Delaware Management Holdings, which does business as Delaware Investments, provides investment management services to institutional and individual clients. The company manages some 40 mutual funds with value, core, and growth equity, fixed income, and international strategies. Other products for consumers include managed accounts, insurance, and retirement plans. Delaware Investments also offers separate accounts and mutual funds to its more than 500 institutional clients, including corporations, retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. Macquarie Group bought the company in 2010 for nearly $430 million in cash.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

Northland Securities, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Northland Securities Group LLC. offers securities brokerage and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, government agencies, and institutions. It also provides products such as mutual funds, annuities, public finance, real estate investment trusts, institutional sales and trading, and bond underwriting. Additionally, the firm assists in equity research and financial consulting services. Northland Securities comprises of affiliates that include Dakota Capital Solutions and Northland Networks.

VantagePoint Management company (aka VantagePoint Venture Partners) provides long-term capital to primarily technology and health care companies ranging in development from start-up to pre-IPO. VantagePoint is organized around its target markets: information technology, health care, clean technology (which focuses on the application of technology to energy, water, and materials), and Asia. The firm has a dedicated clean tech investment team and oversees one of the largest active venture capital efforts in the sector with more than $1 billion in investments.

Landmark Ventures, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York. Landmark Ventures, Inc. provides strategic and financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, capital raising, due diligence, and fund placement advisory services. Additionally, it provides business development, strategy formulation, and key account identification services. The firm’s clientele include ActionBase, Blinco Systems, Agentis, BioPetroClean, BoardVantage, Centrata, Inovis, Network Privacy, and Radware. It caters to IT, business services, and life sciences sectors.

Founded in 1988, JLL Partners is among the leading private equity investment firms in the country. JLL Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in balance sheet restructurings, buyouts, operational turnarounds, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, industry consolidations, growth capital, and strategic co-investments. It invests in companies which are significantly over-leveraged; companies lacking committed sponsorship; companies requiring strategic and/or operational refocusing; companies in out-of-favor industries; businesses being divested from a larger corporate entity; and companies seeking a financial partner to pursue their strategies. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing and services, financial services, healthcare and medical services, and building products. It seeks to take a majority stake in its portfolio companies.

Blackhawk Network keeps putting little plastic cards in the hands of consumers. Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc. sells gift, phone, sports, ticket, and prepaid debit cards through a network of more than 80,000 retailers across North America and the UK. The cards can be found in convenience, drug, grocery, and mass market stores, including Chevron, Food Lion, Kroger, and Safeway (which is also Blackhawk Network's parent company). Retailers and franchises that have partnered with Blackhawk to offer their products and services through these cards include Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Starbucks, Visa, and the NBA. Its Gift Card Mall offers hundreds of cards that can be redeemed online or on-site at retail locations.

Finance Wales plc was formed in 2001 and is based in Cardiff, United Kingdom with additional offices in Swansea, United Kingdom; St Asaph, United Kingdom; and Newtown, United Kingdom. Finance Wales plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start up, seed, spin-out, development capital, early venture, expansion capital, buy out, management succession, and mezzanine investments in small and medium sized enterprises. It seeks to invest in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in new technology and innovative companies. It primarily invests in companies based in Wales. The firm invests between £5,000 ($7.253) and £1 million ($1.45 million) in its portfolio companies and makes commercial investments from £5,000 ($7.253) to £2 million ($2.9 million). It prefers to invest in companies with turnover not greater than €50 million ($61.50 million), balance sheet total not greater than €43 million ($52.89 million), and with employees not greater than 250. In equity investments, the firm invests between £10,000 ($14,506) and £0.75 million ($1.08 million) in its portfolio companies as equity investments. In mezzanine investments, it invests in development technology and business succession investments.

Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. It primarily invests in the United States, Israel, China, and India. The firm seeks to makes investments not exceeding $20 million. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India. It invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India.

CCP Equity Partners was founded in 1985 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut. CCP Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth equity, mid and late venture stages, buyouts, middle market, and mature transactions. It prefers to invest in financial and healthcare services companies. The firm typically invests in companies based in North America. It seeks to invest between $5 million and $20 million over the life of an investment. The firm prefers to invest in companies with revenues between $5 million and $100 million. It typically acts as a lead or co-investor.

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