Founded in 1984, Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP) is a leading international private equity asset manager. BPEP invests via five regional fund groups with local investment teams in Spain, Asia, India, Latin America and Russia.

With approximately $2 billion in funds under management, BPEP has one of the most extensive on-the-ground networks of any international private equity provider. Its network provides the resources and investment expertise to help entrepreneurs around the world build world-class businesses. For further information, visit www.bpep.com.

Established in 1997, NTT Finance is the only venture-capital entity in the NTT Group involved in net investment in Japanese and overseas venture companies. Leveraging the advantages NTT Finance has as a member of the NTT Group, NTT Finance focuses their investments on start ups in IT-related fields. By playing to NTT Finance's strengths in that way, NTT Finance aims to increase the success rate and provide support to the companies it invests in such as by offering their own range of financial services as well as introductions to other NTT Group companies. NTT Finance has established a network of Japanese and overseas venture capital and financial institutions with the aim of cooperating to provide full support to investee companies. For more information, visit http://www.ntt-finance.co.jp/eng/