Akhilesh Samant

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.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Zymeworks BC, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biotherapeutics. Its product, ZW25 and ZW49, are a bispecific antibody that cans two non-overlapping epitopes. The company was founded by Anthony Fejes, J. Haig deB Farris, Nick Bedford, Ali Tehrani and Andrew S. Wright on September 8, 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Xandr, Inc. develops a platform for real-time online advertising. The firm offers AppNexus programmable platform, AppNexus Adserver, AppNexus SSP, Yieldex Analytics, and Audience Extension. The company was founded by Michiel Nolet and Brian O'Kelley in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Monetate, Inc. provides testing, targeting, and personalization services for websites. It products include TestLab that provides Website A/B testing and multivariate testing; LiveTarget that offers Website targeting; Merchandiser that provides product recommendations, badging, and visual search; and LiveAudience, a segmentation product that enables marketers to integrate customer and visitor profile and audience segment data from BlueKai with Monetate's user and real-time target attributes, such as referral and inbound marketing channel, location, weather, device, and in-session behavioral data. The firm's products enable online businesses to implement marketing strategies to test and target website content and features. The company was founded by David Bookspan and David Brussin in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AirStrip Technologies, Inc. engages in provision of mobile medical software applications. It offers AirStrip ONE, a digital healthcare platform which delivers business intelligence advantage essential for continuous performance improvement. Its platform is used for digital electrocardiogram snippets, alarm management, remote patient waveforms, ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) notification, mobile 12-Lead ECG access, electronic ECG management, and maternal/fetal waveform cases. The company was founded by Stephen Moore and William Eugene Powell in 2004 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Plushcare, Inc. provides telehealth services. It offers virtual doctor''s visits from the comfort of your home, office or wherever located. The company was founded by Ryan McQuaid and James Wantuck in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

OptumInsight, Inc. provides healthcare information technology and consulting services. It offers technology services, information, analytics, business services and consulting to help solve the most important problems clients face across the health system. The firm provides solutions for physicians, hospitals, life sciences companies, government agencies and other organizations that comprise the health care system. The company is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

PerfectServe, Inc. provides communications and collaboration platform for the healthcare industries. Its platform helps health care providers to manage interactions with physicians, hospitals, and patients from their computers or mobile phones. The company was founded by Terrell L. Edwards in 1997 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC engages in the provision of pharmaceutical products. It discovers, develops, produces and markets innovative therapies. The firm extensive research and development efforts are focused on health care challenges in cardiology, oncology and internal medicine, as well as metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders, ophthalmology and vaccines. The company is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Sequoia Capital Operations LLC engages in the provision of venture capital financing services. It serves the healthcare, finance, and media industries. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Urgent Care MSO LLC provides medical and health treatment services for its patients and employees. It operates multiple full-service, walk-in urgent care facilities in Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The company was founded by Frank W. Alderman and in September 2001 and is headquartered in Morgantown, WV.

Evercore Group LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Evercore BD Investco LLC, which is owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Group delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors.

Percolate Industries, Inc. provides information technology marketing solutions. It offers enterprise marketing management, global brand management, enterprise brand publishing, social media management and customer care, content marketing, eCommerce marketing and growth marketing solutions. The company was founded by Noah Brier and James Gross in January 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

InGensa, Inc. provides information and technology enabled health services. It serves the health care marketplace including care providers, employers, life sciences, health plans, government and individuals and families. The firm's resources include data and analytics, financial services, health care delivery, health information technology, health plan operations, pharmacy benefit management, population health management and revenue cycle management. The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

SVB Leerink Capital LLC operates as a private capital firm. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Clover Health LLC operates as a healthcare technology company. The firm offers Medicare Advantage plans with low premiums, low copays, and low prescription drug costs. It uses its proprietary technology platform, the Clover Assistant, to collect, structure, and analyze health and behavioral data to improve medical outcomes and lower costs for patients. The company was founded by Vivek Garipalli and Kris Gale in 2013 and is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

PatientPop, Inc. operates a marketing platform for growing a medical practice. Its platform is a solution for patient acquisition, reputation management, retention marketing and business insights with a dashboard. The company was founded by Luke Kervin, Travis S. Schneider and Taylor Timmer in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Amino, Inc. provides care and connect everyone with the best care possible. The firm owns and operates a website that allows users to find doctors, compare their experience, and book an appointment. It enables patients to search for doctors for various conditions, procedures, and specialties. The company was founded by David A. Vivero, Roger Billerey-Mosier, Sumul Shah and Maudie Hampden Shah in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

DexCare, Inc. is a data-driven intelligence company that provides a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for health systems. The company is based in Renton, WA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform intelligently orchestrates digital demand and health system capacity across all lines of care, expanding the reach of health system service lines into a new, digital and on-demand consumer arena. The platform attracts high-value, commercially-insured consumers by providing a highly discoverable, fully-digitized and unified experience while amplifying health systems’ existing EMR, caregiver and brand investments. DexCare powers the digital engine of leading health systems across the US, including Kaiser, Houston Methodist, Mass General Brigham, and others. DexCare was founded by Derek Streat and Sean O'Connor, with Derek Streat serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Cleerly, Inc. provides technology services. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Part of UCB SA, UCB Biopharma SRL is a Belgian pharmaceutical company founded in 2013. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium. UCB Biopharma specializes in the development of treatments for various medical conditions, including axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and other health issues. The company also manages the UCB Community Health Fund and holds an annual shareholders meeting.

Trialspark, Inc(Trialspark) is a Private Equity firm founded in 2013 by Benjamine Liu, Kit Dobyns, and Linhao Zhang. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

Datavant, Inc. focuses on employing artificial intelligence to improve the clinical trial process. It engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of new medicines through machine learning. Datavant allows its customers to bring new therapies to patients faster, improve treatment plans, and reduce the cost of care. The company was founded by S. Travis May in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.