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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.

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.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Advantage Partners Inc /JP/ (AP) is an independent Japan-based private equity firm which was founded in 1992 by Taisuke Sasanuma and Richard Folsom. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo. AP invests directly in private equity and manages the MBI private equity funds for a range of domestic and foreign institutions including insurance companies, banks and corporations. The firm has close business ties with wholesale trader Marubeni Corp. (TSE: 8002). AP pioneered private equity investment in Japan and retains a leadership position in the private equity community.

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area founded in 1986. Goldman Sachs Capital Partners is headquartered in New York.

Jefferies (Japan) Ltd. (JJ) is the Tokyo branch and subsidiary of US-based Jefferies Asia Holdings II Pte Ltd., ultimately held by Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE: LUK) in the US. Established in 1996, the firm focuses on Asian markets and provides brokerage and investment banking services to institutional and corporate clients located primarily in Asia and the Middle East. Their activities include sales and trading of Japanese equity, equity-linked and structured products, the distribution of equity research and execution services in cooperation with US and European offices and the provision of electronic connectivity throughout Asia. They issue equity shares through GDRs and ADRs, and are a leading issuer of convertible bonds, high-yield in particular. In-house research covers a variety of industries including the maritime sector, infrastructure, logistics, outsourcing, technology and IT. In addition to Japan, JJ focuses on countries such as China and India, providing a range of services to Chinese and Indian companies, including access to international equity and debt capital markets, securities underwriting, US public and private offerings and cross-border M&A advisory. They also cooperate with private equity and venture capital firms focused on the Chinese and Indian markets.

Global Brain Corp. (Global Brain) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Yasuhiko Yurimoto. Global Brain Corp. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nakamura Tsunoda & Matsumoto provides legal services. The company was founded in February 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Integral Corp. (Japan) (Integral) is an independent Japanese private equity firm which was established in 2007 with the support of GCA Savvian Group Corporation (TK: 2174). Based in Tokyo, the firm, whose name stands for 'to accumulate over time', invests in both listed and unlisted Japanese companies and offers both managerial and financial support.

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (Broker) (Mizuho Securities-Broker) is the brokerage division of Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd., ultimately owned by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411; NYSE: MFG) in Japan. The firm was originally founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo with a network of offices throughout Japan as well as overseas representation through Mizuho entities or strategic partners (in Great Britain, Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and India). Mizuho Securities-Broker provides enhanced equity and fixed income execution services for their clients who includes private individuals in Japan, domestic and foreign institutions, non-financial companies, financial institutions and public corporations in the securities and investment banking fields.

Neo Career Co., Ltd. provides human resource and staffing dispatch services. Its services include job hunting support, scouting service, shared space for candidates, and job transfer support for experienced professionals, information technology engineers, nurses, and doctors. The firm also offers temporary staffing services. The company was founded on November 15, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Uzabase, Inc., NewsPicks, Inc. develops and offers a mobile application that provides the most important news. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The CEOs of the Japanese company are Yusuke Inagaki, Yusuke Umeda, Taira Sakuma.

Carlyle Japan Asset Management YK (Carlyle Japan Asset Management) is a private equity subsidiary of The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Aerial Partners KK engages in the development of software application for tax. It also develops software for automatic calculation of virtual currency gains. The company was founded by Kento Numasawa on December 27, 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Genesia Ventures Inc (Genesia Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Tajima Soichi. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Saika Co. Ltd. develops analytical applications and provides application consulting services. Its services include XICA adelie, XICA Magellan, XICA rockhopper and XICA academy. The company was founded in Frebuary 2012 by Yoshiaki Hirao and is headquartered in Yubinbango, Japan.

Spiber, Inc. provides research, development, and production of synthetic spider silk. It specializes in the production of artificial spider silk using synthesized genes which persuade bacteria to produce fibroin, a structural protein found in spider silk. The firm analyzes the mechanism of the bimolecular structure of spider silk protein using bioinformatics. The company was founded on September 26, 2007 and is headquartered in Tsuruoka, Japan.

Synplogen Co., Ltd. is a synthetic biology startup that provides DNA synthesis and DNA library construction services using their proprietary DNA synthesis technologies OGAB™ and Combinatorial-OGAB. The company was founded in 2017 by Akihiko Kondo and Kenji Tsuge and is based in Kobe, Japan. The Japanese company also offers design, development, and analysis services for gene therapy products such as viral vectors through their Gene Therapy Biofoundry™ service.

UniFa KK engages in development, manufacture and sale of child care medical equipment. It offers infant safe nap check equipment, photo and video providing service that records the natural expressions and growth of children, and thermometer that can measure and record temperature in a few seconds. The company was founded by Yasuyuki Toki in May 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Buzzkuri, Inc. engages in the planning, development and management of social media. It provides computer-mediated tools that allow people, companies and other organizations to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures and videos in virtual communities and networks. The company was founded by Taichi Sato on June 3, 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Cloud Computing KK develops a SaaS platform. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was founded in 2000 by Allen Miner and Aruna Basnayake. Aruna Basnayake has been the CEO since 2000.

Cento Ventures is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2011 by Dmitry Levit. The firm is headquartered in Singapore.

Lyra Ventures (Lyra Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Reina Nakamura. The firm is headquartered in Singapore.

Uhuru Corp. provides cloud system integration solutions. Its business activities include IoT (Internet of Things) solutions, cloud marketing, cloud integration, cloud development, data analytics development, and creative businesses. The company was founded by Takashi Sonoda in February 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Citadel Asia Ltd. is the Hong Kong-based asset management subsidiary of Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC, which is ultimately owned by GFH HFEVA LLC, an investment company headquartered in the US. The firm was founded in 2005 and formerly known as Citadel (Hong Kong) Ltd. Citadel Asia offers multiple investment strategies for high net worth clients.