Scottish Enterprise (SE) provides business consulting services. It offers early stage business growth advisory, financial planning, business strategy development, taxation planning, and market research services. Additionally, the company provides business performance improvement, financial assistance, international networking, recruitment, and work-based training services. It caters to aerospace, chemicals, digital media, electronics, energy, financial services, food and beverage, and life sciences industries.

Hokanson Associates, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is controlled by president Neil Hokanson. Hokanson Associates company provides financial planning services and manages diversified stock and bond investment portfolios. It primarily serves a clientele of wealthy individuals in the San Diego area; it also serves institutional investors including pension plans, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. Hokanson Associates has approximately $295 million of client assets under management.

Man Group plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the structuring, sale, and distribution of alternative investment products and solutions. It also operates as a futures broker. Man Investments Man Investments, the Asset Management division, is a major provider in the alternative investment industry. It provides innovative products and tailor-made solutions to private and institutional investors. Through its core investment managers - AHL, RMF, Glenwood and Man Global Strategies - Man has succeeded in developing leadership in hedge funds and has interests in other asset classes. In its core hedge fund asset class, Man offers funds of hedge funds, structured, style and single manager products. Man Investments’ Core Managers Man’s core investment managers form the foundation of the asset management business. They provide the investment content for portfolios and are responsible for portfolio construction, asset allocation decisions and risk management. AHL AHL was founded in 1983. The Company implements two main managed futures investment programmes - the AHL Diversified Programme and the AHL Institutional Programme. These programmes are quantitative and primarily directional in nature, meaning they seek to identify and take advantage of upward and downward price trends. Trading takes place around-the-clock and real time price information is used to respond to price moves across a diverse range of global markets encompassing stock indices, bonds, currencies, short-term interest rates and commodities.

Standish Mellon Asset Management Company was founded in 1933 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC (SMAM) primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans. It also manages accounts for pooled investment vehicles, corporations, high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, insurance reserves, nuclear decommissioning trusts, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, other taxable institutions, sub advised and commingled funds, taxable individuals & trusts, unions & Taft Hartley plans, corporate retirement plans, public funds, endowments, and foundations. The firm manages separate client-focused fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC also manages hedged fixed income portfolios. It invests in the fixed income markets across the globe. The firm selects the debt instruments on the basis of a quantitative and qualitative analysis with a top-down approach to create its debt portfolio mix. It invests in repurchase agreements, commercial papers, certificates of deposits, floating rate notes, treasuries, agencies, bank deposits, asset-backed securities, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, Guaranteed Investment Contracts (GICs), government instruments, Yankee bonds, futures, options, and swaps to create its debt portfolio mix.

Investor is a Nordic-based industrial holding company founded almost one hundred years ago by the Wallenberg family. Today we have investment activities in Europe, the United States and Asia. The business concept is to generate long-term attractive returns for our shareholders by owning and developing companies with solid potential for value creation. We are an engaged owner and apply experience, knowledge and a unique network to develop listed and unlisted companies to make them best-in-class.

Noventi LLC was founded in November 1999 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Noventi LLC is a venture capital investment arm of CIR SpA specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm invests in companies in cleantech and emerging technology companies. It is actively looking for investment opportunities that focus on the convergence of technology, energy, and the environment. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Europe. It invests between €250,000 ($316,383) and €2.5 million ($3.16 million) in exchange for a minority equity stake ranging between 15% and 35%. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A. was founded in 1981 and is based in Turin, Italy. Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides various private banking services in Italy and internationally. It offers a range of asset management services, including discretionary accounts, mutual funds, and SICAVs, as well as alternative investment funds or hedge funds. The company also engages in the trading of Italian and foreign securities, derivatives, and currencies; and securities placing through mandates or participation in underwriting and/or placing syndicates. In addition, Banca Intermobiliare provides personal financial advisory services that offer clients with constant updates on the correspondence of their investment goals and asset allocation; and insurance brokerage services. Further, the company involves in the restructuring of groups, placing assets in management holdings/funds, intellectual property management, and the conveyance and protection of assets through instruments, such as trusts. Its lending services comprise lines of credit for stock market transactions or to provide flexible liquidity; mortgage loans for real-estate investments; loans related to the structuring of corporate debt or aimed at facilitating generational transition; and performance bonds, as well as project financing and syndicated loans.

Oxford Technology Management was founded by Lucius Cary, and since 1983 has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses with high growth prospects. The OTM team are all scientists or engineers by background, and understanding the technology is the starting point for any investment that we may make. The Investment policy of Oxford Technology Management is to construct a portfolio of investments with the following characteristics: unlisted, UK based, technology businesses, investments typically in the range of £100,000 - £2,000,000, although it can then invest similar amounts in subsequent rounds, in most cases located within easy reach of Oxford to allow a more 'hands on' management strategy. It is expected that approximately half of the funds will be invested in early stage companies (those which have achieved some initial sales) and the balance in start-up companies which are at an earlier stage.

Leerink Swann LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Leerink Swann LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to the healthcare industry. The firm offers private placements, initial public offerings, PIPEs, valuation and fairness opinions, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Additionally, it provides institutional sales and trading management, cash management, company transformation, turnaround management, and marketing strategy development services.

Founded in 1987, Canaan closed its eighth fund in 2008. Notable past investments include Acme Packet, Amicus Therapeutics, DoubleClick, and Match.com. Canaan Management (alslo known as Canaan Partners) is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage technology and health care companies, with a focus on digital media, mobile communications, enterprise software, clean technology, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics. Canaan company typically invests $1 million to $20 million per transaction and has approximately $3 billion in capital under management.

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