Blake Winchell

Fremont Ventures (Fremont Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Fremont Group LLC founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BioSeek, an Asterand company, is improving the success rate of pharmaceutical research and development by integrating human biology from the earliest stages of drug discovery onward. Their BioMAP® Systems incorporate predictive primary human cell-based disease models that generate uniquely informative biological activity profiles for each potential drug. As a result, their technology drives the selection and development of new drug candidates. they leverage their BioMAP® Systems technology in collaborations to enhance the productivity of their pharmaceutical partners' pipelines to identify promising compounds for therapeutic development. Asterand plc acquired BioSeek on February 18, 2010. Asterand is the leading global supplier of high quality, well characterized human tissue and human tissue-based research services to drug discovery scientists. BioSeek's BioMAP® platform and primary human cell based assays are highly complementary to the human tissue-based products and services offered by Asterand. Formed in January 2006 from the merger of Asterand, a human tissue biorepository, and Pharmagene, a human tissue-based drug discovery company, Asterand plc is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive approach to meet the research needs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. From their offices in Royston (United Kingdom), San Francisco, California and Detroit, Michigan they have more than 90 employees focused on providing services and products to accelerate drug discovery research from target identification through to compound evaluation and drug safety.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

eSilicon Corp. specializes in designing, productizing, and manufacturing of application specific integrated circuits. Its services include ASIC design services, custom three-dimensional packaging, high bandwidth memory solutions, semiconductor manufacturing services, multi-project wafer, and design and test services. The company was founded by Duy-Loan T. Le, John R. Harding, A. J. Sen, and Patrick Kwok in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

LightSand Communications, Inc. develops storage area network connectivity products. It offers development and delivery of storage area network (SAN) connectivity products that can be used to interconnect multiple SANs regardless of physical proximity or vendor disparity. The firm's SAN extension gateways work within the data center and over MAN/WAN networks to interconnect SANs over distance using IP, SONET/SDH, DWDM, and fiber networks. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

GlobalServe, Inc. provides supply chain platform solutions. It provides information technology equipment supply chain services for procurement, deployment and service. The company’s OneSource is a procurement engine that enables clients to buy and transfer hardware and software. It serves the oil and gas, manufacturing, consumer products, and technology industries. GlobalServe was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

LPL Technologies, Inc. develops diagnostic blood tests for gynecological cancer. The company was founded in 1996 by Gordon B. Mills and Michael K. Skinner and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH

Partner Ventures LLC (Partner Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Blake Winchell. The firm is headquartered in the Portola Valley, California.

Atrenta, Inc. provides system on chip realization solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company was founded by Ajoy Bose in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.