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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the worlds equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com

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Ernst & Young s a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 144,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential. Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. For more information about our organization, please visit www.ey.com.

Sorin Royer Cooper is a new law firm embracing and fostering a paradigm shift for 21st century business realities. We are combining a commitment to the highest-quality lawyering with a businessperson’s practical, results-oriented sensibility to meet the needs of emerging growth, middle market, technology, and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, directors, and executives who support and lead them.

As entrepreneurs, we have experienced what it takes to make a dream reality. We know the doubts. We know the late nights. We know the celebrations. We know that for an idea that's never been done, flexibility is required. The unknown represents possibility not fear. We get it. Square 1 Bank specializes in providing financial services to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We help growing companies and their investors navigate financial obstacles by providing access to funds and expertise. Our customized product offerings and unrivaled team of venture banking specialists provide a banking experience designed exclusively for you.

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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Denton Wilde Sapte are now SNR Denton, a global law firm focused on eight key industry sectors and located in key financial and commercial centers in 43 countries.   A top 10 venture law practice in the US, our Venture Technology practice is renowned for providing nimble, fast-paced counsel to cutting-edge emerging growth technology and life sciences companies from Silicon Valley to New York and London and around the globe.

Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers operates at the convergence of innovation, strategy, finance and law.  We leverage our deep expertise in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, medical devices, cleantech, data privacy and health information technology, along with a global network of venture capital and investment banking relationships, to remove hurdles to our clients' success.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is well placed to help you meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace. We offer the perspective of a global organization combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. Formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, PwC has a history in client services that dates back to the nineteenth century. Each accounting practice originated in London during the mid-1800s.

Today, PwC serves 29 industries. Our industry-focused professionals in the fields of assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management help to resolve complex client and stakeholder issues worldwide. We also bring our experience and talents to help educational institutions, the federal government, non-profits, and international relief agencies address their unique business issues.

For over twenty years, SVB Silicon Valley Bank has provided financial services to some of the most innovative and entrepreneurial companies in the technology, life sciences, private equity and premium wine industries. Our years of experience working with these industries afford us a deep understanding of our clients’ business models and a level of comfort and respect for the inherent volatility that comes with serving our clients' dynamic markets. SVB Silicon Valley Bank clients are unique; they require customized solutions to serve their needs. Offering global commercial, investment, and private banking and asset management services to companies of all sizes, SVB Silicon Valley Bank employs an innovative approach to financial services and a deep commitment to helping entrepreneurial companies of all sizes succeed.

Each day, American Express makes it easier, safer and more rewarding for consumers and businesses to purchase the things they need and for merchants to sell their goods and services. An engine of commerce, American Express provides innovative payment, travel and expense management solutions for individuals and businesses of all sizes. Most of all, we help our customers realize their dreams and aspirations through industry-leading benefits, access to unique experiences, business-building insights, and global customer care. We enable our customers to do more and achieve more.

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Founded in 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee, Morgan Keegan & Company is today one of the nation's largest regional investment firms offering full-service investment banking, securities brokerage, wealth and asset management. Morgan Keegan serves the diverse financial needs of individual investors, corporate and institutional clients throughout the U.S. and abroad. Morgan Keegan has over 300 offices in 20 states and more than 4,400 employees.

Morgan Lewis has the track record and relationships to help entrepreneurs and investors make profitable decisions and connections in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Each of our clients works with a dedicated, partner-led team familiar with its business objectives, industry dynamics, and market issues. We guide our clients in their relationships. We will work closely with you to position your company for investment, raise capital, negotiate strategic relationships, establish intellectual property protection practices, and create incentive compensation structures. We will keep you close to the financing resources that fund today’s growing companies through our established relationships with the venture capital and investment banking communities in the New York, Mid-Atlantic, Silicon Valley, and international markets. Our reputation and track record of success with investors and entrepreneurs have enabled us to open doors for clients.

