Valar Ventures

Welcome to Passport CapitalPassport Capital LLC is a San Francisco based, global investment firm founded by John H. Burbank III in 2000. The firm manages approximately $4.4 billion in assets. Passport's investment process uses a combination of macroeconomic analyses to develop major themes and rigorous fundamental research on individual companies to create global portfolios. The firm's investment team focuses on the following areas: Agriculture, Basic Materials, Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Capital Markets, Internet / Technology, India and Middle East & North Africa. As appropriate, the firm makes available to its investors co-investment opportunities.Passport Capital is a federally registered investment advisor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Based in San Rafael, Calif., Industrial Light & Magic, also known as ILM, is a Lucasfilm company and serves the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual effects. ILM has won more than 10 Academy Awards for best visual effects and over 15 scientific and technical achievement awards. Established in 1975, ILM provides postproduction visual effects services to the entertainment industry. ILM offers model making, matte painting, computer-generated imagery, digital animation and a variety of related processes required in the production of visual effects for motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos and special venue projects. Its projects include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mission: Impossible III, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Lady in the Water, and Poseidon. Lucasfilm is a film and entertainment company that develops and publishes interactive entertainment software for video game console systems, manages the global merchandising activities and creates Internet-based content for businesses.