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Since 1975, the Yale Corporation Investment Committee has been responsible for oversight of the Yale University Endowment. They are located in New Haven, Connecticut

Lone Pine Capital LLC (LPC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1997 by Stephen F. Mandel, Jr. LPC provides investment advisory services to private investment funds that are offered to investors on a private placement basis (LPC Funds). Investors in the funds include high net-worth individuals, corporations, trusts, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, funds-of-funds and other US and international institutional investors.

Canyon Capital Advisors LLC (Canyon) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Mitchell Julis and Joshua Friedman in 1990 and they are owned by Canyon Partners LLC. Canyon provides discretionary advisory services to individuals, trusts, pension plans, corporations, and public and private entities.

York Capital Management Global Advisors LLC, dba York Capital Management (York), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by James Dinan in 1991 as JGD Management Corp. York provides investment advice to a variety of private investment partnerships and offshore investment funds. The funds are comprised of various types of investors, including high net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, business entities, endowments, and foreign sovereign wealth funds.

Renaissance Technologies LLC (Renaissance) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and global hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1982 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Renaissance Technologies Holdings Corp. Renaissance acts as general partner, managing member, and/or investment manager to US and non-US private investment funds and an institutional account that invests in a variety of securities, futures, and derivatives contracts.

Eminence Capital LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. They were founded by Ricky Sandler in 1999 as Eminence Capital LLC. In 2014, Eminence Capital LLC merged with and into Eminence Capital LP, which assumed all of the assets, liabilities and obligations of Eminence Capital LLC. The firm provides investment advice to private investment funds and to the owner of separately managed accounts (SMAs).

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Meritage Group LP (Meritage) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was principally owned by the 1998 Simons Family Revocable Trust. They were formed in 2006 as a spin-off of Renaissance Technologies LLC. Meritage provides discretionary investment management services to private investment funds for which they serve as investment manager and/or investment general partner and not individually to the investors in the private investment funds.

FastCAP Systems Corp develops nanotube-enhanced ultra capacitors. The firm offers the technology for battery and ultracapacitor electrodes. The company was founded by John Cooley and Riccardo Signorelli in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

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.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 2001, Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd. (ASX: MBL). They provide coverage of the following industries: resources, healthcare, security/defense, transportation, financial services, retail/consumer products, TMET (telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology), oil & gas, diversified manufacturing/distribution and infrastructure/utilities. Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a member of FINRA.

Contour Asset Management LLC (Contour) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm which was founded by Seth Wunder and David Meyer in 2010. The firm is principally owned by Contour Asset Management LP, which is owned by DLM I LLC. Headquartered in New York City, Contour provides discretionary investment advisory services to Manticore Funds.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Corp. is a company based in New York, NY.

Ellington Management Group LLC (Ellington) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1994 and is primarily owned by Michael Vranos indirectly through his ownership interest in Ellington’s majority owner, EMG Holdings LP. Ellington provides investment advice to pooled investment vehicles and institutional managed accounts.

Ufora, Inc. provides data science engineering solutions. It offers open source platform that automates the engineering code required to run single-threaded programs in parallel across a cluster of machines. The company was founded by Braxton McKee and Alexander Leeds in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Macquarie Bank provides investment banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. develops, manufactures, and commercializes chemicals, fuels, and polymers. It offers dibasic acids, pentamethylene diamine, terryl for textiles, engineering polymers, toll production, and technology development. The company was founded by XiuCai Liu and QiXian Zhang in 1997 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Vision Capital LLP (Vision Capital) is an private equity firm founded in 1997 by Julian P. Mash. The firm headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Fish & Richardson PC provides legal services. The firm specializes in intellectual property, litigation, transactional, and regulatory services. the company was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TPG Growth LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 2000 by William E. McGlashan and Michael Guthrie. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, United States with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Xenon Ventures LLC (Xenon Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Jonathan Siegel. The firm is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Y Combinator Management LLC provides investment advice. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded by Daniel Levine.

Truvvo Partners LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund-of-funds manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2007 as Carleon Capital Partners LLC. They are owned by Truvvo Investment Partners LLC, which is ultimately owned by Lazard Ltd. (NYSE: LAZ). Truvvo Partners offers wealth and investment advisory services primarily to sophisticated families, foundations, endowments and other select institutions, as well as private pooled investment vehicles.

BlackRock Investment Management LLC (BIM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Trident Merger LLC, ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BIM manages assets for institutional and high net worth clients, separate accounts, pooled investment vehicles and US registered investment companies. They also sponsor an SMA (wrap fee) program.

Sierra Global Management LLC (Sierra Global) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1996 by Charles Michaels and Stefan Alb. Sierra Global provides portfolio management services to the Sierra Funds and to certain separately managed accounts.