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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.

Founded in 1998 by William R. Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co. LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm offers a full array of investment services. They provide research that focuses on the (1) Asia-Pacific, biotechnology, business applications and services sectors (2) the China Internet and technology sector (3) consumer (4) enterprise software and Internet (5) gaming technology (6) Internet (7) medical technology (8) nanotechnology (9) networking and data infrastructure (10) semiconductors and devices and (11) specialty pharmaceuticals.

VLI USA provides VoIP software solutions and broadband services. The company's products include applications, session, media control, access, handsets, terminals & operation support systems. It also offers VoIP migration, fixed mobile convergence, and IP based multimedia services. The company was founded in August 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Imergy Power Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures electrochemical energy storage systems. Its products include ESP5, ESP30 and ESP250. The company was founded in 2005 by Saroj Sahu and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

iPolipo, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise meeting scheduling solutions for B2B events. It helps companies to accelerate their sales cycles by making it simple to schedule, track, and analyze meetings with prospects and customers at events. The company’s solutions enable users to schedule meetings, manage rooms and calendars, schedule and manage various types of meetings, and track meeting information by using mobile phones. Its solutions’ features also include reporting and analytics; Salesforce.com integration, which schedules meetings with customers, prospects, and contacts; and third party integrations. The company was founded by Hariprasad R. Shetty and Rajesh Shetty in 2006 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

Kenati Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions for the Home Area Networking market. It also provides solutions for gateway, broadband, wireless, VoIP, VPN, IPTV, and video CPE devices. The company has additional office in Pune, India. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Decision Economics, Inc. provides market research services. It focuses on identifying, monitoring, and forecasting fundamental factors, policies, trends, and risks impacting the economic, business cycle, and the financial markets. The company was founded by Allen L. Sinai in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Perella Weinberg Partners LP (PWP) is the registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 2005 by Joe Perella, Peter Weinberg and Tarek Abdel-Meguid. PWP offers full spectrum of brokerage services to retail clients.

W.R. Hambrecht + Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It offers underwriting, corporate advisory, equity research, sales, trading, electronic brokerage and private equity services to technology and emerging growth companies. The firm uses Internet and auction processes to serve investors and issuers. The company was founded in January 1998 by William R. Hambrecht and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Warner Bros. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Discovery, Inc., PersonaLogic, Inc. is a company that provides news on various topics such as politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, and sports. PersonaLogic was acquired by America Online, Inc. on November 11, 1998.

PatientsLikeMe LLC operates online health communities for patients. The firm offers data and information on patients, treatments, symptoms and research. The company was founded by Benjamin Heywood, James Heywood and Jeff Cole in 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Hambrecht Partners Holding LLC (Hambrecht Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of WR Hambrecht + Co. LLC founded in 1999 by William Robert Hambrecht and Igor M. Sill. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.