Fox Paine & Company, LLC was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Fox Paine & Company, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, public-to-private transactions, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in mature companies. The firm primarily invests in financial services and insurance; semiconductors; agribusiness, including seeds and food and agriculture; healthcare, including healthcare services and medical devices; energy, oil, and gas; telecommunications; industrials; and consumer goods. It prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies.

Knightsbridge Advisers, Incorporated was founded in 1983 and is based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Knightsbridge Advisers, Incorporated specializes in direct and fund of funds investments. The firm invests venture capital partnerships that invest in technology-based companies at the seed and early stages. It invests within the United States. The firm is currently investing through its funds KVC VI and Knightsbridge Venture Completion 2005.

TPG Capital, also known as Texas Pacific Group, has staked its claim on the buyout frontier. The firm, which does not get involved in the day-to-day operations of its portfolio companies, usually holds onto its investments for at least five years, although consistent moneymakers may be kept indefinitely. It is not picky about the industries in which it invests. Acting in concert with other private equity firms, TPG has stakes in notable enterprises such as Avaya, Biomet, Energy Future Holdings, Freescale Semiconductor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Neiman Marcus, Sabre Holdings, SunGard Data Systems, Univision, and Aleris International.

CI Financial Corp. (CI), formerly CI Financial Income Fund, is a diversified wealth management firm. It is engaged in the management, marketing, distribution and administration of mutual funds, segregated funds, structured products and other fee-earning investment products for Canadian investors, distributed primarily through brokers, independent financial planners and insurance advisors, including Assante Capital Management Ltd. and Assante Financial Management Ltd. It operates in two segments. The Asset Management provides the majority of its income and derives its revenues from the fees earned on the management of several families of mutual, segregated, pooled and closed-end funds, structured products and discretionary accounts. The Asset Administration derives its revenues from commissions and fees earned on the sale of mutual funds and other financial products, and ongoing service to clients. On December 31, 2009, it completed the sale of Blackmont Capital Inc. to Macquarie Group.

Founded in 1999, Agave Capital is fully invested and has not been pursuing new opportunities. The venture capital firm has holdings in high-tech companies, including Internet, telecommunications, networking, semiconductor, and software startups. Portfolio companies include personal computing systems maker ClearCube Technology and software maker Surgient. Past investments included TippingPoint (acquired by 3Com) and DiscoveryCom (acquired by Nokia).

SPARK Ventures is one of the leading early-stage venture capital investors in Europe, providing equity investment to high growth technology, media and healthcare companies in the UK and Europe. SPARK Ventures manages approximately £190 million across several investment vehicles including: two Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); an AIM listed investment company (SPARK Ventures plc), University Funds on behalf of leading UK universities including Oxford; and a Limited Partnership on behalf of major institutional investors. SPARK Ventures has been investing in early-stage businesses for 12 years and has a wealth of expertise in backing and developing companies from start-up through to eventual trade sale or IPO.SPARK’s core expertise lies in identifying promising early-stage businesses and leading their funding right from the earliest stages. SPARK Ventures’ team is one of the most experienced in the early-stage investment space. It brings its portfolio businesses the necessary capital, combined with strategic and operational management support as well as commercial and marketing expertise to help them succeed. Its founding management team has worked together for more than 10 years, and during that time has helped many entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

The partners at DFJ Esprit have worked together investing in venture capital for more than a decade, accumulating over 100 years of experience in the technology, new media, telecoms and medtech sectors. From early to later stage, we take pride in our track record of supporting extraordinary entrepreneurs and European high growth companies with global potential. With offices in London and Cambridge, and access to the DFJ Global Network of venture capital partnerships, including 135 investment professionals in 32 cities around the world, we are uniquely positioned to help build globally successful companies.

First Cash Financial Services, Inc. primarily operates pawn stores that lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property in the United States and Mexico. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also engages in the retail of previously owned merchandise acquired through pawn forfeitures and purchased from the general public. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. pawn stores provide collateral consumer loans on pledged personal properties, such as jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments; consumer financial services, including credit services, check cashing, money orders, money transfers, and prepaid card products. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also owns and operates kiosks inside convenience stores that offer credit services and check cashing. As of December 31, 2009, First Cash Financial Services owned and operated 383 pawn stores and 163 short-term loan stores, as well as 39 financial services kiosks. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Arlington, Texas.

Artemis Investment Management was established in 1997 by Mark Tyndall, John Dodd, Derek Stuart, and Lindsay Whitelaw, who maintain executive positions with the company. Artemis Investment Management offers unit trusts (similar to US mutual funds), hedge funds, institutional investment portfolios, and a venture capital trust. Artemis Investment Management company serves private and institutional investors in the UK; however, it does offer limited products and services to investors in other parts of Europe. It has some $10 billion ($16 billion) of assets under management. US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) acquired a majority of the firm in 2010; Artemis' management retained a stake.

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