Todd Ortberg

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Torax Medical Inc. designs and develops medical devices to treat chronic diseases related to defective sphincter muscles. Its technology platform, Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation (MSA), uses attraction forces to augment weak or defective sphincter muscles to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and fecal incontinence (FI). The firm's products include LINX, a reflux management system for the treatment of GERD; and FENIX, a continence restoration system for the treatment of FI. The company was founded by Todd Berg in 2002 and is headquartered in Shoreview, MN.

Redwood Bioscience Inc. develops precision protein-chemical engineering technology to produce the next-generation of antibody-drug conjugates and other semi-synthetic biotherapeutics. It employs natural post translational modifications found in human cells to site specifically create one or more aldehyde tags on protein molecules, including monoclonal antibodies. The firm's platform is enabled with precision chemistries, payload positioning and defined stoichiometry of payload protein ratios. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Mike Blank and David Rabuka in 2008 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

NaviNet, Inc. provides software for communication between healthcare providers. It offers NaviNet open provider portal, open advance referrals, document exchange and value based network applications. The company was founded in 1998 by Robert Chin, Thomas G. Morrison, William R. Cowen, Bradley J. Waugh and Jeffrey Daly and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of MetaSource Group, Inc., Kensington Group, Inc. provides research, consulting, and training to assist end-users, vendors, media, financial analysts, venture capitalists, and others. The company is based in Corte Madera, CA. Kensington Group was acquired by MetaSource Group, Inc. on July 15, 2002.

BCBSM, Inc. engages in the provision of health care plans and resources. It offers individual and family plans, medicare plans, employer provided plans, prescription drugs, and dental plans. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

The Thresholds provides behavioral healthcare services. Its services include housing and outreach services, clinical services, family and youth services, employment and private pay programs. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Access Community Health Network provides healthcare services. It offers risk and prevention services, maternal child health programs, behavioral health, 240B discount prescription drug program, dental care, Pin-A-Sister Examinate, and Comadre. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of University of California, California Institute For Quantitative Biosciences is a biotech company that offers internships to UC students through its state-funded Qwest internship program. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2000. The program places students with Bakar Labs tenant companies for work experience, and four of its first cohort have already received full-time job offers from their hosts. The company conducts proof-of-concept experiments in a mouse model of ALS and offers mentoring programs to early-stage companies.

Empathetics, Inc. provides empathy and interpersonal skills training for medical professionals. It offers novel training based on the neurobiology and physiology of human interactions that improve interpersonal behavior benefiting both patients and clinicians. The company was founded by Helen Riess in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Innovation Development Institute, Inc. operates as a community of healthcare innovators who aspire to heroic change. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Acrigen Biosciences, Inc. operates as a early-stage life science gene editing company. The company was founded by Joseph Bondy-Denomy in 2019 and is headquartered in Kensington, CA.