Ann Guggisberg

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Canopy Biosciences LLC engages in the provision of products and services for gene editing, gene expression analysis and regulation, and bioprocessing. It offers crispr complete kits, mirna crispr knockout kits, clia certified services, compbio, mirna mimics, and cho complete. The company was founded by David Adam Smoller, Edward J. Weinstein and Crystal Winkeler in 2016 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Impetus Agriculture, LLC is an American company that specializes in growing commercial biotech crops and developing bio pesticide formulations. The company was founded in 2018, and Martha Schlicher has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Arch Oncology, Inc. develops drugs for life-threatening disorders. Its products include anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody, CD47 antisense oligonucleotide, and a small molecule CD47 inhibitor. The company was founded by William A. Frazier and Jeffrey S. Isenberg in 2006 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

MediBeacon, Inc. provides optical diagnostic products and services. It offers Optical Renal Function Monitor, a platform focused on kidney function monitoring in real-time at the point-of-care. The company was founded by Steven J. Hanley and Richard B. Dorshow in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Aclaris Life Sciences, Inc. operates as a technology-based company which focuses on rational drug design to identify novel drugs for cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. It also engages in design and development of kinase inhibitors that target key enzymes involved in the regulation of cancer growth, survival and metastasis in modulations of chronic inflammation. The company was founded by Joseph B. Monahan, Gabriel Mbalaviele and Shaun R. Selness in 2010 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Daya CNS LLC develops a related compound for the treatment of neuropathic pain. The company was founded by Vi Rajagopalan and is headquartered in Saint Peters, MO.

Solis Agrosciences, Inc. is a plant sciences company located in the 39N Innovation District. The American company offers technology and research services to agricultural innovators with the goal of designing and delivering new biotech plant traits in multiple crops using their proprietary Plant Pipeline as a Service (PPaaS™) for gene-edited and transgenic plant generation and characterization. Solis has a team of experienced scientists, entrepreneurs, and agtech leaders to support research needs and accelerate agricultural innovation to solve food and climate challenges. The company was founded by Charlie W. Bolten and the CEO is Tom Cohen.

The Academy of Science of St. Louis operates as an independent science organization. It facilitates interactions between providers of educational programming and community organizations by providing a website and information listing educational programs, resources, and learning opportunities in subjects relating to science, applied science, mathematics, and engineering. The company was founded by George Engelmann and James B. Eads in 1856 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm develops a portfolio of COX-2 inhibitors optimized for cancer treatment based on its proprietary Euclicoxib platform and is in the process of selecting a lead clinical development candidate. The company was founded by John J. Talley in 2011 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Adarza BioSystems, Inc. develops and manufacturers a multiplex immunoassay technology that can identify proteins and genetic markers in medical specimens. The firm operates as a medical diagnostics company which also develops a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care samples and also its technology allows hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. The company was founded by Benjamin L. Miller, Randolph R. Henke, Terry Gronwall and Christopher C. Striemer in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Immunophotonics, Inc. develops proprietary novel drug product for use in a minimally invasive therapeutic cancer vaccine. Its vaccine process under development, inCVAX, is a two injection procedure into one or more selected tumors: The first injection is a needle with an optical fiber (coupled to a laser) that heats selected tumor(s) locally; The second injection is experimental drug product, a proprietary synthesized carbohydrate polymer, that is intended to recruit and activate antigen-presenting cells, potentially triggering a cascade that leads to a systemic anti-tumor immune response. The company was founded by Lu Alleruzzo and Tomas Hode in 2009 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MI.

Apse, Inc. offers technology and strategy services. It develops technology that will allow the cost efficient production of RNA for broad acre topical RNAi uses in agriculture. The company was founded by Juan Arhancet in 2011 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Cultivation Capital LLC (Cultivation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Brian Matthews, Cliff Holekamp, Jim McKelvey, Kyle Welborn, and Peter Esparrago. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prostate Management Diagnostics, Inc. engages in the provision of research and test of fluid-based screening tool to identify patients at risk of prostate cancer. It performs research on a series of genetic markers that could determine whether a prostrate cancer is indolent or aggressive in patients newly diagnosed with the disease. The company was founded by Christopher B. Ehrlich and Douglas C. Fisher in 2014 and is headquartered in Sausalito, CA.

Engineering Constructors, Inc. provides commercial construction services. The firm provides services to general, commercial and industrial sectors. The company was found in 1978 and is located in Albuquerque, NM.

Dow AgroSciences LLC engages in the provision of agrochemical and biotechnology solutions. It offers pest management and biotechnology products to improve the quality of the food supply and contribute to health. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

The Yield Lab Manager LLC (Yield Lab Manager) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Thad W Simons and Thomas Adamitis. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a non-profit research institute founded in 1998 with a mission to improve the human condition through plant science. The non-profit company's research, education, and outreach efforts focus on the intersection of food security and the environment, positioning St. Louis as a world center for plant science. The company is based in St. Louis, MO. The center is funded through competitive grants from various sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The center's principal investigators conduct fundamental research that leads to useful crops and products that solve real problems.

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

Good Capital LLC (Good Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Tim Freundlich, Kevin Jones and Joy Anderson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Kaiima Bio Agritech Ltd. provides breeding and agro-biotechnology, agro technology and energy services. The firm offers food, feed crops and castormax solutions. It uses its enhanced ploidy platform to increase crop productivity. The company was founded by Doron Gal, Zohar Benner and Amit Avidov, Dror Maayany and Alon Lerner in 2007 and is headquartered in Lower Galilee, Israel.

Better Ventures Central LLC (Better Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Wes Selke and Rick Moss. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Booknook, Inc. operates an educational platform, which combines texts and standards-based curriculum to support fact-to-face learning. It offers multi screen in person experience, support for tablets and chromebooks, adaptative, algorithm driven learning plans and realtime reporting at the student, classroom and school. The company was founded by Michael Lombardo in 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Cadre Bioscience LLC develops novel therapeutics for human diseases. The company was founded by Charlie Bolten and is headquartered in Saint Louis, MO.

MotorLeaf, Inc. provides hardware and software for growers. It offers Motorleaf hardware, a plug n' play solution that enables users to decide which part of grow operation user could control/monitor and automate; and Motorleaf Operating System, an accessible online or offline solution on wireless enabled device, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. The company was founded by Ramen Dutta, Ally Monk and Scott Dickson Dagondon in June 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.