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Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

Berenberg Capital Markets LLC (BCM) is a broker-dealer firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Berenberg Americas LLC, ultimately held by Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG in Germany. BCM provides equity execution services to institutional and corporate clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Financial Technology Partners LP provides merger and acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, capital raising and valuation services to the financial technology sector. The company was founded by Steve McLaughlin and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

New England Venture Capital Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which operates as a catalyst, and advocate, and a resource for the innovation economy. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Pillar Co Management LLC (Pillar VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Jamie Goldstein. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

Canaccord Genuity LLC is an independent, full-service financial services firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to corporate and institutional clients. They cover a wide range of sectors globally with an emphasis on growth companies such as: Block chain, Business Services, Cannabis, Consumer and Retail, Energy, Financials, Gaming, Healthcare, Industrials, Metals and Mining, Real Estate, Sustainability and Technology.

Ardian US LLC (Ardian US) is a private equity subsidiary of Ardian SA founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Health Advances LLC provides consulting services to the health care industry. It offers clinical development strategy, lifecycle management, partnering and licensing, portfolio planning, product positioning, strategic and business planning, technology commercialization, valuation and financial analysis. The company was founded by Paula Ness Sprees and Mark S. Sprees in 1992 and is headquartered in Weston, MA.

Brooke Private Equity Associates (BPEA) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Peter Brooke and John Brooke. The firm headquartered located in Boston, Massachusetts.

TELEO Capital Management LLC (TELEO Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2018 by George Kase, Andy Martinez and Robb Curtis Warwick. The firm is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Marlin Management Co LLC (Marlin Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by David McGovern. The firm is headquartered in Hermosa Beach, California.

Type One Ventures LLC (Type One Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Tarek Waked. The firm is headquartered in the Malibu, California.

Vilcap Advisory LLC (Vilcap Advisory) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Vilcap Inc founded in 2009 by Victoria Elouise Fram and Ross E Baird. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

BNY Mellon, NA operates as a nationally chartered commercial bank. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Rough Draft Ventures (Rough Draft Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Boyce II Peter, Hamed Zachary and Banta Nitesh. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wells Fargo Bank, NA (Private Banking) (Wells Fargo Bank-PB) is the private banking division of Wells Fargo Bank, NA, a national bank headquartered in San Francisco, California. They are ultimately held by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), a diversified financial services company. The firm was founded in 1998 as the result of the merger with Minneapolis-based Norwest Corp. Wells Fargo Bank-PB provides personalized wealth management solutions for individuals, multi-generational families, family offices, and institutional investors.