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Manning & Napier Advisors LLC (MNA) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Fairport, New York. The firm was formed in 2011 as the successor to Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc., which was founded as a partnership in 1970. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manning & Napier Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Callodine Midco, Inc. MNA provides investment advice to individuals and institutional clients. The firm also acts as the sub-advisor to affiliated and unaffiliated advisors and to certain registered and unregistered commingled investment vehicles.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Howe & Rusling, Inc. is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rochester, New York. Founded in 1930, the firm provides investment management services to individuals, retirement plans, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and self-insurance trusts.

CCM Partners LP, do-business-as Shelton Capital Management (SCM), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1985, SCM provides investment management services to mutual funds, institutions, individuals, retirement plans and their sponsors, and other entities.

Ice Energy Holdings, Inc. provides distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions. It manufactures and markets energy storage solutions, and cooling and refrigeration products for the residential and commercial markets. The firm offers solutions for architects, building energy consultants, builders and developers, utility customers, energy and facilities managers, mechanical contractors, and utilities. The company was founded by Frank R. Ramairez, Brian Parsonnet and Gregory W. Tropsa in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Webscale Networks, Inc. provides cloud-based web and application performance software. Its products include CloudMaestro, a complete, fully scalable Software-as-a-Service application delivery network, improves the speed, availability and reliability of web and mobile applications for small and medium businesses and; CloudMaestro with Application Scaling. The firm's solution delivers intelligent traffic optimization, predictive right-sizing, self-healing, web content acceleration and security in a single unified application delivery fabric, which provides faster site speed indexes while nearly eliminating downtime. It offers professional support and professional services for cloud-based applications. The company was founded in 2012 by James T. Smith II, Vladimir V. Shestak and Robert L. Shires and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

eShares, Inc. operates as a transfer agent. The firm operates as a SEC-registered transfer agent for private companies and its online platform allows companies from seed stage to pre-IPO to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors and legal counsel. The company founded by Henry Ward on July 6, 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lung Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of drugs for lung injury and disease. Its product pipelines include LTI-03 for the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and LTI-01 for Loculated Pleural Effusion. The company was founded by Steven Idell and Andrew Mazar in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

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.

Crawley Ventures (Crawley Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jim B. Crawley. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Evercore Group LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Evercore BD Investco LLC, which is owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Group delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors.

Innosphere Advisors Inc (Innosphere Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Elefund Management Co. LLC (Elefund Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Elefund LLC founded in 2015 by Serik Kaldykulov, David Mavashev, and Arik Crissi. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Canopy Connect, Inc. is a technology company that provides consumer consent-driven data sharing technology and secure cloud infrastructure to enable insurance agencies, insurance carriers, lenders, and insurance innovators to deliver delightful, intelligent, and frictionless insurance services. The company is based in Beaverton, OR. Canopy Connect's insurance intelligence can be embedded into applications to drive cross-selling opportunities or launch an insurance marketplace. The company's agent dashboard or insurance API can be used for even greater flexibility. Canopy Connect's technology allows insurance agencies to collect verified insurance information directly from carriers in seconds, resulting in a better client and agent experience. The company's technology also enables insurance marketplaces to reduce form fields while increasing verified insurance data, which can increase conversion rates, accelerate time to quote, and bind more policies. The company was founded in 2020 by Tolga Tezel, who has been the CEO since 2020.

Branch Financial, Inc. provides personalized financial and investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. engages in the provision of telecommunications satellites that enable people to have an access to the internet. The company was founded by John Gedmark and Ryan McLinko and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Calm.com, Inc. operates an online portal which allows busy and information loaded web workers to reduce stress. It also develops the smart phone based application. The company was founded by Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in developing therapeutics which target cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. It offers treatment for cancer and inflammatory diseases. It focuses on developing elraglusib. The company was founded by Andrew P. Mazar on January 16, 2015 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Sovereign's Capital Management LLC/VC/ (Sovereign's Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Sovereign's Capital Management LLC founded in 2012 by Henry Rice Kaestner and Lukas Miller Roush. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Consolidated Investment Group LLC (CIG) is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The firm was founded by David Merage in 2003. CIG provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.