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

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.

Founded in 2001, One Equity Partners LLC is a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.

Equistone Partners GmbH (Equistone Partners) is the German private equity subsidiary of Equistone Partners Europe Ltd. in Great Britain. Established in 1998 by Dr. Peter Hammer as Barclays Private Equity GmbH, the firm changed their name to Equistone Partners in 2011 following an MBO. The firm is based in Munich and provides a range of financial services including MBOs, MBIs, and equity release or spin-offs, growth capital for IPOs and for mature firms.

Earlybird Venture Capital GmbH & Co. KG (Earlybird VC) is an independent venture capital firm founded by Hendrik Brandis, Roland Manger, Rolf Mathies, and Christian Nagel in 1997. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Earlybird VC Management GmbH & Co. KG. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany, with another German office in Berlin, and international office in Istanbul, Turkey.

Light Blue Optics Ltd. develops miniature laser projector systems. It also develops and supplies advanced user-interface technology for use in markets including education, training, corporate boardrooms and consumer electronics. The firm’s software is embedded in cutting-edge interactive flat-panel displays and projection-based whiteboards. The company was founded by Adrian Cable James, Lawrence Nicholas Alexander, Peter Mash, Susan Elizabeth Dixon and Edward Buckley on January 19, 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

The German Private Equity & Venture Capital Association is the federal association of participation capital and serves as the voice of the participation capital industry. The private company is based in Berlin, Germany. The association analyzes the market and its constant development.

Hitachi Ventures GmbH (Hitachi Ventures) is the venture capital subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. The firm was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.