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Section Partners Management LLC(Section Partners) is venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Dave V. Crowder and TJ Sudweeks. The firm is headquartered Palo Alto, California and additional office in New York.

Reactrix Systems, Inc. provides entertainment services which include projecting advertisements in malls, theaters and other public spaces. The firm also provides turnkey services to retailers, trade shows, event & entertainment venues, public spaces, office buildings and transportation centers. The company was founded in 2002 by Jon Friedberg and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Founded in 1998, Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) is a broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Boston, Denver, Colorado and Palo Alto, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWPG), a San Francisco-based investment banking firm. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). TWP's investment banking, brokerage and equity research divisions serve emerging growth companies and institutional investors around the world. They are a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. TWP specializes in the growth sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the consumer, energy, healthcare, Internet, media/telecommunications, metals/mining and technology sectors. Within the consumer sector, the firm focuses on: financial products, gaming/lodging, interactive market services, lifestyles/sports retailers, restaurants and hardlines and softlines retailing. TWP's global energy research is provided by analysts in three countries and covers the following trends: (1) fast-growing oil and natural gas producers in North America and worldwide (2) domestic and international energy service companies and (3) alternative energy technology and resource developers. Within the healthcare sector, TWP focuses on: biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare information technology, pharmaceutical services, life science technology, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals. The firm's interest in the Internet, media and telecommunications sector include: Internet services, media, broadcasting and telecommunications services. Their focus within the metals and mining sector include: base metals, gold, precious metals and uranium. TWP's technology research focuses on: (1) applied technologies (2) communications components (3) core and wireless communications equipment (4) IP networking communications equipment (5) electronic supply chain (6) enterprise hardware (7) information and financial technology services (8) semiconductor capital equipment (9) broadline and specialty semiconductors (10) applications and communications software and (11) infrastructure software. TWP also provides value-added equities analysis across a variety of sectors including: industrials, financials, consumer, technology and healthcare.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

After years of extensive research in the field of botnet behavior, a small group of individuals from Georgia Insititute of Technology's College of Computing founded Pramana in 2007. They rapidly launched the company to meet the growing market need to combat hackers and today Pramana's HumanPresent solution is deployed in several large Internet Service Provider and Fortune 1000 environments. Since its inception, Pramana has gained acclaim and accolades from customers, media and research analysts by offering a more innovative, elegant, user-friendly alternative to the standard CAPTCHA solution. Companies rely on Pramana because its HumanPresent solutions.

Aligo, Inc. provided software services. It also provided order processing, dispatch, inventory, reports, service agreement management, CRM, scheduling, inventory and billing products. The company was founded in 2000 and was located in San Francisco, CA.

MP2020, Inc. provides online marketing solutions. The firm’s integrated marketplace allows buyers and suppliers of custom-manufactured parts to connect globally through one easy-to-use platform. By using the MFG.com platform, users continually connect with each other throughout the manufacturing process, from prototype to production. The company was founded by David Mitchell Free in 2000 and is headquartered in Marietta, GA.

Application Security, Inc. develops security software for relational databases and big data stores. It helps businesses and government agencies uncover critical configuration mistakes, access control issues, missing patches, or any toxic combination of settings that could lead to denial-of-service attacks, unauthorized data modification and data breaches. The company was founded by Eric T. S. Gonzales and Aaron C. Newman in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.