Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley based family of venture capital funds that provides investment capital and strategic and operational guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The latest fund, Acuity Ventures III, L.P. is currently investing. The fund provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and other investment participations.Acuity strives to incubate qualified companies with financing facilities and access to important alliances in order to position these companies for profitable growth and liquidity exit. Acuity maintains alliances with other capital sources and its high net worth, as well as strategic consulting and advisory firms that specialize in high-technology startups.

Opus Investment Management, Inc was founded in 1993 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Opus Investment Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. The firm primarily provides its services to corporations. It also caters to pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, traditional and alternative insurance entities, corporate retirement funds and benefit programs, public retirement funds, foundations and endowments, and mutual funds. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in government bonds, treasury inflation-protected securities, AAA rated bonds, AA rated bonds, A rated bonds, BBB rated bonds, BB rated bonds, B rated bonds, and CCC rated bonds. It employs a fundamental analysis with a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index.

LaunchCyte LLC creates life sciences companies. Since LaunchCyte founding in 2000, LaunchCyte have created six companies that offer unique technologies and products to improve healthcare and the human condition. LaunchCyte search for the most exciting technologies from leading research universities and form companies to commercialize the innovations. At their base, LaunchCyte companies have platform technologies that solve problems relating to a particular disease state or method of improving diagnosis, drug development, or clinical trials. As the core technologies evolve, LaunchCyte often branch out into other applications where there is a market need for LaunchCyte solutions.

Capital Southwest Corporation was founded in 1961 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Capital Southwest Corporation (CSC) is a business development company. The Company’s investment interests are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, minority recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings in a range of industry segments. The portfolio is a composite of companies, in which it has interests, as well as a number of developing companies and marketable securities of publicly-traded companies. The Company makes available managerial assistance to the companies, in which it invests. As of March 31, 2010, the 12 largest investments the Company owned represented 90.3% of the value of its consolidated investment portfolio. Capital Southwest Management Company (CSMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC, is the management company for CSC and Capital Southwest Venture Corporation (CSVC). In June 2010, NorthStar Memorial Group, LLC acquired the Company’s wholly owned portfolio company, Lifemark Group.

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

China Everbright International Limited, an investment holding company, focuses primarily on the businesses of environmental protection, and infrastructure and property investment in the People’s Republic of China. Its Environmental Energy Project Construction and Operation segment engages in the construction and operation of waste-to-energy power plants, methane-to-energy power plants, and industrial solid waste landfills. The company’s Environmental Water Project Construction and Operation segment involves in the construction, upgradation, and operation of waste-water treatment plants. China Everbright International’s Environmental Technology and Construction Management segment conducts environmental protection technology research projects, as well as provides construction management and consultancy services. The company’s Infrastructure Construction and Operation segment constructs and operates a toll bridge. Its Property Investment and Management segment engages in the leasing and management of office premises and shopping arcades.

Medallion Financial Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. Medallion Financial Corp. engages in originating, acquiring, and servicing loans that finance taxicab medallions and various commercial businesses. Medallion Financial Corp. also originates consumer loans for the purchase of recreational vehicles, boats, motorcycles, and trailers, as well as provides other debt, mezzanine, and equity investment capital to companies in various industries. In addition, Medallion Financial Corp. originates commercial loans that finance the purchase of the equipment and related assets necessary to open a new business or the purchase or improvement of an existing business; and loans to small businesses for the purpose of financing inventory and receivables. Further, it raises deposits and conducts other banking activities. Medallion Financial Corp. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Thinkorswim Group (formerly Investools) gives consumers the hammer and nails for building their financial dream. Specializing in options trading, Thinkorswim Group Inc. provides online trading services, research, and advisory services to retail and individual investors in the US and Canada. Thinkorswim Group Inc. Investools unit provides consumer-oriented investor education and information through seminars, workshops, online and DVD-based home study courses, a subscription-based online Investor Toolbox, and other offerings. Courses cover online investing, portfolio management, and cash flow strategies. In addition, Thinkorswim Group Inc. offers personal coaching sessions via telephone and e-mail. TD AMERITRADE acquired thinkorswim in 2009.

GS Capital Partners V, L.P. specializes in investments in mature companies, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth investments to fund acquisitions or expansions. The fund prefers to invest $50 million or less in Chinese private businesses and participates in ownership reorganization in Chinese state-owned enterprises with investments above $200 million each.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

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