Alan H. Freeman

Idealab Corp (Idealab) is a venture capital subsidiary of Idealab Holdings LLC founded in 1996 by Bill Gross and Marcia Goodstein. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Acorn Capital Partners Ltd. (Acorn) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in Stockport, UK. The firm was founded by Ian Templeton and Graham Norfolk in 2000. Acorn provides fund management and advice to high net-worth individuals, sophisticated investors and pension funds.

Walnut Ventures Associates (Walnut Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Ralph Wagner. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Atalaia Research is an equity research firm located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm seeks to identify opportunities within the economies, markets, and companies of the Brazil. They focus on the biofuels sector. Atalaia Research analyzes fundamental trends in the sector and the differentiated strategy/tactics of each company. Their prepaid service includes access to standard research reports at the macro, sector and company levels. The firm also provides custom alerts from the street. At the macro economic level, Atalaia Research identifies the sectors with the best potential based on the current and expected behavior of the economy. At the sector level, they analyze high potential sectors and identify the optimal course for a company to capitalize on macro and sector level trends. At the company level, the firm compares the optimal course for each sector with the actual strategy, tactics and resources of specific companies to determine which companies have the best potential for outperformance. Atalaia Research provides research to private and public equity fund managers and to senior executives at multinational companies and entrepreneurial ventures.