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Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

Touchstone Innovations Investment Management Ltd. is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Touchstone Innovations Ltd. founded in 1986. Touchstone Innovations Investment Management Ltd. is headquartered in London.

LSV Capital Management LLC (Lightstone Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

SV Health Investors LLP (SV Health Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Peter McPartland. The firm is headquartered in London.

Astellas Venture Management LLC (Astellas Venture Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sofinnova Investment Inc (Sofinnova Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by Jacques F. vallle & Joel F. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cleave Biosciences, Inc. engages in the development of cancer drug products. The company was founded by Raymond J. Deshaies, Seth Cohen, Francesco Parlati, Peter A. Thompson and Laura K. Shawver in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pykus Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of a dissolvable intraocular surgical device. It offers novel polymer that provides retinal tamponade. The company was founded by James Stefater and Tomasz Stryjewski and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Saisei Ventures LLC (Saisei Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Jonathan Yeh in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

United Immunity Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that specializes in pipeline nano technology and immunity fusion technology, specifically in the field of cancer immunotherapy. The company is based in Tsu, Japan and was founded in 2017 by Naozumi Harada, who has been the CEO since then. The company's diverse products, including "nano immunotherapy," have shown promising clinical results and research in the treatment of sex cancer. The company is currently recruiting a researcher in the cancer immunotherapy field to analyze the action mechanism of nanotechnology applied cancer evaluation and drug evaluation using immunological methods. The company's focus is on the development of treatment for the cause of cold tumor type cancer through the understanding of tumor-associated macrophages.

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.

Abingworth LLP (Abingworth) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1973 Peter Dickson and Anthony Montagu. The firm headquartered in London and additional offices in San Francisco and Boston. Abingworth LLP became part of The Carlyle Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CG) on 3rd August 2022.

Pappas Capital LLC (Pappas Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Art M. Pappas. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Part of Global Genes, Rare-X is a patient advocacy organization based in Washington. Rare-X is focused on supporting the acceleration and development of life-altering treatments and future cures for patients impacted by a rare disease. Rare-X is building the largest collaborative patient-driven, open-data access project for rare diseases ly, gathering structured, fit-for-purpose data to share broadly, benefitting from 21st-century governance, consent, and federated data sharing technology. Rare-X's goal is to build the largest collaborative patient-driven, open-data access project for rare diseases ly. The American company was founded in 2019 by Nicole Boice. The CEO is Charlene Son Rigby. Rare-X was acquired by Global Genes on February 07, 2023.

Freeline Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which develops gene therapies for bleeding and other debilitating disorders. The company was founded by Chris Hollowood in 2015 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Epidarex Capital Partners LLC (Epidarex Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Kyparissia Sirinakisvin. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

ArmaGen, Inc. engages in operation of a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing revolutionary therapies for severe neurological disorders. Its products include AGT-110-Brain-penetrating biologic tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFI) for Alzheimer's disease, AGT-115-Brain-penetrating erythropoietin (EPO) for stroke, AGT-160-Brain penetrating anti-amyloid antibody (AAA) for Alzheimer's disease and AGT-181-Brain-penetrating iduronidase (IDUA) for Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Type I (Hurler's syndrome). The company was founded by William M. Pardridge and Ruben J. Boado in 2003 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Stridebio, Inc. focuses on creating and developing novel adeno-associated viral vector technologies. The company was founded by Aravind Asokan, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna and Patrick Ritschel and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. The firm discovers and develops immuno-oncology drugs, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of cancer diseases. It specializes in clinical development, and glyco-immune checkpoint inhibitors. The company was founded by Jim Broderick, Carolyn Bertozzi and Paul Crocker in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Part of Xilio Therapeutics, Inc., Xilio Therapeutics LLC develops cancer biopharmaceuticals. The company is based in Waltham, MA. The CEO of the company is René Russo.

Redona Therapeutics, Inc.operates as a biotechnology company focused on the modulation of non- RNA (ncRNA) function to treat cancer and other human diseases. It uses small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease. The company was founded by George Daley, Richard Gregory, Frank Slack, and Piotr Sliz and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Caldan Therapeutics Ltd. provides novel therapeutics targeting free fatty acid. It focuses on developing drugs in order to deliver anti-diabetic effects in multiple tissues and organs. The company was founded by Graeme Milligan and Trond Ulven and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Whiz Partners, Inc. (Whiz Partners) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It became a separate entity from its former brand, CSK Venture Capital Co., Ltd. The firm was founded by Toshio Ando, Atsushi Matsumura, and Junichi Kajimoto in 2010.

Axcelead Drug Discovery Partners, Inc. is a Japanese company founded in 2017 that provides services for the quality evaluation of new modality regenerative medical cells, effectiveness and safety evaluation of target cells, and bridging data. The company is based in Fujisawa, JP. and has subsidiaries in the United States. It is used by more than 100 facilities such as clients pharmaceutical companies, venture companies, and academia. Axcelead offers non-clinical development strategic planning and problem resolution services to its clients.

IgniteEye Corp. engages in the provision of cloud services for recruitment activities. Its cloud products include SONAR, Compass, Sniping and CREATIVE. The company was founded by Takashi Yoshida in May 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Adaptate Biotherapeutics Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded on August 21, 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.