Bain & Company is an international consulting firm with over 3,000 staff and 26 offices around the world.

The Halo Fund invests in very early stage companies at the front edge of technological or marketing progress. The Fund focuses on local, disruptive technology companies that have identified a "must-have" (rather than a "nice-to-have") product or service and set a clear path to profitability and financial success in a reasonable amount of time.

The Angels' Forum (TAF) is a professional investing group of about twenty-five experienced investors and entrepreneurs that invest in Silicon Valley companies. TAF uses a venture capital model for its management and policies but its source of money for investments is the members' personal capital. Its members invest their collective financial resources in, and provide hands-on strategic and operational guidance to, its portfolio companies prior to the involvement of later-stage venture capitalists. They are active investors with a six year proven track record of transforming investment opportunities into successful, profitable companies.