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The DIRECTV Group, Inc. provides digital television entertainment services. It operates as a digital broadcast satellite service company. The firm transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in several countries. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Brown Advisory, Inc. provides investment and advisory services. It specializes in investment management, strategic advisory, wealth management, and private equity. The firm provides services to individuals, families, institutions, and corporations. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

JPMorgan Private Investments, Inc. (JPMPI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1991 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase Holdings LLC, ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM). JPMPI provides advisory services to open-end and closed-end Registered Investment Companies (RICs); private investment funds organized as limited partnerships, limited liability companies, or offshore companies; and various wrap fee programs offered through an affiliate, JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS).

Krane Funds Advisors LLC (Krane) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jonathan Krane in 2011 and is a direct subsidiary of China International Capital Corp. (USA) Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by China International Capital Corp. Ltd. (SHA: 601995) in China. Krane serves as the investment manager for the KraneShares ETFs and KFA Funds, two suites of passively-managed and actively-managed registered open-end management investment companies that operate exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The firm also offers investment advisory services through model delivery programs, separately managed accounts, and other pooled investment vehicles. Krane is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI).

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Virginia National Bank provides banking and financial services. The firm operates through two segments: The Commercial Bank and VNB Trust. The Commercial Bank segment involves making loans and generating deposits from individuals and businesses. The VNB Trust segment offers services, which include investment management, trust account administration and estate planning. It offers personal banking, business banking and treasury management services. The company was founded on July 29, 1998 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Berwind Corp (Berwind) is a private equity firm founded in 1886. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

J.E. Robert Co., Inc. is a commercial mortgage special servicer. It was originally formed to manage, liquidate, and recover capital on distressed commercial real estate mortgages and assets in the United States on behalf of private institutions & public agencies. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

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.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA (Investment Management) (JPMC-IM) is the investment management division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a global financial services firm. Headquartered in New York City, JPMC-IM provides asset management services for corporations, institutional investors, hedge funds, governments, healthcare organizations, educational institutions and affluent individuals.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Williams & Connolly LLP provides legal services, focusing on litigation areas such as corporate, tax, and employment law. Its practice areas includes administrative law, antitrust, appellate, arbitration, business transactions and tax, criminal defense, employment and labor laws, federal programs, and national defense. The company was founded Edward Bennett Williams in 1967, and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Harren Equity Partners LLC (Harren Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Thomas A. Carver and Hunter Reichert. The firm is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia with an additional office in Lauderdale, Florida.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

First Flight Venture Center operates as a non-profit organization that provides business support services to start-up and early stage companies. It offers programs for technology companies that help them in fields such as concept testing, prototyping, research, business strategies, and product development. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

First Flight Ventures (First Flight Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of First Flight Venture Center, Inc founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.

Mendoza Wealth Management LLC (Mendoza Wealth) is an independent investment advisor headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Dennis Mendoza in 2008. Mendoza Wealth provides portfolio management services to individuals, high-net worth individuals and charitable organizations.

OurCrowd Management Ltd (OurCrowd) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Jonathan Medved and Steven Blumgart. The firm is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Excelerate Health Venture LLC (Excelerate Health Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Gary Abrahams and Bobby Bahram. The firm is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

BEKHealth Corp. is a privately held, venture-backed business that operates an AI-powered patient-matching software platform serving the clinical trial industry. The company is based in Kent, CT. The platform allows life sciences and healthcare organizations to speed up site selection and patient recruitment by extracting data from electronic medical records (EMRs), which includes structured and unstructured clinical data that captures three times more trial criteria. BEKHealth's AI-driven data platform uses a proprietary ontology that has been built from 400+ medical libraries aligned against 70,000 protocols to standardize patient data to its interoperable clinical data model. Founded by Jason Baumgartner, who has been the CEO since incorporation, BEKHealth combines a proprietary AI-powered EMR data-processing engine with easy-to-use and impactful workflow solutions to provide sites and CROs the ability to achieve "the last mile" to recruit the right patients more rapidly.

RTP Capital Associates, Inc. is a venture capital fund that provides advisory services to and invests in technology-driven companies. The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Part of Van Eck Associates Corp., BlueStar Global Investors LLC is a company that provides brokerage services. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2011 by Steven Schoenfeld. BlueStar Global Investors was acquired by MarketVector Indexes GmbH on August 01, 2020.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs LLP is a company that provides investment banking, securities and investment management services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Noble Group Holdings Ltd. provides commercial commodities supply chain management . The company is headquartered in Hong Kong.