Aparna Saxena

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Condor Capital Management, dba Condor Capital Wealth Management (Condor Capital), is an employee-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Martinsville, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Kenneth Schapiro in 1988. Condor Capital provides discretionary and/or non-discretionary investment advisory services on a fee-only basis to individuals, business entities, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, estates and charitable organizations.

Prospector Partners LLC (Prospector) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Guilford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1997 by John D. Gillespie. Prospector provides discretionary investment management services to various institutional clients, which includes, but not limited to, private investment funds, a registered investment company, insurance companies, and other corporate or institutional entities.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Wolfe Research LLC is a FINRA-registered sell-side research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Edward Wolfe in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Wolfe Holdco LLC. Wolfe Research provides bespoke research of various stocks in every major GIC sector for institutional clients. The firm has established a reputation for macro research underpinning coverage in Industrials, Utilities/Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financials/REITS, Healthcare and TMT.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Definitive Intelligence, Inc. helps brands realize their potential in the web3 space. The American company provides a list of over 250 brand NFTs, along with insights and analytics about each project and its holders. The company was founded by Gavin Sherry and the CEO is Sundeep Madra.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Autonomic, Inc. provides software solutions for the transportation industry. The platform aims to provide the necessary building blocks for smart mobility applications and services. The company was founded by Sunny Madra, Caleb Welton, Amar Varma, Benjamin Black, Nithin Rao, and Gavin Sherry and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Glooko, Inc. provides mobile diabetes management solution for patients, health systems, and payer groups. It enhances the way diabetics and care providers interact by leveraging the power of mobile, cloud, and analytics to transform diabetes management. The company was founded by Yogen K. Dalal, Chamath Palipitiya, Sundeep Madra, and Anita Matthew in June 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Berenberg Capital Markets LLC (BCM) is a broker-dealer firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Berenberg Americas LLC, ultimately held by Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG in Germany. BCM provides equity execution services to institutional and corporate clients.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Investopad Advisors (Investopad) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Gurugram, India.

More Ventures (MoreVC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Jack Levy, Meir Ukeles and Glen Schwaber. The firm is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Glilot Capital Investments GP Ltd. (Glilot Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein. The firm is headquartered in Herzliya.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. engages in the provision of securities regulation, complementary compliance, and technology-based services. Its services include writing and enforcing rules governing the activities of securities firms with brokers, examining firms for compliance with those rules, fostering market transparency, and educating investors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

OurCrowd Management Ltd (OurCrowd) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Jonathan Medved and Steven Blumgart. The firm is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

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.

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Founded in 2002, Maxim Group LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales and trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Maxim Group's niche is emerging-growth companies in a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, retail and others. They utilize a fundamental, bottom-up approach to investment recommendations. The firm combines rigorous financial analysis of specific companies and industries with due diligence that includes frequent consults with suppliers, customers, competitors and senior management. The firm focuses on under-covered, small- to-mid-cap companies where valuation levels may be out of sync with fundamental trends. Maxim's coverage universe often represents attractive niche industries where stocks tend to be inefficient. This research coverage fills a void created by the downsized research ranks and shrinking coverage of small- to mid-cap stocks by large investment banks. Maxim Group is a member of FINRA, the MSRB, the SIPC, the ISE, NASDAQ and NYSE Arca.

Capricorn Investment Group LLC operates as an investment management firm. The firm provides services to foundations, endowments, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets. The company was founded by Ion Yadigaroglu and Jeffrey E. Skoll in 2000 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Trifecta Capital Advisors LLP (Trifecta Capital) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2014 by Rahul Mahinder Kumar Khanna and Nilesh Kothari. The firm is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Canaan Partners-India (Canaan-India) is the Indian office of US-based Canaan Partners, the venture capital firm with a strong commitment to the Indian market which was founded in 1987. Established in 2006, Canaan-India is an early-stage venture capital firm which is based in Gurgaon. They aim to create lasting partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams in technology-based companies, providing their experience, domain expertise, connections and team approach to build companies capable of becoming global market leaders.

Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd. is the Japanese broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1984 and provides investment banking, sales & trading, real estate and investment management products and services. It offers securities services including global sales and trading in fixed income and equities, debt and equities financing and investment research. The firm is a provider of products and services in fixed income, equities, global capital markets and investment research to corporations and institutional clients in Japan.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co. Ltd. (Japan) (GSAM-Japan) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International Holdings LLC, ultimately held by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in the US. The firm was founded in 1996 as Goldman Sachs Investment Trust and was renamed into Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co., Ltd. when the Goldman Sachs’ investment trust management and investment advisory companies merged in 2002. Headquartered in Tokyo, GSAM-Japan manages a range of mutual funds for clients such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, foundations, individual investors, and high net-worth individuals.

Qwilt, Inc. develops video technology solutions. The firm solves the online video problem for network operators with an open caching solution that increases network capacity and improves subscriber quality of experience (QoE). It offers a platform to deliver online videos in operator?s networks. The company was founded by Giora Yaron, Yuval Shahar, Dan Sahar and Alon Maor in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

Halo Digital (Israel) operates as platform for full digital replica of production environment. The firm specialties include digital transformation, chemistry, predictive maintenance, big data and block chain. The company was founded in 2015 by Achi Krauz and leonid bakman and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Layer7 Api Management provides software solutions. It provides developer management solutions, including API Portal, a platform for developer onboarding, engagement and management; and operations management solutions. The company was founded by Toufic I. Boubez in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Cadenza Capital Management (Cadenza Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Kumar Dhandapani and Max Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Oravel Stays Ltd. engages in the operation of hotels, homes, managed living, and workspaces in the metros, regional commercial hubs, leisure destinations, and key pilgrimage towns. The firm offers OYO app which enables guests to search and book rooms, request room-service, book a cab, and also search nearby restaurants. The company was founded by Ritesh Agarwal and Manish Sinha in 2012 and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, India.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Company Holdings Ltd. is a consulting firm that partners with leaders on strategy, innovating to net zero, leading with tech, and building capabilities for a sustainable, inclusive, growing future. The company is based in London, UK. The British company specializes in Consumer Packaged Goods and has conducted research, articles, and reports on the changes that matter most for the challenges and opportunities ahead. The company was founded in 2011 by Brian K. Stafford.