Ares Management LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. Ares Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in managing assets in both the private equity and leveraged finance markets. It seeks to invest in assets across capital structures, from senior floating rate debt to common equity. The firm makes investments through its three subsidiaries: ARES Capital Management LLC, Ares Capital Markets Group, and Ares Private Equity Group. ARES Capital Management LLC specializes in providing finance to private middle market companies. Ares Capital Markets Group manages senior secured bank loans, high yield bonds, mezzanine, and other special situation investments. Ares Private Equity Group makes investments through Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund, L.P. and provides flexible, junior capital to middle market companies.

Unique Investment Corp. believes that each venture capital investment opportunity is unique and special. Unique Investment company targets both growing ventures and small and middle-market companies in the manufacturing and business services industries for investment. Unique Investment firm has taken stakes in Acorn-Gencon Plastics, CPI International, Gold Canyon Candles, and Qqest Software Systems.

Founded in 1989, Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, media, water supply and water disposal, as well as other industrial-trade and special-situation investments. The Group typically focuses on value-oriented, longer-term opportunities, primarily in Russia and the CIS, but also invests in other markets which form part of the Group’s strategic business objectives.Alfa-Banking Group, includes Alfa-Bank Russia, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, banks in the Netherlands, in Belarus and in Kazakhstan as well as representative offices in Cyprus, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Russia one of Russias largest private banks, is the Group's flagship company. The Bank provides a full range of corporate, retail and investment banking services, asset management and trade finance, and has a considerable branch network in Russia and has subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Cyprus, the USA and the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Ukraine, one of the ten largest and is one of the most dynamic privately-owned banks in Ukraine, operates in all key sectors of the banking sphere. Alfa Capital Management is the Group's asset management arm whose clients include Russian as well as international institutional and private clients. Alfa Capital Partners is the Group's private equity and real estate investment advisory arm. Alfa Group is also the owner of AlfaStrakhovanie Group one of the largest Russian insurers with a diversified portfolio of services comprising both comprehensive business insurance coverage and an extensive range of retail insurance products.

Amadeus Capital Partner Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Amadeus Capital Partners company targets enterprises in Europe, Ireland, Israel, and the UK in the computer hardware, software, Internet, e-commerce, and life sciences industries. Current investments include driver safety software developer Greenroad, mobile display screen producer Liquavista, biotechnologist Vermillion, wireless security management designer Red-M, and processor developer XMOS.

B2B Trust is a federally chartered trust company that serves a network of some 15,000 financial professionals across key business verticals including: financial advisors and their dealerships; deposit and mortgage brokers and their firms; mutual fund and insurance manufacturers; MFDA and IIROC members. B2B Trust provides third-party investment loans, wholesale broker deposits, high-interest investment accounts, and similar products to independent financial advisors (IFAs), dealerships, brokers and brokerages, and insurance companies for distribution throughout Canada.

Madrona Venture Group was founded in 1995 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in the technology sector including enterprise software and services, consumer software and services, consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, wireless, networking, and infrastructure sectors. It typically invests in the Pacific Northwest region. The firm prefers to be a lead investor. It seeks to take board membership in its portfolio companies.

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.

Sigma Capital Group plc (Sigma), together with its subsidiaries is a specialist asset management and advisory company focused on venture capital, property and the commercialization of university intellectual property (IP). The Company’s property activities are carried out through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strategic Investment Management Holdings Ltd (SIMH) and its subsidiary companies, which establish and operate limited partnerships investing in commercial property in the United Kingdom. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manages, and is an investor in four venture funds and two university funds, the Sigma Technology Venture Fund (the Venture Fund), the Sigma Innovation Fund (East of Scotland) (the Innovation Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund (the Sustainable Energies Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II (the Sustainable Energy Fund II), the RGU Ventures Investment Fund (the RGU Fund), and the University of Dundee Venture Fund (the Dundee Fund).

The Sacramento Valley Board of Trade (SVBT) provides risk management and related collections information and services for member businesses in the food, beverage, and media industries. Founded in 1980 by sister firm Northern California Collections Service, SVBT helps clients prevent debt losses by compiling and distributing monthly reports containing total due, past due, and returned check information on accounts within the industries. Members can also submit and review credit alerts via the board's Web site.

FirstLink Investments Corporation Limited began in 1973 as Singatronics Pte Ltd, a manufacturer of consumer electronic products, such as pocket calculators, toys and games. On 5 October 1978, Singatronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd was incorporated as a private limited company to take over the entire undertakings of Singatronics Pte Ltd. The Company was converted to a public company, known as Singatronics Limited on 7 September 1987 and listed on the Secondary Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange, SESDAQ on 19 October 1987. It was subsequently upgraded to the Main Board on 5 November 1990. The principal activity of the Company is investment holding. The principal activities of the corporations in the Group consist of the mining of the salt, manufacturing and distribution of edible salts & food seasonings and industrial salts.

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