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Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fiera Capital Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1972 as Wilkinson O'Grady & Co, Inc. and they were acquired in 2013 by Fiera Capital Corp. (TSE: FSZ) in Canada through its wholly-owned subsidiary Fiera US Holding, Inc. Fiera Capital provides investment management services on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to separately managed accounts for predominantly US high net-worth individuals, such as affluent families and their foundations, and institutional clients which include pension plans, profit sharing plans and other charitable organizations.

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.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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.

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.

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children provides healthcare services. It offers pediatric orthopedics, dyslexia and other medical services. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Thrivent Asset Management LLC (TAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 2005, the firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thrivent Financial Holdings, Inc., which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a faith-based, not-for-profit membership organization and financial services firm. TAM provides investment advisory services to the Thrivent Mutual Funds, a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that is comprised of various mutual fund series.

McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals manufactures and markets pain relievers. The firm makes over-the-counter products including fever reducers, Motrin and St. Joseph's Aspirin, gastrointestinal relievers, Imodium, and Mylanta. The company was founded on March 17, 1879 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, PA.

Fiera Capital, Inc. /Private Equity/ (Fiera Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of WBC Holdings LP, William Blair & Co provides investment banking and asset management services.

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.

WXR Management LLC (WXR) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Abby Albright and Malia Probst. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cowboy Capital LLC (Cowboy Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Aileen Lee. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

Engine No. 1 LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Christopher James and Charles Penner in 2020 and is a subsidiary of Engine No. 1 LP. Engine No. 1 provides investment advice to pooled investment vehicles and special purpose vehicles.

Lifetime Fitness Club operates as a gym and provides fitness services.

SWS Research Co., Ltd. is the investment research subsidiary of Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd., which is owned by Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co., Ltd. (SHE: 000166) in China. Headquartered in Shanghai, the firm was founded in 1992 to offer a wide range of products and services to global investors who want to invest in Chinese equity market. SWS Research provides clients with securities research service that covers over 500 key stocks in Asian market, as well as economics, strategy, bond, fund and derivatives research. Their clients include almost all major domestic institutional investors such as mutual funds, insurance companies, banks and trusts. They also serve QFII and other overseas institutional investors.

Managed Markets Insight & Technology LLC provides formulary tools and solutions. Its web-based application supports all lines of business through extensive workflow and guidance functions as well as with multiple publishing mechanisms. The firm also provides a business logic layer to streamline synchronization across all major drug list providers. It specializes in mobile formulary search application and launch commercialization guidance. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Yardley, PA.

Polyplus-transfection SA develops and sells solutions for the delivery of nucleic acids in research, bio production, and therapeutics. Its products are transfection reagents and trademarks, mainly for gene and cell therapies. The company was founded by Jean-Paul Behr, Anne-Lise Monjanel, Joelle Bloch, and Patrick Metz in January 2001 and is headquartered in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France.

LetterOne Holdings SA (L1) is an independent private equity firm headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The firm was founded in 2013 by Mikhail Fridman.

Part of Northern Trust Corp., Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services LLC is a company based in Wilmington, DE. The CEO of the company is R. Peter Sanchez.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.