Mitchell Mutz

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops broad-spectrum antifungal agents for the treatment of life-threatening fungal infections. The firm's compound APX001, shows broad-spectrum activity in animal models of invasive fungal infection by common species of Candida and Aspergillus. It develops oral and injectable anti-infective drugs, including protease inhibitors and antibiotics. The company was founded by André Marquis, Mitchell W. Mutz and Gerry Crabtree in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

Roche Ventures is the venture investment division of the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG (SWX:ROG). The group is headquartered in Basel with operations and affiliates worldwide, and is a world leader in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. The firm was founded in 2002.

Purigen Biosystems, Inc. engages in extracting, enriching and quantifying DNA and RNA from biological samples. The company was founded in 2012 by Amy Hiddessen, Klint Rose and Juan Santiago and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Pandion Operations, Inc. develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory, and transplant indications. The company was founded by Anthony J. Coyle, Jo Viney, Alan Crane, and David Sachs in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BlueLight Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel systems to analyze real-time protein function for research and clinical applications. The firm offers technology for detecting conformational change in proteins and other biological molecules. Its technology is based on a phenomenon called second-harmonic generation (SHG), can monitor structural changes at any site within a protein, in real time and since protein function is determined by its structure, and changes in structure cause changes in function, characterizing these changes will provide significant insights into how the body functions and respond to treatments. The company was founded by Joshua S. Salafsky and Greg S. Yap in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Pandion Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. It develops Therapeutic Autoimmune reguLatOry proteiN (TALON) drug design and discovery platform, which employ a modular approach to create a pipeline of product candidates using immunomodulatory effector modules that act at known control nodes within the immune network. The company was founded by Dr. Joanne Viney on September 19, 2016 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Vivo Capital LLC (Vivo Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Frank C. Kung and Edgar G. Engleman. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.