Keith Aaronson

Fannin Partners LLC (Fannin Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Leo E. Linbeck III. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Pulmotect, Inc. develops clinical stage, novel, pathogen-agnostic, inhaled compound for the prevention and early treatment of acute, severe viral and bacterial respiratory infections. It provides safe, broad-spectrum, fast-acting protection against bacterial pneumonia (including MRSA), influenza, fungal pneumonia, and Class A bioterror agents (including anthrax, tularemia, and plague). The company was founded by Brenton Scott and Magnus Hook in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Aquinas Cos. LLC provides construction services. It provides project planning, project management and construction management services to clients developing real estate assets that serve corporate, hospitality, retail, healthcare, education and cultural markets. The company was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Greater Houston Community Foundation provides community improvement services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Canadian Royalties, Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties. It explores nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, and gold. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Scientific Health Development (SHD) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Stuart Fitts and Philip Romano. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Helix OpCo LLC is a genomics company. It offers consumer genetics, next generation sequencing (ngs), bioinformatics, consumer insights, big data, dna, population health, and genomics. The company was founded by Justin Kao, Scott Burke, Jay T Flatley and James Lu in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Stanford Health Care provides healthcare services. It services includes cardiac care, cancer treatment, neurosciences, surgery and organ transplants. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Stanford, CA.

Foresight Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held cancer diagnostics company based in Aurora, CO. The company has developed a liquid biopsy testing platform for the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) that is significantly more sensitive than existing tests, with a detection limit below 0.0001% or one part-per-million. This improved sensitivity provides actionable information to physicians and biopharmaceutical companies to enable more personalized treatment approaches for patients with a variety of cancers. The company's experts specialize in liquid biopsy and cancer genomics, developing an MRD assay centered on the detection of ctdna via phased variant sequencing. The company uses phased-seq® liquid biopsy technology for cancer relapse surveillance by monitoring cfdna/ctdna in the blood of lymphoma and lung cancer patients. The company was founded by Maximilian Diehn, Ash Alizadeh, Jake Chabon, and David Kurtz, with Jake Chabon serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Bluebird Ventures (Bluebird Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Jeffrey Bird. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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.

Theracos, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical research and development company. The firm supports preclinical & clinical research & development in inflammatory, metabolic and affective disorders. It specializes in all aspects of pharmaceutical development including medicinal and process chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, manufacturing, formulation, QA/QC, regulatory affairs and the design and execution of clinical trials. The company was founded by Edward P. Amento and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Sutter Hill Ventures LLC (Sutter Hill Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1962 by Paul M Wythes and Bill H Draper. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Loma Vista Medical, Inc. develops and provides medical balloons for Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. It develops cutting-edge products in medical inflatables. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexander Tilson and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal services. It maintains civil practice, covering areas such as litigation, public policy, transaction, and energy law. The firm serves the clients including companies from the aviation, energy, financial services, health care, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Eirion Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing prescription products for aesthetic dermatology. The company is based in Woburn, MA. The company has a pipeline of products that focus on treatments for wrinkles, primary axillary hyperhidrosis, androgenic alopecia, and hair greying. Eirion plans to pursue additional indications that address other major unmet clinical needs for physicians and their patients. The company was founded in 2016. Jonathan T. Edelson has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Potrero Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company which develops critical care monitoring systems. It specializes in critical care monitoring, fluid balance, acute kidney injury, sepsis, intra-abdominal pressure, urine output measurement, core body temperature, fluid resuciation, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Channel Medsystems, Inc. engages in the development of healthcare technologies. The company was founded by Daniel Rogers Burnett and Brian Michael Neil on March 15, 2013 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

SHD Management LLC is a venture capital firm that was formed in 2006. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company invests in early-stage medtech companies. J. Carter Meyer has been the CEO of the company since 2010.

Anterios, Inc. develops botulinum-based products for medical dermatology and aesthetic medicine. Its products include ANT-1207 which treats hyperhidrosis, and AI-09 which is a novel injectable formulation for therapeutic indications. The company was founded by John Edelson and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Merganser Biotech, Inc. engages in the development of of hepcidin mimetic peptides as new medicines for the treatment of hematological and iron overload diseases. The company was founded by Brian R. MacDonald and Gene Merutka in 2011 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.

Azevan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel therapeutics to treat disorders of stress, mood, and behavior. Its first clinical compounds selectively block the effects of arginine vasopressin, a peptide neurohormone involved in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases and a broad range of stress-related affective disorders, including Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Intermittent Explosive Disorder, and major depression. The company was founded by Craig F. Ferris and Neal Gordon Simon in 1999 and is headquartered in Bethlehem.

LiveProcess Corp. provides online applications for healthcare emergency management. The firm’s healthcare mobile apps enable personnel to take control of situations and collaborate to resolve operational disruptions, urgent health needs and routine transitions in patient care. Its mobile communication and collaboration solutions allow nurses, physicians and staff to coordinate using their mobile devices to reduce response times, facilitate care transitions including discharge, and improve patient throughput. The company was founded by Nathaniel Weiss in 2004 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Cure DM, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops new therapies that may prevent, ameliorate or reverse diabetes and allow for the discontinuation of insulin. The company was founded by Loraine V. Upham, Claresa S. Levetan and Rita El-Hajj in 2004 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Vascular Dynamics, Inc. provides blood pressure modulation devices. It develops and commercializes a passive, catheter-delivered implant for the treatment of hypertension. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Cardiac Rhythm Management is a company that manufactures implantable devices to treat arrhythmias. The company is based in Sylmar, CA.

International Life Sciences LLC, formerly known as Artelon, Inc., specializes in synthetic materials for orthopedic soft tissue reconstruction. The company's dynamic matrix has been used in over 60,000 implantations worldwide, delivering enhanced biological and mechanical reconstruction. The company is headquartered in Marietta, GA, and focuses on joint stability and kinematics through innovative soft tissue reconstructive products and procedures. The company offers products such as Flexband, Flexpatch, and Flexband Plus, which are intended for use in surgical procedures for reinforcement of soft tissue where weakness exists. The CEO of the company is Aaron C Smith.