Harris & Harris Group has been investing in companies with proprietary technology since 1983. For most of Harris & Harris history, Harris & Harris were a very small firm that invested in and helped develop early stage businesses, particularly ones founded on proprietary intellectual property.Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® is an active investor committed to working side-by-side with the management of its portfolio companies to surmount the many challenges they confront. Harris & Harris assist Harris & Harris portfolio companies in attacking general strategic and operational problems, as well as assisting them with business and intellectual property strategy, executive recruiting, fundraising, preparing for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and building collaborations with strategic partners.Harris & Harris believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines. Harris & Harris think that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, network of contacts, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide.Harris & Harris are looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. However, Harris & Harris are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories. But above all, Harris & Harris back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their nanotechnology-enabled products.

MSD Capital, L.P. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York. MSD Capital, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in publicly traded securities, private equity activities, real estates, special opportunities, and forming partnerships with third-party managers in the private and public markets. It seeks to invest in leveraged and management buyouts, going private transactions, mezzanine debt, PIPEs, growth equity financings, platform acquisitions and roll-ups, bridge loans, and recapitalization. The firm actively pursues investment opportunities in both public and private companies. It invests in both United States and foreign securities. It does not concentrate its investments in any particular industry. The firm’s Public Equities Group typically invests as a minority owner of publicly traded companies. In addition to investing in equities, it also makes debt investments including the maintenance of convertible bond portfolio. The Private Equity Group invests in established public and private companies through privately-negotiated transactions, including buyouts of private companies and divisions of public or private companies; acquisitions of public companies through going private transactions; and purchases of equity or mezzanine securities from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons, families, and funds seeking liquidity on existing investments. It seeks to make both growth and control investments.

Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties Ltd. was founded in 1997 and is based in Cisco, Texas. Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and sale of oil and gas properties in Australia. Its properties are located in the Gippsland Basin of Victoria, the Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia and Queensland, and the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.

Founded in 1994, CommerceNet has been a trusted intermediary, conducting research and piloting programs that have advanced the commercial use of the Internet.CommerceNet sees dollar signs. The tech incubator provides seed money and takes stakes in companies that often are just a glimmer in their founders' eyes. It helps its target companies fund their ideas, collaborate with other Internet companies, and in general advance the commercial aspects of the Internet. The organization operates the Open Network for Commerce Exchange (ONCE), a business-to-business trading community. Funded companies include Webify Solutions (health care provider software) and SupplyFrame (supply chain software).

CIR S.p.A. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. CIR S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the utilities, media, automotive components, healthcare, and financial services businesses. Its utilities business comprises the sourcing, marketing, and sale of electricity and gas for industries, small and medium enterprises, and micro-businesses. This business also has electricity generation plants. In the media sector, the company engages in publishing daily newspapers and periodicals; broadcasting radio and digital television networks; and the collection of advertising for the company’s and third party publications, as well as operates in the Internet sector. The company’s publications include la Repubblica, a daily newspaper; and L Espresso, a weekly magazine. It also offers automotive components, including filters and flexible suspension components. The company offers filters under the brands ‘FIAAM’, ’FRAM’, ‘PBR’, ‘COOPERS’, ‘PURFLUX’, ‘TECNOCAR’, and ‘CROSLAND’ with a range of oil, gasoline, gasoil, air, and cabin filters. In addition, it engages in the management of hospitals, nursing homes, physiological and psychiatric rehabilitation centers. Further, the company involves in the acquisition and management of non performing loans and trade receivables originated by banks, financial institutions, commercial companies, and public administrations; and in the creation, acquisition, and management of retail financing companies focusing on non-conforming customers in the product segments of residential mortgages and personal loans.

Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

TradeWeb LLC operates as an online trading marketplace for fixed income, derivatives, and equities. The company offers trade execution, market data, and trade processing services, as well as a range of post-trade analytical services that enable clients to measure the benefits generated from electronic trading for trading strategies and compliance purposes. Its network connects the institutional clients, dealers, prime brokers, and electronic confirmation vendors for trade processing, as well as provides dealers and buy-side institutions with paperless trade allocations and confirmations. The company’s multi-dealer auction model links the trading desks of the fixed-income dealers with buy-side institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its network also includes AccountNet, a derivatives counterparty management tool, as well as the data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation.

First Atlantic Capital, Ltd. is a leading middle-market private equity firm with offices in New York City. Since its founding in 1989, the firm has invested over $830 million, resulting in 56 transactions across four funds. The First Atlantic team is composed of fourteen members, including nine investment professionals and five operating partners, who have a combined 240 years of consulting and operating experience.First Atlantic focuses on the plastics and packaging, food and beverage, industrial products, business services, and consumer products industries with transaction values between $100 million and $500 million. Working in partnership with strong operating management teams, First Atlantic seeks to build value in its portfolio companies through strategic add-on acquisitions, modifications in business strategy, and improvements in operating performance.The firm’s consulting heritage, extensive operational expertise, and strong focus on portfolio company's development are mainstays of the firm’s investment approach, which has consistently yielded first-quartile returns for its investors since inception.

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.

PHH Corporation provides mortgage and fleet management outsourcing services in the United States and Canada. PHH Corporation Mortgage Production segment originates, purchases, and sells mortgage loans, including PHH home loans; and offers private label mortgage services to financial institutions and real estate brokers, as well as provides appraisal, credit research, flood certification, and tax services. PHH Corporation Mortgage Servicing segment involves in collecting loan payments; remitting principal and interest payments to investors; and managing escrow funds for payment of mortgage-related expenses, such as taxes and insurance. PHH Corporation also services mortgage loans, purchases mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), and acts as a subservicer for clients that own the underlying MSRs, as well as provides reinsurance services. PHH Corporation was founded in 1946 and is based in MT. Laurel, New Jersey.

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