Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Centerline Capital Group operates as a real estate finance and investment company in the United States. The company provides equity and debt capital to the affordable multifamily housing industry. Its asset management group comprises construction monitoring, primary servicing, special servicing, and portfolio oversight. Centerline's commercial real estate group provides financing and investment products for affordable multifamily, conventional multifamily, retail, office, mixed use properties, and industrial properties. The company also offers institutional investment products, such as tax credit funds, direct loan funds, high-yield CMBS funds, and real estate equity funds. It offers financing at each level of a property's capitalization, including equity, mezzanine capital, B-notes, bridge and first mortgage loans. Centerline Capital Group focuses on providing credit intermediation, primarily in the form of credit default swaps to the affordable multifamily housing industry.

Founded in 1994, Fenway Partners is a New York based middle-market private equity firm with $2.1 billion in capital under management. The team of 15 investment professionals has worked together for many years and has accumulated significant private equity experience.Fenway invests in profitable niche businesses with $100 million to $600 million in enterprise value, with a strong focus in two sectors: consumer branded products and transportation / logistics / distribution. Working in partnership with management, Fenway seeks to leverage its accumulated experience, industry-specific knowledge and network of value-added resources to help businesses enhance their performance and achieve their full potential.Some of the companies Fenway Partners have acquired include: Simmons Company (mattresses), Harry Winston (luxury jewelry retailer), American Achievement (Balfour class rings, Taylor yearbooks), 1-800-Contacts (direct-to-consumer contact lens distributor) and a number of transportation-related businesses.

Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sponsors, markets, and provides investment advisory and related services in the United States. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. also provides underwriting, compliance, treasury, and fund administration services to mutual fund companies. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. provides its services to various clients, including mutual funds, separate accounts, and private investment funds, as well as offers advisory services to institutional and individual investors. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. distributes its products through financial intermediaries, including independent registered investment advisors, brokers, financial planners, investment consultants, and third party marketing firms. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Paulson Capital is a financial services holding company operating through its sole subsidiary, Paulson Investment Company. A full-service brokerage, Paulson Investment is one of the largest independent brokerage firms in the Pacific Northwest. Paulson Capital Corp. acts as an agent for its customers in the purchase and sale of stocks, options, and debt securities. Paulson Capital Corp. also offers market-making and underwriting services for small and emerging companies. Paulson Investment has more than 40 branches in about a dozen states; most are run by independent contractors. CEO Chester Paulson and his wife, secretary and director Jacqueline Paulson, together own 44% of Paulson Capital.

Private Equity Investor PLC is an investment company, incorporated in the UK, which invests principally in early to pre-IPO stage information technology companies and has the tax benefits of investment trust status.Information technology encompasses internet, e-commerce, intranet technologies, communications, information services and high value-added electronic components. Private Equity Investor invests principally in unquoted, specialist venture capital funds and limited partnerships focusing on early, expansion, late and pre-IPO stage information technology companies primarily in the United States of America.The directors believe that Private Equity Investor provides UK investors with an outstanding opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of mainly US information technology related investments which, because of their early to pre-IPO stage, can be acquired at valuations which give the opportunity of significant capital appreciation.

Incapital is a securities and investment banking firm with offices in Chicago, Boca Raton and London*. Incapital underwrites and distributes fixed income securities and structured notes through more than 900 broker-dealers, banks and institutional accounts in the U.S., Europe and Asia. With a diverse range of new issue and secondary market offerings, Incapital specializes in U.S. Agency securities, corporate notes, Certificates of Deposit (CDs), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), municipal bonds, and structured notes and CDs. Incapital also provides resources for financial advisors and investors to create income-producing portfolios and notes linked to a wide range of asset classes. Incapital is the leading distributor of corporate bonds designed for individual investors. Since 2000, over $200 billion of new issue corporate and U.S. Agency securities have been issued through retail note programs. Incapital has been recognized by Institutional Investor Magazine as an e-Finance top 40 firm five times in the last seven years.

Stephens was founded in 1933. Stephens Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Stephens Holding Company. Stephens Inc. offers investment banking and financial advisory services to corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, and individual investors. The company’s services include merger and acquisition advisory, private placement of debt and equity, municipal and corporate securities underwriting, equity sales and trading, general securities brokerage, research, wealth management, investment advisory, and mutual fund services.

Redbus Group (Redbus) is a UK based acquisition vehicle, which seeks to acquire small cap. businesses or business assets that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability. Its roots are in the media business though it does not operate exclusively in this sector. Redbus came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of the largest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold for $23 million to Helkon Media AG.The key management, all from investment banking or professional backgrounds remained with Redbus Group after this transaction and segued Redbus’ focus towards acquiring media businesses and assets that were either undervalued, in distress or in need of restructuring. Employing an entrepreneurial yet disciplined approach, Redbus, either in partnership with other financial institutions or alone, is constantly looking for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.The combination of Redbus’ intricate understanding of the corporate debt and securities market and its experience of managing businesses is both unusual and increasingly relevant in today’s financial markets. Redbus was the fastest growing company in the UK in 2003 and ranked number one in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Redbus Group is a UK based private company and the main operating vehicle of Simon Franks who is both the company’s chairman and largest single shareholder.

Updata Partners was founded in 1998. Updata Partners is an investment arm of Updata Capital, Inc. specializing in growth capital, expansion capital, acquisition financing, buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate spin-offs investments. The firm also provides finance for founder and investor liquidity. It typically invests in information technology sector with a focus on software and information services businesses. Within the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in application software and software-as-a-service, internet, digital media and e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business and information services. The firm invests between $5 million and $20 million in companies with revenue between $5 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be a lead or co-lead investor. It seeks to co-invest in its portfolio companies.

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