Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market. Many of these companies were among the first to introduce new business ideas to the market. CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories. eToys demonstrated the tremendous potential for online consumer retail and became one of the most recognized brands during the early days of e-commerce. Overture Services, which began life as GoTo.com, was the first company to introduce the concept of paid search — the business model that powers the multibillion-dollar online search market.Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab. Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in robotics, renewable energy and automotive design and production among others. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.In addition to capital, Idealab provides a full range of resources to infuse start-ups with the support they need to rapidly introduce innovative products and services. Resources include office space and the accompanying office services, development and technology, product and graphic design, marketing, financial advice, human resources, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development support and services. In addition, Idealab provides advice on strategy, branding and corporate structure.

Global Life Science Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based at München, Germany with an additional office at Zug, Switzerland. Global Life Science Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments originating from universities, scientific institutions or industry. The firm also makes selected investments in late stage companies including buyouts. It primarily invests in the life science sector. The firm invests in companies based in United States and Europe with a focus on United Kingdom, Switzerland, and home markets in German speaking countries. It prefers to invest between €2 million ($2.57 million) and €5 million ($6.43 million) in a company per round of financing. The firm invests up to 10 percent of the total volume in a company. In the European home market, it seeks to be a lead investor or an active co-investor but prefers to be co-investor outside the home market. The firm prefers to be a pro-active syndicate partner in its portfolio companies. It also provides follow-on financing and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Established in 2000, HgCapital is a leading investor in the European private equity market. It is the successor to Mercury Private Equity (founded in 1985), which was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1997. In December 2000, Mercury Private Equity staff acquired the business from Merrill Lynch and renamed it HgCapital. HgCapital has funds under management of £2.4 billion. HgCapital services over 200 institutional clients and manages HgCapital Trust plc, an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange that participates in all HgCapital's investments. Since 1985, HgCapital have invested and worked with a broad range of companies and managers, successfully tackling a wide array of challenges. These challenges include public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, turnarounds, operational improvement initiatives and, of course, scaling up for fast growth. HgCapital knowledge and energy is available to all companies in which HgCaptial invest.

Axel Johnson, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in supplying energy products and related services in the United States. Axel Johnson company provides water treatment systems for potable and process water, waste water, and solids handling applications to individuals and communities; and water softeners, filters, drinking water systems, and water purification systems to residential and light commercial customers. Its technology is used by industrial customers for water recycling, hazardous waste minimization, metals recovery, and purity water production. Axel Johnson company also provides material-handling services; and supplies filtration technology for municipal water treatment systems, including various technologies for the arsenic removal. In addition, it recovers antique wood timbers from various circumstances, including abandoned industrial mills, antique barns, submerged forests, 19th century breweries, and ancient Chinese temples, as well as refinishes them into custom flooring and millwork.

Barclays Private Equity Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Europe. Barclays Private Equity Ltd. is the private equity arm of Barclays Capital specializing in middle market and change of ownership transactions. It invests in management buyout, management buy-in, institutional buyout, equity release, expansion capital, and going private transactions of lower middle market companies. The firm also provides equity funding to privately financed infrastructure projects. It seeks to invest in support services, specialist engineering, financial services, consumer and travel, and other sectors. Within the support services sector, investments are sought in staffing- recruitment of temporary or permanent staff; BPO/FM– outsourcing, facilities management, and property services; asset rental- vehicle or equipment; logistics- supply chain management, freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, and haulage; professional and IT services; and other miscellaneous support services companies.

CEO Thomas Harlan founded Emergent Technologies in 1989. Emergent Technologies turns business into a science, and vice versa. The venture capital firm focuses on institutional and university-based biotechnology discoveries, generally originating at The University of Oklahoma, The University of Texas, and Texas Tech , and turns them into companies. Emergent Technologies provides more than financial support; it also brings management, marketing, licensing, and other offerings to its nascent charges. Emergent Technologies company looks for protectable intellectual property, previous research grants, and new technology with applications across many markets.

Alliance Trust was founded in 1888 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom. Alliance Trust PLC is a publicly owned investment manager with approximately £2.87 billion ($5.64 billion) in assets under management. The firm also provides pensions and ISA/PEP services to its clients. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real estate markets across the globe. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create it portfolio mix. The firm makes its fixed income investments in government and corporate bonds. It does not benchmark the performance of its portfolios against any specific index. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

Providence Equity Partners LLC was founded in 1989. Providence Equity Partners LLC is a private equity investment firm specializing in financing growth capital, recapitalizations of family-owned businesses, leveraged buyouts, and take-privates investments. The firm also provides debt investment management, and capital market and debt structuring advice through its capital markets group, with respect to its portfolio companies. It typically invests in media, entertainment, communications, and information sectors with a focus on broadcast, broadband, cable television, music, film, wireline, wireless, newspaper, book, magazine and directory publishing, digital media, print media, network television, cable television content and distribution, television and radio broadcasting, satellites, fixed line and mobile telephony systems, local exchange carriers, marketing services, business outsourcing providers, and Internet infrastructure sectors. The firm typically invests in companies based across the world. It primarily invests between $250 million and $2500 million in its portfolio companies. The firm typically leads its investments and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

NexTrade Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Clearwater, Florida. NexTrade Holdings, Inc., a financial technology firm, develops electronic trading systems for buyers and sellers. It offers technology solutions for futures and commodities exchange, currency exchange, matching and routing, options trading, index and ETF, and clearing systems, as well as for front-end interfaces and securities exchanges. NexTrade Holdings company provides transaction processing and software architecture. It serves various financial institutions, including online brokers, market makers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and traditional brokerage firms.

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