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Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (Duff & Phelps) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1979, evolving from the Duff & Phelps investment research firm founded in 1932. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Partners, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS). Duff & Phelps provides investment advisory services to institutional clients, mutual funds, closed-end funds, and other pooled investment vehicles as well as to retail clients. Duff & Phelps is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

CMG @Ventures Inc (CMG @Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Steel Connect, Inc. founded in 1995 by Peter H. Mills. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

VisEn's in vivo fluorescence imaging technologies, including its Fluorescence Agent Portfolio and its Fluorescence Molecular Tomographic (FMTTM) Imaging Systems provide robust fluorescence molecular imaging performance in identifying, characterizing and quantifying ranges of disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in vivo. VisEn's FMT systems and agents are used by leading research institutions and pharmaceutical companies in applications including cancer research, inflammation, cardiovascular, skeletal and pulmonary disease. The company also works with large pharmaceutical partners to design ranges of tailored molecular imaging agents and applications that are designed to their specific pre-clinical and clinical research areas.

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.

Banque de France provides private credit eligibility criteria as defined in the Governor's Decision No. The company is based in Paris, France. 2015-01. Additionally, the French company offers economic diagnostics in the form of indicators and forecasts. Banque de France is a subsidiary of and ultimately controlled by the Government of France.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a comprehensive range of equity execution services exclusively to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include private banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, independent asset managers and investment advisors and other brokers.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

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.

Evercore Group LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Evercore BD Investco LLC, which is owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Group delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors.

UpHonest Capital is a venture capital firm is founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in California.

Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd. is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, which is owned by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) in the US. Jefferies Hong Kong is a client-focused full-service sales, trading and capital markets platform across all equity and fixed income securities. They provide an array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Edenbrook Capital LLC (Edenbrook) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Mount Kisco, New York. The firm was founded by Jonathan B. Brolin in 2011. Edenbrook provides discretionary investment management services to private funds which are generally open to, among others, institutions, pension plans, family offices, multi-family offices, fund-of-hedge funds, endowments, foundations, trusts, charitable organizations, high net-worth individuals, and financially sophisticated individuals.

ModusLink Open Channel Solutions, Inc. provides software licensing and management solutions. It offers POETIC self-service software solutions and its customer care centers help software publishers manage their software licensing agreements. The company was founded in 1990 by Ed Rose and is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. specializes in digital filtering and signal processing. The firm’s products include development kits, reference designs, silicon products and software. The company was founded by James M. Kenny and Robert O. ilco in 2003 and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

The Bollard Group LLC is an independent multi-family office headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Anastasios Parafestas and Richard C. Cilento in 1995. The Bollard Group provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and portfolio management services to high net worth individuals, trusts, charitable foundations and client family-centric companies.

Apriva LLC provides end-to-end wireless transaction and information solutions. The firm offers point of sale solutions that integrate hardware, software, network infrastructure, management tools, wireless transactions and information messaging solutions. Its information security systems offer government agencies and high security businesses the command, control and protection for sensitive and classified communications. The firm offers Apriva POS platform, Apriva terminal solutions, Apriva Vend, AprivaPay Plus, AprivaLife and Apriva integration services. Its solutions include MESA VPN, MESA gateway standard edition, MESA gateway enterprise edition, MESA command and control suite and Apriva reader. The company was founded by Christopher Spinella, Paul Coppinger, Rinaldo Spinella and Michael Klingen in 1999 and is headquartered in Phoenix , AZ.

Cooledge Lighting, Inc. develops and manufactures lighting products. The firm focuses on delivering lighting solutions to the general illumination market. It offers square lighting products for use in wide area lighting applications, including general illumination and backlighting, as well as for curved, convex, and concave architectural elements. The company was founded by Paul Thurk Steven and Philippe Schick in 2009 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.