Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

PAI partners is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity firms in Europe with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, the pan-European merchant bank which merged with BNP in 1999. PAI partners SAS is an independent company, owned by its partners, which manages and advises dedicated private equity funds. The buyout funds include PAI LBO Fund, PAI Europe III, PAI Europe IV and PAI Europe V. PAI partners has offices in Paris, Copenhagen, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich. The Europe-wide team is composed of 50 professionals with diverse backgrounds and sectorial expertise.

PSG Solutions Plc company owns stakes in real estate, manufacturing, and technology companies. Its primary holding is PSG Franchising, which (through some 80 franchised offices) provides private searches and reports for residential properties throughout England and Wales. It also owns Audiotel International, which makes surveillance equipment, and specialist packaging company Moore & Buckle. PSG Franchising cut workers and closed offices when the UK's Home Information Packs (HIPs) system was abolished in 2010; it was among the nation's leading providers of HIPs. Investment company Southwind controls the company and has offered to buy it outright.

Piper Jaffray Companies is an international investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of corporations, private equity groups, public entities, non-profit clients and institutional investors. It provides a set of products and services, including equity and debt capital markets products, public finance services, financial advisory services, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, equity and fixed income research, and asset management services. The Company markets the investment banking and institutional securities business under Piper Jaffray name. It markets the primary asset management business under the name of FAMCO, which is derived from Fiduciary Asset Management, LLC. Piper Jaffray Company operates in four business segments: investment banking, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, asset management, and other income. In March 2010, the Company acquired Advisory Research, Inc., an asset management firm focused in equity strategies.

Octopus' tentacles extend as far as its asset management customers wish. Octopus Asset Management offers venture capital trusts and enterprise investment products (Eureka Fund) for customers in the UK. Other offerings include enterprise investment schemes, which offer customer tax savings. Trusts under management include the Bioscience, Eclipse, and Phoenix Venture Capital Trusts.

Vining-Sparks IBG wants to help institutional investors kindle an investment blaze. Operating as Vining Sparks, the firm provides broker/dealer services to institutional investors including financial companies, money managers, funds, insurance firms, and municipalities. Through its alliance with Howe Barnes, Vining-Sparks IBG offers investment banking services including debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Headquartered in Memphis, far from the capital of capital centers, Vining Sparks has more than a dozen offices in the US and another in London. Chairman James Vining founded Vining-Sparks IBG to serve community banks in 1981.

Kreller Business Information Group (also operating as Kreller Business Group) provides due diligence investigation, credit investigation, and collection services on businesses around the globe. Kreller Business Information Group, Inc. also offers consulting services, focusing on helping clients reduce costs related to their use of credit information services. Kreller has provided services in some 180 countries, and its clients have included some the largest entities in the energy, technology, health care, manufacturing, and finance sectors. Former Dun & Bradstreet analysts Joseph Davidoski, Gary Mertz, Al Carl, and William Lewis founded the company in 1988.

Standard & Poor's is the gold standard of credit reporting, albeit slightly tarnished by the credit crisis of 2008. Standard & Poor's (commonly known as S&P) is a business segment of publishing house McGraw-Hill. With operations in some 20 countries, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC provides the investment community with independent credit ratings on such financial vehicles as stocks, mutual funds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. In addition to its credit ratings, risk management, investment research, data, and valuations, Standard & Poor's is known for its indexes, including the S&P 500 index. Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC roots reach back to 1860; S&P was acquired by McGraw-Hill just over a century later.

National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, a private cooperative association, provides its members with a source of financing to supplement the loan programs of the Rural Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The company offers loans to its rural utility system members to enable them to acquire, construct, and operate electric distribution, generation, transmission, and related facilities. It also provides credit enhancements in the form of letters of credit and guarantees of debt obligations. The company manages the lending activities and business affairs of Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative, which provides financing to the rural telecommunications members; and the National Cooperative Services Corporation that provides financing to the for-profit and non-profit entities. As of May 31, 2009, the company's consolidated membership was 1,522, including 897 utility members, 498 telecommunications members, 66 service members, and 61 associates located in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and the 2 United States territories.

The Ayco Company was founded in 1971 and is based in Saratoga Springs, New York with additional offices in Albany, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Parsippany, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Troy, Michigan. The Ayco Company, L.P. is an asset management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It primarily provides its services to corporate executives and employees, high-net-worth individuals and families, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client – focused equity portfolios. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

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