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HarbourVest Partners LLC (HarbourVest Partners) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 1982 by David Brooks Zug. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices around the world.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP (GSAMLP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GSAM Holdings LLC, and their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). Founded in 1988, GSAMLP provides investment solutions to a range of individual and institutional investors worldwide.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AIP LLC (American Industrial Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in New York City, New York.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

LegalNet Works, Inc. provides program management, risk management, and security governance. The firm covers the development of surveys and the collection and analysis of data on data management and security topics. It specializes in offering director and officer due diligence requirements for security and risk management services, security and privacy assessments in accordance with federal regulations, developments in operational risk management, and vendor management standards and guidelines for IT outsourcing. The company was founded by Lee M. Zeichner in May 1996 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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).

Serva Group LLC manufactures, distributes and installs gas and oilfield equipment for the energy market. Its product range includes cementing, stimulation, coiled tubing, pumps, and controls. The firm serves to the fracturing, nitrogen, cementing, blending, and drilling and down-hole tubular industries. The company was founded by Pete Seitz on February 11, 2009 and is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

Heavybit LLC (Heavybit) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by James Lindenbaum and Thomas Drummond. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Eldridge Industries LLC (Eldridge Industries) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 2015 by Duncan Bagshaw, Todd L. Boehly and Tony Minella. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

SAI Engineering, Inc. operates as a full-service mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering firm which offers comprehensive engineering services in both the design and consulting areas. The firm specializes in the design of mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. The company was founded by Daniel L. Zito, Maria Paslick and Maury R. Paslick in 1996 and is headquartered in Woodbridge, VA.

US Pole Co., Inc. manufactures architectural and outdoor lighting. The private company is based in Palmdale, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded in 1984 by Joe Straus.

Pacific Architects & Engineers, Inc. provides integrated services to support missions. It offers defense support services specializing in aviation and ground vehicle maintenance at various levels, including aerospace ground equipment and precision measurement equipment, exercise/event planning, staging and life support. The company was founded by Edward A. Shay in 1955 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The European Times (Netherlands) produces content with a European character for a pan-European audience. The private company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Investment Management) (CGMI-IM) is the investment management division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1964 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI provides a variety of services designed to meet the varying investment advisory and related needs of individual and institutional clients.

EcoR1 Capital LLC (EcoR1) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Oleg Nodelman in 2012. EcoR1 serves as the general partner of and investment adviser to investment funds and provides investment advice to separate account clients.

Incline Management Corp.(Incline Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Jack Glover, Wali C. Bacdayan and Justin Bertram. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (LGIM America) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2006 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Legal & General Investment Management US (Holdings), Inc., ultimately held by Legal & General Group PLC (LON: LGEN) in Great Britain. LGIM America provides investment management services on a fully discretionary basis to institutional clients (corporations, healthcare agencies, non-profit, educational institutions, public plans and Taft-Hartley multi-employer plans).

Biotherapeutics, Inc. operates as a pre-clinical stage company which develops small-molecule drugs to treat inflammation and type 2 diabetes. Its scientific foundation is anchored on informatics and computer modeling-enabled drug development with significant animal pharmacology validation. The company was founded by Josep Bassaganya-Riera in 2008 and is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA.

Research Triangle Institute is a non-profit organization which provides research and development services. It offers surveys and data collection, statistics and data science, assessment and analysis, program design and implementation, and research technologies and analytical laboratory. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

1607 Capital Partners LLC (1607 Capital) is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2007 and is majority owned by Shannon Fake, Ashley Long, James Mallory, Kirk Tattersall and Rosemont Investment Group LLC. 1607 Capital offers investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients through commingled private funds (Funds) and separately managed accounts.