Daniel Estay

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

MAKO Surgical Corp. is a medical device company, which develops and markets advanced robotic arm solution, joint specific applications for the knee, hip and orthopedic implants for orthopedic procedures. It also provides RIO robotic arm interactive orthopedic system, including a tactile robotic arm utilizing an integrated bone cutting instrument and a patient specific visualization component. The company was founded by Maurice R. Ferre and Rony A. Abovitz in November 2004 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

InSightec Ltd. engages in the development of incisionless surgery through magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound technology. Its products include exablate neuro, exablate body system, and exablate prostate. It focuses on the treatment of tremors, Parkinson?s disease, uterine fibroids, bone metastases, and focal prostate cancer. The company was founded by Jackob Vortman and Tamir Oded on March 9, 1999 and is headquartered in Tirat Carmel, Israel.

BaroSense Inc. operates as a medical device company that focuses on the research and development of minimally invasive medical devices for the treatment of obesity. The company was founded by Richard S. Stack and William N. Starling, Jr. in 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

OrthoSensor, Inc. develops external and implantable sensor systems for applications in the field of orthopedics. The firm's products are used in knee, hip and shoulder replacement procedures as well as in spinal and trauma applications. It also engages in clinical and bioengineering research in the field of orthopedics. The company was founded by Martin W. Roche in 2006 and is headquartered in Dania Beach, FL.

Synecor LLC (Synecor) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Richard S. Stack, William N. Starling, and Judith L. Swain. The firm is headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

NC IDEA (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of NC IDEA founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Synergy Management Company I LLC (Synergy Management Company) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Richard S. Stack, William N. Starling and John Onopchenko. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

IDEA Fund Partners LLC (IDEA Fund Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by David P. Rizzo, John Cambier and Lister Delgado. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Liquidia Technologies, Inc. is a clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of human therapeutics using its proprietary PRINT technology to transform the lives of patients. It operates in two segments: Pharmaceutical Products and Partnering & Licensing. The two product candidates from its pipeline: LIQ861 for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and LIQ865 for the treatment of local post-operative pain. Liquidia Technologies was founded by Joseph M. DeSimone, Ashok K. Mendiratta, Edward T. Samulski, William R. Kenan, Ginger Denison and Jason Rolland in 2004 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Atrius Health, Inc. provides healthcare services. It offers a variety of programs for patients with asthma, heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, and cancer. Its services include CT scan, endoscopy, mammography, and weight management. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Hartford.

Alivio Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies to treat inflammatory disorders through targeted disease immunomodulation. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer, Jeffrey Karp, John LaMattima, Brian Leuthner, Bennett Shapiro, Eric Elenko, Joep Muijrers, and Stephen Muniz and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Glympse Bio, Inc. develops modular nanoparticle sensors to create diagnostics for diseases. It uses engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. The company was founded in 2015 by Sangeeta Bhatia and Gabe A. Kwong and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

LikeMinds, Inc. intends to make brain imaging part of the standard suite of healthcare diagnostic tests and technologies. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Children's Hospital Corp. engages in the provision of pediatric care services. It offers acupuncture, angioplasty, antibiotic allergy testing, audiogram, baclofen pump, biochemical genetic testing, blended diet, bone scan, brain scan, breast augmentation surgery, cardiac catheterization, cardiac MRI in children, chest reconstruction surgery, and CO2 laser treatment. The company was founded by Francis Henry Brown in 1869 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Celero Systems, Inc. is a life science company. It develops ingestible system to detect and reverse opioid overdose. The company was founded by Benjamin D. Pless, Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Robert S. Langer Jr., and Jeremy N. Ruskin and is headquartered in Lincoln, MA.

Epibone, Inc. develops bone reconstruction solutions. Its technology utilizes a scan of the patient?s bone defect and the patient?s own stem cells to construct and cultivate an autologous-like bone graft that provides defect repair, and improves bone formation and regeneration. The company was founded by Nina Tandon, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Sarindr Bhumiratana, Sidney Eisig, and Elisa Cimetta and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Xenter, Inc. is a privately held, investor-backed company that has launched a wireless techmed ecosystem designed to provide transformative outcomes for physicians, healthcare professionals, provider organizations, and patients. Xenter is headquartered in Draper, UT and was formed in 2020. The company's trademarks include xenter, xenfi, xmd, xenfi-hub, xmd, and physical intelligence. The company was founded by Richard J. Linder and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

aMoon Ventures Y Sh Ltd (aMoon Ventures) is an venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Marius Nacht and Dr. Yair Schindel. The firm is headquartered in Israel.

Healthcare Royalty Management LLC (Healthcare Royalty) is a private equity subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 2007 by Gregory Brown. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

NextRNA Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in drug development services. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded in 2021 by Leon Wert-Lamas, Marc A. Cohen, Julia Novina, Carl Novina, Dominique Verhelle, Kenneth C. Anderson, Robert S. Langer. Dominique Verhelle has been the CEO since 2021.

Syntis Bio, Inc. is a company that creates simple oral therapies and treatments targeting specific tissues through novel formulations. The company is based in Milton, MA. Rahul scaled the company by building a diverse and accomplished team to reach commercialization of the first-ever CRISPR product, diagnostic or therapeutic, to be authorized by the FDA. The company is committed to equity, excellence, and diversity, and is building a culture that supports its team to grow, take risks, and achieve individual goals. It was founded by Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Robert S. Langer, and Rahul K. Dhanda, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Bilayer Therapeutics, Inc. is an American company that develops drugs for chronic disorders. The company was founded in 2020. The CEO is Thomas A. Collet.

Luminopia, Inc. operates virtual reality content platform, which treats lazy eye. The company was founded by Scott Xiao, Alex Wendland and Dean A. Travers in and is headquartered in Aspen, CO.

KensaGroup LLC (KensaGroup) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Bruce Ganem and Tony R. Eisenhut. The firm is headquartered in Ithaca, New York.

Tudor Investment Corp. (TIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1980 by Paul T. Jones, II. TIC provides discretionary investment advisory services to various hedge funds, private equity funds and managed accounts. Investors in these funds generally include high-net worth individuals and related entities, sovereign entities, pension funds, non-financial corporates, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, fund-of-fund vehicles and proprietary capital from current and former personnel.