Aranca

Aranca is a global provider of investment research, business research, data analytics, intellectual property research and valuation services.

Aranca provides tax compliance and financial reporting services, including 409A Valuation, FAS123R Valuation, FAS 141 and FAS 142 Valuation or Fairness Opinions to privately held companies. Aranca has performed over 700 409A valuations for more than 350 companies.

In each engagement, Aranca leverages the collective knowledge and experience of a 250+ person research team whose work in investment, business and IP research offers insight to the valuation process. Aranca’s valuation team draws on the insight of investment trends, broad industry expertise and an understanding of how to treat and value IP to deliver a high quality and defensible 409A valuation.

In addition to privately held firms, Aranca also works with PE and VC firms, Law firms, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Broker firms, Fortune 2000 corporations, Research and Management Consulting firms among others to deliver research and advisory services. Aranca was founded in 2003 and operates from six offices in the US, UK, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.aranca.com.

Arcstone Partners

Arcstone Partners is a national business valuation firm, offering analysis for the range of a company’s valuation needs, including: regulatory compliance, tax, transaction support and litigation. Arcstone Partners works with businesses of every type and size from the early stage private company to the longstanding public corporation.

The Arcstone team offers years of experience, combining financial know-how, business acumen and real-world experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, law and public accounting.

HedgeFund.net

HedgeFund.net, owned by Channel Capital Group Inc., is a source for hedge fund news and performance data. Investors who meet HedgeFund.net's accreditation standards are eligible for access to the site's database of information on more than 7,000 hedge funds, funds of funds and CTA/Managed Futures products. HedgeFund.net is used by accredited investors to keep abreast of industry news, monitor existing hedge fund investments, and review fund information in anticipation of making allocations to the asset class.

JCF Consulting Inc. & JCF Capital Advisors, LLC

JCF is a combination capital advisory and management consulting firm with a network of angel capital, family office, venture capital, private equity, and institutional investors.

JCF’s advisory services and investor network enables clients to optimize the likelihood of funding and obtain the appropriate sources of capital at reasonable terms at the highest acceptable valuation. JCF works to minimize risk, uncertainty, and timing associated with the complex nature of funding new and emerging ventures.
 

SkyRank System of Hedge Fund Ratings

SkyRankTM System of Hedge Fund Ratings, provides up to 12 ratings per fund on over 7,500 hedge funds, funds of funds and commodity trading advisors, using its proprietary and external databases. SkyRank utilizes a patented linear algorithm to reveal a simple hedge fund rating to the investor in three forms. Absolute SkyRank, a numerical hedge fund rating, ranges between 0 and 5. Lettered SkyRank translates this number to a letter ranging between A+ and E. Relative SkyRank displays the relative attractiveness of a hedge fund compared to its peers. The SkyRank System analyzes the hedge fund industry to reward those that are established, credible, and able to reduce risk at attractive returns, over time. The Skyrank System analyzes returns, volatility, time and assets under management in its unique formula-generating methodology, while other quantitative inputs may be integrated into the rating based upon user preference. Administrative and historical performance data are delivered with the ratings to Skyrank clients in Excel format, or the data can be customized to upload into third party analytic platforms. SkyRank clients include banks, pension funds, consultants, institutional investors, hedge funds, funds of funds and high net worth investors.

VC Experts.com, Inc.

VC Experts serves the needs of the private equity and venture capital communities with its anchor product, The Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital by combining substantive commentary on the private equity and venture capital industries with online learning courses. The VCExperts.com site includes current industry news, model legal forms, The Glossary of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the online University and 8,000-page Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital.

The Private Equity Data Center (PEDC) is an online database of U.S. venture capital portfolio companies and the associated terms and valuations of those companies during their rounds of financings. With hard data collected from federally filed documents, the database provides a more accurate intelligence resource for entrepreneurs and fund managers as to how previous venture investments have been structured. In addition, it provides valuable valuation data for startups who utilize the comparables market approach. The Private Equity Data Center is owned and operated by VC Experts.com, Inc.
 

