Founded in 1987, Canaan closed its eighth fund in 2008. Notable past investments include Acme Packet, Amicus Therapeutics, DoubleClick, and Match.com. Canaan Management (alslo known as Canaan Partners) is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage technology and health care companies, with a focus on digital media, mobile communications, enterprise software, clean technology, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics. Canaan company typically invests $1 million to $20 million per transaction and has approximately $3 billion in capital under management.

Northern Financial Corporation (Northern) is a Canada-based company. The Company wholly owns Northern Securities Inc. (Northern Securities), a member firm of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). It carries on a traditional full service investment dealer business through Northern Securities providing financial advisory services to retail and institutional clients and investment banking services to small capitalization companies. This business generates revenue from commissions and advisory fees earned on investment banking activities, and commissions from institutional sales and trading and retail investment advisors, and from principal trading. Northern also carries on a merchant banking business that supplements the investment dealer business.

Securities broker Siam City Securities (SCS) opens its doors to both the domestic and foreign investor. A subsidiary of Thailand's Siam City Bank, SCS provides securities brokerage and trading for the Stock Exchange of Thailand as well as underwriting and investment advisory services. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. brokerage activities include cash and credit balance accounts and Internet trading operations. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. steers its trading efforts toward investments in government and state enterprise securities, private company debt, and other equities. Meanwhile, SCS offers investment advice about securities value and trading, while it underwrites common shares, debentures, and warrants (among others) for its clients.

easyGroup was founded in 1998 by self-avowed "serial entrepreneur" Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who owns the company. Haji-Ioannou (who is known simply as Stelios) in 2005 sold his stake in Stelmar Shipping (the original company he founded), but through easyGroup has continued to branch out into new "easy" areas, including men's grooming line easy4men. easyGroup is an umbrella company that explores ways to capitalize on the Web through a variety of low-cost business services. easyGroup brands include easyCar, easyCinema, easyHotel, easyInternetcafe, easyPizza, and easyValue. Airline easyJet is now publicly traded, but easyGroup holds a stake in the company

Old Mutual (US) Holdings is the holding company for a group of about 20 asset management boutiques collectively known as Old Mutual Asset Management (US), or OMAM (US). The firm's multi-manager structure allows it to offer more than 100 different investment strategies across a range of asset classes, from domestic and international equities to fixed-income and alternative investments. Its offerings include retirement plans, mutual funds, trust services, and separately managed accounts. OMAM (US) and its affiliates have some $260 billion of assets under management for institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Beijing, China. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in green technology innovation, information technology, pandemic and bio-defense, and life sciences. In information technology sector, it prefers to invest in consumer, enterprise, semiconductor, security, wireless, and communication sectors. Within pandemic and bio-defense, the firm invests in surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and technologies enabling large-scale manufacturing. In life science sector, it invests in medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare information technology and services.

Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California. Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides advisory and brokerage services. It provides its services to individuals including high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and other pooled investment vehicles. The firm manages separate client focuses portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and real estate markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make investments.

InnoCal could almost be short for "in or around California," which is where the venture capital firm focuses on investing in early- and expansion-stage information technology companies. The company tends to focus on businesses involved with enterprise software and hardware, semiconductors, wireless and Internet technologies, and broadband communications. The firm's criteria for investing, besides geography, includes strong management teams, exclusive proprietary technologies, and market-dominating potential. InnoCal generally invests between $1 million and $5 million per company, and it limits the number of investments it makes in order to focus its attention on developing strategies for portfolio companies.

Ampersand Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Diego, California and Boston, Massachusetts. Ampersand Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in healthcare and industrial sector. Within Industrial sector, it focuses on product and process design software, instrumentation for the chemical processing and environmental industries. Within healthcare sector, the firm focuses on, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors. It typically invests between $10 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor in its portfolio companies.

SPARK Ventures is one of the leading early-stage venture capital investors in Europe, providing equity investment to high growth technology, media and healthcare companies in the UK and Europe. SPARK Ventures manages approximately £190 million across several investment vehicles including: two Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); an AIM listed investment company (SPARK Ventures plc), University Funds on behalf of leading UK universities including Oxford; and a Limited Partnership on behalf of major institutional investors. SPARK Ventures has been investing in early-stage businesses for 12 years and has a wealth of expertise in backing and developing companies from start-up through to eventual trade sale or IPO.SPARK’s core expertise lies in identifying promising early-stage businesses and leading their funding right from the earliest stages. SPARK Ventures’ team is one of the most experienced in the early-stage investment space. It brings its portfolio businesses the necessary capital, combined with strategic and operational management support as well as commercial and marketing expertise to help them succeed. Its founding management team has worked together for more than 10 years, and during that time has helped many entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions.

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