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Hudson Ventures is a New York venture capital firm with over $170 million of capital under management. Our partners have decades of experience in operating and growing technology companies, and have successfully managed every phase of a company's life cycle. Our expertise enables us to add value in both leading investment syndicates and co-investing with other venture funds. We invest primarily in enterprise software and services companies that deliver compelling business solutions to financial services, marketing and advertising and media businesses.

Comerica Bank, founded 161 years ago, is a subsidiary of Comerica Inc. (NYSE: CMA), a Dallas-based company that is one of the nation’s oldest and most stable financial institutions. The financial services company, one of the 25 largest in the U.S., has been building and investing in communities since its forerunner institution was formed in Michigan in 1849.

Comerica Bank’s Technology and Life Sciences Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs, venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. Experienced bankers provide credit and financial services and products to young, growing, venture-backed technology, life sciences and alternative energy/clean technology companies, as well as their more mature counterparts.

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Some invest in entrepreneurs. At FirstMark Capital, we invest in visionaries — those who not only envision the future but make it happen through high-growth businesses in key technology markets. You’ll find us at the forefront of the most complex and rapidly evolving industries, among them media, advertising, financial services and telecom. Why? In part because some of the biggest players reside here in New York City, our home, where we’re among the city’s most active investors. We work closely with entrepreneurial visionaries and their management teams. Daily collaboration is the key to building exceptional, sustainable and world-changing businesses.

We constantly evaluate the market shifts that underlie the next wave of business opportunities and stay ahead of a constantly-changing marketplace. We also partner early in our companies’ lifecycles — and frequently become the first institutional investor – to ensure we maximize the impact of our investments. Our team of investment and operations veterans has decades of real-world experience and leadership in core technology markets. That makes FirstMark uniquely qualified to offer what breakout companies need to succeed: industry insight, relationships and the operational expertise to build lasting businesses.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho’s three operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada and Rho Fund Investors. Founded in 1981, Rho began its private equity activities as a family investment office. Today, Rho is a leading private equity firm that manages a series of funds, under each of its three divisions, backed by a broad group of institutional investors that include endowments, foundations, families, pension funds, and other financial institutions. Across all of Rho’s activities and strategies, our teams are committed to investing in growth and building companies over the long-term. Unique among private equity firms, Rho’s three divisions are each managed by dedicated teams who invest separate funds, yet all benefit from actively cross-leveraging other divisions’ networks to generate differentiated perspectives and insights.

NewSpring Capital, based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Short Hills, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD is a leading provider of private equity capital focused in the Mid-Atlantic region. NewSpring Capital currently has $600 million across three distinct investment strategies through its family of funds.

Across all funds, NewSpring Capital's investment professionals include eight partners with significant experience as private equity investors, operating managers, and industry leaders at the CEO level. The firm's highly cohesive investment team has a strong track record of investing in both private and public transactions, collectively representing more than 100 years of experience investing over $1 billion.

NEA provides venture capital to help innovative entrepreneurs and business leaders build transformational, industry-leading companies around the world. For more than 30 years, NEA has been helping to build great companies. NEA is the entrepreneur's venture capital firm, consistently ranking among the top firms in portfolio IPOs each year. Since its founding, the firm has backed more than 165 companies that have gone public and invested in more than 255 companies that have been successfully merged or acquired—more liquidity events than any other venture capital firm.

Milestone is an early stage venture capital fund with $70 million under management. We focus on technology-enhanced service businesses in the New York metropolitan area. Companies that we find attractive possess the nucleus of an exceptional management team, an attractive business model, and a compelling market opportunity.

Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI), the venture capital arm of Pfizer, Inc., was founded in 2004 and invests for return in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. As part of the Worldwide Business Development, Strategy, and Innovation division, PVI seeks to remain at the forefront of life science advances, looking to identify and invest in emerging companies that are developing compounds and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer's pipeline and shape the future of our industry.With a $50M annual budget for private investments, PVI may invest up to $10M per round in selected companies in any stage of development, with a strong focus on growth stage opportunities. Other investments, including fund investing, spinout opportunities, and PIPEs will also be considered as appropriate. We actively manage our current portfolio and are seeking to make new investments.

