Chairman William "Beau" Duncan founded Duncan-Hurst Capital Management, L.P. in 1990 and continues to control it. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management has more than $620 million of assets under management. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management specializes in growth equity investments. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management company administers about a half dozen funds, primarily for institutional investors. A minimum investment is around $5 million for institutional investors and around $25,000 for customers investing in Duncan-Hurst's Aggressive Growth Fund. Its investments consist mostly of small- and mid-cap companies.

Park Row offers its clients financial advice and services through a number of divisions, both in person and via the Internet or special seminars. It has independent financial advisers (IFAs) as well as independent mortgage advisers, and also provides wealth management services to corporate and private clients. Group companies include Park Row Associates, Park Row Associates (Mortgages), and Park Row Conveyancing. Park Row is a subsidiary of Royal Liver Assurance. In 2007 the parent company combined its sales team with Park Row's independent financial advisers who now also distribute Royal Liver products.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

Established in 1979, Fisher Investments is a private money management firm serving Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals with at least $500,000 to invest. The firm is active in the US and in the UK, where it operates through subsidiary Fisher Wealth Management. In Germany, Fisher does business through its joint-venture affiliate, Greener Fisher Investments. At the helm of Fisher Investments is founder, CEO, and chief investment officer Ken Fisher, who has authored several books on investing and has written the "Portfolio Strategy" column for Forbes magazine for more than 20 years.

Experian Information Solutions, also known as Experian Americas, is the US-based arm of global credit reporting agency Experian plc. The unit provides credit reporting and lead generation services utilizing its database of more than 215 million US consumers and some 15 million US businesses. Clients include retailers, financial services firms, utilities, not-for-profits, and small businesses. Experian Information Solutions, Inc. also provides addresses for more than 20 billion pieces of promotional mail every year. Services include skip tracing and collections, direct marketing, sales prospecting, demographic information, and more. Experian Americas has about a dozen offices across the US.

Artemis Investment Management was established in 1997 by Mark Tyndall, John Dodd, Derek Stuart, and Lindsay Whitelaw, who maintain executive positions with the company. Artemis Investment Management offers unit trusts (similar to US mutual funds), hedge funds, institutional investment portfolios, and a venture capital trust. Artemis Investment Management company serves private and institutional investors in the UK; however, it does offer limited products and services to investors in other parts of Europe. It has some $10 billion ($16 billion) of assets under management. US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) acquired a majority of the firm in 2010; Artemis' management retained a stake.

Canaccord Genuity (formerly Canaccord Adams) provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, sales, trading, M&A advice, and industry research. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in the technology, metals, mining, life sciences, real estate, and financial services sectors. Canaccord Genuity also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US. Canaccord Capital (now Canaccord Financial) acquired Canaccord Adams in 2006. Four years later, it acquired M&A advisory firm Genuity Capital Markets and rebranded all of its capital markets businesses.

The TCW Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; New York City; and Houston, Texas. The TCW Group, Inc. operates as a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, and high net worth individuals. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in the growth and value stocks of small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies while making its equity portfolios. The firm also invests in fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage backed securities, and floating rate debt obligations. For its alternative investing, it also does mezzanine investing and invests in special situations, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

Maveron LLC was founded in January 1998 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Maveron, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in early to mid stage venture financing. The firm seeks to make investments in consumer-focused businesses that have a highly differentiated brand. It invests in traditional consumer product and service businesses; companies that utilize technology to deliver products and services directly to the consumer; and companies that provide technology and services to consumer facing companies. The firm usually makes an initial investment between $3million to $10 million. It prefers to be the lead investor and takes a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Court Square Capital Partners was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Court Square Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. The firm does not consider investments in the alcohol and tobacco, gambling, finance, real estate sectors, and start-up company sectors. It has a generalist approach though prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, food products and services, healthcare, manufacturing, industrials, media, technology and telecommunications, and transportation sectors in the United States. The firm does not invest globally from its New York and London offices. It typically invests between $50 million and $300 million in equity per transaction in companies with minimum enterprise values of $50 million to acquire a controlling interest.

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