Enterprise Partners Venture Capital was founded in 1985 and is based in La Jolla, California. Enterprise Partners Venture Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies. It invests in later stage companies and buyout opportunities on a case-by-case basis. The firm typically invests in the life sciences and technology sectors with a focus on new technology fields including digital media, wireless networks, specialized energy and materials, consumer products and applications, and digital home technologies and services. It seeks to invest in California. The firm primarily invests between $3 million and $10 million in its portfolio companies and will occasionally invest as little as $300,000 in a seed stage venture. It seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio company and often serves as a lead investor. The firm primarily invests for a period between four years and seven years.

Nomura Holdings is the parent company of Nomura Securities, Japan's leading investment bank and brokerage house. Nomura Holdings, Inc. performs trading, equity and bond underwriting, research, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services. Nomura Holdings, Inc. also makes private equity and venture capital investments. Nomura's largest segment is domestic retail, which provides investment consulting and brokerage services to consumers in its home market. Nomura Holdings, Inc. asset management segment manages more than �25 trillion (more than $225 billion) on behalf of its clients. Nomura Holdings has operations in more than 30 countries. Nomura Securities International is the company's US trading and investment banking unit.

First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (First Savings Financial Group) is a holding company for First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (the Bank). The Bank operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses in its primary market area. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans and commercial business loans. The Bank also originates residential and commercial construction loans, multi-family loans, land and land development loans, and consumer loans. The Bank conducts its lending and deposit activities primarily with individuals and small businesses in its primary market area. On September 30, 2009, the Bank acquired Community First Bank (Community First).

Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley based family of venture capital funds that provides investment capital and strategic and operational guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The latest fund, Acuity Ventures III, L.P. is currently investing. The fund provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and other investment participations.Acuity strives to incubate qualified companies with financing facilities and access to important alliances in order to position these companies for profitable growth and liquidity exit. Acuity maintains alliances with other capital sources and its high net worth, as well as strategic consulting and advisory firms that specialize in high-technology startups.

Venrock was founded in 1969. Venrock is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm may also consider second round investments. It primarily invests in information technology, healthcare, media, and energy sectors and also focuses on biotechnology, nanotechnology, drug discovery and development, life sciences technology, digital media and mobile, Internet, consumer, consumer electronics, enablers, nano, healthcare information technology and services, medical devices, application software, communication, wireless, enterprise software and infrastructure, security, financial services, and semiconductors and components sectors. The firm can invests upto $10 million or more.

Burns, Philp & Company Pty Limited and its subsidiaries engage in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of food ingredients, and consumer branded food and related products primarily in New Zealand. Its products include snack foods, such as salty and nutritious snacks; baking products, such as packaged loaf bread, other baked goods, and frozen meals; and spreads and oils, including fats and oils, bulk and retail flour, margarine and spreads, cake mixes, mayonnaise, dressings, chickens, and ice cream. Burns, Philp & Company’s customers include supermarket chains and convenience stores in New Zealand.

Solera Capital was founded in 1999 with an all-female staff led by CEO Molly Ashby. The firm emphsizes its diversity, with 14 of its 17 professionals being women from backgrounds as diverse as Singapore and Ethiopia. Solera Capital is a private equity investment firm that typically invests between $10 million and $40 million in its target companies. Its portfolio includes natural and organic food company Annie's, consumer health care provider The Little Clinic, and publisher Latina Media Ventures.

Incorporated in 1974, Temasek Holdings is an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 12 affiliates and offices in Asia and Latin America, Temasek owns a diversified S$186 billion portfolio as at 31 March 2010, concentrated principally in Singapore, Asia and the emerging economies. Temasek's investment themes centre on Transforming Economies, Growing Middle Income Populations, Deepening Comparative Advantages and Emerging Champions. Its portfolio covers a broad spectrum of industries: financial services; telecommunications, media & technology; transportation & industrials; life sciences, consumer & real estate; energy & resources. Total shareholder return for Temasek since its inception in 1974 has been a healthy 17% compounded annually. It has a corporate credit rating of AAA/Aaa by rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's respectively.

As a pioneering investor in Northern Ireland, Enterprise Equity is one of Northern Ireland's longest established fund managers, with an enviable investment record in both technology businesses such as BCO Technologies Ltd, as well as traditional industries such as Balcas. Enterprise Equity was originally established as an evergreen investment fund in 1987 by the International Fund for Ireland. Since the initial £7 million capitalisation in 1987, £28 million has been invested in 40 companies producing a very attractive return after covering running costs and considerable taxes. In 2008, the Enterprise Equity Team conducted its own management buy-out of the fund management business from the International Fund for Ireland.

Invesco Ltd. (Invesco) is an independent global investment management company. Invesco provides a range of investment products for retail, institutional and high-net-worth clients worldwide. The Company has presence in the institutional and retail segments of the investment management industry in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with clients in more than 100 countries. Invesco offers multiple investment objectives within the range of asset classes and products that it manages. Its asset classes include money market, fixed income, balanced, equity and alternatives. Invesco is a provider of retail investment solutions to clients through its distribution channels, Invesco Aim in the United States., Invesco Trimark in Canada, Invesco Perpetual in the United Kingdom, Invesco in Europe and Asia, and Invesco PowerShares (for it exchange-traded fund (ETF) products). In May 2010, Invesco acquired Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business.

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