Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR) was founded in 1976 and is based at New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a private equity and mezzanine investment firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and mezzanine investments in large cap companies. The firm will consider investments in all industries, with a focus on infrastructure. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm’s average investment horizon is five years and more. It exits its investments through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. The firm holds a controlling interest in its portfolio companies after they go public.

North Bridge Venture Partners (NBVP) focuses on early-stage companies involved in software, semiconductors, manufacturing, communications, and technology services. North Bridge Venture Partners, with locations on both coasts, commits as little as $100,000 to startups and often makes multi-million dollar investments in more established enterprises. Besides an infusion of cash, it also offers strategic and financial guidance and industry-specific knowledge. NBVP has invested in about 100 companies, providing financing to firms such as Phase Forward, Sonus Networks, and Voxware. Its current portfolio includes Crossbeam Systems, and Antenna Software. An affiliate, North Bridge Growth Equity, supplies funding for technology companies.

Founded in 1985, Domain Associates, L.L.C. is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences. With $2.5 billion of capital under management, Domain is headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a second office in San Diego, CA. Domain’s three major investment segments are pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, while additional areas of interest include biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and diagnostics. The Partners of Domain have a total of close to 200 person-years of experience among them in the healthcare/venture capital industries and have been involved in the formation and growth of more than 220 life-sciences companies. The highly focused network, experience, and reputation of this team have made it one of the top private-equity groups participating in the healthcare field.

Iris Capital was founded in 1986 and is based in Paris, France. Iris Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in startup, early stage, late stage, growth capital, acquisition, and developmental capital investments. It also invests in middle market and mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in special situations such as public-to-private or secondary transactions. It focuses on media and entertainment, communications, electronics, and information technology sectors. Within media and entertainment, the firm invests in TV production and broadcasting, music, video games, cinema, publishing, advertising, and technical services and solutions. In communications, it seeks to invest in value-added service providers, telecoms, fixed and wireless operators, equipment, and software. Within IT, the firm invests in enterprise software, infrastructure and storage, security, IT services and ASPs, new technologies, and Internet Services sectors. It primarily invests in companies based in Europe with a focus on Continental Europe (France, Germany, Benelux, and Switzerland) and North America. It typically invests between €1 million ($1.47 million) and €4 million ($6.36 million) per round and can invest up to €20 million ($31.7 million) over the life of the company.

ECI Partners LLP was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom. ECI Partners LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion and development capital, finance for acquisitions, management buyouts and buy-ins, institutional buyout, turnarounds, middle market, and refinancing deals. It does not invest in early-stage companies. The firm seeks to make investments in all sectors except property with a focus on consumer and leisure, support services, manufacturing, software, IT and communications services, healthcare, outsourcing, and business improvement. Within the support services sector it prefers to invest in document management education, environmental services, financial services, inspection services, media, recruitment, services benefiting from the aging population, specialist logistics, and white collar outsourcing. Within healthcare it focuses investments in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical technology including devices and diagnostics, and healthcare IT. It primarily invests in unquoted and smaller quoted companies based in the United Kingdom or has substantial United Kingdom business. It also seeks to make investments in companies based in South Wales.

Founded in 1976, Bay Partners company has invested in over 200 companies, including Brocade Communications, Placeware, Nuera Communications, and Versata. Currently investing from its 11th venture fund, Bay Partners has more than $1 billion under management. Bay Partners is a venture capital firm that targets early-stage high-tech companies involved in consumer services, energy services, enterprise software, health care, information technology, and software as as service. On top of providing seed money, the company provides strategic consulting and financial planning to its clients. It often acts as a co-investor with other venture capital firms.

Wedbush Morgan Securities offers investment banking and a range of financial services, including financial planning, sales and trading, and research. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. targets mid-market growth companies and entrepreneurs primarily in California and the western US. Wedbush offers research in sectors including consumer products and retail, financial services, life sciences, and technology. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. ClientLink service provides access to account information and reports via the Internet. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. also provides clearing services. Wedbush Morgan Securities is affiliated with investment firm Wedbush Capital Partners; both entities are controlled by Wedbush, Inc.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE) is an operator of regulated futures exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) markets and derivatives clearing houses. ICE operates electronic futures and OTC marketplaces for trading an array of energy and agricultural commodities, credit default swaps (CDS), currencies and equity index products. It offers an integrated electronic trading platform for side-by-side trading of products in both futures and OTC markets, together with clearing, post-trade and market data services. Through its electronic marketplace, ICE brings together buyers and sellers of derivative and physical commodities and financial contracts, and offers a range of services to support its participants’ risk management needs. The Company has three segments: futures segment, global OTC segment and market data segment. In July 2010, IntercontinentalExchange Inc. acquired Climate Exchange plc.

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