Terra Nova Financial Group wants to serve investors in a hurry to do some stock trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. was founded in the 1990s as a traditional retail brokerage offering insurance and other investment products. Today, Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. has shifted its attention toward its proprietary software for direct-access trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. technology platform provides real-time quotes and trading tools for active online investors, semi-professional traders, and institutional portfolio managers. Terra Nova Financial, LLC, the company's broker/dealer subsidiary, handles online trading for more than 3,000 customer accounts. In 2010 Lightspeed Financial, Inc. agreed to acquire Terra Nova Financial, LLC for nearly $27 million.

Switzerland's number two financial services firm does business all over the world, including in Israel. Credit Suisse Financial Services (Israel) helps private banking, investment banking, and asset management clients with wealth accumulation and protection, and succession and inheritance planning using global equity markets, private equity funds, foreign exchange trading, and fixed-income products. It also offers a customized mix of products tailored for investors' specific needs and advises clients on using third-party investment products. Credit Suisse Financial Services (Israel) was formed in 2007 as a result of growing wealth in the country's booming economy.

Palo Alto Venture Partners was founded in 1996 by Neil Weintraut and Peter Ziebelman; current investments include database software firm Semagix, human resources software developer Employease, and contract management software provider Nextance. Palo Alto Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with $150 million in assets under management. The company typically invests in the first round of fundraising for companies wanting to go public. The firm targets startups developing technology for such industries as business automation, communications infrastructure, and mobile technology.

NEBF, which was established in 1946 as part of an agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), is affiliated with the National Electrical Annuity Plan, or NEAP. National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) wants to put some spark into the retirement nest eggs of those in the electrical industry. One of the largest Taft-Hartley pension plans in the US, the fund manages pension benefits for more than 480,000 current or former electrical workers and has more than $11 billion of assets under management. More than 11,000 employers contribute to the fund.

Cabot Square Capital was founded in 1996. Cabot Square Capital invests capital in small and mid-sized companies in growing markets in the UK and Western Europe. It also specializes in startup business and companies in a state of expansion or turnaround. The firm currently offers customers its Cabot Square Capital Partners II, with some $200 million ($320 million) of committed capital, and its third fund, CS Capital Partners III, with approximately $300 million ($480 million) of committed capital. The firm typically takes majority control positions in its acquisitions and sees its role as a value-added partner.

Zone Ventures Management Company primarily provides seed, or first round, funding and invests in the Southern California area. Zone Ventures generally invests about $1 million to $3 million in these start-ups and typically takes a seat on the board. Part of the company's portfolio includes digital video developer DivXNetworks (MP3), online retailer Allpets.com, and facial recognition technology developer Neven Vision. Other services include financial strategy, executive search, and investment banking.

Duchossois Technology Partners (DTEC) is affiliated with the The Duchossois Group (www.duch.com), which represents over 60 years of entrepreneurship and the development of dozens of companies with an aggregate value in excess of three billion dollars. The Duchossois Group (TDG), headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois, is privately held and holds interests in a diversified portfolio of companies, including The Chamberlain Group, Inc. (consumer and commercial access control products), AMX LLC (consumer and commercial advanced control and automation technology), Heath-Zenith LLC (security and lighting products), Milestone AV Technologies (audio visual mounting equipment) and Duchossois Capital Partners (investments). TDG also holds a strategic interest in Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDN).

Harbinger Group Inc., formerly known as Zapata Corporation, is a holding company which has approximately $148.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments as of March 31, 2010, including 98% of Zap.Com Corporation. Harbinger Group Inc. is currently searching for acquisition candidates.Zap.Com is a public shell company which does not have any existing business operations. Zap.Com may search for assets or businesses that it can acquire so that it can become an operating company. Zap.Com may also consider developing a new business suitable for its situation. Zap.Com trades on the OTCBB under the symbol "ZPCM."

Chartwell Investments Inc. was founded in 1992. Chartwell Investments seeks investment opportunities in middle-market companies, primarily in the US. Chartwell Investments company is particularly interested in consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses; it shies away from tech companies or venture capital investments. It typically invests from $50 million to more than $500 million per transaction, usually taking majority stakes its portfolio companies, holding them for the long term, and taking an active role in their management. Chartwell has stakes in about a half-dozen companies and manages some $750 million worth of assets.

Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

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