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Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

Metron, Inc. provides scientific consulting services. The firm specializes in statistical inference, operations research, physical modeling and software development. It offers advanced mathematics applications, systems and analysis, operations analysis and simulation sciences and cyber analysis. The company was founded by Thomas L. Corwin in 1982 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

MPM Bioimpact Inc (MPM Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Ansbert K. Gadicke and Luke B. Evnin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

The University of Melbourne, founded in 1853, is a world-renowned institution located in Parkville, Australia. The university is a leader in education, teaching, and research, offering a wide range of coursework and research programs.

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.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media.

TPG Capital (UK) Ltd. provides investment advisory services. The company was founded on July 29, 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Arctaris Capital Partners LLC (Arctaris Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Jonathan Tower in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

PIMCO Investments LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO), ultimately owned by Allianz SE (ETR: ALV) in Germany. PIMCO Investments offers trading services in stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds and private placements for qualified investors.

Freedom Forum Institute, Inc. promotes the study, exploration and education of the challenges confronting freedom through its first amendment center and the religious freedom center. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Slyce Acquisition, Inc. provides visual recognition purchasing platform services. The firm’s solutions include home improvement, automotive, industrial & manufacturing, fashion & furniture, grocery, visual search, part finder, part reordering, shop the look, smart shopping list, snap from print, image recognition, part recognition and deep tagging. The company was founded by Cameron Chell and Erika K. Racicot in 2012 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

CaterSpot operates as an online marketplace that connects companies and people with local catering options. It offers users the possibility to order catering menus and packs from a curated list of caterers and restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong. The company was founded by Camilo Paredes, Amanda Ernst, Andrew Ng, Michael Burns and Karren Rebosura on January 18, 2016 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Zeteo Tech, Inc. operates as a venture-backed biodefense and medical device company that develops revolutionary class of fieldable biological mass spectrometers. Its instruments identify airborne microbes, proteins and lipids, and can be used to screen for infectious disease and other bio-threats. The company was founded by Charles Call, Wayne A. Bryden and and James Carlini is headquartered in Sykesville, MA.

Hyundai CRADLE (Hyundai CRADLE) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

MakinaRocks Co., Ltd. engages in providing intelligent solutions for chipmakers, oil drillers and chemical firms. The company was founded by Yu Seong-Ho, Lee Jae-Hyeok, Shim Sang-Woo and Lim Yong-Sub on February 21, 2017 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

CONVEX Experts GmbH provides investment advice. The private company is based in Vienna, Austria. Bernhard Birawe, Nils Lesser, Paul Hoffmann has been the CEOs since 2017. The Austrian company was founded in 2017 by Bernhard Birawe, Paul Hoffmann, Nils Lesser.

NK Immobilienverwaltungs GmbH provides real estate management services. The company is headquartered in Steinach, Germany.

NK Leasing GmbH & Co. KG is a company based in Germany that engages in renting machinery and equipment. The CEOs of the private company are Nora Diepold and Norman Kronseder.

Four Score Capital is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Safar Partners LLC (Safar Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Nader Motamedy. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Handzin, Inc. is a platform for private collaboration that accelerates collaboration and innovation in trusted spaces. The company is based in Redding, CA. The company provides an elegant workflow to manage, protect, and organize communities. Handzin emphasizes that user data is not their product. Handzin was founded by Mike Galvin, Henry Gooden, and Brian Isaac, with Mike Galvin serving as CEO since incorporation.

Saatzucht Steinach GmbH & Co. KG is a company based in Steinach, Germany. The private company started improving the feed base and breeding forage grasses in the following years. The company provides on-site advice to their breeding and production companies upon request and offers innovative farmers lucrative contribution margins. The company was founded in 1920 and is known for laying the foundation for outstanding and world-renowned lawn varieties in the early 20th century.