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Ecovative Design LLC develops home-compostable bio plastics based on mycelium. The firm's products include Myco board that is used for furniture components and work surfaces; Myco foam that is used in packaging, insulation, and acoustics development applications; Myco make for use in teddy bears, balls, and more; and Myco flex and grow materials. The company was founded by Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre in 2007 and is headquartered in Green Island, NY.

Labviva, Inc. develops digital marketplace for life science products for accelerating the science of life. Its platform is built with scientists in mind to connect researchers with suppliers of reagents, chemicals and instrumentation. The firm offers biological kits, buffers and solutions, chemicals and chromatography. The company was founded by Siamak Baharloo, Nicholas Rioux and Aaron Miramontes and is headquartered in Swampscott, MA.

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a privately-held investment management firm now structured as a family office, but which was once a hedge fund manager. The firm was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in New York City. SFM serves as principal investment adviser to a group of funds managed for the benefit of Soros family cl fsients.

Senator Investment Group LP (Senator) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 and is majority owned, indirectly, by Douglas Silverman and Alexander Klabin. Senator provides discretionary investment advisory services to a variety of domestic and offshore private investment vehicles as well as to co-investment and special purpose investment accounts and vehicles.

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.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Visium Asset Management LP is an independent hedge fund management firm founded by Jacob Gottlieb in 2005. Headquartered in New York City, the firm provides discretionary investment advisory services and sub-advisory services for various long/short equity, credit, event-driven and multi-strategy private investment funds, registered investment companies, an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities organized under European Union Directors, and separately managed accounts.

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.