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Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

The Juroku Bank, Ltd. engages in the business of financial baking services. It operates through the following segments: Banking, Leasing, and Others. The Banking segment includes deposit, loan, securities investment, bond trustee, derivative trading, and foreign exchange services. The Leasing segment provides general leasing services. The Others segment consists of credit card, credit guarantee, and computer-related businesses. The company was founded on August 8, 1877 and is headquartered in Gifu, Japan.

SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SPARX) is the wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (TYO: 8739) in Japan. The firm was founded by Shuhei Abe in 2006. Headquartered in Tokyo, SPARX provides portfolio management services and manages client accounts and funds.

Catterton Management Co. LLC (L Catterton) is a private equity subsidiary of L Catterton Management Ltd. founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Advantage Partners Inc /JP/ (AP) is an independent Japan-based private equity firm which was founded in 1992 by Taisuke Sasanuma and Richard Folsom. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo. AP invests directly in private equity and manages the MBI private equity funds for a range of domestic and foreign institutions including insurance companies, banks and corporations. The firm has close business ties with wholesale trader Marubeni Corp. (TSE: 8002). AP pioneered private equity investment in Japan and retains a leadership position in the private equity community.

Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Rheos Capital Works, Inc. (Investment Management) (Rheos Capital-iM) is the boutique-sized asset management division of Rheos Capital Works, Inc. in Japan. It was founded in 2003 as Rheos Inc.by Hideto Fujino and Mitsuhiro Yuasa. Headquartered in Tokyo, Rheos Capital-IM manages investment trusts and provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

Gentronix Ltd. provides services and solutions to help organizations optimize the development of drugs and other chemicals. It provides contract services for genotoxicity using a patented human cell GADD45a reporter GreenScreen HC and BlueScreen HC assays and related assays including Micronucleus and Ames MPF. The company was founded by Richard Maurice Walmsley in July 1999 and is headquartered in Macclesfield, the United Kingdom.

Novator Partners LLP (Novator Partners) is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded in 2004 by Thor Björgólfsson. The firm is headquartered in London with additional offices in Luxembourg and Reykjavík.

Mercia Fund Management Ltd. (Mercia Fund) is a private equity subsidiary of Mercia Asset Management Plc founded in 1999 by Mark Andrew Payton, Timothy R. Hazell and Everard Mascarenhas. The firm is headquartered in Warwickshire, Great Britain.

Bpifrance Participations SA/ PRIVATE EQUITY/ (BPIfrance Participations PE) is the private equity division of Bpifrance Participations SA subsidiary of State-owned Caisse des Dépots & Consignations headquartered in France. Formerly known as Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement SA (Private Equity), the firm was established in 2008 by the Government of France in an aim to strengthen distressed companies of strategic importance for the French economy. Based in Paris, BPIfrance Participations specializes in fund of funds and direct investments in French intermediate-sized companies.

France Invest is a French association of investors for growth that supports private equity as a lever for business creators and managers to achieve growth. The private company is based in Paris, France and was founded by Maurice Tchenio. The association is at the heart of the economy and aims to share the value created by supporting companies in their innovation and energy transition efforts.

Morimatsu Industry Co., Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture & marketing of tanks, pressure vessels, plant & factory equipment and aerospace equipment. The company provides stainless steel water tanks, cold water, ice accumulator tanks, pressure vessels, such as hot water storage tanks, tube & plate type heat exchangers, header tanks & air separators & underground oil tanks and oil service tanks for the construction industry. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Motosu, Japan.

The Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment operates as securities and investment educational institute. It is the professional body for those who work in the securities and investment industry in the UK and in a growing number of major financial centres round the world. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Spiber, Inc. provides research, development, and production of synthetic spider silk. It specializes in the production of artificial spider silk using synthesized genes which persuade bacteria to produce fibroin, a structural protein found in spider silk. The firm analyzes the mechanism of the bimolecular structure of spider silk protein using bioinformatics. The company was founded on September 26, 2007 and is headquartered in Tsuruoka, Japan.

Yunnan Energy Investment (HK) Co. Ltd. is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Yunnan Energy Investment (HK) Co. Ltd. functions as an investment holding Chinese company. The company is ultimately controlled by the Province of Yunnan. The CEO of the company is Xiang Wei Hu.

Athanase Industrial Partners Ltd. provides investment services. The company was founded by Stefan Charette in 2014 and is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

CentraleSupélec operates as a higher education and research institution. The firm is a public institution under ministerial charter, devoted to the sciences and engineering. The company was founded on January 1, 2015 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Hangzhou Meili Information Technology Co. Ltd. is a private company that develops and sells housekeeper software. The company is based in Hangzhou, China.

SystemIQ Ltd (SystemIQ ) is a venture capital firm founded by Martin Stuchtey and Jeremy Oppenheim in 2016. The firm Headquartered in United Kingdom.

Ridge Pharma Ltd. operates as a pharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (UK Broker) is the brokerage division of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which is ultimately held by PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. The firm is headquartered in London and was founded in 2002. They provide brokerage services to their clients.

LMC Software Ltd. provides application platform that enables care homes to take all admin and planning online. Its application is use by the residential, nursing and mental health providers. The company was founded by Sam Hussain and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

JIC Venture Growth Investments Co. Ltd. (JIC VGI) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Japan Investment Corp, itself a subsidiary of Government of Japan founded in 2020. JIC Venture Growth Investments Co. Ltd. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Aquarius II Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company. It aims to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on May 5, 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biotechnology company that specializes in developing engineered cell-based therapies and in vivo reprogramming to restore vision for individuals with degenerative ocular diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, UK and was founded in 2020. Tenpoint Therapeutics brings together experts who are shaping the regenerative ocular medicine revolution and the technologies that are driving it. The company's focus is on replacing diseased cells with healthy ones to permanently restore vision. Eddy Anglade has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Nanomist Technologies Co., Ltd. develops and sells ultrasonic atomization separation process equipment. It engages in development of solution concentrating devices for the medical and food sectors using their proprietary atomization separation technologies. The firm develops devices for medical solvent recovery, hot spring water concentration, food concentration, and similar applications, based on their ultrasonic atomization separation technologies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Naruto, Japan.