Venrock is a leading venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, CA; New York, NY; and Cambridge, MA. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, Venrock continues an eight-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology, healthcare, and energy, portfolio companies have included Adify, Adnexus Therapeutics, Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Intel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, StrataCom, and Vontu. For more information, please visit Venrock's website at www.venrock.com and follow the firm on Twitter at @venrock.

Contour Venture Partners invests in companies focused on information technology, and the application of technology into the financial services, digital media and internet sectors. The principals at Contour have a long and successful track record, having directly supported over 40 companies through numerous market cycles since the late 1980s. We take great pride in the strong bonds we form with management teams, as this is a crucial ingredient to achieving long term milestones while also making the process engaging and enjoyable. We recognize it is the details and flawless execution combined with the right long-term vision that makes an average company great. We have the experience, intuition, judgment and industry expertise to ensure that the foundation is in place for management to build a great business with a sustainable competitive advantage.

Founded in 1995, TCV is one of the largest private equity and venture capital firms focused solely on information technology companies. We are flexible in providing capital in a manner that addresses the goals of the management and shareholders of the companies in which we invest. We take both minority and majority positions and provide capital for growth, shareholder liquidity, acquisitions, buyouts, and recapitalizations. We are active, long-term investors who stay involved with, and continue to invest in, our portfolio companies through their IPOs and beyond. With $7.7 billion under management, we have the ability to invest significant amounts of capital ranging from $20 million to over $200 million. For larger transactions, we may leverage our large base of limited partners, many of whom have the ability to make sizeable co-investments alongside TCV.

Media & Industry Partners

New York is in the midst of a new era of dramatic growth in the startup sector. Over the past two decades the technology enabling the creation of online products has become cheaper and more effective, democratizing entrepreneurship. At the same time, design plays an increasingly important role in the creation of intuitive and differentiated user experiences. New York is becoming a nexus for the cross-pollination of ideas and for utilizing technology and design to disrupt industry and culture. Despite this shift, starting a successful business is still extraordinarily difficult, suffering from a steep learning curve. Thus, we are crafting a community to provide the necessary support, infrastructure, and educational framework for aspiring entrepreneurs to start new ventures. We've created a multi-faceted campus to serve the needs of high-potential entrepreneurs and advance the startup ecosystem in New York. Our community not only has a place in which to collaborate, but also take advantage of a new kind of learning-by-doing. Through our curriculum, entrepreneurs will receive a pragmatic and multi-disciplinary education at the intersection of technology, design, and entrepreneurship.

Venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the premier platform where entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts meet to build great women-led businesses. Springboard educates, sources, coaches, showcases and supports high growth companies seeking equity capital for expansion. Springboard's record is unmatched. Since January, 2000, Springboard has helped over 400 women-led companies raise more than $5 billion in equity financing, including 8 IPOs, and legions of high value M&As. 80% of Springboard companies are still in business, generating $4 billion in revenues and creating tens of thousands of new jobs.

Dogpatch Labs is a "frat house for geeks." Dogpatch Labs was created by Polaris Venture Partners to connect entrepreneurs and help founders conceive and launch startups. We are physically located in San Francisco; Cambridge, MA and New York City.

TechStars is the #1 startup accelerator in the world. We’re very selective – Although thousands of companies apply each year, we only take about ten companies per program. We have selection rates lower than the Ivy League, so you have to be among the best of the best to be in TechStars. We offer TechStars in top startup locations (Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle), on a regular schedule. Our companies get seed funding from over 75 different venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in their success, along with three months of intensive top-notch mentorship, incredible perks, and the chance to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists at the end of the program. Our companies average over $1M in outside venture capital raised after leaving TechStars. Look for yourself – see the full details and get statistical results.

