Clark E. Tedford

Pediatric Services of America, Inc. provides pediatric home health care services. Its services include in-home aide services, respite care, school nurse services, therapies, and rehabilitation. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Orchestra Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a development stage company. It previously operated as an immuno-pharmaceutical company focused on developing products to treat autoimmune diseases. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Brantley Capital Corp., a business development company, provides equity and long-term debt financing to small and medium-sized private companies located in the US. In addition, it invests a portion of its assets in post-venture small-cap public companies. It also makes investments between $1 and $5 million.

Waterlink, Inc. is an international provider of integrated water and air purification solutions for both industries and municipal customers. It uses carbon to purify air, water and gases by retaining impurities in carbon granules. The company supplies activated carbon for liquid, air and gas filtration systems and is a leading manufacturer of specialty-impregnated carbons used in applications where the capacity of activated carbons can be significantly increased. It was founded on December 7, 1994 and is headquartered in Canton, OH.

Caredata.com Inc. provides proprietary database products and analytical services to the health care industry. The company is an online syndicator of healthcare content and applications to a wide range of Internet portals and e-commerce sites. It enables web sites to enhance their content offerings by delivering its proprietary databases and co-branded tools to their established online communities. Caredata.com is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

AlterG, Inc. develops weight reduction athletic equipment. Its products are used by major medical centers, leading physical therapy clinics and professional, collegiate, and individual sports and fitness programs. The firm?s products include anti gravity treadmill, bionic leg and accessories. AlterG was founded by Michael Brenton Looney, Fritz Moore, Edward Liou and Sean Whalen in 2005 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Genevest Consulting Group SA is an independent Swiss venture capital firm which was founded in 1983 to provide advisory services to institutional investors and high-net worth individuals. Based in Geneva, Genevest operates in close cooperation with Endeavour Vision SA.

BIOCOM provides scientific and technological services. The firm focuses that positively influence the growth of the life science industry, including capital formation, public policy, workforce development and scientific discovery and development. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Endeavour Vision SA (EV) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Geneva. EV traces their origins back to 1989 through the convergence of the Vision Capital European team and the Swiss VC firm, Endeavour. EV was co-founded in 2000 by Sven Lingjaerde and Damien Tappy. The firm specializes in providing funding for entrepreneurs in life sciences, biotech, medtech, cleantech and information technology. EV operates in close cooperation with Genevest, an independent investment vehicle which has reached the divestment stage. Their investors in the funds they advise are industrial corporations, family offices, global institutional investors and business leaders in the technology and investment industry.

Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. engages in the commercialization of vitro diagnostic tests for the detection of brain injury and neurological diseases. It develops blood test to accurately and quickly diagnose traumatic brain injury. The company was founded by Nancy Denslow, Ronald L. Hayes, and Kevin Wang in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

CeQur SA develops medical devices for diabetes patients. It offers n insulin delivery device that provides three days of consistent, basal insulin deliver along with on-demand bolus insulin. The company was founded by James L. Peterson in January 2008 and is headquartered in Horw, Switzerland.

ARM is a Washington, DC-based multi-stakeholder advocacy organization that promotes global initiatives necessary to facilitate access to life-giving advances in regenerative medicine. The organization promotes legislative, regulatory reimbursement, investment, technical, and other initiatives to accelerate the development of safe and effective regenerative medicine technologies. ARM also works to increase public understand- ing of the field and its potential to transform human healthcare. Prior to the formation of ARM in 2009, there was a need for more coordinated and cohesive advocacy representing the interests of the companies, research institutions, investors and patient groups that comprise the entire regenerative medicine community. Today ARM has more than 140 members and is the leading global advocacy organization in this field.

Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology delivers company building and company funding programs to create products and companies. Its programs include company building, funding, executive council, third party solutions and startup quest. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

keepMED Ltd. manufactures innovative devices for treating obstructive sleep apnea. It offers keePAP, a wearable device that comprises of a lightweight unobtrusive nasal interface and a miniature battery-operated control unit that is used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The company was founded by Rapoport Alex and is headquartered in Rishon Le Zion, Israel.

Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund (Florida Technology) is a venture capital subsidiary of Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

Merz North America, Inc. operates as an specialty healthcare company. It offers treatment solutions for aesthetics, dermatology and neurosciences. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

LifeSprout, Inc. commercializes synthetic material made of hydrogel and polyester nanofibers. It aims to change the treatment of soft tissue losses with an injectable synthetic material that mimics living tissue. The company was founded by Russell Martin, Hai-Quan Mao, Justin Sacks, and Sashank Reddy in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a a clinical stage gene therapy company. The firm engages in development, production, and application of AAV vectors. The company was founded by Nicholas Muzyczka, Barry Byrne, Arun Srivastava, Coy Heldermon, Sergei Zolothukin, Kenneth Warrington, Ronald Mandel, Toadd E. Golde and Edgardo Rodriguez in 2017 and is headquartered in Alachua, FL.

Deepwork Capital LLC (Deepwork Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Mitchel J. Laskey, Benjamin Patz and Kathy Chiu. The firm is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

SaNOtize Research & Development Corp operates as a biotech company. The firm develops antimicrobial and immunomodulation technology to treat and prevent microbial infections, including drug resistant microbes. The company was founded by Gilly Regev and Chris Miller and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

4see Ventures operates as a venture capital firm. It focuses in biotech, medtech and healthcare, technology, sustainable finance and new energy. The company was founded by Daniel Bertholet and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

UF Innovate Ventures (UF Innovate Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of University of Florida founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida.

Genascence Corp. develops gene therapy products for musculoskeletal diseases. The company was founded by Dr. Annahita Keravala and Dr. Thomas W. Chalberg in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.