Charter Oak Equity and its predecessor funds have invested in private equity since 1992. These little acorns might grow into mighty oaks too! Charter Oak Private Equity targets small and middle-market companies. Its investment vehicles, Charter Oak Capital Partners, Charter Oak Equity, and Charter Oak International Partners, invest in the health care, chemicals, consumer products, and industrial manufacturing industries. Investments include Daisy Manufacturing (the air rifle maker) and Aylward Enterprises (pharmaceuticals packaging). The company's Revere Industries holds several of its industrial manufacturing companies. Charter Oak Partners still exists as a hedge fund manager focused on long/short equity.

TradeStation Group, Inc. operates as an online broker-dealer, an introducing broker, a futures commission merchant, and a trading technology company. TradeStation Group, Inc. product/service includes TradeStation, an electronic trading platform that enables traders to test and automate technical and fundamental trading strategies across various asset classes. TradeStation Group, Inc. also offers online brokerage services covering equities, equity and index options, financial and commodities futures, futures options, and spot forex transactions. TradeStation Group, Inc. also provides TradeStation electronic subscription service, which includes trading features and functions, streaming charts and quotes, streaming news, analytical charting, and various other features included in the TradeStation electronic trading platform other than trade order placement, and other trading or brokerage-related features or services. TradeStation Group serves the active trader and institutional trader markets. TradeStation Group, Inc. has strategic relationships with J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.; R.J. OBrien & Associates, Inc.; and GAIN Capital Group, Inc. TradeStation Group, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plantation, Florida.

Sevin Rosen Funds was founded in 1981. Sevin Rosen Funds is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies. The firm selectively finances seed and incubation opportunities. It prefers to invest in semiconductors and computing, high technology, energy and related technologies, nanotechnology, imaging, photonics, RF communications, healthcare, enterprise software and services, telecommunications, and other innovative technologies. The firm generally invests in companies based in the United States. It typically invests between $4 million and $15 million in the portfolio company. The firm prefers to participate in the first round of funding in the portfolio company.

Established in 1979, Fisher Investments is a private money management firm serving Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals with at least $500,000 to invest. The firm is active in the US and in the UK, where it operates through subsidiary Fisher Wealth Management. In Germany, Fisher does business through its joint-venture affiliate, Greener Fisher Investments. At the helm of Fisher Investments is founder, CEO, and chief investment officer Ken Fisher, who has authored several books on investing and has written the "Portfolio Strategy" column for Forbes magazine for more than 20 years.

Wexford Capital was founded in 1994 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Wexford Capital LLC is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It invests in the public equity and hedging markets across the globe. The firm employs an opportunistic approach to make its investments in bankruptcy/distressed companies in the energy/natural resource, real estate, technology/telecommunication, and transportation sectors. It utilizes a multi-strategy approach to make its investments.

Javelin Ventures was founded in 2002 by chairman Janis Anderson and chief executive Valerie Jolliffe. Javelin Ventures provides venture capital funding for early stage technology companies. Javelin Ventures also provides consulting and business mentoring services. Javelin Ventures company manages the Kinetique Biomedical Seed Fund, which funds biomedical science companies that are engaged in the development of pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, medical devices, and biomaterials. The Heptagon Fund, a fund for translating early business ideas and concepts into licensing details and investment funding, is also managed by the company.

Francisco Partners Management LLC was founded in August 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. Francisco Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in financing divisional spinouts, divisional buyouts including divestiture, acquisitions and "take privates" of public companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, and restructurings. In growth equity financing, the firm seeks to invest in industry roll-ups, joint ventures, and adjacent market opportunities that may evolve from situations such as post-venture capital funding needs, sponsor changes, or assets hidden within larger companies. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm seeks to invest in communications, hardware, information technology services and software, healthcare technology, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components, systems, and manufacturing, business process outsourcing (BPO), security and enterprise application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $2 billion.

Cantor Index Limited, an online financial spread betting company, provides spread bets on equity, commodity, and bond markets. It provides stocks and shares, indices, bonds and commodities, foreign exchanges, interest rates, daily rolling shares, and daily rolling spot FX bets. The company also offers sales and trading, investment banking, asset management, market data, and market commentary services; brokerage services to wholesale market participants; electronic marketplaces and related trading technology developing and deploying services; and professional charting and news services.

Wendel Investissement SA invests in the industrial and service, and health sectors. The company supports entrepreneurial teams by monitoring operations on a regular basis, helps define ambitious strategies, and provides the financing needed to ensure the success of the companies in which it has invested. The company principally invests in a relatively limited number of significant equity holdings in industry, such as products and systems for electrical installations, automotive components and systems, industrial abrasives, oil exploration and real estate; services, such as conformity assessment and certification, classified advertising and multimedia services, IT services and consulting, telecommunications; and healthcare, such as medical diagnostics, food quality testing, allergy laboratory. Industry Legrand Group: The Legrand Group is a global specialist in products and systems for electrical installations and information networks in residential properties, service facilities and industry. The Group offers various solutions, integrating: the distribution of electrical energy and of data; remote control systems and connections; security systems for people and property; solutions for buildings and industrial processes.

Alloy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management that invests in the entrepreneurs creating the next generation of ground-breaking Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech companies.For the last 30 years, Alloy has leveraged the operational experience, extensive networks and forward-thinking vision of its partners to help start and build over 200 market-leading companies in fields such as software, semiconductors, mobile, medical devices, diagnostics, and laboratory instrumentation. Some of Alloy successful investments include Amgen, AMCC, Applied Biosystems, Aspect Communications, CV Therapeutics, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Nuance Communications, Octel, PMC-Sierra, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, and Verity – and alloy current portfolio includes companies like Barrx, Molecular Imprints, Optimedica, Pacific Biosciences, and Vivotech which are poised to become the next global leaders.

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