Ari Charles Zaphiriou-Zarifi

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) is a wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 8604; NYSE: NMR). Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1925. NSC places a strong emphasis on research, both fundamental and quantitative. In addition to stock and bond underwriting, their activities include IPO and M&A advisory, wealth management, separately managed accounts, fund wrap services, prime brokerage and structured equity finance. Their clients include institutions, hedge funds, private banks and private equity funds as well as corporate clients and retail investors.

Bluehone Investors LLP (Bluehone) is a subsidiary of Bluehone Ltd. and is based in London. Bluehone was established in 2005 by Bill Brown, Robert Mitchell and Stuart Rollason with backing from F&C Investments, where they formerly worked. The firm is a specialist fund management boutique managing small company investment funds.

Liveloop, Inc. develops a cloud-based document sharing software. It product enables teams to collaborate together on business documents without the annoyance of partitioning up documents, assigning (and reassigning) responsibilities, and emailing attachments back and forth. The company was founded by Amal Dorai and David Nelson in October 2010 and is headquartered in San Franciso, CA.

Think Big Analytics, Inc. provides big data and advanced analytics consulting services. It offers device data analytics, consumer insight, big data warehouse and analytics laboratory services. The firm serves the advertising, mobile and social networking, financial services, software and hardware IT, and healthcare sectors. The company was founded by Ronald Jeffrey Bodkin, Rick Anthony Farnell and Katie Bodkin in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

Tredje AP-fonden (AP3) is the Swedish government-owned pension fund management firm which was founded in 2001 to act as a buffer by using their capital to fund future pension payments and to generate investment returns to finance the Swedish pension system. Headquartered in Stockholm, AP3 is mandated by Parliament and regulated by the Swedish National Pension Funds Act to generate maximum possible benefit for the pension system by managing their fund capital to deliver strong investment returns at low risk.

Kurt Salmon US LLC provides management consulting services. The firm’s services include CIO advisory, global financial services, health care, and retail and consumer products. It offers logistics, marketing and merchandising, and information technology services. The company was founded by Kurt Salmon in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Siguler Guff & Co. LP (Siguler Guff) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by George William Siguler, Andrew Joseph Guff and Donald Paul Spencer. The firm is headquartered in New York.with additional offices Boston, Houstan, London.

Global Capacity Group, Inc. operates as a telecommunications virtual network operator. Its products include business Internet, Ethernet services & access, wavelengths, wide area networking and interconnect. The firm's solutions include cloud connectivity, application delivery, branch office connectivity, carrier off-net access, retail and healthcare networking solutions. The company was founded by Patrick C. Shutt in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

6pm Holdings Plc provides information technology and software solutions. It operates through the following segments: Licences and Products, Services, and Support and Maintenance. The company was founded by Ivan Bartolo in 1996 and is headquartered in Valletta, Malta.

OpenGate Capital Management LLC (OpenGate Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Andrew Nikou. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Paris, France.

Tenefit Corp. provides web communication solutions for living web applications. Its products include websocket intercloud connect, gateway and enterprise shield. The firm's products enables mobile users, applications, marketplaces and machines to connect and communicate in real-time. The company was founded by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Puma Investment Management Ltd (Puma Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in London with additional offices in Liverpool and Edinburgh.

Charles Connell & Co. (Holdings) Ltd. provides services to holding companies. The private company is based in Glasgow, UK. and has subsidiaries in United Kingdom.

VoiceBase, Inc. provides an online service to store, search and share voice communications. The firm's ground-breaking platform combines advanced voice recognition, indexing, storage and streaming technology to deliver a keyword search experience from any web-enabled device. The company was founded by Walter Bachtiger, Jan Jannink, Jay Blazensky and Spencer Lord in 2010 is headquartered in the San Francisco, California.

Aerospike, Inc. offers real-time NoSQL database solutions. It offers advertising technology, ecommerce and retail, financial services, telecommunications, online gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded by Brian Bulkowski and Srini V. Srinivasan in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lexyl Travel Technologies LLC operates as an online provider of group hotel booking and event management services. It offers rooms for conference, meeting planning, convention, exposition and event management services. The company was founded by John Prince and Timothy Hentschel in 2003 and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL.

Zoomdata, Inc. generates data visualization system services. Its products include MPP and SQL databases, cloud apps, developer tools, dashboards, and embedded applications. The company was founded by Justin Langseth and Russ Cosentino in 2012 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Columbus Nova Technology Partners (Columbus Nova Technology) is a private equity firm is founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

Mainframe2, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that helps developers and businesses manage their windows applications. Its software runs user applications on servers in the cloud and delivers the user interface to the end-point device browser as a video stream. The company was founded by Nikola Bozinovic, Ivan Vuckovic, and Marjan Panic in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Part of Eastern Car Liner Ltd., Eastern Car Liner (Americas), Inc. operates advertising agencies. The company is based in Long Beach, CA.

Movandi Corp. manufactures RF, antennas and communications systems. It offers wireless, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, millimeter wave 5G and wireless broadband products. The company was founded by Maryam Rofougaran and Reza Rofougaran and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Deep Instinct Ltd. engages in the development of omni-cybersecurity platform. it offers defense designed to protect against known and unknown malware in real-time, across endpoints, servers, and mobile devices. The company was founded by Guy Caspi, Eli David, and Nadav Maman in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Luminous Computing, Inc. builds up a photonics chip that will deal with workloads required by AI at the speed of the light. The company was founded by Michael Gao, Marcus Gomez and Mitchell Nahmias in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

DeepCube Ltd. engages in the development of inference-focused deep learning platform. It also offers consulting services to its clients. The company was founded by Eli David and Yaron Eitan and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Neural Propulsion Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of technology services. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Ethernovia, Inc. aims to reduce network cost and provide additional features by consolidating today's numerous simple 'domain' electronic control units (ECUs) into a small number of multi-domain ECUs. Ethernovia is based in San Jose, CA. The company's focus is on the automotive industry, where sophisticated sensors and fundamental shifts in vehicle architecture are generating an exponential increase in data. The company was founded by Roy Myers, Hossein Sederat, Darren Engelkemier, and Ramin Shirani. Ramin Shirani has been the CEO since incorporation.

Frame, Inc. engages in the provision of mental health platform. It offers workshops and therapy. The company was founded by Kendall Bird and Sage Grazer and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Vcinity, Inc. provides global data solutions. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Deuterium Capital Management LLC (Deuterium) is an independent family office headquartered in Clearwater, Florida. The firm was founded in 2018 and is principally owned by Osman Ozsan. Deuterium provides comprehensive investment management solutions to affluent families and entities or organizations for which these families are the beneficial owners, such as entities that serve estate planning objectives.

vArmour, Inc. provides software defined security solutions. Its data center security solution offers distributed sensors and enforcement points in a single logical system that scales horizontally, delivering security with simple operations. The company was founded by Michael Shieh and Jia-Jyi Roger Lian in January 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.