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Altegris Advisors LLC (Altegris) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in La Jolla, California. The firm was founded in 2010 by Matthew Osborne and James Waldinger. Altegris serves as the investment adviser to the following categories of Fund clients: (i) Mutual and Closed-End Funds, and their respective subsidiaries, as applicable; and (ii) Private Funds.

Franklin Advisers, Inc. is a mutual fund manager and registered investment advisor headquartered in San Mateo, California. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN), a holding company that, together with its various subsidiaries is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments. Franklin Advisers provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to US and non-US, registered open-end and closed-end funds and unregistered funds, as well as separate accounts.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Sociedad de Inversiones Norte Sur SA operates as an investment holding company. It engages in capital investments in movable and immovable, tangible and intangible assets and securities, in securities and shares, in licenses and concessions of any nature. The company was founded on October 9, 1989 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. (MSA) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1987 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSA provides institutional securities such as equities, fixed income, derivatives and research.

Creative Planning, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded in 1983 and provides investment advice to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or business entities other than those listed above, foundations, endowments and other institutions.

Direct Lending Investments LLC engages in the provision of lending services to small businesses. It offers short-term, high-yield, small business loan fund. The company was founded by Brendan Ross on September 21, 2012 and is headquartered in La Canada, CA.

MineralSoft, Inc. engages in the provision of development solutions to manage oil and gas investments. It offers investment funds, family offices, banks, individual and trusts, foundation and endowments, corporations, E&P companies, government agencies, acquisition and divestitures, land and title, mapping, portfolio management, accounting, and audit and revenue recovery solutions. The company was founded by Jonathan Parker and Gabe Wilcox and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Victoria Peak Co. Ltd. engages in the provision of food catering services through a chain of restaurants. The company was founded on July 13, 2015 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Nav Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the development, production, and sale of navigation systems. Its products include micro-machined electro-mechanical system gyroscope, fiber optic gyro, quartz, heading reference, vertical gyroscope, inertial measurement unit, laser inertial navigation, single antenna and dual antenna navigation system, and pos system. The company was founded on April 10, 2006 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Harbin Ship & Ocean Intelligent Equipment Co. engages in the manufacturing and trading of naval architecture and ocean engineering intelligent equipment. It designs, researches, develops, and produces unmanned underwater vehicles and ship dynamic positioning systems and provides after-sales services. It also offers related technical services and technical consultation services. The company was founded on March 30, 2016 and is headquartered in Harbin, China.

Part of Sai Microelectronics, Inc., Zhongce Naiwei (Beijing) Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company that provides technical services, technical consultation, computer system services and sells communication equipment, computers, software & electrical equipment. The company is based in Beijing, China and was founded in 2011.

Qingdao Juneng Chuangxin Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is a private company that designs and develops electronic products and components. The company is based in Qingdao, China. The Chinese company was founded in 2018. The CEO is Li Yuan.

Juneng Jingyuan (Qingdao) Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company that manufactures and sells semiconductor materials. The private company is based in Qingdao, China. The company was founded in 2018. The CEO is Li Yuan.

Beijing Sailex International Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the development of integrated circuit and semiconductor. Its business includes technical service, technical advisory, investment management, integrated circuit design, and investment advisory. The company was founded on April 28, 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Beijing Lion Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development, design, and manufacture of embedded electronic products. Its products include single board computers, signal processor, memory and recorder, electronic warfare, and data collector. The company was founded on May 16, 2002 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Qingzhou Naiwei Avionics Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the development of computer hardware, and avionics and electronic information technology. Its business activities include production and sale of unmanned systems and equipment, smart equipment, avionics, and electronic products. The company was founded on March 20, 2017 and is headquartered in Weifang, China.

Montrose Lane LP (Montrose Lane) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Jeremy Arendt, Ryan Gurney and Mark Mills. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

MegaRobo Technologies Co., Ltd. develops TV internal visual inspection equipment for LED TV assembly production processes. The equipment can be widely used in mobile phones, car displays, and large-size TV panel production lines. The company is based in Beijing, China. The equipment detects various defects such as missing screws, misplaced adhesive tape, loose terminals, and incorrect positioning of magnetic rings and wires. It provides automatic detection and alarm, and can upload production information to MES systems for easy traceability. The Chinese company was founded in 2016 by Yu Qing Huang, Zhi Xin Qiao, Yan Zhang. Yu Qing Huang has been the CEO since 2016.

NuProbe USA, Inc. engages in the development of ultra-sensitive and multiplexed platform with reagents for non-invasive nucleic acid profiling and diagnostics. The firm offers VarTrace EGFR Assay, VarTrace BFAR Assay, and VarTrace AML multi-gene panel. The company was founded by Peng Yin, David Yu Zhang, and Victor Chenyang Shi in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Centrillion Technology Holdings Ltd. provides genomics solutions. Its products and services can isolate, manipulate, visualize and analyze intact kilobase and megabase fragments of DNA. The company was founded by Wei Zhou in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

First Bight Ventures (First Bight) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Veronica B Wu. The firm is headquartered in Houstan, Texas.

IDbyDNA, Inc. operates as a precision medicine company that focuses on metagenomic approaches for infectious disease identification. It develops technologies to enable universal microorganism detection. The firm help doctors and scientists to detect any pathogen in any sample, thereby removing barriers for the adoption of metagenomics in clinical settings, ultimately leading to faster public health responses during infectious disease outbreaks. The company was founded by Martin G. Reese, Guochun Liao, Mark Yandell, and Robert Schlaberg in Noveber 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.