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.

Capital One Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for the Capital One Bank (USA), National Association and Capital One, National Association, which provide various financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Capital One Financial Corporation offers various deposits products comprising non-interest bearing deposits, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. Capital One Financial Corporation also involves in consumer and small business card lending, closed end installment lending, automobile lending, consumer mortgage lending, and servicing activities. In addition, Capital One Financial Corporation offers treasury management services to commercial real estate and middle market customers. Capital One Financial Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Draper Triangle Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in angel and seed/start-up stage companies. It does not invest in shops, metal bending plants, and chemical processing plants. The firm typically invests in technology companies with a focus on Internet, high-tech, bio-medical devices, and electronic services. It prefers to invest in companies based in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Midwest region of the United States. The firm typically invests between $250,000 and $2 million in first round of investments. It prefers a board seat in its portfolio company and seeks to be a lead investor for the first round of financing.

The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson. APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials.

Augen Capital Corp., a merchant bank, specializes in financing of early-stage resource companies, as well as provision of tax-advantaged flow-through investments in resource sectors in Canada. Segments The company operates under two segments: Managed Products and Merchant Banking. The Managed Products (MP) segment consists of annual resource flow-through limited partnership offerings, and the Augen Resource Strategy mutual fund. The Merchant Banking (MB) segment consists of an investment portfolio of primarily emerging resource stocks. The MB segment provides financing and strategic management support to resource investee companies. Augen Resource Strategy Fund Augen Resource Strategy Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund corporation. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth, by investing primarily in equity securities of senior and emerging Canadian resource companies. The Fund is also permitted to invest in fixed income and money market instruments. Merchant Banking Portfolios The company holds merchant banking portfolios directly in Augen Capital Corp. (Augen) and indirectly through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aumerco Limited, which primarily consist of listed Canadian resource companies whose principal business is resource exploration and development. Polar Bear Project: Augen established Polar Bear Exploration, Inc. (PBE), a private company, to acquire claims in the Hudson Bay/James Bay area of northern Ontario, south east of the coastal town of Pewanuck and south west of Polar Bear Provincial Park.

Piper Private Equity invests in UK companies valued up to £25 million through management buyouts, management buyins, and other transactions, typically putting in £2 million to £10 million per deal. Piper Private Equity company invests primarily in businesses residing in the retail, leisure, consumer products, and travel markets. Several of its portfolio companies are targeted at female consumers, such as the Pitcher & Piano pub chain. Piper Private Equity has also invested in the Las Iguanas and Tootsies casual-dining restaurant chains, partnering with Phoenix Equity Partners on the Tootsies deal. It sold its stake in Tootsies in 2005.

Gladstone Capital Corporation operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The Company’s investment objective is to achieve a high level of current income by investing in debt securities, consisting primarily of senior notes, senior subordinated notes and junior subordinated notes, of established private businesses that are substantially owned by leveraged buyout funds, individual investors or are family owned businesses, with a particular focus on senior notes. In addition, it may acquire from others existing loans that meet this profile. It also seeks to provide its stockholders with long-term capital growth. Gladstone Management Corporation is the Company’s investment adviser. Gladstone Business Loan, LLC is the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary.

Hotbed works to match investors with alternative investments such as private equity, commercial property, and hedge funds. And it doesn't stop there. Once it has matched an investor with potential business opportunity, it monitors the progress of the relationship, offers financial counseling, and also guides the member companies' strategy. For companies seeking cash, Hotbed works with companies needing between £1 million to £7.5 million. It has assisted such UK companies as care homes group Mimosa Healthcare, medical technology manufacturer Sphere Medical, and shopping center Downham Market.

Stifel Financial Corp. serves individual, corporate, municipal, and institutional investors through about 200 offices in the US, with a concentration in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Stifel Financial Corp. also has three offices in Europe. Through subsidiaries Stifel Nicolaus (founded 1890), Century Securities Associates, and others, the company provides securities brokerage, investment products, and financial advice for private clients. Stifel also offers brokerage and mergers and acquisitions advisory services for corporate clients, underwrites corporate and municipal bonds, and provides research on US and European equities. Stifel merged with Thomas Weisel in 2010.

Northern Financial Corporation (Northern) is a Canada-based company. The Company wholly owns Northern Securities Inc. (Northern Securities), a member firm of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). It carries on a traditional full service investment dealer business through Northern Securities providing financial advisory services to retail and institutional clients and investment banking services to small capitalization companies. This business generates revenue from commissions and advisory fees earned on investment banking activities, and commissions from institutional sales and trading and retail investment advisors, and from principal trading. Northern also carries on a merchant banking business that supplements the investment dealer business.

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