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General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP

Cloverhill Enterprises, Inc. provides startup and stealth mode search engine optimization services. The company was founded by Felix Rodriguez in 2009 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

ESH Hospitality, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust. It invests principally in extended stay hotels located in North America. The firm offers services under Extended Stay America brand. The company was founded on September 16, 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

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.

Established in 1989, CIBC Capital Partners, the venture group of CIBC World Markets' Capital Partners Division, is headquartered in Toronto with additional offices in Boston, New York City and San Francisco. Their ultimate parent is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX: BCM).

BMO Capital Partners (BMO Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of BMO Equity Partners Inc. founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Cerberus Capital Management LP (Cerberus) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Stephen A. Feinberg and William L. Richter. It is headquartered in New York.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Alerion Partners LLC (Alerion Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Bruce Failing. The firm is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.

TCMI, Inc.(TCV) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jay Crandall Hoag and Richard Herrick Kimball. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Prodigy Health Group, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in health services. It serves members across all industry sectors and it is continuing to pursue an aggressive growth strategy through synergistic health services acquisitions and organic growth. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Amherst, NY.

Centerbridge Partners LP(Centerbridge Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Harold Aronson and Timothy Gallogly. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Project 1972, Inc. engages in the provision of private networking platform for women. Its membership services include core group, salon series, connection, and clubhouses access. The company was founded by Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Chartbeat, Inc. provides real-time data analytics and performance alerts. It partners with doers, editors, writers, marketers, developers, those who create and build the content that users see and interact with online to deliver the data they need, when they need it. The firm offers Chartbeat Publishing, a suite of audience building tools-built around an audience’s actual behavior for global publishers and media sites. It also provides real-time analytics starter kits to track number of visitors on a website, traffic sources that drive visitor, and social network traffic. The company was founded on April 2, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PeopleTech Partners (PeopleTech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Cara Brennan Allamano. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

W Fund (W Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Lindsay Karas and Allyson Kapin. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Venture Collective LLC (Venture Collective) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Apprenda, Inc. operates as a software layer that transforms any infrastructure into a policy-driven, hybrid cloud application platform. It offers mobile, multi tenant, web scale, distributed and enterprise wide private platform as a service solution. The firm serves the developers, information technology professionals, and executive. The company was founded by Matt Ammerman, Sinclair Schuller, and Abraham Sultan on September 7, 2007 and is headquartered in Clifton Park, NY.

Lynx Equity Ltd (Lynx Equity) is a private equity firm founded by Brad Nathan, Joanna Lipfield, Marvin Pludwinski and Judith Benattar in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

iShopShops, Inc. engages in the development of interactive, livestream marketplace that connects retailers and brands directly with cross-border shoppers. It virtualizes the physical shopping experience for consumers. The company was founded by Liyia Wu in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TCG Capital Management LP (TCG Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Chernin Group LLC founded in 2018 by Peter Chernin, Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns. The firm is headquartered in Playa Vista, California.

Better Place Forests Co. develops, markets and operates cemeteries and cremation scattering grounds. The company was founded by Alexander Athol Sandy Gibson, Jamieson Michael John Knowltonin and Stephen Bradley Milne and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Everly Well, Inc. provides at-home health tests and completely transformed lab results. It specializes in prevention medicine, wellness, and digital health. The company was founded by Julia Taylor Cheek in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Bright Machines, Inc. develops software for manufacturing industries. It offers cutting edge technology, computer vision, cloud and edge computing, robotics, and machine learning that enables operations more competitive and customer focused. The company was founded by Amarpreet Hanspal in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Italy) is an investment holding Italian company. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

SmartPill Diagnostic, Inc. manufactures ingestible, capsule-based medical devices for gastrointestinal disorders and diseases. The firm product is SmartPill GI Monitoring System that assist physicians and researchers in the evaluation of gastroparesis and chronic constipation, GI motility disorders . The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Vnomics Corp. provides telematics software and solutions for the commercial trucking industry. Its products include Coach and Comply, FleetViewer and Electronic Hours of Service. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Victor, NY.