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Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is a leading early-stage international venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Since its inception in 1980, its partners have helped build over 300 companies in more than 15 different countries. In the past decade, 40 portfolio companies have been acquired and 37 are now public companies with an aggregate market capitalization of over $12 billion. Atlas Venture is currently investing from its seventh fund and manages over $2 billion in capital through offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris.
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Essilor International
Established in 1972 by the joining of Essel and Silor, Essilor has grown into the largest lens maker in the world and become a global leader in the optical industry. A network of 17 plants and 183 prescription laboratories that manufacture and customize corrective lenses, the organization is tailored to market demand and differs by region. Essilor is solely dedicated to vision and corrective lenses.
Each year 850 million corrective lenses are sold worldwide and the average growth of the market is 4 percent a year. Essilor makes half of all progressive lenses sold in the world, with over $2 billion in worldwide annual sales and over 22,000 employees around the globe.
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The Hillman Company
The Hillman Company is a privately-owned company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which is engaged in broadly diversified investments and operations. Major areas of the Company's investment focus include technology, telecommunications, financial services, product distribution, energy services / natural resources, timber, real estate development and life sciences / healthcare.
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$4 billion in more than 1,000 companies spanning more than 30 countries. During this time, about 160 portfolio companies have been acquired and another 150 have gone public on exchanges around the world. In 2005, Intel Capital invested about US$265 million in about 140 deals, with approximately 60 percent of funds invested outside the United States.
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Turner Broadcasting
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and a leading provider of programming to the basic cable industry.
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