Zachary Scheiner

Crosstrees Medical, Inc. develops medical devices for the spine fracture treatment. The firm focuses on percutaneous vertebral augmentation to control bone cement delivery and decrease cement leakage associated with vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, the surgical treatments for vertebral compression fractures. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

RA Capital Management LP (RA Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Peter Kolchinsky in 2004. RA Capital provides discretionary investment advisory services to Healthcare Funds and the Nexus Funds which are open only to certain financially sophisticated and high net-worth individuals and entities.

BAROnova, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage medical-device company. It develops nonsurgical, nonpharmacologic devices. The firm's TransPyloric Shuttle device enables the patient' stomach to fill up faster, stay full longer, and potentially delay gastric emptying. The company was founded by Hugh Narciso in 2006 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

AqueSys, Inc. is a clinical-stage medical device company that develops ocular implants that reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with glaucoma. It focuses on commercializing implantable devices that will significantly improve the treatment of glaucoma. The company was founded by Charles E. Larsen in 2006 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ

SARcode Bioscience, Inc., develops biopharmaceutical products. Its program is a novel class of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) antagonists for the treatment T-cell mediated inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Thomas Gadek and John P. Burnier in 2006 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

PHT Corp. designs and develops software applications. The firm offers biopharmaceutical clients comprehensive services for acquiring, managing, and analyzing data collected directly from patients through all phases of clinical development. Its electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) system collects and reports secure real-time patient data from smartphones, tablets, and the web. The company was founded by Stephen Raymond in 1994 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Rho Capital Partners, Inc. (Rho Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Joshua Ruch. The firm is headquartered in New York.

JMS Precision, Inc. manufactures and supplies precision equipment parts. It provides plastic, zinc and chrome coated materials. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Watertown, SD.

Longitude Capital Management Co LLC (Longitude Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Juliet Trammenoms Bakker, Patrick Enright, David Hirsch and Marc-Henri Galletti. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

SpringCM, Inc. provides an enterprise-class document management and workflow solution designed for online collaboration. Its cloud platform manages contracts and all types of documents across desktop, mobile, and partner applications like Salesforce. The company was founded by Christine Mason, Greg T. Buchholz, and Jeffrey Piper in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

California Cryobank LLC provides donor sperm, private semen cryopreservation and reproductive services. The firm provides donor matching consultation, genetic counseling, family planning, vial buy-back and exchange, and directed donor services. The company was founded by Charles A. Sims and Cappy M. Rothman in 1977 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Equinox Ophthalmic, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It specializes in cataract, corneal and glaucoma surgery. The company was founded by John Berdahl and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Virtual Incision Corp. engages in the development of miniaturized surgical robots. It offers MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical robotic platform. The company was founded by Shane M. Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov in 2006 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Adagio Medical, Inc. provides medical devices. Its products include catheters, esophageal balloon and console. The firm offers transmural lesions to treat cardiac arrhythmias, including paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and ventricular tachycardia. The company was founded by James Cox and Olav Bergheim in 2011 and is headquartered in Laguna Hills, CA.

Virun, Inc. develops effective drug delivery and food and beverage ingredients. Its products include OmegaH2O and Coenzyme Clear. The firm operates through three segments: food and beverage ingredient manufacturing, consumer product development and pharmaceutical drug delivery. The foods and beverage ingredient manufacturing segment produces novel food and beverage concentrates stemming from a patented portfolio. The consumer product development segment develops novel and patented consumer products that allow substantiated health claims. The pharmaceutical drug delivery segment utilizes its patented technologies to improve the pharmacokinetics (delivery) and dynamics (efficacy) of peptides and compounds that have poor oral bioavailability or over-all functionality. The company was founded in 2003 by Philip James Bromley and is headquartered in Walnut, CA.

