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University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

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.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PAAMCO Prisma LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2000 as Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co. LLC. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of PAAMCO Prisma Holdings LLC, a holding company owned by Pholdings LLC. PAAMCO Prisma provides investment management and advisory services to clients that are generally organized as Funds and to separately managed accounts established for institutional investors. With limited exception, interests in client vehicles are generally only available to institutional investors and certain high net-worth investors.

500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Centrillion Technology Holdings Ltd. provides genomics solutions. Its products and services can isolate, manipulate, visualize and analyze intact kilobase and megabase fragments of DNA. The company was founded by Wei Zhou in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

MegaRobo Technologies Co., Ltd. develops TV internal visual inspection equipment for LED TV assembly production processes. The equipment can be widely used in mobile phones, car displays, and large-size TV panel production lines. The company is based in Beijing, China. The equipment detects various defects such as missing screws, misplaced adhesive tape, loose terminals, and incorrect positioning of magnetic rings and wires. It provides automatic detection and alarm, and can upload production information to MES systems for easy traceability. The Chinese company was founded in 2016 by Yu Qing Huang, Zhi Xin Qiao, Yan Zhang. Yu Qing Huang has been the CEO since 2016.

NuProbe USA, Inc. engages in the development of ultra-sensitive and multiplexed platform with reagents for non-invasive nucleic acid profiling and diagnostics. The firm offers VarTrace EGFR Assay, VarTrace BFAR Assay, and VarTrace AML multi-gene panel. The company was founded by Peng Yin, David Yu Zhang, and Victor Chenyang Shi in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Mellon Investments Corp. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon Corp.) (NYSE: BK). In 2018, two other indirect subsidiaries of BNY Mellon Corp., the Boston Company Asset Management LLC (TBCAM) and Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, merged into Mellon Capital Management Corp. and the firm was renamed BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. In 2019, BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. was renamed Mellon Investments Corp. Mellon Investments provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to both individual and institutional clients.

First Bight Ventures (First Bight) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Veronica B Wu. The firm is headquartered in Houstan, Texas.

IDbyDNA, Inc. operates as a precision medicine company that focuses on metagenomic approaches for infectious disease identification. It develops technologies to enable universal microorganism detection. The firm help doctors and scientists to detect any pathogen in any sample, thereby removing barriers for the adoption of metagenomics in clinical settings, ultimately leading to faster public health responses during infectious disease outbreaks. The company was founded by Martin G. Reese, Guochun Liao, Mark Yandell, and Robert Schlaberg in Noveber 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Insight North America LLC (INA), dba Insight Investments, is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. Formerly known as Pareto New York LLC, the firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Mellon Global Investment Corp., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). INA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional, individuals, high-net-worth and individual investors in the form of separate account and pooled vehicles.

Montrose Lane LP (Montrose Lane) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Jeremy Arendt, Ryan Gurney and Mark Mills. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

MineralSoft, Inc. engages in the provision of development solutions to manage oil and gas investments. It offers investment funds, family offices, banks, individual and trusts, foundation and endowments, corporations, E&P companies, government agencies, acquisition and divestitures, land and title, mapping, portfolio management, accounting, and audit and revenue recovery solutions. The company was founded by Jonathan Parker and Gabe Wilcox and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Smart-X Software Solutions Ltd., ControlUp, Inc. develops an analytics and management platform. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded in 2014 by Asaf Ganot, Yoni Avital. Jed Ayres has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Part of Wirecard AG, WDB Abwicklungs AG provides commercial banking services. The company is based in Munich, Germany. The CEO of the German company is Frank Hellwig.

Designer Fund LLC (Designer) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Ben Blumenrose and Enrique Allen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 2013, Auto Parts 4 Less, Inc. was acquired by Auto Parts 4 Less Group, Inc. on November 29, 2018 for $0.15 million. The company is based in Las Vegas, NV. Part of Auto Parts 4 Less Group, Inc., liftkits4less.com is the largest online seller of suspension lift kit systems.

SL Technology (Holdings) Ltd. engages in manufacturing of press machine components. It focuses on the designing and manufacturing safety devices for protection of mechanical press machines. The firm’s press machines components include overload protectors, dual solenoid safety valves, lubricating system and quick die change system. The company was founded on January 23, 2018 and is headquartered in Guangdong, China.

Simon Jersey Ltd. designs and manufactures men's and women's work attire & uniforms. The firm distributes its products through mail-order catalogs and its website. It fills orders from small, medium, and large-sized companies. The company was founded in 1971 by Simon Moyle and is headquartered in Accrington, the United Kingdom.

X.commerce, Inc. provides open-source eCommerce solutions. Its products include magento commerce, order management, business intelligence pro, shippings, extensions marketplace, open source, and adobe experience cloud. The company was founded by Roy Rubin and Yoav Kutner in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Allocate Holdings Inc (Allocate Holdings) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Part of Wirecard AG, Wirecard Acquiring & Issuing GmbH is a German company that provides management services. The company is based in Aschheim, Germany. Alexander von Knoop has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Goudy Park Management LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm manages long/short funds for high net worth investors.