About the InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund

Beringea offers advice, guidance and capital to support growing businesses. The firm is headed by Senior Managing Director Charles Rothstein, who founded Beringea in 1988. Headquartered in Farmington Hills, the firm is Michigan’s largest and most active venture and expansion-stage capital investor and has more than 70 portfolio companies in the U.S. and UK. The professionals at Beringea have extensive experience investing in a range of sectors, including health care and life sciences, clean technology, advanced manufacturing, media, Internet technologies and specialized consumer products.

With capital, experience and offices in the U.S. and UK, Beringea’s award-winning team offers its portfolio companies the resources to develop strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, solve problems and build value.

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Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group (“CFIG”) is one of the largest and deepest investment teams dedicated to private equity investing. The group is headed by Managing Director and Global Head Kelly Williams, who founded CFIG in 1999. As of Dec. 31, 2010, CFIG manages over $27 billion in commitments to private equity funds of funds and co-investments, both in the United States and internationally. CFIG’s more than 125 professionals are based at the group’s offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Austin, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Portland and Raleigh. In addition to the Invest Michigan Mezzanine Fund, CFIG manages the $95 million Venture Michigan Fund I, the $120 million Venture Michigan Fund II and the $109 million Michigan 21st Century Investment Fund programs and co-manages with Beringea the $185 million Invest Michigan Growth Capital Partners Fund program.

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