Robert Gunderson

Heartport, Inc. develops systems and procedures for heart surgery. The company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. Heartport was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Signature Therapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It focuses on developing medications for use in pain management and ADHD. Its proprietary BIO-MD platform is designed to deter prescription drug abuse by virtue of strong chemical bonds within the prodrug and also offers solution to the ongoing epidemic of prescription opioid drug abuse. The company was founded by Steven L. Shafer in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cogentus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. Its investors include The Keffi Group, Prospect Venture Partners, Ridgeback Capital, Apothecary Capital, and Pinnacle Ventures. The company was founded by Mark A. Goldsmith in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP provides legal services. The firm is a business law firm that provides legal services to consumer, retail, information technology, communications, medical and life sciences industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Trellis Partners (Trellis Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by John L. Long. The firm is headquartered in Cedar Creek, Texas.

Vitae Pharmaceuticals LLC is a clinical-stage bio-pharmaceutical company, which engages in discovering and developing novel, small molecule drugs for diseases, including chronic kidney disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, and autoimmune disorders, acute coronary syndrome, and immuno-oncology. The company was founded by John J. Baldwin, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, George M. Whitesides, and Eugene Shakhnovich on May 21, 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, PA.

Cooley LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offers strategic litigation and business transaction services and is a representative of private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Its practices include commercial litigation; patent counseling and prosecution; employment and labor; asset recovery; and estate planning and personal representation. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in New York, NY.