John Gilbert

Sprout Group (Sprout) is venture capital subsidiary of Credit Suisse Private Equity LLC founded in 1969. The firm headquartered in New York.

VasoNova, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices. The company was founded by Sorin Grunwald and Bradley B. Hill in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SurgiQuest, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing of access technologies for minimally invasive surgery. It offers laproscopic surgical access system, enabling a variety of complex laproscopic procedures. The company was founded by Kourosh Azarbarzin on April 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Utica, NY.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Presidio Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1989 by Thomas R. Baruch. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Aphelion Capital LLC (Aphelion Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Ned Scheetz and Rodney Altman. The firm is headquartered in Mill Valley, California.

Inmediata Health Group offers electronic solutions for enhancing the efficiency and the quality of health and dental care. It solutions include core compliance support, multi-payer reimbursement portal platform, payment adoption initiative and claims. The company was founded by Severiano Lopez in 2006 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Mammosphere, Inc. stores and exchanges mammograms and other breast imaging studies in the cloud. The firm offers mammography services and cloud storage, as well as supports breast cancer research, education, and advocacy. The company was founded by Kathryn Pearson and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Calibra Medical LLC develops and markets medical devices and technologies in the diabetes sector. Its products include finesse and insulin delivery devices. The company was founded by Daniel Hawkins and Clifton A. Alferness in 2004 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

VeinRx, Inc. develops minimally invasive devices to treat venous reflux disease. Its products include ScleroCath, which is used to temporarily include the saphenous vein. The company was founded by Scott Jahrmarkt in July 2001 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Acuta Capital Partners LLC (ACP) is a registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Belmont, California. Formerly known as Longwood Capital Partners LLC, the firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of The Lin-Lay 2007 Trust. ACP provides investment management services, directly or through their affiliates, to several privately-offered, as well as to a separately managed account for a high-net worth individual.

Inova Labs, Inc. manufactures medical devices. It offers medical devices specializing in the development and commercialization of innovative products for patients with respiratory conditions. The firm's product offerings include Activox 4L, Activox Pro, and Activox DUO2 oxygen concentrators. The company was founded by William R. Wilkinson and H. David Shockley Jr. in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Salveo Specialty Pharmacy, Inc. operates as a holding company that engages in the provision of medications and clinical services to patients with chronic conditions. It specializes in organ transplant, stem cell transplant, HIV, hepatitis, oncology, biologics, rheumatoid arthritis, dermatology, and neurology therapies. The company was founded by Jeffrey Freedman and Charles Brown in 2011 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Calistoga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Michael W. Gallatin, Roger Ulrich and Neil Giese in March 2006 and is headquartered in Tumwater, WA.

Novasys Medical, Inc. develops therapies for women's health. The company was founded by Stuart D. Edwards and Peter S. Edelstein on June 24, 1999 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Spectrawave, Inc. provides medical devices. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Viamet Pharmaceuticals Corp. engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel pharmaceuticals based on its proprietary metalloenzyme chemistry and biology technology platform. Its clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat chronic and life threatening fungal infections. Its products include VT-1161, an oral agent that treats onychomycosis; VT-1129, which treats cryptococcal meningitis; and VT-1598, that treats coccidioidomycosis. The company was founded by Herbert Holden Thorp and Thomas V. O'Halloran in December 2011 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Cavion, Inc. engages in development of pharmaceuticals products. It produces oncology drugs to treat solid tumors that selectively inhibits the t-type calcium channel. The company was founded by Andrew J. Krouse, Lloyd S. Gray, and Timothy L. Macdonald in 2005 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC provides technology solutions for cardiac therapy to cure heart arrhythmias focusing on a trial fibrillation. The firm focuses in the treatment of ablation therapy. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops inhibitors of validated metalloenzymes. The firm's clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat both chronic and life threatening fungal infections. It also leverage our metalloenzyme expertise in other therapeutic areas including oncology and orphan diseases. The company was founded by Thomas V. O’Halloran and Holden H. Thorp on August 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops oral inhibitors for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer. It develops small molecule CYP17 lyase-selective inhibitors to treat resistant hormonally-dependent breast and prostate cancers. The firm’s product under pipeline is VT-464, a dual mechanism lyase-selective CYP17 inhibitor and androgen receptor (AR) antagonist that disrupts the validated biochemical pathways required for prostate cancer growth androgen biosynthesis and AR transcriptional signaling. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Advanced Animal Diagnostics, Inc. develops integrated systems and solutions for the detection of animal diseases. The firm engages in the researching, developing and commercializing on-farm diagnostic tests, such as QScout MLD for early detection of subclinical mastitis in dairy cows. It also provides solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of veterinary health problems including mastitis and other animal diseases. The company was founded by Rodolfo Rodriguez and Victor M. Minton in July 2001 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Sensitech, Inc. provides cold chain solutions for monitoring temperature-sensitive and perishable products. Its products encompasses in software, dataloggers, logistics security, chemical and electronic indicator, strip chart recorders, ethylene absorption, facility monitoring, and accessories. The company was founded by Ernest M. Santin in 1990 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

ROX Medical, Inc. manufactures medical ultrasonic scanning devices. It offers ROX Coupler that is intended for use in patients with treatment resistant hypertension to lower blood pressure by reducing peripheral vascular resistance and improving vascular compliance; and in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to improve breathing, reduce symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and improve exercise tolerance. The company was founded by Rodney Brenneman and John Faul in 2004 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Autonomic Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes innovative therapies for the treatment of severe headache. Its product, the ATI Neurostimulation System, is used for the treatment of acute pain of cluster headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Founded in 1996, Novartis Venture Funds (USA) is a venture capital firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Novartis Venture Funds and their ultimate parent is Novartis AG, a Switzerland-based company that engages in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products. Novartis Venture Funds manages the Bermuda domiciled biotechnology venture fund, Novartis BioVentures Ltd

Portaero, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. The company was founded on May 11, 2007 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds (Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Fred J. Beste. The firm is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Michigan Ross Zell Lurie Institute / Venture Capital/ (Zell Lurie Institute) is a venture capital subsidiary of Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Studies founded in 1997 by Samuel Zell, Ann Lurie and Robert H. Lurie. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.