Renaissance Technologies was founded by Jim Simons, a former math professor at MIT and Harvard who, despite his relative anonymity and avoidance of the spotlight, ranks among the world's highest-paid hedge fund managers. After three decades at the helm of Renaissance, Simmons retired in 2010 and took on a new role as non-executive chairman. Complex mathematical theories and statistical methods are reborn as investment strategies at Renaissance Technologies. The quantitative hedge fund, which has more than $15 billion in assets under management in three funds, utilizes computer technical models to exploit mispricings in financial markets.

MTI has been investing since 1983, helping entrepreneurs realise their visions and stakeholders create value. MTI’s hands-on approach ensures that it is a leader in the field of technology venture capital. MTI team, consisting of proven business builders and experienced leaders in the technology sector, are all technically qualified, making sure that MTI all have the knowledge and skill set to help realise latent potential. MTI takes a highly proactive stance towards its portfolio, guiding and assisting companies through all of the challenges that every rapidly growing business faces, at every stage.Headquartered in the UK, and with a US office in Boston, the portfolio of investments includes global companies in the Materials Technology, ITEC and Medical Technology sectors. MTI can invest at any stage of a company’s growth cycle, and across all geographies. Its typical investment over the life of a portfolio company is £5m/$10m, an amount that is multiplied by our ability to lead a syndicate.

Established in 1982, the firm owns and operates two offices and has about $10 billion in assets under management. In early 2010 SEAMARK joined forces with fellow Canadian asset manager GrowthWorks to create a new holding company parent in Matrix Asset Management. It now operates as a division of Matrix. SEAMARK Asset Management provides investment counseling services to pension, insurance, retirement, endowment, mutual fund, and wealthy clients across the country.

Progress Investment Management Company was founded in 1990 and was under the wings of Bank of America for a time, but is independent after a management buyout. Progress Investment Management specializes in the management of emerging-markets managers, particularly those run by minorities or women; clients include such pension funds as CalPERS, whose manager-development program it manages. Progress Investment Management has approximately $6.4 billion in assets under management.

Lightyear Capital Inc. is an investment banking firm that focuses on small and mid-cap companies. The firm provides merger and acquisition, fairness opinions, sourcing and valuation, turnaround and divestiture, privatization, management buyout (MBOs), initial public offering, secondary financing, private placement, private equity and venture capital financing, reverse take over (RTO) transaction, reorganization and re-capitalization, and strategic advisory services. It also offers investment research, institutional sales and brokerage, and private client services.

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.

NEXT Financial Group, Inc. provides independent investment professionals a place to call "work", and the back office support, marketing clout, and technology services of a big investment firm. NEXT Financial company provides a variety of investment services catering to retirees and baby-boomers through its network of broker/dealers. NEXT Financial company is owned by its employees and representitives and is not affiliated with large investment or insurance companies, allowing reps and customers to choose from a variety of investment options.

Clearstone Venture Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in Menlo Park, California. Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It also prefers to make later round investments in highly successful companies already backed by other venture capital firms with whom it has prior relationships. The firm seeks to invest in technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise computing, storage, communications, wireless and optical communications, data center, enterprise software, security, micro-processors, imaging and transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics, and consumer and business internet sector. With in enterprise software it focuses on new application models and service oriented architectures (Web Services); open source solutions; web-based application delivery models including software as functional media; and Microsoft exchange as a platform for enterprise collaboration. Within consumer sector the firm seeks to invest in mobile phone applications, wireless multimedia, social networking applied to commerce, and where there is a broad intersection of technology and consumer activity.

Switzerland's number two financial services firm does business all over the world, including in Israel. Credit Suisse Financial Services (Israel) helps private banking, investment banking, and asset management clients with wealth accumulation and protection, and succession and inheritance planning using global equity markets, private equity funds, foreign exchange trading, and fixed-income products. It also offers a customized mix of products tailored for investors' specific needs and advises clients on using third-party investment products. Credit Suisse Financial Services (Israel) was formed in 2007 as a result of growing wealth in the country's booming economy.

TradeStation Group, Inc. operates as an online broker-dealer, an introducing broker, a futures commission merchant, and a trading technology company. TradeStation Group, Inc. product/service includes TradeStation, an electronic trading platform that enables traders to test and automate technical and fundamental trading strategies across various asset classes. TradeStation Group, Inc. also offers online brokerage services covering equities, equity and index options, financial and commodities futures, futures options, and spot forex transactions. TradeStation Group, Inc. also provides TradeStation electronic subscription service, which includes trading features and functions, streaming charts and quotes, streaming news, analytical charting, and various other features included in the TradeStation electronic trading platform other than trade order placement, and other trading or brokerage-related features or services. TradeStation Group serves the active trader and institutional trader markets. TradeStation Group, Inc. has strategic relationships with J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.; R.J. OBrien & Associates, Inc.; and GAIN Capital Group, Inc. TradeStation Group, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plantation, Florida.

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