John Hood

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Boca Resorts LLC owns and operates resorts and hotels. The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Kalyra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures small molecule drugs. The company was founded by Brian T. Dorsey, Cam L. Garner and Kevin Bunker and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Opal Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Apple Tree venture Managemnet LLC (Apple Tree Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Seth Harrison in 1999. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional offices in London, San Francisco and Cambridge.

Intergalactic Therapeutics, Inc. is a gene therapy company based in Baltimore, MD. The company is revolutionizing gene therapies with a novel non-viral platform comprised of its versatile synthetic and episomal c3dna molecules. The company uses a customized approach to focal therapeutic delivery using its lead delivery technology, the comet pulsed electric field system, and a proprietary cell-free manufacturing process invented to make gene therapy safer and more accessible for patients. With programs in ophthalmology, oncology, respiratory diseases, and expansion areas including CNS, renal, and musculoskeletal, Intergalactic Therapeutics is dedicated to transforming genetic medicine. The company was founded by Michael D. Ehlers, and Theresa G. H. Heah has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Nereid Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a life sciences venture firm. It translates the potential of biomolecular condensates into life-changing therapeutics. The company was founded by Clifford Brangwynne and Spiros Liras and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Limelight Bio, Inc. engages in the development of proprietary technologies, advanced targets, and drug candidates for the expansion of current gene therapy and gene editing approaches. The company was founded by Phil Johnson and Jean Bennett in 2017 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Aulos Bioscience, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ascidian Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology research and development company. The company is headquartered in Brighton, MA.

Replicate Bioscience, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, CA. The company focuses on creating novel oncology treatments to prevent drug resistance using its synrgy technology. Replicate aims to enhance the effectiveness of many immuno-oncology regimens in early stages of care and is developing its own pipeline of immuno-oncology products in breast, lung, and prostate cancers. Replicate is differentiated by a team of srrna experts, a customizable library of synthetic srrna vectors, and end-to-end development capabilities. The company harnesses the body's natural protein-making power and uses synthetic biology to design unique self-replicating rnas (srrnas) that can direct that power to fight disease. The company was founded by Nathaniel Whang, Zachary Hartman, Michael D. Ehlers, Herbert Kim Lyerly, Andrew J. Geall, and Nathaniel Whang has been the CEO since incorporation.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience operates as a philanthropic organization. Its services include grantmaking, coalition-building and encouragement of strategic policy reforms. The company was founded by William L. McKnight in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Fabrus, Inc. engages in discovering, developing and engineering therapeutic antibodies. It utilizes multiple proprietary product engines that define a new antibody discovery paradigm. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Fortel Invest Oy (Fortel Invest) is a private equity subsidiary of Sipila Family founded in 1995 by Juha Sipila. The firm is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.

Circle Pharma, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company was founded by Matthew P. Jacobson and Scott Lokey in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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

Sydnexis, Inc. engages in the production of ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Gregory Isaac Ostrow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Breakpoint Therapeutics GmbH engages in the discovery and development of anti-cancer drugs. It aims to advance to clinical development first-in-class oncology drugs that interfere with DNA repair and replication stress tolerance pathways. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Z Factor Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It identifies and develops therapeutic agents to treat alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. The company was founded by James Huntington in 2015 and is headquartered in Babraham, the united Kingdom.

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.

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.

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.

Anavo Therapeutics BV is a Dutch company that specializes in developing first-in-class therapeutic programs for several indications in oncology. The company is based in Leiden, Netherlands. The company has attracted world-leading scientific expertise in phosphatase-driven disease biology and drug discovery to unlock the full potential of phosphatase-targeted allosteric modulators. Anavo is the first company to systematically drug phosphatases, a rich target space previously considered undruggable for decades. Anavo is backed by blue-chip investors m ventures, inkef capital, taiho ventures, mrl ventures fund, and bioqube ventures. The company was founded by Claus Schalper, Birgit Zech, Gerhard Müller. Birgit Zech has been the CEO since incorporation.