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Glenview Capital Management LLC (Glenview) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Lawrence Robbins in 2000 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINC Family Partnership LLC. Glenview manages capital for qualified investors through a series of private investment funds.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Part of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Holdings, Inc. provides financial advisory services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Zenas Energy Corp. explores, produce, and develops oil and gas properties. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Grand Prairie Foods, Inc. provides ready to heat and eat food products. It offers fully cooked scrambled eggs frozen, pre-cooked scrambled refrigerated eggs, fully cooked scrambled eggs frozen with ham and cheese, ham and cheese stir-in kit, grilled steak and cheese kit, yukon gold potato blend, redskin potato blend, french toast with cinnamon glaze, pancakes, english muffin with turkey sausage and cheddar cheese, bagel whole wheat with sausage, ciabatta bun with egg, biscuit with sausage and chicken patty, cheese, peppers and egg bowl, and frittata western style and omelet. The company was founded by Kurt Loudenback and Valerie Loudenback in 2003 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Lineagen, Inc. provides diagnostic evaluation services. It focuses on genetic disorders such as autism, multiple sclerosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. The firm provides FirstStep, which provides physicians with integrated genetic testing, counseling, and developmental screening services. The company was founded by Stephen M. Prescott, Andy Peiffer, Michael S. Paul, Mark F. Leppert, Al R. Harris and Alex S. Lindell in 2006 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Inc. discovers, develops and manufactures health care products. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Briggs & Morgan PA provides business law and litigation services. It provides services to organizations, institutions and individuals. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Comtech AeroAstro, Inc. manufactures micro satellite systems and other related technology products. The company develops and operates Sensor Enabled Notification System, which provides satellite based low data rate communications and asset tracking in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, and South America. The company was founded by Dr. Rick Fleeter in 1988 and is headquartered in Ashburn, VA.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Montefiore Medical Center engages in the provision of healthcare, clinical and surgical services. It offers treatments including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children’s health, women’s health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Piper Sandler & Co. operates as an investment company, which engages in the provision of securities brokerage and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

PrairieGold Venture Partners (PrairieGold Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Virtual Incision Corp. engages in the development of miniaturized surgical robots. It offers MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical robotic platform. The company was founded by Shane M. Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov in 2006 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Cellmax, Inc. provides research and clinical testing services. It develops non-invasive, accurate blood tests for early detection of cancer. The company was founded by Atul Sharan and Ying-Chih Chang in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Alveo Technologies, Inc. operates a pre-clinical stage medical diagnostics company that creates infectious disease diagnostic devices. The company was founded by Ron Chiarello, Michael A. Aicher, Lawrence M. Blatt and Sumita Pennathur in 2014 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Halle Capital Management LP (Halle Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2019 by JP Gutfreund. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Planet Smile Partners, Inc. is a company that provides professional partnership services for pediatric dentists and orthodontists. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. The company specializes in administration and practice transition, and can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of dental practices. Gary Heitzler has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Rockit Pest, Inc. is a company that specializes in acquiring and operating regional pest control businesses. The company is based in Inman, SC and has subsidiaries in the United States. Rockit offers advisory services in operating, business development, financial, and strategic areas to help its pest control partners scale their businesses. Founded by Halle Capital, the company provides capital solutions to pest control operators who are looking for an ownership transition or to partner with experienced executives to accelerate growth and build a pest control company. The company was founded in 2021, and Ryan Bradbury has been the CEO since then.