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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Welch & Forbes LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Edward Sohier and Charles Welch in 1838. They are a subsidiary of AMG WF Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). Welch & Forbes provides investment advice primarily to individuals and trusts. Their clients also include pension and profit-sharing plans, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations and other business entities.

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.

Enterprise Ireland (Enterprise Ireland) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Ireland.

Founded in 1972 by Candace King, C.L. King & Associates, Inc. is a self-clearing, service-oriented broker/dealer and investment bank located in Albany, New York with additional offices in Boston and New York City. The firm delivers investment research, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, prime brokerage, investment advisor and clearing services to institutional and high net-worth clients and to other broker/dealers. For corporations, they underwrite securities and provide strategic advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, strategic alternatives and valuation. C.L. King & Associates is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. C.L. King & Associates follows 120 names in 9 sectors. They seek to discover uncovered investment opportunities by seeking out companies that may be ignored by other Wall Street research providers and by identifying value and growth that may be unrecognized by institutional equity investors. The firm provides comprehensive trading services including capital commitment, market making and listed block positioning for their institutional equity clients. C.L. King & Associates' fixed-income group focuses on trading fixed-income securities, primarily in the secondary market. They offer a broad cross section of agencies, convertibles, investment-grade corporates, mortgage-backed securities, municipals, CDs and preferred stock to other broker/Dealers and institutional investors. The firm's investment banking group provides strategic M&A advice and capital raising services to emerging and mid-cap companies, both public and private. In addition, they act as a WBE underwriter in stock and bond offerings by large corporate issuers. C.L. King & Associates' corporate services group offers specialized services to assist corporate clients and their executives in handling delicate stock holding matters. Their services include guiding clients through restricted stock/rule 144 transactions, developing customized rule 10b5-1 trading plans and managing corporate share repurchase programs. The firm's equity research is based on a fundamental, value-oriented approach that focuses on small- and mid-cap companies. The firm offers research on the following sectors: special situations, building materials companies, specialty retail/apparel/footwear, industrials/cyclicals, restaurants/franchising, business services/staffing companies, telecommunications equipment and medical technology/devices/supplies.

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.

Backupify, Inc. provides online backup solutions. Its products include google apps backup, office 365 backup, salesforce and social media backup, pricing and cloud to cloud backup. The company was founded by Vikram Chadha, Robert May and Dharmesh Shah in November 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

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.

Bain Capital LP engages in provision of investment consulting services. It specializes in private equity, credit, public equity, venture, real estate, double impact, life sciences, and partnership strategies. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bridgewater Associates LP (Bridgewater) is a registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. They are a subsidiary of Bridgewater Associates Intermediate Holdings LP, which is owned by Bridgewater Associates Holdings, Inc. Bridgewater provides discretionary investment management services to pooled investment vehicles and single investor funds, and managed account 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.

Textron Systems Corp. provides aerospace and defense technologies. It specializes in unmanned aircraft systems, advanced marine craft, armored vehicles, intelligent battlefield and surveillance systems, intelligence software solutions, precision smart weapons, piston engines, test and training systems, total life cycle sustainment, and operational services. The company is headquartered in Providence, RI.

Veritas Capital Fund Management LLC (Veritas Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Robert McKeon and Ramzi Musallam. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Bose Corp. designs and manufactures music systems and loudspeakers. Its products include headphones, audio sunglasses, and speakers. The company was founded by Amar Gopal Bose in 1964 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is an independent agency that provides statistics and analysis related to energy in the United States. The agency is based in Washington and offers information on various energy sources, including petroleum, natural gas, coal, renewable and alternative fuels, nuclear energy, and electricity. The EIA also provides data on energy consumption and efficiency in homes, commercial buildings, manufacturing, and transportation. The agency is a subsidiary of the Government of the United States of America.

InsightSquared, Inc. provides data intelligence software solutions. It offers sales analytics and marketing analytics solution, report authoring platform and staffing analytics products. The company was founded by Frederic Shilmover, Bryan Stevenson and Samuel Clemens in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, M.

Gresham Investment Management LLC (Gresham) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1992 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. which is in turn a subsidiary of Nuveen Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by TIAA Board of Governors. Gresham provides investment advice to separately managed client accounts as well as to certain commingled investment vehicles that offer interests on a private placement basis.

Cohesive Capital Management LP (Cohesive Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by John R.Barber. The firm is headquartered in New York.

PT Anugerah Energitama is an oil and Indonesian natural gas company founded in 2000. The private company operates in Jakarta Selatan, ID.

Boston Global Ventures LLC (Boston Global Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Vivjan Myrto, Brendan Kohler, and John Murphy in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

HSV Holdings LLC (Indicator Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Geoffrey T. Bernstein, Ben F. Luntz and Jonathan M. Struhl. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Metropolitan Partners Group LLC is a private investment firm that provides growth capital to non-sponsored businesses in the domestic lower middle market space. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company works directly with business owners and management teams to grow their balance sheets and build lasting value with their tailored capital solutions. The firm provides collateralized loans to small and mid-sized, non-sponsored businesses. Metropolitan's funds deliver senior-secured, short-term funding to companies that have quality operations, assets, and a strong profit opportunity, but lack efficient access to capital. The company was founded in 2008. The CEO is Paul Kenneth Lisiak.

Next Level Finance Partners, Inc. provides financial services. The private company is based in Chicago.

Surgo Group LLC provides custom digital marketing solutions. Its services include web visibility and mobile solutions. The company was founded by Travis Tillotson in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gardin Ltd. is a British company that aims to provide high quality and nutritious food that is good for both people and the planet. The company believes that there is a need for change in our environmental issues and they promise to create a step-change by using their technology. The company was founded by Sumanta Talukdar and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Vaultree Ltd. is an Irish data security company that provides enterprises, including those in the financial services and healthcare/pharmaceutical sectors, with a solution to mitigate the risks of a data breach. Vaultree is trusted by companies worldwide, including Google, and is based in Dundrum, Ireland. The company enables organizations to securely process, search, and compute structured and unstructured encrypted data without surrendering encryption keys or decrypting server-side. Vaultree's data-in-use encryption persists even if a leak occurs, rendering the data unusable to bad actors. The company's technology allows for powerful encrypted search, data processing analysis, and machine learning/artificial intelligence to be performed in real-time. The company was founded by Kevin Curran, Tilo Weigandt, Maxim Dressler, Ryan Lasmaili, and Shaun McBrearty, with Ryan Lasmaili serving as CEO since incorporation.

LinkSquares, Inc. develops and operates software platform for manual site search and reviewing contract details. It offers online contract discovery, reporting, and analytics needed for internal reviews, legal audits, and other diligence. The firm provides a web application tool and an online platform which allows executives to create, send, track, and sign documents, accelerating the deal negotiation process for sales teams. The company was founded by Chris Combs and Vishal Sunak in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.