Lowenstein Sandler PC

Lowenstein Sandler PC is a nationally recognized law firm with more than 270 attorneys.  The firm’s Specialty Finance practice handles mergers and acquisitions, acquisition financing, PIPEs, SPACs and other corporate finance matters for a wide array of investment funds, leading national investment banks, and issuers, in deals worldwide.  In 2007, the group assisted in more than $1.9 billion in transactions and ranked first in the nation (by dollars raised) and second in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing placement agents in PIPE transactions, and third in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing investors in PIPEs, according to The PIPES Report  and PrivateRaise.com. 

Sadis & Goldberg LLP

Sadis & Goldberg LLP is a leading New York based law firm focused on delivering sophisticated and creative legal solutions in a highly professional manner. Sadis & Goldberg LLP is internationally recognized for its financial services practice that consists of representing several hundred investment advisors and related investment entities (including hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds). Similarly, Sadis & Goldberg LLP provides regulatory and compliance advice and representation in connection with SEC enforcement proceedings. Notwithstanding the emphasis on the financial services industry, Sadis & Goldberg LLP also provides a full range of regulatory, tax, estate planning, litigation, real estate, and corporate transactional services to its clients.

Arcstone Partners

Arcstone Partners is a national business valuation firm, offering analysis for the range of a company’s valuation needs, including: regulatory compliance, tax, transaction support and litigation. Arcstone Partners works with businesses of every type and size from the early stage private company to the longstanding public corporation.

The Arcstone team offers years of experience, combining financial know-how, business acumen and real-world experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, law and public accounting.

HedgeFund.net

HedgeFund.net, owned by Channel Capital Group Inc., is a source for hedge fund news and performance data. Investors who meet HedgeFund.net's accreditation standards are eligible for access to the site's database of information on more than 7,000 hedge funds, funds of funds and CTA/Managed Futures products. HedgeFund.net is used by accredited investors to keep abreast of industry news, monitor existing hedge fund investments, and review fund information in anticipation of making allocations to the asset class.

MarketsMedia

Markets Media covers the complex interrelationships among hedge funds, broker-dealers, institutions, exchanges, alternative trading systems, vendors and regulators in a dynamic marketplace where everyone's role is constantly evolving. Markets Media is a single platform with an online daily news service, a monthly magazine and conferences that cater to the key decision makers in the sectors we cover.

A dedicated staff of enterprising reporters and writers delve deep into the issues that impact the players who make and move the markets. Markets Media is committed to providing a unique and elevated platform that spans all asset classes and aims to offer insights and new perspectives. Maintaining the highest editorial standards, Markets Media goes beyond breaking news to make bold predictions and ask tough questions.

In print, online and live, Markets Media is Driven by Content.

 

American Endowment Foundation (AEF)

Since its founding in 1993, American Endowment Foundation (AEF) has been an independent sponsor of Donor Advised Funds.

AEF can assist donors in the process of receiving, managing, liquidating and finally enabling grantmaking from the proceeds of non-cash donations.

AEF offers individualized, creative solutions to most situations which can lead to maximized benefits for donors.

ARAM Global LLP

ARAM Global LLP and its affiliates were founded to help holders of stranded assets maximise the recovery value over the most effective time horizon and is dedicated to the asset recovery business.

With offices in London, Singapore and New York, ARAM Global’s team of professionals bring expertise in a number of credit market sectors including corporate credit, structured credit (CDOs and CLOs), Emerging Market (EM) credits as well as asset backed securities (ABS) such as RMBS, CMBS and SLABS.

ARAM Global's solutions represent an alternative to both the in-house management of problem assets and the sale of assets to distressed asset buyers. Depending on the nature of the impaired assets, solutions can take the form of advising or providing investment management services to a Trust, managed account or dedicated vehicle for certain asset strategies.

