Robert C. Lake

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.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

SVB Capital Management LLC (SVB Capital Management) is a venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group founded in 2000 by Aaron Gershenberg and Gregory Becker. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Hercules Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Scott Harvey, Manuel Henriquez, and Roy Liu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops small-molecule antiviral therapeutics. Its products in pipeline include NS5A, PPI-668 and PPI-383 for treating hepatitis C virus infections. The company was founded by Omar K. Haffar, Antoun Nabhan and David V. Jobes in March 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Panorama Capital LLC (Panorama Capita) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Chris Albinson, Rod Ferguson, Shahan Soghikian and damion wicker. The firm is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

InterWest Partners LLC (InterWest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979 by Wally Hawley, Scott Hedrick and Gene Barth. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Acrew Capital Management Corp.(Acrew Capital) is a venture capital firm is founded in 2019 by Asad Khaliq and Vishal Lugani. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.