily in life science companies; Alta Partners also invests in information technology ventures. It has backed more than 150 companies and has about $2 billion in committed capital. Alta Partners funds both early- and late-stage companies through stage-specific funds. Its portfolio has included such companies as Cellomics, Occam Networks, and Xelerated.

Keepmoat plc, controls a group of companies engaged in building homes (not necessarily castles). Projects include regenerating older homes and neighborhoods, as well as building new houses. Subsidiaries (Keepmoat Homes, Bramall Construction, and Frank Haslam Milan) refurbish more than 40,000 homes a year in the UK, working with local authorities, housing associations, and other social landlords to provide affordable housing. Keepmoat Homes Limited is the group's primary private house building unit.

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

Second Avenue Partners Seattle-based venture capital firm specializes in early stage, high-tech companies with promise. It also helps if they are located in the Pacific Northwest. The firm's portfolio has about 10 such companies, including data management software provider Bocada, data miner Revenue Science, and broadband services provider Terabeam. Second Avenue Partners was founded by a quartet of high-tech success stories (including former executives from Microsoft and Starwave) in 2000.

Blum Capital Partners was founded in 1975 and is based in San Francisco, California. Blum Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in investments in both public and private companies. It typically invests in small and mid-capitalization companies that have a market capitalization between $350 million and $3 billion. The firm takes a substantial position in each business, either through the acquisition of strategic blocks of common shares in the public market, privately-negotiated minority investment, or a private control position. It seeks to invest in fundamentally good companies that are undervalued. The firm prefers to have a seat on the boards of the portfolio companies. It typically invests with a two to more than four years holding period in its portfolio companies.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in New York, New York. The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is a global exchange group that delivers trading, exchange technology, securities listing, and public company services across six continents. The Company’s offerings include trading across multiple asset classes, market data products, financial indexes, capital formation solutions, financial services and market technology products and services. It operates in three segments: Market Services, Issuer Services and Market Technology. In the United States, it operates The NASDAQ Stock Market, a registered national securities exchange. In addition, in the United States, it operates a second cash equities trading market, two options markets, a futures market and a derivatives clearinghouse. In Europe, it operates exchanges in Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), and Iceland as NASDAQ OMX Nordic and exchanges in Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania) as NASDAQ OMX Baltic.

NEL Fund Managers Limited provides funding for small and medium-sized enterprises of northern England. NEL offers venture capital and unsecured loan and mezzanine capital through its two divisions, Evolve Finance and NEL Capital. Evolve specializes in debt funding (up to £250,000 per client), and Insight focuses on institutional venture capital (up to £500,000 per client). The company changed its name from Northern Enterprise Limited to NEL Fund Managers Limited in 2006. The company's Insight Capital division also underwent a change and was rebranded NEL Capital (Evolve Finance stayed the same).

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