The success of the asset recovery process relies on understanding the composition of stressed assets and managing them individually and as a pool towards the specific objective of maximising recovery. ARAM Global applies a range of portfolio management techniques derived from best practices of both the buy and sell side environments. ARAM’s clients are offered institutional client-focused servicing and reporting capabilities on an ongoing basis.

Aranca

Aranca is a global provider of investment research, business research, data analytics, intellectual property research and valuation services.

Aranca provides tax compliance and financial reporting services, including 409A Valuation, FAS123R Valuation, FAS 141 and FAS 142 Valuation or Fairness Opinions to privately held companies. Aranca has performed over 700 409A valuations for more than 350 companies.

In each engagement, Aranca leverages the collective knowledge and experience of a 250+ person research team whose work in investment, business and IP research offers insight to the valuation process. Aranca’s valuation team draws on the insight of investment trends, broad industry expertise and an understanding of how to treat and value IP to deliver a high quality and defensible 409A valuation.

In addition to privately held firms, Aranca also works with PE and VC firms, Law firms, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Broker firms, Fortune 2000 corporations, Research and Management Consulting firms among others to deliver research and advisory services. Aranca was founded in 2003 and operates from six offices in the US, UK, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.aranca.com.

Arcstone Partners

Arcstone Partners is a national business valuation firm, offering analysis for the range of a company’s valuation needs, including: regulatory compliance, tax, transaction support and litigation. Arcstone Partners works with businesses of every type and size from the early stage private company to the longstanding public corporation.

The Arcstone team offers years of experience, combining financial know-how, business acumen and real-world experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, law and public accounting.

Growth Concepts

Growth Concepts, LLC is an M&A and Growth Funding advisory firm for middle and upper market companies. Growth Concepts built a network of M&A, Finance and Business Professionals and offers their clients access to a database of:

• Business Attorneys
• CPA’s
• Chartered Accountants
• Financial Professionals
• Sales, Marketing & Business Development Professionals

Growth Concepts uses their resources to make introductions of buyers and sellers in an environment that does not require a highly public posting of the business for sale, or public disclosure of the strategic moves of the buyer or investor. Please feel free to call Growth Concepts with your purchase/sale/funding project overview and we will be happy to work with you in areas where we might be able to assist.
 

JCF Consulting Inc. & JCF Capital Advisors, LLC

JCF is a combination capital advisory and management consulting firm with a network of angel capital, family office, venture capital, private equity, and institutional investors.

JCF’s advisory services and investor network enables clients to optimize the likelihood of funding and obtain the appropriate sources of capital at reasonable terms at the highest acceptable valuation. JCF works to minimize risk, uncertainty, and timing associated with the complex nature of funding new and emerging ventures.
 

Paramount Capital Corporation

Paramount Capital Corporation is a real estate investment, financing and advisory firm that provides strategic advisory services, debt and equity capital financing, capital solutions, brokerage, corporate finance and work outs and restructurings for the commercial real estate industry.

Paramount Capital provides its services to investors, developers, institutions, financial organizations and owners nationwide. Each of Paramount’s principals has more than twenty five years of experience in commercial real estate, finance and investments.

Joseph J. Ori, President and Chief Executive Officer, has completed more than $2,000,000,000 in real estate investment transactions including financings, sales and dispositions, investments, corporate capital, securitizations and advisory services.

Paramount is experienced in property types including; office buildings, industrial properties, shopping centers, apartments, land, hotels and senior housing complexes.

ARAM Global LLP

ARAM Global LLP and its affiliates were founded to help holders of stranded assets maximise the recovery value over the most effective time horizon and is dedicated to the asset recovery business.

With offices in London, Singapore and New York, ARAM Global’s team of professionals bring expertise in a number of credit market sectors including corporate credit, structured credit (CDOs and CLOs), Emerging Market (EM) credits as well as asset backed securities (ABS) such as RMBS, CMBS and SLABS.

