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MacKay Shields LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The original predecessor to the firm, MacKay-Shields Economics, was founded in 1938 as an economic consulting firm and it became MacKay Shields Financial Corp. (MSFC) in 1969. In 1984, MSFC was purchased by New York Life Insurance Co. (NYLIC). NYLIC established New York Life Investment Management Holdings LLC (NYLIM Holdings) in 1999 and transferred ownership of MSFC to NYLIM Holdings. In 1999, MSFC was converted to MacKay Shields LLC. The ownership, control and management of MacKay Shields did not change as a result of this conversion. The firm is wholly owned by NYLIM Holdings, which is wholly-owned by NYLIC. MacKay Shields provides discretionary investment management services primarily to institutional clients. The firm is a signatory of the United Nation Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Acadian Asset Management LLC (Acadian) is an asset management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1986 by Gary Bergstrom and Churchill Franklin. The firm is a subsidiary of BrightSphere Affiliate Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by BrightSphere Investment Group, Inc. (NYSE: BSIG). Acadian provides portfolio management services for institutional clients.

Switchfly LLC operates an ecommerce platform that provides a one-stop travel solutions for airlines, financial services companies, hotels, and other travel brands. It offers Switchfly packaging and Switchfly loyalty products to help firms grow revenue and increase customer loyalty. The company was founded by Heidi Vavul and Tina Fitch in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Topguest, Inc. provides check in loyalty points and rewards services. The firm specializes in location based marketing, social network marketing and travel. The company was founded by Ozan Onay, Geoffrey Lewis and Fontana, Ashley Jonathon in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kaggle, Inc. provides a platform for data prediction competitions. It offers a product that helps companies, governments, and organizations to turn data sets into information. The company was founded by Anthony Goldbloom, Jeremy Howard, Nicholas Gruen, and Ben Hamner in April 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Canva Pty. Ltd. develops online graphic design platform. Its features include graphs, photo editing, and print. The company was founded by Cameron Adams, Melanie Joy Perkins, and Clifford James Obrecht in 2012 and is headquartered in Surry Hills, Australia.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Macquarie Securities (Australia) Ltd. (MSAL) is a brokerage firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Macquarie Corporate International Holdings Pty Ltd., ultimately held by Macquarie Group Ltd. (ASX: MQG) in Australia. MSAL serves as the brokering entity for the Macquarie Group.

Angel Capital Management SpA is an independent venture capital firm. Previously known as Angelab Srl. The firm was founded by Angelo Moratti and Paolo Gualdani in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Zetta Venture Capital LLC (Zetta Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Mark Gorenberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dor Technologies, Inc. provides foot traffic counting and analytics solution. The company was founded by Michael Brand and Gregg Golembeski in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lilt, Inc. provides online platform for translation. It also offers linguistic translation services. The company was founded by John DeNero and Spence Green in March 2015 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Constructor.io Corp. provides a search enhancement platform solutions. Its flagship product, an autocomplete as a service combines big data processing, machine learning, and an architecture to bring autocomplete functionality to any site with a search bar. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Focal Systems, Inc. builds computer vision applications for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Francois Chaubard, Adriano Quiroga and Michael Cantalino and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tractable Ltd. develops a software for accident and disaster recovery. It uses its computer vision to analyze the damage and compare it against visuals of an undamaged vehicle. The company was founded by Alex Dalyac, Razvn Ranca, and Adrien Cohen on November 18, 2014 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Crate.io GmbH creates an open source SQL database with integrated search for storing and analyzing internet of things and machine data in real time. Its features include simply scalable, distributed SQL queries, aggregations and search, real-time data ingestion, any data and BLOBs, time series analysis, geospatial queries, dynamic schemas, transactional, backups, openness and flexibility. The company was founded by Christian Lutz, Jodok Batlogg and Bernd Dorn in 2013 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Invisible Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology. It specializes on network intelligence, project management, executive coaching, and data organization. The company was founded by Francis J. Pedraza and is headquartered in VA.

HASH, Inc. engages in the development of animation 3D software. The company was founded by Jude Allred and David Wilkinson and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Galley Solutions, Inc. engages in the development of food service software. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Weaviate BV develops AI-based infrastructure software solutions. The company is based in Amsterdam, NL, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The Dutch company was founded by Bob van Luijt, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

DataCebo, Inc. is a company that is revolutionizing developer productivity at enterprises by leveraging generative AI. The company is based in Weston, MA. The company helps organizations create synthetic data for testing applications and training robust ML models. DataCebo lets developers easily build, deploy, and manage sophisticated generative AI models for enterprise-grade applications when real data is limited or unavailable.

ARK Ventures (ARK Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of ARK Investment Management LLC founded by Catherine Wood. The firm is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Crate Technology GmbH provides open source data store for software developers. It offers a cluster software stack for querying, storing, and searching the information. The firm delivers its software as open source that is accessible at public open source repository on GitHub. The company was founded in June 2013 by Jodok Batlogg, Christian Lutz and Bernd Dorn and is headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria.