Red Rock Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital investment partnership specializing in seed and early- stage information technology investments. The general partners, Robert G. Todd, Curtis (Kip) Myers, Peter Dumanian and Laura Brege have extensive backgrounds as operating managers, entrepreneurs, founders and venture capital investors. Their record in successfully founding and/or financing high-technology companies has created substantial market value and investor returns for the past 20 years. Red Rock currently manages $220 million in committed capital.

Wingate Partners gets by on more than a wing and a prayer, rescuing lackluster manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses. The investment firm, founded in 1987, seeks long-term controlling stakes in US-based companies that are underperforming or are in transitional or out-of-favor industries. Targets typically have revenues of $50 million to $250 million and may or may not be profitable at the time of purchase. Wingate often invests between $25 million to $100 million per transaction and avoids financial services, media, high-tech, real estate, and certain other businesses. It typically invests in one or two companies a year.

Quilter & Co. Limited company, which is part of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, provides investment management services to private clients, trusts, and charities. Quilter has nearly $6 billion ($10 billion) in assets under management and operates through 10 offices in the UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Its offerings include discretionary accounts and managed portfolios with a variety of investment strategies, as well as Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), and Personal Equity Plans (PEPs). Citigroup bought the company from Morgan Stanley in 2007. However, the two firms merged their wealth management units two years later.

CapEx is an investment fund that specializes in mezzanine debt and equity investments in later-stage private or small-cap public companies with revenues of at least $10 million. An active investor, CapEx typically injects between $2 million and $5 million into companies in such industries as business services, consumer products, and manufacturing; it avoids the financial services, high tech, energy, and real estate sectors. Investments have included BriteSmile and SSP America (formerly Creative Host Services).

HIFX PLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Windsor, the United Kingdom. It has operations in Europe, North America, and Australasia. HiFX Plc was formerly known as HiFX Limited and changed its name to HiFX Plc in January 2004. HiFX Plc provides foreign exchange advisory services. It offers advisory services on identifying the nature of risks, foreign currency forecasting, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as provides advisory services for foreign exchange structured products and managing surplus funds. The company also provides online and international money transfer services; news and information on various aspects of the currency markets, foreign exchange, emigrating, and overseas property; overseas property insurance services; and foreign exchange services for property purchase and emigration.

SV Life Sciences Advisers LLP was founded in 1993. SV Life Sciences Advisers LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in investments start-up, early stage, and expansion capital. The firm seeks to invest in the human life sciences sectors. Within these sectors, it prefers to invest in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, medical devices and instruments, and healthcare information technology and services sectors. The firm seeks to invest in equity or near equity securities in private businesses. It usually takes a lead investor position in its portfolio companies. The firm primarily invests in North America and Western Europe, but will consider investment opportunities in other regions. It seeks to invest between $1 million to $40 million in equity investments. The firm takes a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Frontenac Company was founded in 1971. Frontenac believes in the power of the people -- powerful people, that is. The private equity firm utilizes an investment strategy dubbed "CEO1ST", in which it matches one of its roster of already successful executives with high-potential companies. The company targets private midsized firms, typically family-owned companies worth up to $250 million. It invests in industries including financial services, business services, health care, publishing, and consumer goods. It participates in MBOs and expansion capital investments and holds its interest stakes for the long term. Frontenac has more than 200 investments under its belt and more than $1 billion in capital under management.

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund was founded in 1918 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement plans, including IRAs, education savings plans, and annuities for its clients. It primarily provides its services to individuals in the academic, medical, cultural, and research fields, including employee, retiree, or trustee of nonprofit colleges and universities, public and private elementary and secondary schools, teaching hospitals, museums, libraries, certain other nonprofit institutions, and government entities. The firm manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. It also manages fund of funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and the fixed income markets of the United States. It also invests in the direct real estate markets and real estate securities markets.

NEXT Financial Group, Inc. provides independent investment professionals a place to call "work", and the back office support, marketing clout, and technology services of a big investment firm. NEXT Financial company provides a variety of investment services catering to retirees and baby-boomers through its network of broker/dealers. NEXT Financial company is owned by its employees and representitives and is not affiliated with large investment or insurance companies, allowing reps and customers to choose from a variety of investment options.

Enterprise Ventures Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investment in high growth unquoted companies. The firm seeks to invest at all stages of investment with a focus on management buy outs, development capital, and early stage technology opportunities. It also considers investments in start up stage. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in England with a focus on the North of England and the Midlands. It typically invests in deal sizes of £5,000 ($9,800) to £2 million ($3.94 million) using a combination of its liquidity and syndication with other private equity and debt providers.

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