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Johns Manville Corp. manufactures building and mechanical insulation, commercial roofing, glass fibers, and nonwoven materials for commercial, industrial, and residential applications. The firm?s products are also used in various industries including building products, aerospace, automotive and transportation, filtration, commercial interiors, waterproofing, and wind energy. The company was founded by Henry Ward Johns in 1858 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. provides software and networking solutions for wireless communications. Its customers include OEMs and semiconductor companies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Pulmatrix Operating Co., Inc. develops pharmaceutical products for respiratory infectious diseases. Its iSPERSE powders can be used with an array of dry powder inhaler technologies and can be formulated with virtually any drug substance. The company was founded by David Alan Edwards, Mark J. Gabrielson, Alexander M. Klibanov and Robert S. Langer in 2003 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

GeneOhm Sciences, Inc. develops molecular diagnostic products. It offers methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Assay an in vitro diagnostic test for the direct detection of MRSA from a nasal specimen. The company was founded on 2001 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

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.

Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed therapeutics and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 2006 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Anchor Therapeutics, Inc. designs and develops peptide modulators of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The firm engages in developing and licensing pepducin technology as a research tool for drug development; and pepducin drug candidates and novel molecules that are intended for targeting GPCR to allosterically modulate GPCR signaling. Its pepducin lipopeptides are designed to allosterically modulate internal cell signaling via specific interactions with intracellular GPCR domains. The company also focuses on developing its pepducin technology for creating new treatment options for regenerative medicine, diabetes, inflammation, and cancer. Anchor Therapeutics was founded by Thomas J. McMurry and Athan Kuliopulos in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, 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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates as a private cancer center. It offers cancer care services to adult; and child and teen patients. Its services include risk assessment and screening; diagnosis and treatment; clinical trials; patient and caregiver education; and pediatric clinical trials. The company was founded by John J. Astor and Charlotte Astor in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

E-Band Communications LLC designs and manufactures wireless telecommunications equipment. Its products include E-link eagle, E-link mini, 1000Q, 1000Q-CPRI, 1000LR, multiport and antennas. The company was founded by Sam Smookler and Saul Umbrasas in 2003 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

American Association for Physician Leadership, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides leadership education, management training, and career development for physicians. The company was founded by Roger Schenke in 1975 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Express Ventures LLC (Express Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Maintenancenet LLC provides cloud-based software platform that uses data analytics and automation to manage and scale attach and renewals of recurring customer contracts. The company was founded in 2001 by Scott Herron and Shayne Skaff and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Genalyte, Inc. specializes in instrumentation and multiplex assays for biomarker and protein detection. The firm offers autoantibody testing assays for autoimmune research, custom assay services and maverick detection system. The company was founded in 2007 by Lawrence Cary Gunn III and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

NovaBiotics Ltd. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology firm. It designs and develops antifungal and antibacterial therapeutics for medically unmet fungal, bacterial, and polymicrobial conditions. It offers clinical and preclinical product candidates to treat clinically challenging infections that include NP213 (Novexatin) phase IIb-ready potent topical treatment for fungal nail infections (onychomycosis); NM001 (Lynovex), a dual antibacterial-mucolytic orphan drug candidate in phase IIa clinical evaluation for cystic fibrosis; NP339 (Novamycin), an antifungal peptide agent against Candida spp and other clinically relevant yeasts/moulds; and NP432 (Novarifyn), a peptide antibacterial candidate for multi-drug resistant gram-negative and gram-positive infections. The company was founded by Deborah A. O?Neil in August 2004 and is headquartered in Aberdeen, the United Kingdom.

San Diego Humane Society & SPCA is a non-profit animal welfare organization, which engages in saving animal lives. Its services include behavior training resources, human law enforcement, pet-assisted therapy, pet loss support, euthanasia services, pet licensing, and pet vaccination and microchip clinics. The company was founded by George W. Marston and George W. Hazzard on March 10, 1880 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Filmetrics, Inc. offers thin-film measurement solutions. Its products include optical profilers, thickness, hardness and resistance measurement. The company was founded by Scott Chalmers in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, 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

Capsule Technologies, Inc. provides medical device integration for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Its platform captures streaming data from virtually any medical device and transforms context rich information to any clinical documentation, alarm management, patient surveillance, decision support and research system. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Part of Danaher Corp., KaVo Kerr Group is a company that manufactures dental equipment. The company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Predictimmune Ltd. develops tools for guiding treatment options in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. It offers PredictSURE IBD is a biomarker test, combined with a sophisticated, proprietary algorithm that will tell the likely course of newly diagnosed patients’ IBD, differentiating between an aggressive or milder form of the disease. The company was founded in May 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Planetree Org provides healthcare services. The company was founded by Angelica Thieriot in 1978 and is headquartered in Derby, CT.

FemTec Health, Inc. operates as a health and beauty sciences company. The firm provides healthcare services for women. The company was founded by Dr. Kimon Angelides in 2020 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Healthline Media UK Ltd. provides health and medical news and medical information. The company also operates MediLexicon, Website that provides online database of medical abbreviations; and contains searchable databases of ICD9 codes, pharmaceutical companies, medical associations, and hospitals. The firm offers it partners on advertising campaigns with pharmaceutical companies, biotech organizations, healthcare providers, healthcare industry, technology and medical device manufacturers, insurance and legal services, and advertising networks and agencies. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Bexhill-on-Sea, the United Kingdom.