Robert Schier

Cerecin, Inc. develops therapies to treat central nervous system disorders. It offers therapeutic treatments for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other age-related memory loss disorders. The firm is also developing therapies that address metabolic deficiencies and provide an alternative energy source for brain cells. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

MycoTechnology, Inc. is a food technology company, which engages in the development and delivering of fermentation process using gourmet fungi to transform agricultural products to improve taste, value, and health. Its products include ClearTaste and PureTaste. The company was founded by Alan D. Hahn, Pete Lubar, Jim Langan, and Brooks J. Kelly in 2013 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Inventages Venture Capital Investment, Inc (Inventages Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Gunnar Carsten Weikert. The firm is headquartered in Nassau with an additional office in London.

SelectX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of aminoglycoside therapeutics for unmet medical needs. Its advanced program, development candidate SXP2523, is a next generation aminoglycoside antibiotic for drug resistant gram-negative hospital-acquired infections (HAIs); SXP2523 possesses broad spectrum coverage with potency against Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, E. coli, and Staphylococcus. The company was founded by Michael G. Chaparian and Charles R. Cantor in 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Phytomedics, Inc. discovers, develops, and manufactures botanical therapeutics using proprietary platform technologies. The company was founded in December 1996 by Ilya Raskin and is headquartered in Jamesburg, NJ.

DNage is a life sciences company founded in 2004 as a spin off from the Department of Genetics of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. The Company was seed-funded through an equity investment of an international syndicate of venture capitalists including LSP (NL) and Inventages (CH). The Company's main scientific founder Prof J. Hoeijmakers is a world-renowned scientist working on DNA repair and genome stability. His team was the first to establish an explicit connection between DNA damage (lack of repair) and the process of ageing, a scientific breakthrough. DNage has acquired exclusive access to this technology and now focuses on developing therapies to reduce the effects of ageing, leveraging the unique technologies developed by its founders. DNage has matured from an early stage technology company into a drug development company with ongoing clinical trials and several research programs. It has been acquired by Pharming Group NV in October 2006 and is currently involved in a financing round whereby Pharming will reduce its ownership to a non-controlling stake. The team of the company consists of approximately 15 people. DNage has laboratory facilities and offices in Rotterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands.

Xerion Pharmaceuticals GmbH develops antibodies and therapeutic targets. It uniquely focuses on proteins, using proprietary technologies to selectively block their function in diseased cells thereby mimicking the activity of a drug. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

ImmunoBiology Ltd. develops next generation of vaccines for infectious diseases. It develops vaccines that protect against pathogens by mimicking the natural immune response to infection. The firm offers ImmBioVax and ImmunoBodies vaccines. The company was founded by Camilo Colaco in 1999 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.