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.

Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Salisbury, and Southampton, United Kingdom. Smith & Williamson Limited is a member firm of Nexia International. Smith & Williamson Limited operates as a subsidiary of Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited. Smith & Williamson Limited offers accounting and consulting services. The firm provides accounting, tax consulting, reporting, financial modeling, risk management, and compliance and regulatory advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, valuation, business planning, and IT advisory services. The firm also provides pension and financial planning; employee benefits and human resource solutions; forensic; and restructuring and recovery services. It caters to financial, agriculture, real estate, media, technology, corporate, and non-profit sectors.

TSI Holding Company is a private holding company founded in 1953 by John M. Hauck. In 1988, John C. Hauck assumed responsibilities as President and CEO. TSI today has revenues exceeding $500 million, and 1,081 employees. TSI is focused on acquiring middle-market distribution and manufacturing companies with sales revenues between $30 and $150 million, and building TSI current portfolio through add-on acquisitions with a minimum of $15 million in revenues.

Fimalac has stepped away from its manufacturing businesses in favor of financial services after selling Facom, a manufacturer of hand tools and garage equipment, to what is now Stanley Black & Decker for more than $485 million in 2006. Fimalac now provides risk management and international credit ratings through its majority-held subsidiaries Algorithmics and Fitch Ratings. Fimalac focus on financial services has shifted its revenue base from Europe to North America. A shareholders' group led by Fimalac president Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere owns about 80% of the company and controls about 80% of its voting rights.

Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC was founded in May 1984 and is based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in New York, New York, and London, United Kingdom. It operates as a subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America LP. Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides advisory services to its clients. It caters to individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, union, foundations, endowments, and foreign entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, emerging, and alternative markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of ultra micro-cap, micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in U.S. convertibles to make its alternative investments. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios.

RS Investment Management Co. LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York. RS Investment Management Co. LLC, doing business as RS Investments, is a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, corporations, and banks. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to create its portfolio. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

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.

Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., through its principal subsidiary, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, provides investment banking services to public and private companies operating in the life science/healthcare, energy, metals/mining, financial services, and cleantech sectors in the United States and China. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. offers corporate finance in a range of financing alternatives, including private placements, private investments in public equity, registered direct offerings, and underwritten public offerings. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. also provides strategic advisory services on a range of transactions comprising mergers, acquisitions, and asset sales, as well as provides sales and trading, and equity research services. In addition, Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. designs investment conferences that bring together companies, institutional investors, business development executives, and experts. Further, the company makes principal investments in early-stage biotechnology and life sciences companies. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Stonehenge Partners, Inc. was founded in August 1999. Stonehenge Partners, Inc. is a private equity arm of Stonehenge Financial Holdings, Inc. specializing in private equity and mezzanine capital transactions. The firm typically invests in management and leveraged buyouts, leveraged acquisition, recapitalizations, and expansion and growth capital of middle market companies. It primarily invests in manufacturing, distribution, business services, and healthcare companies. The firm does not invest in real estate, oil and gas, high technology, and industries that are susceptible to a high degree of cyclicality. It seeks to invest in companies based in the United States with a focus on the Midwest region. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues exceeding $10 million and cash flow in excess of $2 million. It seeks to invest between $3 million to $15 million in its portfolio companies. The firm can invest in control and minority equity positions in the form of common stock or preferred stock as well as coupon only mezzanine with or without warrants. It also seeks to make co-investments in the form of mezzanine with common stock.

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