Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. was founded in 1996. Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm also participates in recapitalization, liquidity, leveraged buyouts, and minority growth equity investments in middle market companies. It makes early stage investments in companies engaged in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Investments in the middle market comprise of companies engaged in technology, healthcare, digital media, ecommerce, consumer products and services, and business service sectors. The firm prefers to invest in portfolio companies based in the United States and can selectively invest in Asia and Europe. It typically invests between $10 million and $60 million in portfolio companies with a maximum EBITDA of $25 million. The firm generally acts as a lead or co-lead investor.

Securities broker Siam City Securities (SCS) opens its doors to both the domestic and foreign investor. A subsidiary of Thailand's Siam City Bank, SCS provides securities brokerage and trading for the Stock Exchange of Thailand as well as underwriting and investment advisory services. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. brokerage activities include cash and credit balance accounts and Internet trading operations. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. steers its trading efforts toward investments in government and state enterprise securities, private company debt, and other equities. Meanwhile, SCS offers investment advice about securities value and trading, while it underwrites common shares, debentures, and warrants (among others) for its clients.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Founded in 1985, Granahan Investment Management, Inc. is employee-owned. Granahan Investment Management (GIM) provides small capitalization equity investing for large institutional clients through its two funds. Its Small Cap Explorer fund targets companies with a market cap between $500 million and $2.5 billion while its more recent Small Cap Core Growth fund targets companies with a market cap between $100 million and $1 billion. All told the firm has some $3 billion in assets under management. Portfolio companies include business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, automated teller machine operator Euronet, and marketing services provider ValueClick.

River Cities Capital Funds was founded in 1994 and has over $300 million under management. River Cities Capital Funds invests mostly in middle stage companies located in the Midwest and Southeast. River Cities Capital Funds invests venture capital in companies engaged primarily in technology, health care, and consumer and business services in the Midwest and Southeastern US. Portfolio companies include online book distributor Atomic Dog Publishing and software developer Manta Media, and online data recovery provider EVault. Investment partners include Austin Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Finova.

In January 1997, Alchemy was formed as a private equity advisory business and in 2006 added a team to focus on distressed debt and special opportunities. In 2007, Alchemy launched a development capital fund advisory business based in India. The Alchemy Partners and Portfolio Monitoring Directors work closely as a small, highly professional team with considerable investment experience, supported by motivated and ambitious Executives. Funding is provided by a large number of blue-chip investors including major banks, pension funds, fund-of-funds, university endowments and high net worth individuals. Alchemy is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the current turbulent markets with its focus on value investing and experience in executing difficult deals.

TM Capital was founded in 1989. TM Capital provides investment and merchant banking services including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financing, and advisory services. It also reviews and defends against unsolicited takeover attempts, provides fairness opinions and valuations, arranges private financing and financial restructurings, and occasionally participates in private equity investments.

Standard Life Investments are committed to achieving positive outcomes for SLIL clients, through a robust investment process and the quality of our people. A strong track record and proven industry expertise underpin our determination to deliver on the promises we make to you. SLIL experience of different investment cycles and a variety of market conditions reflects SLIL durability and resilience. SLIL unique, proven and repeatable Focus on Change philosophy affords us the freedom to think independently. While we listen to the same market noise and analyse similar data to SLIL industry peers, it’s what SLIL do with it that makes us different. Based in Edinburgh, SLIL have a number of offices worldwide including Boston, Dublin, London, Montreal, Hong Kong and Sydney. SLIL also have representative offices in Beijing and Seoul and a joint venture in India. Worldwide, over five million clients have entrusted us to look after assets of £138.7 billion*, based on SLIL ability to meet their needs.

nwest Investments was founded in 1981 by chairman Hassan Khosrowshahi as a holding company for his family's investments. Inwest Investments company has three offices in Canada and two in the US. nwest Investments is a private investment firm with holdings in real estate and financial endeavors in Canada. Inwest Investments company's portfolio includes Wesbild Holdings, a developer of residential real estate and resort communities in British Columbia; DRI Capital, which acquires royalty interests in patented pharmaceuticals; and Reservoir Media Management, which invests in entertainment-related royalties. Inwest Investments also founded Future Shop, one of Canada's largest electronics retailers, which was sold to Best Buy Canada in 2001.

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