The company's investors include the former executive chairman of Last.

The private investors might well include the executives currently running the company.

The more than 80 investors include some of Daley's friends and neighbors.

Those investors include a number of state and corporate pension funds.

If investors include bonds, he said, "They have greater staying power."

In other words, investors hadn't included a risk premium in their analysis.

Investors include banks and insurance companies as well as investment funds.

Early investors also included members of elite Salvadoran families who fled the country's civil war.

The company, whose investors include Intel and Compaq, is expected to go public next year.

Other potential investors include large accounting firms that are looking to bolster their investigative units.