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HYCOR Biomedical, Inc. manufactures in vitro diagnostic products for allergy and autoimmune testing. The firm’s products include allergy testing, autoimmune testing, HYTEC 288 plus and HCOR ultra-sensitive EIA. It markets the HYTEC, KOVA and AUTOSTAT brands. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Garden Grove, CA.

Comerica Bank (Investment Management Texas) (Comerica-IM) is the asset management arm of Comerica Bank, which is owned by Comerica, Inc. (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1849 by Elon Farnsworth. Comerica-IM manages assets for high net-worth individual investors, foundations, endowments and institutional investors. The firm also provides asset allocation guidelines and investment research for Comerica Securities, their brokerage affiliate.

Scharf Investments LLC (Scharf) is an independent, SEC-registered independent investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Los Gatos, California. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Scharf in 1983. Scharf provides investment advice and portfolio management for individuals, registered investment companies, retirement accounts, trusts, family offices, corporations, endowments and foundations through separately managed client accounts. The firm participates in certain wrap fee programs acting as a sub-adviser to an investment sponsor.

Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the potential further development of its MAXY-G34 product, a next-generation pegylated, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, G-CSF, for the treatment of chemotherapy induced neutropenia and acute radiation syndrome. G-CSF is a natural protein that functions by stimulating the body's bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. The company was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

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.

TriplePoint Capital LLC (Triplepoint Capital) is a global specialty debt financing firm founded in 1987 by Jim Labe. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC (Glass Lewis) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2003 by Kevin J. Cameron & Gregory P. Taxin. Glass Lewis provides investment research and advice on proxy votes to institutional investor and?publicly listed?companies. Their clients include pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers.

Alavita Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops pharmaceutical therapeutic products. The company was founded on October 9, 2007 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

The Assay Depot, Inc. operates as a network of public and private e-commerce marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers of scientific research services. It serves large and small pharmaceutical companies, government institutes, biotechnology companies, academic researchers and citizen scientists. The company was founded by Christopher L. Petersen, Andrew B. Martin, and Kevin D. Lustig in 2007 and is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA.

VSee Lab, Inc. provides telemedicine services to healthcare users. It offers telemedicine kits and carts, web based waiting rooms and eVisit platform and APIs. The company was founded by Milton Chen in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Insightful Science Holdings LLC, Protein Metrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in protein characterization. The company is based in Cupertino, CA at the crossroads of computing and biotechnology. The company's vendor-neutral software enables scientists to quickly identify and report protein sequences and variations from the expected form using data generated on analytical instruments like mass spectrometers. The company was founded by Yong Kil, Marshall Bern, Chris Becker, and Eric Carlson has been the CEO of the company since 2014. Protein Metrics was acquired by Insightful Science Holdings LLC on December 21, 2021.

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.

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.

Part of GSK Plc, Affymax Research Institute is a company that researches and develops pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. Affymax Research Institute was acquired by Affymax, Inc. from GSK Plc on July 30, 2001.

Oxonica Ltd. is an advanced materials business, which engages in licensing of patents related to nanomaterials. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

SurroMed, Inc. provides pharmaceutical research. It focuses on discovering & applying biomarkers to improve the drug discovery and development process and enable the precise diagnosis and personalized treatment of disease. The company's research process yields biological markers and information that enable accelerated, cost-efficient discovery and development of new therapeutic products, as well as development of diagnostic tests for early disease detection, disease staging, patient stratification, guiding and monitoring therapy. SurroMed was founded in 1997 and is located in Menlo Park, CA.

Antenna Group, Inc. operates as a strategic communications agency delivering public relations and integrated marketing services to entrepreneurial organizations in technology sectors ranging from energy to mobile communications and enterprise software/hardware technology and services. It specializes in strategic messaging, media relation, content development, and digital services. The company was founded by Melody Kean Haller on March 11, 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 2002, Maxim Group LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales and trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Maxim Group's niche is emerging-growth companies in a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, retail and others. They utilize a fundamental, bottom-up approach to investment recommendations. The firm combines rigorous financial analysis of specific companies and industries with due diligence that includes frequent consults with suppliers, customers, competitors and senior management. The firm focuses on under-covered, small- to-mid-cap companies where valuation levels may be out of sync with fundamental trends. Maxim's coverage universe often represents attractive niche industries where stocks tend to be inefficient. This research coverage fills a void created by the downsized research ranks and shrinking coverage of small- to mid-cap stocks by large investment banks. Maxim Group is a member of FINRA, the MSRB, the SIPC, the ISE, NASDAQ and NYSE Arca.

Financial Health Network Inc /Venture Capital/ (Financial Health Network) is a venture capital division of Financial Health Network Inc founded in 2004 by Jennifer Tescher. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Betaworks Studio LLC builds and operates real time software, services and media distribution platform. It operates an online platform that offers media products. The firm's products include Digg, Dots, Bloglovin and Giphyt. The company was founded by John K. L. Borthwick and Andrew Weissman in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Verizon Ventures LLC (Verizon Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Verizon Communications, Inc founded in 1990. The firm is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

BloomTech, Inc. is an education company that offers online programs in web development and data science. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2017 by Austen Allred, Deborah Arlene Bloom, and Ben Nelson. The company's curriculum is designed to meet the evolving talent needs of employers, and learners graduate with real-world experience working on cross-functional teams to build production-ready apps. The company partners with The Mom Project, a talent marketplace that helps mothers and caregivers re-enter the workforce or improve technical skills. BloomTech provides a tuition refund guarantee and scholarships for prospective software engineers to advance equity in tech by removing barriers to education and tech careers. Austen Allred has been the CEO since 2017.

Bootstrap Venture Partners LLC (Bootstrap Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Jean Balgrosky and Parker Hinshaw. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Betaworks Investments LLC (Betaworks Investments) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Betaworks Studio LLC founded in 2007 by John Borthwick and Andy Weissman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Venture Collective LLC (Venture Collective) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Maverix Biomics, Inc. provides cloud-based platform to manage, analyze and visualize genomic data. It also builds communities of discovery and place its data in context with the latest public data from the full spectrum of life, including human, plant, animal or microbial organisms. The company was founded by David Mandelkern, Todd Michael Johnson Lowe and Patricia Pak Lee Chan in 2010 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Apexigen America, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the discovery and development of innovative antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer with a focus on immuno-oncology. Its product portfolio includes humanized antibodies, targeting diseases such as cancer, inflammatory diseases and ophthalmic disease. The company was founded by Xiao Dong Yang in July 2010 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Okava Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American clinical stage biotechnology company.