Scott Carmel

Stage 1 Ventures LLC (Stage 1 Ventures) is an venture capital firm founded in 2006 by David William Baum. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Aliaswire, Inc. provides telephone based payment services. It provides DirectBiller enterprise, DirectBiller channel, PayVox and web service solutions. The firm serves financial institutions, insurance, healthcare, government, education, biller service providers, charities and utilities sectors. The company was founded by Hoss Mohsenzadeh and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

OpenCorporates Ltd. operates an online database that provides users with information related to company. Its database with legal entity data on companies helps big data initiatives that provide business insights, support transparency in business, and benefit society as a whole. The company was founded by Chris Taggart and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Aura Salonware, Inc. develops and operates a salon business platform. It offers salon wallet, text marketing, and salon snapshot. The company was founded by Sarah Cooper and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.

Southside Capital LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida. It was founded by Scott Carmel in 2018. The firm provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco LLC (Philadelphia Financial) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Jordan Hymowitz and Justin Hughes in 2004 and they are a subsidiary of Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco LP. Philadelphia Financial provides discretionary investment advisory services to four private investment funds.

Moors & Cabot, Inc. (MCI) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by John F. Moors and Charles Cabot in 1890 to handle the personal investments of the two founders and their friends. They became a solely owned subsidiary of Eighteen Ninety Partners LLC in 2022. MCI provides brokerage execution services to their advisory client participating in Portfolio Management Program (PMP).

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

Surveyor Capital Ltd. is a hedge fund seeding platform headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Citadel LP, which is owned by GFH HFEVA LLC. Surveyor Capital manages capital exclusively for Citadel’s multi-strategy funds and its positions are consolidated in Form 13F filed by Citadel Advisors LLC.