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Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

EMD Millipore Corp. engages in the provision of laboratory materials, technologies, and services to the life science industry. The company was founded by Jack Bush in 1954 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

SunAmerica Asset Management LLC (SAAMCo) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1982 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American General Life Insurance Co., ultimately owned by American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG). SAAMCo offers investment management and advisory services to open-end US registered investment companies and to an offshore, wholly-owned subsidiaries of a certain registered fund. They also offer model portfolios in connection with wrap programs known as unified managed account (UMA) wrap programs.

PNC Bank, NA (Investment Management) (PNC-IM) is the asset management division of PNC Bank, NA, a banking company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm is ultimately held by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC). PNC-IM manages assets for institutions and high-net worth individuals and provides tailored investments, wealth planning, trust and estate administration and private banking to high-net-worth families and individuals.

Relievant Medsystems, Inc. develops treatment and technologies for chronic back pain. Its Intracept System solution is a minimally invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency energy delivered into the vertebral body of the spine to ablate the basivertebral nerve. Relievant Medsystems was founded by James C. Peacock, Jeffrey Charles Lotz, and Rex Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

VertiFlex, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It offers minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), which is the cause of spinal surgery in the elderly. The firm specializes in minimally invasive, motion preservation, spine and medical device. The company was founded by Moti Altarac in 2005 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Nuvaira, Inc. develops medical devices for treating lung diseases. It works on a novel catheter-based system that has the potential to improve lung function, exercise capacity and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The company was founded by Steven Dimmer and Martin L. Mayse in 2008 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Lumithera, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It offers treatment for age-related macular degeneration. The company was founded by Clark E. Tedford, Graham Merry, James Carroll, Luis DeTaboada and Robert Dotson in 2013 and is headquartered in Poulsbo, WA.

Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media.

Bain Capital Private Equity LP (Bain Capital Private Equity) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Bain Capital LP founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Culligan International Co. provides water treatment products and services. The firm specializes in water softener & filter, commercial filtration, reverse osmosis, bottled water delivery and water technology. The company was founded by Emmett Joseph Culligan in 1936 and is headquartered in Rosemont, IL.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

BIOCOM provides scientific and technological services. The firm focuses that positively influence the growth of the life science industry, including capital formation, public policy, workforce development and scientific discovery and development. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

BOS Solutions, Inc. provides drilling fluid conservation, solids control, and waste mitigation services. It offers tank systems, invert management stands, invert strip tanks, mobile drying units, centrifuges, centrifuge stands, drying shakers, and support equipment. The firm provides training for operations personnel, supervisory, management, and support staff. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Oleoducto Central SA engages in the design, construction, operation, and exploitation of an oil transportation system. The firm specializes in the management and maintenance of land-based and maritime petroleum pipeline infrastructures. The company was founded on December 14, 1994 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.

RGL Reservoir Management, Inc. engages in the provision of oil and gas machinery and components. It offers gravel packing, field, and threading services. Its products include proSLOT, proSEAM,proWRAP, proPACK, proPUNCH, Q-Contoller, Q-Selector, Q-Distributor, HDO Hanger, RIP Plug System, Model HS Liner Packer, and proLAB. The company was founded in August 2014 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

BOS Solutions Holdings, Inc. provides customizable and scalable liquids-solids separation services. The company was founded on September 23, 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

NCS Multistage LLC provides downhole tool-based fracturing and well stimulation services to the oil and gas industry. The firm offers coiled tubing fracturing, fracturing systems, liner hangers, casing buoyancy system, and reservoir strategies services. The company was founded by Robert Nipper and Marty Stromquist in 2008 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Quala SA provides consumer goods. It offers drinks, desserts and gelatins, frozen soft drinks, foods, snacks, and personal care products. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.

Endeavour Vision SA (EV) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Geneva. EV traces their origins back to 1989 through the convergence of the Vision Capital European team and the Swiss VC firm, Endeavour. EV was co-founded in 2000 by Sven Lingjaerde and Damien Tappy. The firm specializes in providing funding for entrepreneurs in life sciences, biotech, medtech, cleantech and information technology. EV operates in close cooperation with Genevest, an independent investment vehicle which has reached the divestment stage. Their investors in the funds they advise are industrial corporations, family offices, global institutional investors and business leaders in the technology and investment industry.

Sonata Therapeutics, Inc. is a pioneering private company based in Cambridge, MA that designs single therapeutics to reprogram diseased cells and create curative microenvironments. The company's machine learning-based platform identifies novel insights, targets, and therapeutics across a wide range of disease areas, with a growing pipeline of small molecule drugs and genetic therapeutics. In oncology, Sonata's transformative therapies reprogram cancer cells to release curative signals that reverse immune cell suppression and blockade, empowering the immune system to holistically eradicate tumors and drive cure. Sonata Therapeutics is creating a new class of network medicines™ designed to modulate all the key cell types in a disease microenvironment required to drive disease resolution. The company is also exploring additional therapeutic areas such as fibrosis and tissue regeneration where multicellular networks play a key role. The company has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded in 2022 by flagship pioneering, and the CEO is Volker Herrmann.

Empress Therapeutics, Inc. is a company that was founded by Flagship Pioneering in 2020. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. Empress Therapeutics generates medicines quickly by using the chemistry inside the human body. The company uses the Empress Chemilogics™ platform to create first- or oral medicines for a broad range of diseases quickly, predictably, and cost-effectively. The platform uses novel insights that connect the lines of code in DNA with drug-like chemistry made in the human body. Jason Park is the founder of the company and has been the CEO since incorporation.

Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. engages in the commercialization of vitro diagnostic tests for the detection of brain injury and neurological diseases. It develops blood test to accurately and quickly diagnose traumatic brain injury. The company was founded by Nancy Denslow, Ronald L. Hayes, and Kevin Wang in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology delivers company building and company funding programs to create products and companies. Its programs include company building, funding, executive council, third party solutions and startup quest. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Deepwork Capital LLC (Deepwork Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Mitchel J. Laskey, Benjamin Patz and Kathy Chiu. The firm is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

UF Innovate Ventures (UF Innovate Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of University of Florida founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida.

Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a a clinical stage gene therapy company. The firm engages in development, production, and application of AAV vectors. The company was founded by Nicholas Muzyczka, Barry Byrne, Arun Srivastava, Coy Heldermon, Sergei Zolothukin, Kenneth Warrington, Ronald Mandel, Toadd E. Golde and Edgardo Rodriguez in 2017 and is headquartered in Alachua, FL.

Genascence Corp. develops gene therapy products for musculoskeletal diseases. The company was founded by Dr. Annahita Keravala and Dr. Thomas W. Chalberg in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Nalu Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company, which develops, manufactures, and commercializes invasive solutions for patients with chronic neuropathic pain. It markets Nalu neurostimulation system that delivers gentle electrical pulses to the nervous system to modulate pain signals to the brain. The company was founded by Keegan Harper, Lee Hartley, Mike Partsch, and Daniel Pivonka in October 28, 2014 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.