Cinven is a leading European buyout firm, founded in 1977, with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Cinven acquire European-based companies that require an equity investment by our funds of €100 million or more. Cinven European focus and expertise are complemented by an ability to capitalise on global growth opportunities through Cinven Asian office. Cinven focus on six sectors: Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT). Cinven acquires successful, high-quality companies and works with them to help them grow and develop, using Cinven proven value creation strategies. Typically, Cinven holds its investments for between four to six years. Cinven take a responsible approach towards our portfolio companies, their employees, suppliers and local communities, the environment and society as a whole.Cinven has a strong and consistent investment track record. Since the firm was founded in 1977, Cinven have completed transactions valued at in excess of €60 billion. We are responsible for many buyout industry ‘firsts', including the first €1 billion - plus buyouts in France, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Cinven are currently investing our fourth fund, which totals €6.5 billion. More than 150 investors based in 23 countries participated in the fund. They include leading institutional investors, mainly pension funds and insurance companies with a long-term investment horizon. Around half of our investors are based in Europe, another 40% are based in North America and the balance are based in Asia and the Middle East.Cinven complies with the UK's Guidelines for Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity published by the Walker Working Group in 2007, and with comparable codes throughout Europe. Cinven Limited (‘Cinven') is manager of, and adviser to, the Cinven funds. Cinven Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

Founded in the late 1800s as The West Point Telephone and Electric Company, a telephone and electric concern that would eventually rival AT&T in the long distance industry, ITC today answers to an altogether different call -- that of a financial holding group. It has invested in several telecom companies, including MindSpring, headhunter.net, and knology. Current holdings include ITC Commercial Funding, which provides commercial mortgages for income-producing properties in the South; restaurant supplier Instawares; and Realview TV, a streaming video system developer. ITC Holding also has interests in the Gro-Eco growing system and venture capital firm Kinetic Ventures.

Parallax Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Laguna Hills, California. Parallax Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout, management buy-outs, private companies, public-to-private, recapitalization, corporate divestiture, spin-off, build-up, and turnaround transactions in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the software and related services; semiconductor; telecommunication equipment and services; computer hardware and components; healthcare and pharmacy services; information technology services; media content and delivery; aerospace and defense; catalog industry; consumer products; distribution and logistics; transportation; specialty manufacturing; business services; travel and leisure; and food processing and distribution sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $500 million. It takes an active management role in its portfolio companies.

Founders Jean Deleage, Garrett Gruener, and Guy Nohra had been partners at venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., before they left in 1996 to form Alta Partners. Alta Partners offers companies an alternative to raising cash on their own. The firm invests venture capital primarily in life science companies; Alta Partners also invests in information technology ventures. It has backed more than 150 companies and has about $2 billion in committed capital. Alta Partners funds both early- and late-stage companies through stage-specific funds. Its portfolio has included such companies as Cellomics, Occam Networks, and Xelerated.

GC-Global Capital Corp. was founded in 2005 and is based in Toronto, Canada. GC-Global Capital Corp. provides merchant banking services to micro-cap and small-cap companies in public and private markets in North America. It offers bridge loan services to companies in oil and gas, mining, real estate, manufacturing, retail, financial services, technology, and biotechnology industries. The company also provides services, which include equity financing, developing mergers and acquisitions, operational management support, and structuring and negotiating debt and equity placements. In addition, it offers debtor-in-possession financing services; and scientific research experimental development, a tax credit program, which is used as collateral in loans.

Exor S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment company. The company makes medium- to long-term investments in diversified sectors, primarily in Europe, the United States, China, and India. Its investments portfolio consists of interests in companies from various industries, including automobile, agricultural and constriction equipment, trucks and commercial vehicles, components and production systems, financial services, real estate services, business services, paper, and tourism and entertainment. The company was formerly known as IFI–Istituto Finanziario Industriale S.p.A. and changed its name to Exor S.p.A. in March 2009 as a result of merger with IFIL S.p.A. The company is headquartered in Turin, Italy with additional offices in New York and Hong Kong. Exor S.p.A. is a subsidiary of Giovanni Agnelli e C. S.a.p.az.

CalSTRS can teach you a thing or two about saving for retirement. California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) manages and disburses retirement, survivor, and disability benefits for more than 800,000 California public school educators and their families. It also offers survivor and disability benefits. CalSTRS is the largest US teachers' retirement fund and one of the nation's largest public pension funds. It oversees some $150 billion in assets, which it invests in stocks, real estate, private equity, and other investment vehicles. The organization is run by a 12-member board, five of whom are appointed by California's governor.

Scale Venture Partners makes mid- to late-stage investments in businesses mostly in the hardware, software, semiconductor, networking, biotechnology, and health care industries. Scale Venture Partners has invested in such companies as Bellamax, Picolight, Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, and Dynavax Technologies. The firm typically makes an initial investment between $5 million to $15 million and then keeps capital on hand for companies to use as they grow. Bank of America had been the majority owner of the company, but decided to sell its stake in a shift away from venture capital.

Newtek is one of the premier providers of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States. Since 1999, Newtek has helped business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools they need to manage and grow their business.Newtek's suite of business solutions provides business owners with the high-quality services and top-level customer care that have traditionally only been affordable by larger companies. Whether a business is a startup or well-established, Newtek can help them reach their business goals.The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that there are 26.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80 percent of all new jobs annually and generate more than 50 percent of non-farm private gross domestic GDP. Newtek is a direct distribution channel into this market.

Siparex Croissance has holdings in some 200 French and international companies, including businesses in the food, IT, and medical sectors. Its holdings include such firms as Botanic (consumer garden products), La Grande Récré (major French toy and game retailer), and Martin Belaysoud Expansion (industrial and plumbing supplies). Due to the worldwide slump in technology stocks, Siparex is focusing its new investments on a smaller number of companies with established track records and experienced management. Some of the largest French banks, companies, and institutional investors dominate Siparex's shareholders, owning almost three-quarters of its stock.

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