Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Beijing, China. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in green technology innovation, information technology, pandemic and bio-defense, and life sciences. In information technology sector, it prefers to invest in consumer, enterprise, semiconductor, security, wireless, and communication sectors. Within pandemic and bio-defense, the firm invests in surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and technologies enabling large-scale manufacturing. In life science sector, it invests in medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare information technology and services.

Pond Venture Partners, known for its hands-on management style, was founded by chairman Charles Irving (based in Europe) and CEO Richard Irving (based in California). Pond Venture Partners invests in high-tech companies from both sides of the pond. The venture capital firm targets early-stage communications infrastructure companies based in Europe, including the UK. Pond Venture Partners is focused on funding startups developing networking hardware and software, optical components, and wireless products. Its portfolio includes chip technology manufacturer picoChip, digital content management products supplier SealedMedia, and software integrator Transitive Corporation.

Boston Ventures Management, LLC was founded in 1983 with a simple premise, that deep knowledge of its industry sectors and a disciplined investment strategy focused on growing companies, will lead to differentiated returns. Through seven funds, and three decades, the Firm and its predecessor, Boston Ventures Management, LLC, have successfully executed on that strategy with over $2.6 billion of capital commitments. BV Investment Partners has acted as the lead investor in notable portfolio companies, including: Billboard Publications, Decision Resources, Marshall & Swift, Television Station Group, Vue Entertainment, and World Publications.

Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. is the private equity arm of the Monitor Group specializing in management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the North America and Western Europe. It typically makes equity investments between $20 million and $100 million per transaction and can also make smaller or larger investments. The firm seeks to make control or minority investments.

Scottish Health Innovations Ltd works in partnership with NHS Scotland to protect and develop new innovations that come from healthcare professionals. By developing these ideas, SHIL creates new products and technologies that will improve patient care and generate income for NHS Scotland. SHIL services include: Project management, Market Research, Sourcing of funding, Intellectual property protection, Sourcing of development partners & Spinout set up. SHIL was set up in 2002 by NHS Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to provide this support to NHS innovation. It was recognised that there was a wealth of potential in the knowledge of NHS employees in terms of how to improve care and that there was no means of support out there to make the most of this. Since SHIL came in to existence they have successfully developed many ideas and projects that have come from NHS staff. These vary from basic ideas to more complicated research projects. If you work in healthcare and you have an idea for a new product SHIL wants to hear from you.

Clerical Medical targets the practical and economical, helping to make sure their retirement years are more paradisiacal than ascetical. Clerical Medical, which started out serving clergy members and physicians, today provides middle-class professionals and other clients from all walks of life with tools to build their nest eggs. The company's products include group and individual pension plans and other investment products, such as life insurance, offshore investment funds, and a variety of bonds (flexible growth, income, and others); it has more than $39 billion under management. Clerical Medical is a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE) is an operator of regulated futures exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) markets and derivatives clearing houses. ICE operates electronic futures and OTC marketplaces for trading an array of energy and agricultural commodities, credit default swaps (CDS), currencies and equity index products. It offers an integrated electronic trading platform for side-by-side trading of products in both futures and OTC markets, together with clearing, post-trade and market data services. Through its electronic marketplace, ICE brings together buyers and sellers of derivative and physical commodities and financial contracts, and offers a range of services to support its participants’ risk management needs. The Company has three segments: futures segment, global OTC segment and market data segment. In July 2010, IntercontinentalExchange Inc. acquired Climate Exchange plc.

GAMCO Investors, Inc., (GBL) is a provider of investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutional and private wealth management investors, and investment partnerships, principally in the United States. Through Gabelli & Company, Inc. (Gabelli & Company), it provides institutional research services to institutional clients and investment partnerships. It generally manages assets on a discretionary basis and invests in a variety of United States and international securities through various investment styles. Its revenues are based primarily on the firm’s levels of assets under management (AUM) and to a lesser extent, incentive fees associated with its various investment products. It also offers a series of investment partnership (performance fee-based) vehicles that provide a series of long-short investment opportunities, both market and sector specific opportunities, including offerings of non-market correlated investments in merger arbitrage, as well as a fixed income strategy.

Quest Capital seeks investments in first mortgage loans secured by single-family residences, apartments, condominiums, social housing, and nursing and retirement facilities in Canada. Quest Capital Corp. previously was an asset-based lender to companies in the mining and oil and gas industries, but sold those operations in 2007 and converted to a mortgage investment company. Quest Capital Corp., however, halted new loan production the following year as it waited out the rough economy. Some vestiges of Quest Capital's former incarnation remain in its much smaller commercial real estate and natural resource lending activities.

LMS Capital plc was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in San Francisco, California. LMS Capital plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. The firm seeks to invest in mid venture, late venture, middle market, mature, turnarounds, and buyouts. It makes balance sheet investments. It typically invests in energy and industrial, applied technology, media and leisure, healthcare and medical sectors, consumer services, software and services, commercial and professional services, and financial services. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, and European Developed Markets. It invests in public and private companies. The firm seeks to hold a board seat in its portfolio companies and actively manages significant stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests between £5 million ($9.98 million) and £15 million ($29.93 million) in companies with an enterprise value between £10 million ($19.95 million) and £50 million ($99.77 million), minimum revenue of £5 ($9.98 million), and minimum EBITDA of £1 million ($1.995 million).

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