Jeroen Bekaert

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.

ImClone LLC develops targeted biologic treatments designed for the medical needs of patients with tumors. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Entelos, Inc. develops predictive computer models of human disease. Its solutions include mechanism-based, mathematical models; virtual patients, populations; biosimulation software and biosimulation expertise. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Pollen, Inc. provides financial services. It provides C2FO market, working capital exchange that allows companies to optimize their working capital positions in a live, bid/ask environment. The firm serves buyers and suppliers who use the market to increase profit and accelerate cash flow between themselves. The company was founded by Alexander C. Kemper and Pete Thomas in May 2010 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

AppDirect, Inc. develops end-to-end commerce platform for selling, distributing, and managing cloud-based products and services. It offers AppMarket, AppReseller, AppBilling, and AppDistribution. The company was founded by Nicolas Desmarais, Andy Sen, and Daniel H. Saks in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Freespira, Inc. operates as a digital therapeutic company, that focuses on revolutionizing the mental health industry with clinically proven, non-invasive, drug-free solutions. The firm's first commercial product, Freespira, is a treatment for panic attacks and the symptoms of panic disorder. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Danville, CA.

Helion Energy, Inc. manufactures power generation technology. It develops power plants that would produce electricity by running a nuclear-fusion reaction whereby atoms merge at extremely high temperatures. The company was founded by David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl and George Votroubek in 2009 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Labcyte, Inc. operates as a biotechnology tools company that manufactures and markets echo liquid handling systems. It offers liquid handling, automation and consumables. The company was founded by Richard Nathan Ellson and Mark D. Fischer-Colbrie and A. Mark Bramwell in October 2003 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Guava Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and commercializes cytometry systems for cellular analyses. Its products include Guava Personal Cell Analysis systems, Guava PCA, Guava PCA-96, and Guava EasyCyte systems. The company was founded by Goix J. Philippe in 1998 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Abingworth Management, Inc. invests in life sciences and biomedical companies. The firm's investment in enables technologies, devices and instrumentation as well as companies developing products in therapeutic areas. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Formation8 Partners LLC (Formation8) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo, and Jim Kim. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mithril Capital Management LLC (Mithril Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Peter Andreas Thiel and Ajay Royan. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Cetya Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the commercialization of histone deacetylase inhibitors based on largazole. Its histone deacetylase inhibitors analog has bifunctional modifications and the potential to target specific cell types or tumors. The company was founded by John Pilon in 2012 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Co.

Nuvelution Pharma, Inc. provides solutions for R&D companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The firm leverages its knowledge, experience and relationships in the Pharma and Biotech industries to deploy capital in risk-sharing collaborations with companies where product development can be facilitated by both capital and human resources, making this model an essential tool for pharma and biotech companies to bring products to the market. The company was founded by Sanford S. Zweifach and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Quantify Labs, Inc. provides a content and analytics platform and builds software for institutional trading desks. Its solutions include desk analyst, sales, management, research and trading. The firm specializes in institutional finance, technology, capital markets, sell side, buy side and SaaS. The company was founded by Blair Livingston in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

TeneoBio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops biologics, human heavy chain antibodies, as therapeutics against cancer, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases. Its products provides treatment of multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, immune disorders, and AIDS. The company was founded by Roland Buelow, on August 9, 2009 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Senti Biosciences, Inc. develops novel therapeutics. It specializes in thetic biology, gene therapy and cell therapy. The company was founded by Timothy K. Lu, Wilson Wong, James J. Collins and Philip Lee in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Catalys Pacific LLC (Catalys Pacific) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by BT Slingsby. The firm is headquartered in Cayman Islands.

Encellin, Inc. provides transplant to address chronic diseases. It focuses on type 1 diabetes. The company was founded by Grace Wei, Ronald Martell, and Crystal Nyitray and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Dren Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on protein engineering technologies for depletion of cells, protein aggregates, and other disease-causing agents. The company was founded by John Wesley and Nenad Tomasevic in 2019 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

D2G Oncology, Inc. develops relating drugs to genotypes to transform precision cancer therapeutics. The company was founded by Ian Winters and Jonathan MacQuitty in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Pango, Inc. develops privacy and security products. It offers hotspot shield, 1password, robo shield, and identity guard. The company was founded by Sujay Jaswa in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Alloy Therapeutics LLC is a biotechnology ecosystem company that democratizes access to tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics. The company's lead offering is the ATX-GX™ platform, a human therapeutic antibody discovery platform consisting of a growing suite of proprietary transgenic mice strains. Through a community of partners across academia, biotech, and the largest biopharma, Alloy is a leader in bispecific antibody discovery and engineering services, utilizing its proprietary ATX-CLC common light chain platform integrating novel transgenic mice and phage display. Founded in 2017 and privately funded by visionary investors, Alloy is headquartered in Hanover, NH, with European labs in Switzerland. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Indapta Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on developing and commercializing a proprietary, first-in-class, off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapy to treat multiple types of difficult-to-treat hematologic cancers and solid tumors. The company was founded by Guy DiPierro, Ronald A. Martell, Sungjin Kim and John Sunwoo in 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

MorphImmune, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing targeted oncology therapeutics. MorphImmune is based in West Lafayette, IN and has been led by CEO Clay B. Siegall since 2023. The company's proprietary targeted effector platform delivers payloads to diseased cells, reducing toxicity and increasing efficacy of known effector molecules. The company was founded on the research of Philip S. Low, Ph.D., the Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University.