ARAM Global's solutions represent an alternative to both the in-house management of problem assets and the sale of assets to distressed asset buyers. Depending on the nature of the impaired assets, solutions can take the form of advising or providing investment management services to a Trust, managed account or dedicated vehicle for certain asset strategies.

The success of the asset recovery process relies on understanding the composition of stressed assets and managing them individually and as a pool towards the specific objective of maximising recovery. ARAM Global applies a range of portfolio management techniques derived from best practices of both the buy and sell side environments. ARAM’s clients are offered institutional client-focused servicing and reporting capabilities on an ongoing basis.

Aranca

Aranca is a global provider of investment research, business research, data analytics, intellectual property research and valuation services.

Aranca provides tax compliance and financial reporting services, including 409A Valuation, FAS123R Valuation, FAS 141 and FAS 142 Valuation or Fairness Opinions to privately held companies. Aranca has performed over 700 409A valuations for more than 350 companies.

In each engagement, Aranca leverages the collective knowledge and experience of a 250+ person research team whose work in investment, business and IP research offers insight to the valuation process. Aranca’s valuation team draws on the insight of investment trends, broad industry expertise and an understanding of how to treat and value IP to deliver a high quality and defensible 409A valuation.

In addition to privately held firms, Aranca also works with PE and VC firms, Law firms, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Broker firms, Fortune 2000 corporations, Research and Management Consulting firms among others to deliver research and advisory services. Aranca was founded in 2003 and operates from six offices in the US, UK, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.aranca.com.

Arcstone Partners

Arcstone Partners is a national business valuation firm, offering analysis for the range of a company’s valuation needs, including: regulatory compliance, tax, transaction support and litigation. Arcstone Partners works with businesses of every type and size from the early stage private company to the longstanding public corporation.

The Arcstone team offers years of experience, combining financial know-how, business acumen and real-world experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, law and public accounting.

Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC

Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC, a valuation firm based in New York City, specializes in hard-to-value illiquid and distressed securities, and business valuations. Pluris combines valuation and technical accounting expertise in its development and application of valuation methodology, in compliance with U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Specific assets valued include auction rate securities, collateralized debt obligations, asset-backed securities, distressed debt, bankruptcy claims, restricted securities of public companies, limited partnerships and other assets that lack liquidity. Pluris' valuations are also used for tax purposes and litigation support. Our proprietary LiquiStat™ database enables Pluris to value even the most illiquid assets based on market data. Pluris clients include public-reporting entities, hedge funds, private equity funds, and their advisors nationwide.

American Endowment Foundation (AEF)

Since its founding in 1993, American Endowment Foundation (AEF) has been an independent sponsor of Donor Advised Funds.

AEF can assist donors in the process of receiving, managing, liquidating and finally enabling grantmaking from the proceeds of non-cash donations.

AEF offers individualized, creative solutions to most situations which can lead to maximized benefits for donors.

Aranca

Aranca is a global provider of investment research, business research, data analytics, intellectual property research and valuation services.

Aranca provides tax compliance and financial reporting services, including 409A Valuation, FAS123R Valuation, FAS 141 and FAS 142 Valuation or Fairness Opinions to privately held companies. Aranca has performed over 700 409A valuations for more than 350 companies.

In each engagement, Aranca leverages the collective knowledge and experience of a 250+ person research team whose work in investment, business and IP research offers insight to the valuation process. Aranca’s valuation team draws on the insight of investment trends, broad industry expertise and an understanding of how to treat and value IP to deliver a high quality and defensible 409A valuation.

In addition to privately held firms, Aranca also works with PE and VC firms, Law firms, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Broker firms, Fortune 2000 corporations, Research and Management Consulting firms among others to deliver research and advisory services. Aranca was founded in 2003 and operates from six offices in the US, UK, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.aranca.com.

