Sequoia Capital nurtures the seeds that grow into the giants of the tech industry. The venture capital firm, which backed little acorns such as Apple, Oracle, Yahoo!, and Cisco Systems, fertilizes some of Silicon Valley's most promising seedlings. Other notable investments have included Web search engine Google, content management software maker Agile, and Internet darling YouTube. Investing up to $50 million per transaction, Sequoia Capital has funded more than 300 companies in the US, China, India, and Israel. Globally it manages nearly $10 billion in funds.

First Cash Financial Services, Inc. primarily operates pawn stores that lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property in the United States and Mexico. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also engages in the retail of previously owned merchandise acquired through pawn forfeitures and purchased from the general public. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. pawn stores provide collateral consumer loans on pledged personal properties, such as jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments; consumer financial services, including credit services, check cashing, money orders, money transfers, and prepaid card products. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also owns and operates kiosks inside convenience stores that offer credit services and check cashing. As of December 31, 2009, First Cash Financial Services owned and operated 383 pawn stores and 163 short-term loan stores, as well as 39 financial services kiosks. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Arlington, Texas.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

YFM Group was founded in 1982. YFM Group Limited provides equity and loan finance, and business consultancy support for businesses. The company funds expansion capital for high growth businesses, buyouts and buyins, pre-IPO funding, and partial sales. It also operates Business Gurus, a directorship and interim management database, which is used by its investment managers to source and place non-executive directors. The company serves various small and medium sized enterprises, including manufacturing companies in the United Kingdom.

National Bank Financial provides brokerage services to consumer, corporate, government, and institutional clients in Canada. National Bank Financial Inc. offers sales and trading of fixed-income products, equities, and derivatives, and performs third-party clearing services for other financial institutions. National Bank Financial Inc. provides investment banking and corporate finance services as well. National Bank Financial Inc. retail advisory business serves individual investors through some 90 offices throughout Canada (with a concentration in Quebec), managing more than $50 billion on behalf of approximately 275,000 clients. National Bank Financial Inc. also has operations in the US and Europe. National Bank Financial is a subsidiary of National Bank of Canada.

Integral Capital Partners was founded in 1991 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Baltimore, Maryland. Integral Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies and buyout opportunities. The firm typically invests in all stages of a company’s development, beyond the start up phase. It also seeks to invest in venture and public stages of a company. The firm prefers to invest in companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors. Within the life sciences sector, it focuses on investments in emerging medical technologies, health care information systems, and companies targeting the cardiology and oncology markets. In the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in the Internet, software, software as a service, information security, computer services, and consumer technology markets. It also makes investments based on the themes communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility.

KPS Capital Partners, LP was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. KPS Capital Partners, LP is a private equity firm specializing in investments in, turnarounds, financial restructurings, businesses in bankruptcies, follow on acquisitions, employee buyouts, failed acquisitions, corporate divestitures, carve-outs, and spin-offs of middle market companies. In case of turnarounds, the firm seeks to invest in of underperforming or distressed businesses. It targets business facing closure, liquidation, and with a history of operating losses. In case of business in bankruptcies, it seeks to invest in, fund reorganizations of, and create new companies to purchase operating assets of, companies facing bankruptcy or asset sale under Section 363. The firm targets businesses burdened with, insufficient liquidity; excessive debt; operating in default of obligations to creditors; or lacking capital for investment, modernization, or growth, in order to eliminate, reduce or restructure the company's liabilities. The firm also seeks to invest in operating businesses, including divisions, subsidiaries or individual plants of larger companies capable of operating as stand-alone companies.

Tortoise Energy Capital Corporation is a closed-end investment company investing in equity securities of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) operating energy infrastructure assets. Its investment objective is to seek a level of total return with an emphasis on current distributions to stockholders. The Company seeks to provide its stockholders with a vehicle to invest in the energy infrastructure sector. It invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, invested in equity securities of entities in the energy sector and at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of MLPs and their affiliates in the energy infrastructure sector. It would not invest more than 15% of its total assets in any single issuer as of the time of purchase. The Company would invest up to 50% of its total assets in restricted securities. The investment advisor of the Company is Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C.

World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business. It offers short-term small loans, medium-term larger loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services, as well as loans standardized by amount and maturity. World Acceptance Corporation also offers income tax return preparation services and access to refund anticipation loans. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and reinsures credit insurance. Further, World Acceptance Corporation, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, provides data processing systems; and markets computer software and related services to financial services companies. World Acceptance Corporation serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 944 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

Marks and Spencer Financial Services (known as Marks and Spencer Money, or M&S Money for short) can help you with that and much more. The company provides a variety of financial products such as personal and auto loans, individual savings accounts (ISAs), fixed-rate savings, unit trusts, and credit cards to UK consumers. Its insurance offerings include life, home, travel, car, and even pet and wedding coverage. British banking giant HSBC bought M&S Money from department store operator Marks and Spencer in late 2004.

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