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Revitas, Inc. engages in the delivering integrated solutions for contract, revenue and compliance management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

ViaCell, Inc. provides and develops cellular medicine for the treatment of diseases. The firm develops medicines for treatment of cancer, genetic disorders, organ transplant tolerance, neurological disorders, and autoimmune diseases. The company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Body Media, Inc. develops, markets, and sells body monitoring products and applications. It offers wearable body monitors that record and transmit physiological data utilized in observing health and wellness conditions particularly weight management. The company was founded by John Stivoric in 1999 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

NormOxys, Inc. develops small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Its major product is OXY111A. The company was founded by Conrad J Bletzer, Jr. Claude Nicoalu, Jean-Mearie Lehn, Gay Goodman, Ruth Greferath and Roscoe Brady in 2004 and is headquartered in Brighton, MA.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium NV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV founded in 1981. BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium NV is headquartered in Brussels.

Part of UPMC Western Maryland Corp., UPMC Health System owns and operates 15 tertiary, specialty care, and community hospitals, and 24 surgical centers. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Societe de Developpement et de Participation du Brabant Wallon SA (Invest.BW) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1987. Invest.BW SA is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve.

GreenWatt SA designs and installs on-site bio-methanization plants. It engages in the provision of renewable energy and recycling solutions for waste bio-methanization cogeneration. The company was founded by Marc-Jean Spiltoir, Patrick Alexandre Thierry Rene van den Broucke, and Therese Marie Wathelet Florence in 2004 and is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

LinguaFlex, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes medical devices for the treatment of sleep apnea. It offers the LinguaFlex Tongue Retractor which is a minimally invasive device designed to be inserted into the tongue by a thin needle. The LinguaFlex Tongue Retractor is designed not to interfere with normal tongue functions such as speech and swallowing and to be removed or replaced in a doctor’s office in a short period of time without the need for anesthesia. The company was founded by Ira Sanders in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

ProFibrix BV develops and markets products for the hemostasis and regenerative medicine markets. Its product in pipeline, ProFibrix, is a hemostatic agent for mild to moderate surgical bleeding. The firm operates through its offices located in Leiden and Seattle. It is a subsidiary of The Medicines Company. The company was founded in 2004 by Jaap Koopman and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

PROMETHERA Biosciences SA discovers, develops and commercializes cell therapy products to treat liver diseases. It operates as a pharmaceutical company that develops treatment based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. The firm’s technology platform is based on a newly discovered cell type, isolated from normal human adult liver tissue: Heterologous Human Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (HHALPC). The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal and Eric Halioua on February 12, 2009 and is headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.

Amakem NV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It uses kinase inhibitors for treatments of bowel, eye, and lung diseases. The company was founded by Jack Elands, Dirk Leysen, Olivier Raynald Defert, and Nadya Kaval on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Mind-NRG SARL specializes in research and development programs with focus on the treatment psychiatric and neurologic diseases. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Xenikos BV focuses on the development of immunotherapies for the treatment of patients suffering from immune diseases. It is developing a combination of two toxin-loaded anti-T-cell antibodies, T-Guard, as a therapeutic tool for resetting the body's immune system in T-cell mediated diseases. The company was founded by Ypek van Oosterhout in September 2009 and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Levicept Ltd. develops a biological therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis and chronic pain. Its treatments include p75NTR-Fc and LEVI-04. The company was founded by Simon Lempriere Westbrook on August 23, 2012 and is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Kymo Therapeutics Ltd. develops and commercializes therapeutic products . The company was founded on May 23, 2016 and is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

Palladio Biosciences, Inc. develops transformative medicines for orphan diseases. Its pipeline includes Lixivaptan, a selective vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist for the treatment of polycystic kidney disease, a life-threatening genetic disease. The company was founded by Lorenzo Pellegrini in 2015 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

Mavalon Therapeutics Ltd. develops orally available small molecule able to induce glial cell line-derived neurotropic factor production within the brain of parkinson’s patients. The company is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

UltraHuman Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

Critical Pressure Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The firm develops products to treat vascular dysfunction and shock. The company is headquartered in Babraham, the United Kingdom.

Human Antibody Factory Ltd. provides research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by David John Grainger and is headquartered in Hatfield, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 2015, DalCor Pharma UK Ltd. is a subsidiary of DalCor Pharmaceuticals Canada, Inc. The company is based in Leatherhead, UK. The British company engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology.

Rivus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a company dedicated to improving metabolic health by advancing a new class of medicines called controlled metabolic accelerators (CMAs). The company is based in Charlottesville, VA. Jayson Donald Alexander Dallas has been the CEO of the company since 2021. The company is a leader in mitochondrial biology and is developing a new class of medicines to address a primary driver of cardio-metabolic disease: obesity. Rivus' lead CMA is the investigational small molecule HU6 in development to treat obesity and associated metabolic diseases, including heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)/metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), and type 2 diabetes.

Orexia Ltd. develop orally administered orexin positive modulators for the treatment of neurological diseases. The company was founded on October 5, 2018 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Synox Therapeutics Ltd. a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

SDS Therapeutics Ltd. is a British biotechnology company founded in 2020 that provides research and development services. The company is based in Cambridge, UK.