Founded in 1965, Greylock has helped build more than 300 companies, nearly half of which have gone on to initial public offerings. Its current portfolio consists of interests in more than 60 companies, including interests in Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pandora, Red Bend Software, Zend, and Zipcar. Greylock Management believes it holds the key to venture capital investing. Also doing business as Greylock Partners, the firm provides funding development-stage companies involved in such sectors as information technology, software, semiconductors, the Internet, clean technology, and consumer services, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay area and Boston, as well as emerging markets China, India, and Israel.

Bayview Capital Group specializes in mergers and acquisitions-related services for middle-market companies in the service and manufacturing sectors. The company has completed about 100 such transactions since it was founded in 1995; clients typically have annual sales between $10 million and $150 million. Bayview Capital believes that serving only smaller firms and focusing on relatively few transactions at a time give it a competitive advantage over bulge-bracket investment banks.

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 Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

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.

Impax Group plc company provides investment banking and asset management services to the environmental infrastructure and technology sectors. Its target clientele includes businesses in alternative energy, waste management, and waste treatment. Impax Asset Management has more than $1.5 billion under management in such funds as Impax Environmental Markets; it is the UK's largest green investment fund. Impax Capital Corporation provides venture capital services for Impax Asset Management.

Lighthouse Group plc provides financial advice to personal and corporate clients through 820 specialist advisers located throughout the United Kingdom. It is a provider of financial advice to employees of large organizations and members of affinity groups. The Company is engaged in provision of regulatory authorization and related assistance to independent financial advisers operating from locations across the United Kingdom. It’s services are delivered to the ultimate retail client through its advisers operating in two operating segments: National, under the LighthouseTemple, LighthouseCarrwood, LighthouseGEB (Group Employee Benefits) and LighthouseGP brands, and Network, under the LighthouseXpress, LighthouseWealth, LighthouseFSAS and Falcon Group brands.

Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. offers investment banking, brokerage, and investment advisory services, promoting its personalized approach as an alternative to the financial mega-firms. Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. investment banking practice focuses on capital raising, underwriting, and advisory services for growth companies valued at less than $1 billion, as well as for public sector clients. Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. private client group serves wealthy individuals and families with more than $1 million to invest; Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. has more than $1 billion under management overall. Nollenberger Capital Partners is trying to make its mark in the crowded money management arena.

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. was established in 1978 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in George Town, Cayman Islands and London, United Kingdom. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, acquisitions, and growth capital financings of mature and underperforming companies. The firm does not invest in middle market. It invests in the manufacturing, services, and information technology sectors. The firm invests in companies based in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. It also identifies and evaluates potential opportunities in France and the Benelux countries. The firm focuses on non-core divisions of large corporations.

CapEx is an investment fund that specializes in mezzanine debt and equity investments in later-stage private or small-cap public companies with revenues of at least $10 million. An active investor, CapEx typically injects between $2 million and $5 million into companies in such industries as business services, consumer products, and manufacturing; it avoids the financial services, high tech, energy, and real estate sectors. Investments have included BriteSmile and SSP America (formerly Creative Host Services).

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