Sherif Nahas

Operates as bank holding company whose subsidiary provides banking services

Manufactures and sells electric vehicles, trucks, service parts & accessories

Functions as a College/University

Sand Hill Capital provides venture debt financing to venture capital backed technology companies. Maturities range from several months to three years and other terms and conditions (interest rate, amortization, fees, performance tests, etc.) are negotiated on a case by case basis. The firm provides equity capital through the Sakura Fund, which is an equity co-investment fund catering to the venture debt fund's portfolio companies. The Sakura Fund makes equity co-investments (alongside the incumbent venture capital firms) in those venture debt portfolio companies which it believes have the most potential long term value. The Sakura Fund is not a direct source of new venture capital; it only provides equity to those companies with which the venture debt fund has a prior relationship.

Ford Foundation maintains a balanced and diversified portfolio that includes equities and fixed-income securities (both US and international), private equities, venture capital and equity partnerships.

Functions as a College/University

University of Virginia Investment Management's employs leverage and derivative securities, both directly and within funds, only to the extent that the aggregate risk of the pool is not increased beyond that which would be allowed by the policy portfolio without using leverage or derivatives. The most direct form of leverage is borrowing but many other strategies, structures, funds, and derivative securities produce similar results and therefore imply leverage.