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Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q) is an investment bank focused on emerging growth companies and growth-oriented investors. The Company's core strength has been the identification and sponsorship of leading growth companies in its chosen areas of focus through analysis of industry and technology trends. The industry groups that the Company focuses on include Technology, Healthcare, Services and Branded Consumer. H&Q organizes its research and investment banking professionals into industry teams that develop and maintain an understanding of the secular and cyclical trends driving the particular industry sector on which it focuses. The Company provides growth companies and growth investors with investment banking and brokerage services, including merger and acquisitions advisory services, and by investing its own capital in emerging growth and later-stage companies. H&Q is also an underwriter of public offerings of equity securities for emerging growth companies in its industry areas of focus.(Source: 10-K)