Data Discoverers

Have a new project that requires a temporary task force? Crowdsourcing allows you to instantly have workers when you need them and to disband them when you don’t. Data Discoverers is able to manage crowdsourcing platforms which give their clients access to a large, flexible, and affordable workforce.

Data Discoverers is a start-up founded by four entrepreneurial students from NYU's Stern Business School. Coming from diverse backgrounds and experiences, they provide data services to companies across industry.

This diverse portfolio of clients and services offered includes anything from lead generation for insurance companies to gathering information on investment advisors for hedge funds.

Growth Concepts

Growth Concepts, LLC is an M&A and Growth Funding advisory firm for middle and upper market companies. Growth Concepts built a network of M&A, Finance and Business Professionals and offers their clients access to a database of:

• Business Attorneys
• CPA’s
• Chartered Accountants
• Financial Professionals
• Sales, Marketing & Business Development Professionals

Growth Concepts uses their resources to make introductions of buyers and sellers in an environment that does not require a highly public posting of the business for sale, or public disclosure of the strategic moves of the buyer or investor. Please feel free to call Growth Concepts with your purchase/sale/funding project overview and we will be happy to work with you in areas where we might be able to assist.
 

Growthink

Brief Description of the Company and Specific offerings): Growthink helps organizations prosper through our suite of integrated professional service practices. We help our clients develop professional business plans, secure capital, value their businesses, improve their marketing, and launch new product and/or service initiatives.

Since 1999, our Firm has worked with more than 2,000 satisfied clients. Growthink’s broad client portfolio encompasses startups, small businesses, venture capital and private equity firms, middle market and Fortune 2000 companies. Inc Magazine named Growthink as one of America’s 100 Fastest-Growing Business Services Companies and leading finance and business media, including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, The Deal, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc. Magazine, have recognized our accomplishments.

Learn more about how Growthink helps build successful companies at www.growthink.com.
 

HedgeConnection

Hedge Connection has been assisting hedge funds market more effectively and investors’ research efforts since 2005. With web-based research, events and advisory work, Hedge Connection is the first and only internet-based platform that offers hedge funds direct access to a membership of "opt-in" qualified active hedge fund allocators. Investor members join for free and gain access to detailed information on hedge fund members. All members receive invitations to members-only events and partner discounts.

Millennium Benefits Consulting, Inc.

Millennium Benefits Consulting is an employee benefit consulting and brokerage firm that was incorporated in 1998. We offer high touch, concrete consulting expertise. Unique to the industry, our partners and team members have depth of experience and diverse backgrounds that combine to make a powerful force. Our professional expertise stretches from national health plans, the recruiting industry, the human resources arena to a brokerage firm.

Square 1 Bank

Square 1 Bank is a full service commercial bank dedicated to providing financial services to venture capital firms and the companies that receive venture capital investment. Founded in 2005 by entrepreneurs to serve entrepreneurs, Square 1 has since grown to over $1 billion in assets and has 10 offices in the key technology corridors that serve more than 700 banking relationships from coast to coast. We are passionate about what we do, and this is reflected throughout the Square 1 experience. From the latest in technology-based convenience to a banker you’ll know as a long-term partner, you can expect this relationship to be responsive and genuine, clear and straightforward – we call it being Square.

Trident Trust Fund Services

Trident offers U.S. and international fund sponsors an outsourced back office service supported by over thirty years experience of international corporate, trust and fund administration.

Trident’s fees are based on administration performed as opposed to fund size. In addition, an open platform of services is available.

V-Rooms

V-Rooms™ Virtual Data Rooms provide an online virtual data room solution, with pricing starting as low as $50/week, designed to make due diligence and document exchange quicker, simpler, and more secure. Whether client needs are M&A buy-side or sell-side due diligence, electronic PPM/PIPE document distribution, bankruptcy / restructuring, or project collaboration, V-Rooms provides a privately branded electronic data room (a V-Room) that enables clients to accelerate complex, information-intensive processes, while reducing the time and expenses associated with data distribution, courier, printing and travel.