Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

Cruttenden Partners is trying to root the evil out of money. The investment firm says it invests in companies that "help create a better world." It targets companies with strong management teams and offers services, such as financing, structuring, exiting, equity optimization. With a focus on early and late-stage investments, Cruttenden Partners' portfolio includes holdings in the financial, biomedical, and technology industries, such as SRS Sound Design (audio electronics), eGoose (financial advisory products for online traders), and PRISMedical Corporation (fluid therapies).

Octopus' tentacles extend as far as its asset management customers wish. Octopus Asset Management offers venture capital trusts and enterprise investment products (Eureka Fund) for customers in the UK. Other offerings include enterprise investment schemes, which offer customer tax savings. Trusts under management include the Bioscience, Eclipse, and Phoenix Venture Capital Trusts.

August Capital was founded in 1995 by Dave Marquardt and John Johnston. Seasoned veterans of the venture capital industry, Marquardt and Johnston formed August Capital to invest in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six partners -- Marquardt, Johnston, Andy Rappaport, David Hornik, Vivek Mehra and Howard Hartenbaum -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $1.3 billion and have invested in more than 75 companies across the technology spectrum.From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. We are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.

The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (the "Funds") is a group of five multi employer plans that provide health and pension benefits to retired coal miners and their eligible dependents. The Funds has been in existence since 1946. The Funds is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has Field Service Offices located in the coalfield areas of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. The Funds has approximately 200 employees, most of whom are located in the Washington, D.C. office. The Funds is separate and distinct from the United Mine Workers of America (“UMWA”) and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc. (“BCOA”).

As an investment company active since 1957, Cobepa has progressively developed into a well recognized actor in private equity. Cobepa success has been built on cobepa ability to invest in companies with long term growth perspectives and to accompany these companies in a spirit of partnership with their shareholders and efficient cooperation with their management. The quality and experience of cobepa teams, cobepa ability to arrange complex transactions and our aptitude to contribute actively to the definition of strategy, are the key contribution to the strengthening of the companies in which cobepa are shareholders.

The Dreyfus Corporation was founded in 1951 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Norwalk, Connecticut; San Francisco, California; Rockville, Maryland; Berwyn, Pennsylvania and London, United Kingdom. The Dreyfus Corporation is privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. The firm also caters to Pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities and insurance reserves, nuclear decommisioning trusts. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Management.

Weeden & Co. works to weed out information so it can provide clients with institutional equities trading, fixed income sales and trading, and research services. Weeden & Co. LP specializes in difficult-to-execute transactions, serving some 1,500 institutional clients. Weeden's research division, which includes The Leuthold Group, produces a variety of analytical reports on equity and fixed-income markets. Research affiliates cover such sectors as technology, health care, biotechnology, and REITs. Brothers Frank and Norman Weeden founded the company in 1922, and the company has been employee-owned (more than 80%) since 1986. Weeden & Co. LP has offices in Boston; Chicago; Greenwich, Connecticut; Minneapolis; and San Francisco.

Kardan N.V. (Netherlands) is a Netherlands-based investment group listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The Company acts as an investment company which is engaged in the development of real estate, insurance and pension, banking and lending, infrastructure projects, infrastructure assets, rental of vehicles and sale of vehicles and others through its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associated companies. The Company is mainly active in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS) and China. It has four directly held subsidiaries located in the Netherlands and Israel and numerous indirectly held subsidiaries located in Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Albania, China and Germany among others. In addition, Kardan is active in the automotive, consumer goods and communications and technology sectors through its subsidiary Kardan Israel.

Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. performs brokerage, wealth management, and equities research services through various subsidiaries. Subsidiary Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves handles institutional research (specializing in the communications, manufacturing, software, and semiconductor industries), as well as wealth management and brokerage services for high-net-worth individuals. Detwiler Fenton & Co. DMC Financial Services division, including its James Mitchell & Co. subsidiary, provides insurance, annuities, retirement products, and mutual funds. Messrs. Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton, and Graves own a majority of the company.

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