BrightPlanet Corp II, Inc. designs and develops search, harvest and document federation technology. The firm's technology allows a user to search huge databases hidden under the surface. The company was founded by Patrick J. Yam in 2009 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

OcuDoc, Inc. provides digital health services for eye care technologies. It develops TESA (The Eye Scan App) that helps vision diagnostics for licensed eye care providers. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Welbe Health LLC operates as a healthcare services company. It delivers coordinated and value-based care to medically frail seniors. The company was founded by Clancy France and Adam Groff and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

eXo Imaging, Inc. engages in the provision of ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company was founded by Sandeep Akkaraju, Janusz Bryzek, Yusuf Haque, and John Kokulis and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Noteswift, Inc. engages in the development of health information technology solutions. It offers Samantha, an electronic health record (HER) real time transcriptionist, which enables providers to dictate the narrative of a patient encounter and parse the text into usable and valued structured data for patient outcomes. The company was founded by Chris Russell in 2008 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Somatus, Inc. provides health care services. It offers value-based kidney care for health plans, health system, and provider groups. The company was founded by Ikenna Okezie and Anthony Welters in 2016 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

TearClear Corp. operates as an early-stage medical science company. It develops a hydrogel filter to remove potentially harmful preservatives from multi dose topical ophthalmic products used to treat chronic diseases such as glaucoma, dry-eye and allergic conjunctivitis. The company was founded by Anuj Chauhan in 2015 and is headquartered in Copley, OH.

Tear Film Innovations, Inc. engages in the research and development of products for the treatment of evaporative dry eye and related syndromes. It offers iLux system, a handheld treatment device which enables eye care professionals to identify and treat blocked meibomian glands. The company was founded by Kabir Gambhir and Brian Kelleher in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diergo, CA.

Synq3 Restaurant Solutions LLC provides call center solutions for the restaurant industry. Its solutions include drive improvements, enhanced guest relationships, increased average check, improved guest experience and innovative technologies that reduce costs. The company was founded by Steve Bigari in January 2008 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.

RA Capital Management LP (Private Equity) (RA Capital) is a private equity & venture capital subsidiary of RA Capital Management LP founded by Peter Kolchinsky in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TherOptix, Inc. develops and manufactures drug-eluting contact lens. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aviceda Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotech company which specializes in clinical sciences, clinical research, and drug development. The firm focuses on glyco-immune therapeutics utilizing the Glyco-Code technology platform to address the innate immune system and chronic non-resolving inflammation. The company was founded by Mohamed Genead, Michael Tolentino, Derek Kunimoto, and Christopher Scott and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

LENZ Therapeutics, Inc. manufactures pharmaceuticals. The firm sells eye care products. The company was founded by James W. McCollum, Lee Nordan and Gerald Horn and is headquartered in Coronado, CA.

Neurolens, Inc. is a company that commercializes breakthrough technology to improve vision care. The company's patented contoured prism technology provides visual comfort for the nearly 65% of US adults who complain of headaches, neck/shoulder pain, and eyestrain when using digital devices, reading, or doing detail work. The company is based in Coppell, TX. Inspired by a breakthrough discovery linking optometry and neurology, Neurolens is unlocking a new dimension of vision care. The Neurolens contoured prism design helps the eyes work together comfortably, bringing the eyes into alignment to relieve painful symptoms. The technology is only available to independent eye care providers. The company was founded in 2012 by Davis Corley, and Pierre Bertrand has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Aurion Biotech, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotech company with offices in multiple locations. Aurion Biotech has initiated clinical trials in the US in 2023. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company's mission is to restore vision to millions of patients with life-changing regenerative therapies. Aurion Biotech has received the prestigious Prix Galien award for best start-up in biotech. The company's first candidate is an off-the-shelf, clinically validated cell therapy for corneal care, which has received regulatory approval. The company is privately held and backed by leading investors, including Deerfield, Alcon, Petrichor, Flying L Partners, Falcon Vision/KKR, and Visionary Ventures. Greg Kunst has been the CEO of the company since 2021.