Excalibur Fund Managers Limited was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Excalibur Fund Managers Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in early, mid, and late stage investments. It seeks to invest in medical sciences, biotechnology, and life sciences sector. The firm prefers to invest in companies that bring human medicines or medical devices to the market. It prefers to invest in European companies. The firm prefers to be an active investor and seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Guinness Peat Group plc is an investment holding company with a diversified range of strategic interests in a number of businesses, mainly in Europe and Australasia. GPG is listed on the London, Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. As at 31 December 2009, it had a market capitalisation of approximately £584 million. Shareholders’ Funds at the same date were £867 million. GPG’s successful track record spans investments in various sectors including financial services, textiles and thread manufacture, food processing, building services, property development and fruit and produce distribution. GPG’s investment portfolio covers a spread of investments and is widely diversified both geographically and sectorially. GPG has a small but experienced group of prudent and professional executives operating with strong teamwork and close communication, which has been a proven formula for achieving steady growth in the value of shareholders’ funds.

Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silver Lake employs over 75 investment professionals across its strategies. The firm's investing strategies derive from specialization in three primary areas.Silver Lake Partners is the leader in private investments in technology, technology-enabled, and related growth industries. Its funds' portfolio companies include or have included technology industry leaders such as Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, Gartner, Gerson Lehrman Group, Instinet, Intelsat, IPC Systems, MCI, NASDAQ OMX, NetScout, NXP, Sabre Holdings, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, SunGard Data Systems, Thomson and UGS.Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Sumeru combines specialized technology sector knowledge, rigorous due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create a significant competitive advantage in executing its investment strategy.

Incubic is a venture fund investing in high-tech startups. Incubic focus is seed investments, although Incubic do invest in late-stage companies. Incubic believe business is built on excellence and trust. Incubic are helpful to entrepreneurs because ultimately what is good for the business is good for its founders and investors. Having been entrepreneurs, Incubic understand management challenges, and can provide a balanced view to help you make sound decisions. Incubic also share Incubic experience as advisors to entrepreneurs. Incubic have access to an extensive network of professional resources to be helpful. There would be no fees/compensation until substantial advisory services are required.

Wells Fargo Securities, formerly Wachovia Capital Markets, provides investment banking and capital markets services for businesses. Offerings include financial and corporate advisory services, private capital and debt placement, underwriting, and equity investing. It also offers real estate financing, risk management services, and structured products such as asset-backed finance products. The firm has expertise with municipalities and in the retail, aerospace, financial services, energy, health care, real estate, media, and technology industries. Wells Fargo Securities and its former parent, Wachovia Corporation, were acquired by Wells Fargo in late 2008.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

First Manhattan Co. was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. First Manhattan Co. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also caters to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It typically makes its equity investments in value stocks of companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Henderson Investment Limited, through its subsidiaries, primarily invests in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Henderson Development Limited. Infrastructure The company's infrastructure business mainly comprises interests in Hangzhou Qianjiang Third Bridge and a highway in Maanshan City, Anhui Province. They are both located in the Yangtze River Delta. Associated Company - The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited supplies piped gas in Hong Kong. Its core businesses comprise production and distribution of gas, marketing of gas and gas appliances, and after-sales services. It serves approximately 1.6 million local customers throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon peninsula, some new towns in the New Territories, as well as North Lantau Island including the Hong Kong International Airport. It also operates water supply projects in Wujiang, Jiangsu province and in Wuhu, Anhui province, and manages an integrated water supply and wastewater joint venture in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the ECO Energy Company Limited, Hong Kong and China Gas has diversified into various green businesses including Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicle filling stations and the utilization of landfill gas. ECO is operating a total of five LPG filling stations, which are strategically located in Chai Wan, Mei Foo, Tuen Mun, West Kowloon and Wan Chai.

AssetCo is in the thick of things. The integrated services company specializes in providing support for emergency response and homeland security agencies in the UK and some 145 countries around the world. Primarily serving the public-service sector, AssetCo offers an array of services including training, fire reserve, emergency vehicle assembly and management, infrastructure support, equipment supply, and technology and information management. Customers include the London Fire Brigade and all other fire and rescue organizations in Great Britain. AssetCo also has an international office in Abu Dhabi, which specializes in serving the civil defense, emergency services, airport and military sectors.

Prime Active Capital plc (PAC) targets and acquires companies where value can be achieved through improving and reinvigorating management teams, debt/equity re-structuring, market re-positioning and cash flow enhancement. Acquired companies shall seek organic and acquisition growth for their own businesses with the support of the PAC management team. The PAC management team has extensive experience in major capital market transactions, debt/equity re-structuring and corporate turnarounds. The company is quoted on the London AIM market and the Dublin IEX market.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.