Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1964. Through our decades of experience, Sutter Hill have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. Sutter Hill offer expertise in developing business strategy and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets.Sutter Hill Ventures are experienced operating executives who love building companies. Sutter Hill approach is straightforward. Sutter Hill have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. Sutter Hill work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to Sutter Hill portfolio companies' needs. Once sutter hill invest in a company, sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is sutter top priority and sutter favorite occupation.

Shattuck Hammond Partners, a division of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., is an investment banking and financial advisory firm with more than forty investment banking professionals and offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. Founded in 1993 as a boutique focused on healthcare services, the Firm has steadily grown over the last decade and extended its expertise and success to meet the needs of clients across a variety of industry sectors, including hospitals, senior living, managed care, pharmaceuticals, medical distribution and outsourcing, healthcare information technology, real estate, higher education and specialty not-for-profit organizations.Shattuck Hammond provides comprehensive investment banking and financial advisory services, including: strategic advisory, merger & acquisition advisory; placements of debt and equity; taxable and tax-exempt debt underwriting and financial advisory; derivatives and reinvestments; and real estate transaction services. In the last ten years, Shattuck Hammond has completed more than 160 M&A transactions totaling $10.8 billion in transaction value, and has served as underwriter, placement agent, financial advisor or bid agent on capital markets transactions totaling more than $13.8 billion.

Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street institution with the iconic bull logo is now the wealth management, brokerage, and investment banking arm of Bank of America. The bank acquired the distressed investment bank in 2009 in a move that greatly expanded its wealth management and international operations. Merrill Lynch is among the world's top brokerages, with some $2.2 trillion in customer assets. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. also provides corporate finance and investment banking services to institutional, commercial, and government clients. Merrill Lynch has offices in some 40 countries around the world.

Auriga Partners was founded in May, 1998 and is based at Paris, France. Auriga Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage companies. It prefers to invest in the information technology, industrial technology, and life sciences sectors. The firm primarily invests in the European Union, with a minor focus on North America, France, and Israel. It typically invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €8 million ($11.87 million) in its portfolio companies. For investments outside France, the firm participates in the funding along with its extensive global network of local venture capitalists.

AssetCo is in the thick of things. The integrated services company specializes in providing support for emergency response and homeland security agencies in the UK and some 145 countries around the world. Primarily serving the public-service sector, AssetCo offers an array of services including training, fire reserve, emergency vehicle assembly and management, infrastructure support, equipment supply, and technology and information management. Customers include the London Fire Brigade and all other fire and rescue organizations in Great Britain. AssetCo also has an international office in Abu Dhabi, which specializes in serving the civil defense, emergency services, airport and military sectors.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

Roth Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1984. Roth Capital Partners, LLC (ROTH) is an investment banking firm that focuses on the small-cap public market. The firm offers IPO underwriting services to small-cap companies; capital raising services for public companies; and placement services of PIPE transactions. Additionally, it provides investment banking services including capital raising, research coverage, trading and market making, merger and acquisition advisory, and investor conferences. ROTH has raised over $10.6 billion for small-cap public companies and over $3 billion through PIPE transactions. The firm has completed transactions totaling more than $2 billion for US-listed Chinese companies. It offers financing services to small-cap Chinese companies.

The Baxi Partnership Trust was set up as an employee benefit trust (EBT) by Philip Baxendale and his cousin Joan Caselton in 1983 when they sold their gas-boiler manufacturing company to the trust for only one tenth of its value; a massive gift to the employees. The aim of the EBT was to enable the employees of the boiler manufacturing company to keep the company independent and to share in the wealth they had helped to create. Over the next 16 years the company grew to £200m sales and was highly productive and profitable.

Lion Capital is a consumer-focused investment firm that seeks to make control investments in mid and large-sized, consumer-oriented businesses in Europe and North America. The Firm aims to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns through the application of deep investment and operating expertise in the consumer sector. Lion’s senior team has over 200 years of collective experience investing in and operating consumer businesses, providing an effective base from which to lead successful investments in the industry. Our focus on the consumer sector differentiates us from other investment firms and gives us a number of advantages in our pursuit of value-creation strategies in the companies in which we invest.Within Lion Capital’s partnership are long-standing professional relationships that extend back over seventeen years in some cases, and certain of the Lion Partners have been investing in Europe since the early 1990s. Over this time, Lion’s Partners have led the investment of over €4.5 billion in companies representing €17 billion of enterprise value. Lion Capital is currently managing two active pools of investment capital: Lion Capital Fund I (formed in 2004) and Lion Capital Fund II (formed in 2007), which combined give Lion over €2.8 billion of assets under management.

i-Hatch Ventures was formed in February of 1999 to provide experienced capital to early-stage technology ventures, primarily in the mobile and broadband sectors. i-Hatch approach is to match experienced practitioners with the founding teams of technology ventures, inject capital, and provide hands-on support from the i-Hatch team. In addition i-Hatch leverages the substantial contact base it has developed through its focus on on the mobile and broadband sections. i-Hatch investment filters focus on early-stage technology ventures in the doing business in key industry categories: mobile data services, wireless/cellular infrastructure, and broadband.

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