BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed or start-up and early stage investments. The firm primarily focuses on investments in the technology industry including companies engaged in information technology, consumer electronics, wireless software, internet, digital and new media, gaming, enterprise software, semiconductors and components, consumer internet service, entertainment and knowledge process outsourcing, mobile, wireless, and consumer technology industries. It prefers to make initial investments ranging between $1million and $6 million with additional capital reserved for follow on rounds. It seeks to invest globally.

Sun Hung Kai is one of Hong Kong's largest and oldest non-banking financial houses. Operating as Sun Hung Kai Financial, the company provides wealth management and brokerage (including securities, bullion, futures, and options), asset management, investment banking, consumer lending, and principal investments. Subsidiary SHK Fund Management offers alternative investments including two Asian and six international hedge funds. Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited has more than 50 offices in Hong Kong, Macau, and China. AP Emerald, a subsidiary of Hong Kong real estate firm Allied Properties (H.K.), owns about two-thirds of the company.

MF Global gives its clients access to the world's marketplaces Monday through Friday (and weekends, too). MF Global Holdings Ltd. provides trade execution, clearing, and settlement services for cash, equity derivatives, commodities, and fixed-income products on more than 70 exchanges, as well as over the counter. MF Global Holdings Ltd. also makes markets for fixed-income instruments and conducts equity research. MF Global's clients include institutional and individual investors, corporations, professional traders, hedge funds, and asset managers. MF Global Holdings Ltd. handles an average of nearly five million contracts per day. MF Global has about a dozen offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

United Western Bancorp, Inc. (United Western Bancorp) is a unitary thrift holding company. The Company’s operations are conducted primarily through United Western Bank (United Western Bank or the Bank), UW Trust Company (UW Trust), Matrix Financial Services Corporation (Matrix Financial), UWBK Fund Management, Inc., (Fund Management) and UW Investment Services Inc. (UWIS), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. As of December 31, 2009, it had eight full service banking locations in the Colorado Front Range marketplace (downtown Denver, Cherry Creek, Hampden, Centennial, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins and Longmont), and a loan production office servicing the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley market areas.

Founded in 1999, Acorn Angels is an affiliate of business incubator Acorn Campus. Acorn Angels helps promising high-tech entrepreneurs spread their wings and fly. A group of Silicon Valley investors that includes CEOs and venture capitalists, Acorn Angels provides capital and business development support to early-stage companies. The group looks for start-ups with strong leadership and viable intellectual property; it also seeks companies formed around new ideas, or what it refers to as disruptive technologies. Target industries include communications, Internet infrastructure, fiber optics, and wireless communications. Investments have included Alliance Fiber Optic Products and CipherMax.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

Crowell Weedon & Co. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Carlsbad, West Covina, Encino, Newport Beach, Pasadena, San Diego, La Jolla, and Long Beach, California. Crowell, Weedon & Co. (CWC) provides financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The firm’s services include financial planning, fee-based investment programs, customized retirement strategies, investment advisory, corporate finance, preferred and common stocks, and tax-deferred annuities and insurance.

Parallax Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Laguna Hills, California. Parallax Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout, management buy-outs, private companies, public-to-private, recapitalization, corporate divestiture, spin-off, build-up, and turnaround transactions in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the software and related services; semiconductor; telecommunication equipment and services; computer hardware and components; healthcare and pharmacy services; information technology services; media content and delivery; aerospace and defense; catalog industry; consumer products; distribution and logistics; transportation; specialty manufacturing; business services; travel and leisure; and food processing and distribution sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $500 million. It takes an active management role in its portfolio companies.

Kennet Partners Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Foster City, California. Kennet Partners Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, spinouts, management buy-ins, and acquisition financing. It prefers to invest in the technology, services, and digital media sectors. Within technology, the firm invests in enterprise software, information technology services and solutions, communication technologies, and semiconductor products. It typically invests in companies based in Europe and North America. The firm invests between $10 million and $20 million for growth investments and $20 million and $100 million for buyouts in companies with revenues of between $4 million and $50 million. It seeks to be a lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm also co-invests with other investment partners.

Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company was founded in 1961 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company provides pension insurance solutions. It offers pension advisory services, pension insurance services, services for promoting well-being at work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, customer financing, management of company pension funds, and services related to insuring employment abroad. The company’s earnings-related pension programs secure employees and self-employed persons an income when working is no longer possible due to ageing, disability, or unemployment; and an income for the surviving spouse and children after the death of the family provider. Ilmarinen also provides employee pension and own self-employed person's pension insurance services; and financing services that include client loans consisting of premium loans, investment loans, and subordinated loans to companies. The company offers its pension benefits to approximately 274,000 persons. In addition, Ilmarinen engages in the investment, construction, management, and leasing of commercial and residential properties.

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