Mission Venture Management ministers to early-stage technology companies involved in software, information technology, enterprise applications, and infrastructure. The firm invests primarily in emerging companies in Southern California, providing them with capital and counsel. It usually serves as the lead investor and often takes a seat on the boards of the companies in which it invests, helping them to develop their management teams and to establish professional relationships. Typical initial investments range between $2 million and $10 million. Mission Ventures has some $500 million in capital under management. Portfolio companies have included Akonix Systems, CalAmp, and Entropic Communications.

Palamon Capital Partners was founded in 1999. Palamon Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm invests in mid and late venture, development capital, recapitalizations, deleveraging transactions, turnarounds, and buyouts. It primarily invests in service sector businesses with a focus on specialty engineering, communications and media, financial services, leisure and entertainment, healthcare, information technology, and business services. The firm invests in companies based in Europe. It seeks to invest between €10 million ($15.45 million) and €80 million ($123.67 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm prefers to be the lead investor with either a majority or significant minority shareholding and at least two board seats in its portfolio companies.

VIEL & Cie was founded in 1920 and is based in Paris, France. VIEL & Cie, through its subsidiaries, provides interdealer broking, online trading, and private banking solutions to institutional and retail investors. The company offers financial products, such as money market products, interest rate and credit derivatives, bonds, interest rate futures and index futures currency options, and equity derivatives; and commodity-related products, such as precious metals, energy products, and pulp and paper. It also operates in the over-the-counter markets and regulated markets in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In addition, the company offers online broking services; online trading, account maintenance, custodial, and private asset management services for private investors; a trading platform for asset management centres; and back office and order transmission services.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

Centerline Holding Company, through its subsidiaries, provides real estate financial and asset management services. The Company offers capital solutions, including financing and investment products, to developers, owners and investors. The Company’s Corporate group, consists of Finance and Accounting, Legal, Corporate Communications and Operations departments, supports these four business groups. In March 2010, the Company sold its Portfolio Management group and the portion of the Commercial Real Estate group

New Horizons Venture Capital, one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s premier venture capital firms, invests in early stage firms with unique models that deliver high value-added, differentiated services while generating longer-term, sustainable earnings. New Horizons aims to serve as a long-term, value-added partner to its portfolio companies. This long-term relationship is reinforced by extensive on-going strategic, financial, and operational support. New Horizons, with its sister leveraged buy-out firm Capitol Partners, manages $200 million in assets.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho’s three operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada and Rho Fund Investors. Founded in 1981, Rho began its private equity activities as a family investment office. Today, Rho is a leading private equity firm that manages a series of funds, under each of its three divisions, backed by a broad group of institutional investors that include endowments, foundations, families, pension funds, and other financial institutions. Across all of Rho’s activities and strategies, our teams are committed to investing in growth and building companies over the long-term. Unique among private equity firms, Rho’s three divisions are each managed by dedicated teams who invest separate funds, yet all benefit from actively cross-leveraging other divisions’ networks to generate differentiated perspectives and insights.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

MSD Capital, L.P. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York. MSD Capital, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in publicly traded securities, private equity activities, real estates, special opportunities, and forming partnerships with third-party managers in the private and public markets. It seeks to invest in leveraged and management buyouts, going private transactions, mezzanine debt, PIPEs, growth equity financings, platform acquisitions and roll-ups, bridge loans, and recapitalization. The firm actively pursues investment opportunities in both public and private companies. It invests in both United States and foreign securities. It does not concentrate its investments in any particular industry. The firm’s Public Equities Group typically invests as a minority owner of publicly traded companies. In addition to investing in equities, it also makes debt investments including the maintenance of convertible bond portfolio. The Private Equity Group invests in established public and private companies through privately-negotiated transactions, including buyouts of private companies and divisions of public or private companies; acquisitions of public companies through going private transactions; and purchases of equity or mezzanine securities from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons, families, and funds seeking liquidity on existing investments. It seeks to make both growth and control investments.

TRS was founded in 1939. Teachers Retirement System of The State of Illinois is a public pension benefit plan that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for Illinois public school teachers, administrators, and personnel. Funded by contributions from members, employers, and the State of Illinois, as well as by investment income, TRS manages approximately $30 billion in assets. The system serves more than 350,000 members from all public schools except those in the city of Chicago. TRS is one of five state-funded retirement systems; the others are the State Universities Retirement System, the State Board of Investments, the State Employees' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System.

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