Betabeat isn’t here to bring you the fifth take on the day’s funding news or another rundown of the cool new features in the latest mobile app update. We’re about the characters who make this scene hum: the ambitious young angels, the eccentric hackers and the non-stop networkers. We’re here to take you behind closed doors for an inside look at how thedeals really get done. About that exuberance, we understand the impulse. And from time to time, sure, Betabeat will shake the pom-poms with the best of them. But expect a healthy dose of skepticism as well. We’re not cynical or heartless, but we’re not afraid to call bullshit when the need arises.

Upstate Venture Connect’s mission is to catalyze the creation of thousands of high-tech, high-growth, private capital backed companies that will provide entrepreneurial opportunities for a new generation of highly educated and highly skilled talent. We will accomplish our goals by building an ecosystem linking Upstate NY venture entrepreneurs to sources of talent and supporters across the region and its vast alumni and expatriate resources.

The Upstate Venture Association of New York is a statewide organization formed to advance venture capital and private equity investments throughout upstate New York. Members and participants include seed capital, venture capital and private equity sources, as well as many nonresident-financing sources interested in making upstate investments. Additional members and participants include legal and accounting firms, banks, and economic and industrial development agencies.

Gust provides the global platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments. Gust enables skilled entrepreneurs to collaborate with the smartest investors by virtually supporting all aspects of the investment relationship, from initial pitch to successful exit. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 125,000 start-ups have already used the platform to connect and collaborate with over 35,000 individual accredited investors. The company was founded in 2004 under the name Angelsoft and is privately held. Gust is based in New York, New York, with a development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, and European office in Paris, France.

We know New York Tech. Let us help your startup succeed. Get your startup super-charged. Our combination of hands-on help, seed capital, a great co-working location, and know-how can help your company take the next step.

Healthcare Track Partners

The Life Sciences Angel Network (LSAN) at the New York Academy of Sciences is designed to serve New York City and tri-state area scientists and entrepreneurs looking to fund and promote innovation. With a large concentration of universities, research institutions, and medical centers that attract some of the world’s best talent, New York City is a national leader in research and development in the life sciences. Despite having unmatched resources, NYC is missing a focused organization that will consolidate the efforts of turning research ideas into improved patient care by providing early stage funding to promising new companies with validated technologies.

The Health 2.0 team is made up of co-founders Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt, with John Pluenneke, VP of Business Development, and Sara Walker, Events Manager. Health 2.0 — User Generated Healthcare, our first conference, was held on September 20th, 2007 at the Hilton San Francisco.

StartUp Health is an initiative to inspire, educate, and provide resources for entrepreneurs to build sustainable health and wellness companies. StartUp Health aims to close the “Health Gap” between entrepreneurs, private investors, corporations, universities, foundations and other stakeholders committed to accelerating meaningful health and wellness innovation.

Blueprint Health is a startup accelerator based in New York City that helps entrepreneurs improve the health and wellness industry. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide $20,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to prototype and provide access to angel and venture capital investors.

Exclusive Spirit Partner

Founded in 1824, The Macallan® is one of the world’s most admired and awarded single malt whiskies. The reputation of The Macallan is based on a product of outstanding quality and distinctive character, founded upon a set of guiding principles, the Six Pillars. An obsession with quality has been the hallmark of The Macallan since its founding by Alexander Reid on a plateau above the river Spey in north-east Scotland. The distillery is surrounded by a 150 hectare estate, with Easter Elchies House, a Highland Manor built in 1700, at its heart. Traditionally known for maturation in Spanish oak, sherry seasoned casks, The Macallan’s range of outstanding single malts includes :Sherry Oak, matured in Spanish oak casks seasoned with sherry; Fine Oak, matured both in sherry casks of Spanish and American oak and in American oak casks seasoned with bourbon; the 1824 range, exclusive to Global Travel Retail. In addition, The Macallan is well known for its great range of vintage whiskies, dating back to 1926, and is considered the most sought after of all single malts among collectors and connoisseurs at auction. Please savour responsibly.