Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR) was founded in 1976 and is based at New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a private equity and mezzanine investment firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and mezzanine investments in large cap companies. The firm will consider investments in all industries, with a focus on infrastructure. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm’s average investment horizon is five years and more. It exits its investments through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. The firm holds a controlling interest in its portfolio companies after they go public.

Excalibur Fund Managers Limited was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Excalibur Fund Managers Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in early, mid, and late stage investments. It seeks to invest in medical sciences, biotechnology, and life sciences sector. The firm prefers to invest in companies that bring human medicines or medical devices to the market. It prefers to invest in European companies. The firm prefers to be an active investor and seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Alliance Technology Ventures IV, L.P. specializes to make early, seed, and start up investments. It seeks to invest in communications, semiconductor, and life science companies with a focus on devices, systems, infrastructure, networks, and applications. It prefers to invest in broadband access and infrastructure with focus on wireless, cable, xDSL, and optical and in companies helping to advance Moore's Law. In life sciences, it seeks to invest in later-stage drug development programs, nanotech-based diagnostic and therapeutic innovations, and targeted protein-based therapeutics. The fund prefers to invest in the companies based in south-eastern U.S. It does not invest in publicly traded companies or companies located outside of the continental U.S. The fund typically invests between $1 million and $5 million in its portfolio companies.

Skandia Forsakrings was founded in 1855 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of February 2006, Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc. Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. provides long-term savings products worldwide. Its product portfolio comprise unit linked assurance products, mutual funds, and traditional life assurance products, as well as provides online retail banking services. The company also sells protection and critical illness products that comprise healthcare and group insurance policies.

Berkery Noyes & Company was founded in 1980 and is based in New York City. The firm has offices in Newton, San Francisco, and Wiesbaden, Germany. Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC is a boutique investment-banking firm. The firm focuses on providing merger and acquisition, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, recapitalizing, financing, and valuation advice to companies in information, publishing, and communications industries.

Wilh. Werhahn KG engages in extracting and producing aggregates and asphalt construction materials for the construction industry. It also involves in producing ready-mixed concrete and gravel, recycling secondary materials, and land filling inert excavated soil, as well as supplying slate for roofing and siding applications. In addition, the company manufactures knives, scissors, pots, and utensils for kitchen; cutlery; beauty products, such as manicure and pedicure items; and baking products, such as industrial and bakery flours, baking convenience products, and retail-brand products. Further, it finances a range of mobile business assets, including vehicles, machinery, furnishings, telecommunications and information technology equipment, exercise gear, and tanning systems, as well as provides factoring services for small and medium-sized businesses; and manages and optimizes commercial property holdings, as well as offers consulting in corporate real estate management.

Warburg Pincus LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in all stages of a company’s life cycle from founding startups, early-stage financings, growth equity investments, and developing companies to restructurings, recapitalizations, and management buyouts of mature businesses. The firm also invests in change in control leveraged buyout transactions, divisional spin-outs of non-core corporate assets, minority private investments in public companies, and special situations transactions with a focus on acquisition of undervalued companies. It typically invests in financial services; healthcare; media, information and communication technology, and telecommunications; energy; consumer and industrials; and real estate sectors. Within healthcare and life sciences, the firm seeks to invest in healthcare services, medical devices, biotechnology, and specialty pharmaceuticals. In medical devices, it focuses on investments in diabetes, interventional cardiology, interventional neurology, orthopedics, and urology/gynecology.Within financial services, the firm primarily invests in specialty and consumer finance, private banking, payment and transaction processing companies, insurance companies, financial technology, exchanges, banks, depository institutions, and asset and wealth management. Within technology, media, and telecommunications, it typically invests in software, financial technology, business services, semiconductors and systems, and information and Internet. In software, the firm invests in industry-specific enterprise applications, information security, SaaS, open source, and alternative business models, data center automation, and business intelligence, analytic applications, and decision support. Within financial technology, it focuses on technology/ technology-enabled solutions or software, transaction processing/outsourcing/utilities/exchanges, and data.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority (TFA) won't sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, but it will let you invest in repairs. The quasi-independent government agency sells municipal bonds to finance the Big Apple's capital improvement projects -- public buildings, roads, bridges, etc. The authority was created in 1997 to circumvent state constitutional limitations on the amount of debt the city could take on. With the authority to issue up to $11.5 billion in bonds, the agency proved to be even more useful than anticipated, selling $2 billion in bonds for recovery costs following the September 11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center. The TFA's bond limit has since been raised to $13.5 billion.

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation provides agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans in the secondary market in the United States. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation engages in purchasing eligible loans directly from lenders; providing advances against eligible loans by purchasing obligations secured by those loans; securitizing assets and guaranteeing securities representing interests in pools of eligible loans; and issuing long-term standby purchase commitments for eligible loans. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation also purchases portfolios of newly originated and seasoned loans, mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate, fixed- and adjustable rate loans, and loans to finance electrification and telecommunications systems in rural areas. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation was founded in 1987 and is based in Washington, D.C.

Bastogi S.p.A., a holding company, operates in the financing, real estate, transportation, technology, engineering, art, and cold storage industries. Subsidiaries The company’s two main subsidiaries are Brioschi Finanziaria and Open Care-Frigoriferi Milanesi. Brioschi designs and builds large urban complexes for private and commercial uses. Open Care-Frigoriferi Milanesi offers art restoration and transportation services, art consulting, and cold storage of valuables. Bastogi also owns an art school, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), which offers courses in painting, graphic design, and product design.

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