Z capital Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, buyout, distressed, turnaround, special situations, repairing the capital structures, and leveraged finance investments. The firm makes investments in middle market companies via complex transactions through restructuring and/or bankruptcy processes, opportunistic acquisitions and special situations. It also manages hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets primarily focusing on the non-investment grade senior secured debt markets. It invests in financial services, leisure, gaming, leisure- real estate, manufacturing, specialty services, automotive, consumer products, steel, steel processors, agriculture, transportation, metal and mining, and paper and forestry industries. The firm makes investments in companies based in United States. The firm seeks to invest minimum of $1 million in companies having EBITDA of $100 million. It prefers to makes constructive and control investments. Z capital Management LLC was founded in October 2006 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; and London, United Kingdom.
Ned Davis Research, Inc. is an independent financial research provider. NDR serves institutional clients in over forty countries on six continents.
Harris and Harris Group, Inc. builds transformative companies from disruptive science. We leverage our core scientific expertise to be FIRST in identifying new technology trends, in accessing high quality science and intellectual property, in building management teams and in executing on early-stage business growth. Our PROVEN team has the unique ability to identify and diligence the network of discoveries that come from understanding science at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, with biology as a focus. This places us at the center of the discoveries impacting some of the most important growth sectors of the economy, permitting us to build TRANSFORMATIVE companies. BIOLOGY+ is our distinctive approach. We define BIOLOGY+ as investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. We focus on this intersection because we believe interdisciplinary innovation will be required in order to address many of the life science challenges of the future.
Standard Life is an investment company with over 190 years’ experience of helping people invest and manage their money. Today, Standard Life employs around 6,500 people internationally – through businesses in the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Around 4.5 million customers and clients across 46 countries trust us with their financial future – and we are responsible for the administration of over £300 billion of their assets. We also support over 25 million customers through our Indian and Chinese associate and joint venture businesses. Standard Life Investments actively manages over £253 billion worldwide, offering global asset management expertise with strong investment capabilities and performance. Standard Life plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.2 million individual shareholders. We’re one of the top 500 companies worldwide, by revenue, as listed in the 2015 Fortune Global 500. Wherever we operate in the world, we are motivated by a sense of responsibility. It’s what helps us to be a sustainable business. We’re proud to be listed as a leader for corporate sustainability in our industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI World and DJSI Europe).
Motif Investing is an online broker that lets you invest in a world of big ideas. The company, based in Silicon Valley, is changing the face of online investing through an innovative, transparent social platform that allows individuals and investment advisors to invest in stock and bond portfolios built around everyday ideas and broad economic trends -- and even create brand-new motifs from scratch. Motif is a registered broker-dealer and a member of SIPC. The company's investors include Balderton Capital, Foundation Capital, Goldman Sachs, Ignition Partners, J.P. Morgan, Norwest Venture Partners, and Wicklow Capital. Board members include former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Wall Street executive Sallie Krawcheck.