Renaissance Capital, founded in 1991, is the leading provider of independent research on newly public companies. The Firm’s research is used by leading institutional investors to evaluate IPOs. Renaissance Capital’s research is also distributed to over 15 million individual investors through major brokerage firms, including Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Using its proprietary research, Renaissance Capital has developed and maintains the Renaissance IPO Index®, the flagship benchmark for IPO performance, and it continues to develop additional IPO-focused indices, including tradable subsets of the benchmark Index that can be licensed as the basis for exchange-traded and OTC structured products. Renaissance Capital is also the advisor to the IPO Plus Aftermarket Fund (IPOSX), the first actively managed mutual fund to focus exclusively on IPOs, and it operates the popular www.IPOhome.com web site.