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Alpine Investors is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Graham Weaver. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

T-Rex Group, Inc. provides of managed services and enterprise software for complex asset classes. It specializes in valuation, risk analysis, and structuring tools to unlock investment opportunities for various asset classes. The company was founded by Benjamin B. Cohen in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aquicore, Inc. engages in the provision of commercial real estate software services. It offers an all-in-one asset operations and management platform. It solutions includes utility load analytics, utility budget, HVAC analytics, tenant billing, and building connectivity. The company was founded by Logan Soya in 2013 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

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.

Brentwood Associates (Brentwood Associates) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by William M. Barnum and B. Kipling Hagopian. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BBDO Worldwide, Inc. provides advertising services. It offers creative development services using television, print and other media. The company also provides campaign planning, management services, and other brand promotion services. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

S&P Global Market Intelligence, Inc. provides integrated financial information and technology solutions. It provides data and analytics for global financial professionals. The firm works with different client firms, including investment banks, asset management firms, private equity firms, universities, and corporations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Francisco Partners Management LP (Francisco Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Benjamin Ball, Dipanjan Deb, Neil Garfinkel, Sanford Robertson and David Stanton. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco and London.

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.

Westly Capital Management LLC (The Westly Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Steven Westly. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

Lightbay Management LLC (Lightbay capital ) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Nav Rahemtulla and Adam Lance Stein. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The Keck School of Medicine of USC is a place of dynamic activity in patient care, scientific discovery, medical and bioscience education, and community service. Their faculty, staff, students, residents, alumni, donors and friends are committed to excellence. Together they are poised to lead medicine in the 21st Century for the benefit of humankind. This is an exciting time of great transformation as they endeavor to create a truly stellar academic medical center at USC.

K1 Investment Management LLC (K1 Investment Management) is a venture capital firm founded by R. Neil Malik in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California.

Calm Ventures is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 2020 by Zachary Ginsburg. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

CKC Capital LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that specializes in corporate credit investments. The private company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, with subsidiaries in Pennsylvania and Florida. CKC Capital focuses on opportunistic credit investing and employs fundamental research, risk management, and tactical trading to achieve low volatility growth, yield, and consistency. The company values transparency, teamwork, and diversification, and offers asset management and liquidity services to its clients.

Optimal Dynamics, Inc. provides AI to the supply chain and logistics industry. The company is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

OCV Management LLC (OCV Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Richard S. Ressler and Mark T. Yung. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Flux Capital (Flux Capital) is a venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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.

MaC Venture Capital Management LLC is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded by Marlon C. Nichols. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, US.

Commerce Ventures Management LLC (Commerce Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Daniel Rosen. The firm is a headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Peterson Ventures Partners LLC (Peterson Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Peterson Partners, Inc founded in 2008 by Joel C. Peterson. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Bold Management Partners LLC (Bold Management Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Peter H. Diamandis and Teymour Boutros-Ghali. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

OpenGate Capital Management LLC (OpenGate Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Andrew Nikou. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Paris, France.

Embedded Ventures LLC (Embedded Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Jenna Bryant and Jordan Noone. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

RapidSOS, Inc. engages in the provision of emergency communication platform. It offers a life-saving data from connected devices directly to 9-1-1, and first responders in an emergency. It covers data integration for connected car, security, wearable, and mobile apps. The company was founded by Michael Martin and Nicholas Horelik in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Poseidon Research China Co., Ltd. specializes in due diligence and business intelligence solutions. It offers management due diligence, regulatory risk analysis, strategic consulting, compliance assessment, and deal origination. The firm offers its services to global financial institutions, corporations, and multilateral institutions. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

BDO Consulting Pvt Ltd. provides financial advisory services. The joint venture company is based in Mumbai, India.

Nuwa Capital Ltd (Nuwa Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni, Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince. The firm is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd. (Broker) (Emkay-Broker) is the securities brokerage division of Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd. (NSE: EMKAY), a publicly held financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1995, Emkay-Broker offers commodities, currency derivatives and retail broking services to various investors.

Foothold Technology, Inc. is a leading cloud-based software provider for behavioral health EHR and case management systems. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's federally certified software platform offers full functionality for case management, client tracking, treatment planning, and homeless information management. Foothold Technology serves more than 1,100 human service organizations across the United States and Guam, and partners with eight health homes that support 237 care management agencies serving over 120,000 members. Foothold Technology was founded in 2000 by Tom Mitchell, Marlowe Greenberg, Nick Scharlatt. Tyler Hoffman has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Part of Alpine SG LLC, Grade.us LLC is a company that develops digital marketing tools. The company is based in Bellevue, WA. The company was founded in 2013 by Jon Hall. Christina Martinez has been the CEO of the company since 2022. Grade.us was acquired by Alpine SG LLC on March 12, 2020.

Alpine SG LLC engages in the provision of software services. It acquires, builds, and operates vertical Software-as-a-Service companies. The company was founded by Mark Strauch, Billy Maguy, and Jake Brodsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

Wamda Capital (Wamda Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Wamda Ltd. founded in 2009 by Habib Haddad. The firm is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.