Invesco Ltd. (Invesco) is an independent global investment management company. Invesco provides a range of investment products for retail, institutional and high-net-worth clients worldwide. The Company has presence in the institutional and retail segments of the investment management industry in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with clients in more than 100 countries. Invesco offers multiple investment objectives within the range of asset classes and products that it manages. Its asset classes include money market, fixed income, balanced, equity and alternatives. Invesco is a provider of retail investment solutions to clients through its distribution channels, Invesco Aim in the United States., Invesco Trimark in Canada, Invesco Perpetual in the United Kingdom, Invesco in Europe and Asia, and Invesco PowerShares (for it exchange-traded fund (ETF) products). In May 2010, Invesco acquired Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business.

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

Avesco Group was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Crawley, the United Kingdom. Avesco Group plc, through its subsidiaries, provides various services to the corporate presentation, entertainment, and broadcast markets. It offers audio visual equipment and services to the live events, broadcast, and entertainment industries. The company also provides technical support for conferences, sports, music, corporate events, and television programmes. In addition, it offers broadcast services supplying broadcast equipment, systems, services, and television studio facilities. Avesco Group enables its clients to improve brand profile, launch products, stage live events, and entertain audiences. It has operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. was founded in 1996. Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm also participates in recapitalization, liquidity, leveraged buyouts, and minority growth equity investments in middle market companies. It makes early stage investments in companies engaged in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Investments in the middle market comprise of companies engaged in technology, healthcare, digital media, ecommerce, consumer products and services, and business service sectors. The firm prefers to invest in portfolio companies based in the United States and can selectively invest in Asia and Europe. It typically invests between $10 million and $60 million in portfolio companies with a maximum EBITDA of $25 million. The firm generally acts as a lead or co-lead investor.

Liu Chong Hing Investment Limited ("LCHI"), founded in 1970, was established to engage in the investment and development of residential and commercial buildings both in Hong Kong and China, including Guangzhou, Shanghai, etc. It became a listed company in 1972 and subsequently expanded its investment and development to other business fields, such as investment holding, property management and agency, money lending, hotel management, manaufacturing of magnetic materials, share investment, etc., with more than 30 subsidiaries.

Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company that provides equity research, capital markets services, corporate and venture services, and investment banking through its operating subsidiary, Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. (MCF). MCF is an investment bank and securities broker-dealer focused on fast-growing companies and institutional investors. It provides equity research, brokerage and trading services to institutions, as well as investment banking and advisory services to corporate clients. Its investment bank / broker-dealer segment provides three service offerings: investment banking, brokerage and equity research. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company sold the operating assets of Panel Intelligence, LLC, and discontinued operations of MCF Asset Management, its subsidiary which managed investment products. In January 2009, it sold the primary assets related to the ICD operations.

Bidtimes' ultimate goal is to invest in and provide advice to growing companies in the UK. Diminishing earnings and continual financial losses led the company to sell the entirety of its remaining freehold property investments in 2006 and 2007. The performance of its previous investments -- in publicly traded real estate investor Innobox, electronics manufacturer SRS Technology Group, and Blue Chip Casinos -- ultimately led to this strategic decision. Bidtimes is actively searching for businesses and scouting for a reverse takeover opportunity that will relaunch the company.

CompuCredit Holdings Corp. provides credit and related financial services and products to underserved consumer credit market, a market represented by credit risks that regulators classify as sub-prime, in the United States. CompuCredit Holdings Corporation operates in five segments: Credit Cards, Investments in Previously Charged-Off Receivables, Retail Micro-Loans, Auto Finance, and Internet Micro-Loans. The Credit Cards segment consists of credit card investment and servicing activities conducted with respect to receivables underlying accounts originated and portfolios purchased by the company. CompuCredit Holdings Corporation was formerly known as CompuCredit Corp. and changed its name to CompuCredit Holdings Corp. in June 2009. CompuCredit Holdings was founded in 1996 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA was founded in 1980 and is based in Nantes, France. Company Overview Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA is a private equity arm of CIC Credit Industriel & Commercial, specializing in growth capital, management and owner buyout and buy-in transactions, and recapitalization. The firm usually invests in all the sectors. It typically invests in the following western region of France: Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin, and Normandie. The firm invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €15 million ($22.27 million) per transaction in companies and seeks minority control in the businesses it acquires.

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