KPS Capital Partners, LP was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. KPS Capital Partners, LP is a private equity firm specializing in investments in, turnarounds, financial restructurings, businesses in bankruptcies, follow on acquisitions, employee buyouts, failed acquisitions, corporate divestitures, carve-outs, and spin-offs of middle market companies. In case of turnarounds, the firm seeks to invest in of underperforming or distressed businesses. It targets business facing closure, liquidation, and with a history of operating losses. In case of business in bankruptcies, it seeks to invest in, fund reorganizations of, and create new companies to purchase operating assets of, companies facing bankruptcy or asset sale under Section 363. The firm targets businesses burdened with, insufficient liquidity; excessive debt; operating in default of obligations to creditors; or lacking capital for investment, modernization, or growth, in order to eliminate, reduce or restructure the company's liabilities. The firm also seeks to invest in operating businesses, including divisions, subsidiaries or individual plants of larger companies capable of operating as stand-alone companies.

Clearstone Venture Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in Menlo Park, California. Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It also prefers to make later round investments in highly successful companies already backed by other venture capital firms with whom it has prior relationships. The firm seeks to invest in technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise computing, storage, communications, wireless and optical communications, data center, enterprise software, security, micro-processors, imaging and transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics, and consumer and business internet sector. With in enterprise software it focuses on new application models and service oriented architectures (Web Services); open source solutions; web-based application delivery models including software as functional media; and Microsoft exchange as a platform for enterprise collaboration. Within consumer sector the firm seeks to invest in mobile phone applications, wireless multimedia, social networking applied to commerce, and where there is a broad intersection of technology and consumer activity.

JatoTech Ventures is a venture capital company specializing in technology startups. JatoTech Ventures company typically invests $500,000 to $3 million initially and between $5 million and $8 million over the life of its partner companies. The firm looks for those businesses that are creating new markets with the their products and services focusing its resources toward early stage investing. To better provide its portfolio companies with a full range of services, JatoTech limits the size of its portfolio. Wireless communications technology developer Bandspeed is one of JatoTech's holdings.

NGP Capital Resources Company was founded in 2004 and is based at Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management. NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company, which invests in debt securities of small and mid-size private energy companies. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC). A focus area for its investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produces, develops, acquires and explores for oil and natural gas (E&P) companies. The Company’s investments range in size from $10 million to $50 million. Its investments consist of debt instruments, including senior and subordinated loans combined in one facility, sometimes with an equity or property-based participation right component, and subordinated loans, sometimes with equity components. The Company also invests in preferred stock and other equity securities on a stand-alone basis.

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Beijing, China. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in green technology innovation, information technology, pandemic and bio-defense, and life sciences. In information technology sector, it prefers to invest in consumer, enterprise, semiconductor, security, wireless, and communication sectors. Within pandemic and bio-defense, the firm invests in surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and technologies enabling large-scale manufacturing. In life science sector, it invests in medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare information technology and services.

Old Mutual (US) Holdings is the holding company for a group of about 20 asset management boutiques collectively known as Old Mutual Asset Management (US), or OMAM (US). The firm's multi-manager structure allows it to offer more than 100 different investment strategies across a range of asset classes, from domestic and international equities to fixed-income and alternative investments. Its offerings include retirement plans, mutual funds, trust services, and separately managed accounts. OMAM (US) and its affiliates have some $260 billion of assets under management for institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Argosy Private Equity business, the investment firm focuses on buyouts, recapitalizations, and financing of middle-market firms in the eastern half of the US with annual sales between $15 million and $100 million. The company prefers to invest in smaller firms with room for growth, and it provides them not only with capital, but operational support and strategic planning. Typical investments range from $3 million to $9 million per transaction. Its portfolio contains stakes in some 35 companies, mainly in the manufacturing, industrial electronics, and industrial and business services sectors.

The Parkmead Group tries to smooth the path with its corporate finance and investment services. (The Parkmead, through its Quayside Corporate Services unit, also provides a variety of business turnaround services.) Formerly known as Interregnum, the Parkmead Group has invested in such companies as software architecture designer Adaptive, content management provider Open Text, multimedia messaging supplier Yospace, and software security provider KeCrypt. In 2009, the firm bought energy consultant Aupec Ltd. in a cash and stock deal. The Parkmead assists businesses with mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, and other related transactions.

Since its founding in 1990, CapStreet has led or co-led investments in 29 portfolio companies, which have completed more than 250 add-on acquisitions. CapStreet is located in Houston, Texas. The CapStreet Group is a lower middle market private equity firm committed to delivering above-market investment returns to its partners. CapStreet typically makes control investments in companies with enterprise values of less than $150 million. CapStreet primarily invests in businesses that were previously owned by entrepreneurs, families or other non-institutional investors. In many cases, the sellers retain an equity stake, and are looking for a partner with the expertise to help them take the business into its next phase of growth. CapStreet also backs experienced management teams with a track record of success within a specific industry.CapStreet targets companies with recurring and growing revenues, high operating margins and proven cash flows, operating in industries with significant barriers to entry or opportunities for consolidation. CapStreet looks for opportunities to partner with a management team to accelerate growth and improve profitability. CapStreet adds value by: Setting strategic direction and financial objectives, Ongoing involvement in operational improvements, Building out experienced management teams and aligning interests, Attracting industry-knowledgeable outside directors, Leading acquisitions and business integration, Developing multiple exit opportunities.

Collins Stewart focuses on four main areas: advisory, corporate broking, securities, and wealth management. Collins Stewart plc research tool, Quest, is a proprietary online database and valuation model containing about 3,000 European, US, and Asian companies. Collins Stewart traces its roots to 1991. Collins Stewart plc demerged in 2006, and as a result Tullett Prebon also was formed. Following the demerger, Collins Stewart completed its acquisition of corporate finance advisory firm Hawkpoint. In 2010 Collins Stewart announced plans to grow again with the acquisition of independent wealth management firm Andersen Charnley.

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