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Sloane Robinson LLP is the alternative investment management subsidiary of Sloane Robinson Investment Services Ltd. in Great Britain. The firm was founded by Hugh Sloane and George Robinson in 1993 as Sloane Robinson Investment Management Ltd. They changed their name to Sloane Robinson Investment Partners LLP in 2004. Headquartered in London, Sloane Robinson manages assets with an absolute return focus on behalf of professional investors throughout the world.

Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. (JIP) is a private equity firm based in Tokyo. Established in 2002 through the collaboration of several firms, they develop Japan-focused private equity business contributing to the reorganization, restructuring and reform of Japanese companies. JIP operates investment partnerships to provide funds and to support corporate management assisting firms to optimize their operating base for growth.

BIGLOBE, Inc. operates as an Internet services provider. It offers networking services, contents, and applications. The firm's business activities include internet services, broadband media business, and platform service business. The company was founded on July 3, 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. engages in the financial instruments business that includes sales and trade of equity and bond, research, and investment trusts. It operates through the following business divisions: Retail, Corporate Investment Services, and Markets and Products. The Retail business division markets equities, bonds, investment trusts, and insurance for individual clients. The Corporate Investment Services business division offers securities solutions, investment banking, management strategies and raising funds for corporate clients. The Markets and Products division handles the product development. The company was founded in July 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (Broker) (Mizuho Securities-Broker) is the brokerage division of Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd., ultimately owned by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411; NYSE: MFG) in Japan. The firm was originally founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo with a network of offices throughout Japan as well as overseas representation through Mizuho entities or strategic partners (in Great Britain, Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and India). Mizuho Securities-Broker provides enhanced equity and fixed income execution services for their clients who includes private individuals in Japan, domestic and foreign institutions, non-financial companies, financial institutions and public corporations in the securities and investment banking fields.

ITX Corp. engages in the information and telecommunication business. It provides mobile device sales and fixed communication line service. It also offers solutions for mobile website construction, rental server with online store, web conferencing, corporate telecommunication infrastructure, and mobile phone administration service. The company was founded on April 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Embrace Co., Ltd. is a holding company that provides a social healthcare platform. It develops, delivers, and manages a social networking service (SNS) solution for medical database. The firm's SNS platform, the MedicalCareStation, enables health practitioners, medical staff, and healthcare facilities to monitor their patient's condition, communicate with each other, and share information in a timeline format. Its solution can be access using a mobile device, such as smartphones and tablets. The firm was founded in September 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Atonarp, Inc. provides chemical analysis solutions and systems. The firm develops the Smart Spectrometer technology that focus on industrial gas process analytics applications in the energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and semiconductor industries. The company was founded by Tomoyoshi Sato and Prakash S. Murthy in November 2009 and is headquartered in Minato-Ku, Japan.

Elephantech Inc. offers conductive markers and printer cartridges with silver conductive ink. It develops and sells DIY kit which converts household printer into electronic circuit printing machine under the name of AgIC print. The company was founded by Shinya Shimizu and Masaaki Sugimoto in 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd. provides life insurance and pension products services. It operates through the following segments: domestic life insurance, overseas insurance, and others segment. The company was founded on September 15, 1902 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

EM Devices Corp. is a Japanese company that manufactures and distributes electromagnetic devices. The company is based in Shiroishi, Japan. The CEO of the company is Kousaku Hosokawa. EM Devices was acquired by Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. from NEC Corp. on April 14, 2017 for $422.48 million.

Nextremer Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development of artificial intelligence dialogue systems. Its research is focused on utilization for fields such as robotics and mobility. The company was founded in October 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

BeeEdge Co., Ltd. provides business advisory services to startups. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was founded in 2018 by Makoto Haruta.

Shinsei Capital Partners Ltd. (Shinsei Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was established in 2018, and is wholly owned by the publicly traded company Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (TYO:8303).

GROUND, Inc. is a logistics company based in Tokyo, Japan that aims to provide sustainable logistics solutions using technology. The Japanese company offers a variety of robot solutions and provide one-stop introduction and operation support. GROUND has developed an integrated and optimization system called GWES and offers AI software and logistics DX consulting services. The company also has an R & D center called Playground that researches and develops advanced technologies such as robot solutions and logistics integration management and optimization systems. The company was founded in 2015 by Hiratomo Miyata, who has been the CEO since then.

Crest Holdings KK engages in the business management for group companies. The company was founded on August 1, 2019 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Ierae Security, Inc. is a Japanese cyber security company that resolves security issues for customers using the technical skills of domestic white hackers. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. and has subsidiaries in Japan. The company was founded in 2013 by Makoto Makita.

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.