João Ribas

Calliditas Therapeutics Suisse SA engages in the development of NOX therapies. Its platform enables the identification of orally available small-molecules that selectively inhibit specific NOX enzymes, which amplify multiple disease processes such as fibrosis, inflammation, pain processing, cancer development, and neurodegeneration. The company was founded Chihiro Yabe, Robert A. Clark, David Lambeth, and Karl-Heinz Krause in 2006 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

HealthCap AB (HealthCap) is a venture capital subsidiary of Odlander, Fredrikson & Co. AB founded in 1995 by Björn Ingemar Odlander and Peder Fredrikson. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Switzerland.

Novo Holding A/S provides financial investments and manages the Novo Nordisk Foundation?s assets. It offers seed and venture capital to development stage companies and takes ownership positions in companies within life science and biotechnology. The company was founded on September 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

Industrifonden is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Government of Sweden founded in 1979. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm.

Imsys Technologies AB operates as a fabless semiconductor company, that designs and supplies networked control solutions to OEMs in the market of embedded control, telematics, automation, and the Internet of Things. The firm supplies processors, modules and tools for embedded applications. Its products include microprocessors; SNAP Velox, SNAP FX, and SNAP Classic modules; and SNAP Velox and SNAP Classic kits, and trace adapters. The company was founded by Stefan Blixt and Roger Sundman in 1981 and is headquartered in Upplands Vasby, Sweden.

Mando AB engages in the provision of health care services. It offers treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as well as other eating disorders using Mandometer Method. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Huddinge, Sweden.

Philip Morris USA, Inc. makes and markets tobacco goods. Its products include cigarette non-tobacco, cigarette tobacco and flavor ingredients. The company was founded by Philip Morris in 1847 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Airsonett AB is a holding company that is engaged in the research and development of a non-pharmaceutical treatment for asthma. Its product Airsonett is based on temperature controlled Laminar Airflow technology that creates a radically reduced allergen exposure in the breathing zone for treatment of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic eczema. The company was founded by Jan Tommy Lennart Hedberg, Jan Kristensson, and Dan Kristensson in 2000 and is headquartered in Ängelholm, Sweden.

Cogmed develops and markets software-based working memory training products for improved attention. The company's products are a unique combination of breakthrough research, original software design and effective support methodology. Cogmed is a privately held company founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2001. The founders are neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and game developers. The firm's main markets are the United States and Sweden. In 2006 Cogmed established its U.S. offices in Naperville and Illinois. Cogmed works with practices across the United States and Canada. It also has partners in Japan, in several European countries, and around the world. Cogmed is involved in evidence-based cognitive training. The firm has research results, scientifically validated, showing that Cogmed training provides substantial and lasting improvements in attention, for people with poor working memory, in all age groups. That makes Cogmed's products the best-validated products on the market.

Covagen AG engages in the research in as well as development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products and technologies. The company was founded by Julian Bertschinger and Dragan Grabulovski in 2007 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

EpiTherapeutics ApS is a holding company that develops cancer drugs based on research in the field of epigenetics. Its development programs are focused on enzymes involved in the regulation of transcription in cancer - current programs target histone demethylases and methyltransferases. The firm's regulation is commonly used for post-translational covalent modifications of histones and other chromatin-remodeling complexes, which determines whether a gene is accessible and hence, expressed or repressed. Its covalent modifications involved in epigenetic regulation include deoxyribonucleic acid methylation, histone acetylation, and histone methylation. The company was founded by Kristian Helin, Paul Andreas Compare Cloos, Jesper Aagaard Christensen, Karl Agger, and Klaus Hansen on September 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Greve, Denmark.

Smartfish AS is a holding company that creates drinks for special medical purposes, as well as for people on the go and top athletes to improve their recovery and immune response. It is a research-based company that develops omega 3 based emulsions for brain health, heart health, immune system, and recovery. The firm’s product NutriFriend medical nutrition is sold through pharmacies, medical wholesalers, and directly to hospitals. The company was founded by Janne Sande Mathisen and Henrik Mathisen in 2001 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Pcovery ApS develops drugs for treatment of invasive fungal infections. It discovers a new class of fungal therapy by targeting an essential and highly conserved component of the fungal cell membrane. The company was founded by Morten J. Buch-Pedersen, Michael Broberg Palmgren, Claus Olesen and Poul Nissen in 2009 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Acesion Pharma ApS develops drugs for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia. The firm's technology blocks ion channel with a selective drug molecule constitutes a target for developing treatment of AF. The company was founded by Ulrik Svane S?rensen and Morten Grunnet in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

iSD Immunotech ApS develops immunoregulatory peptides and proteins. It conducts research and development on immunoregulatory peptides for possible applications and commercialization. The company was founded by Peter Samuel Wulff, Shervin Bahrami, Finn Skou Pedersen, Mogens Ryttergård Duch, Lars Jørgen Østergaard, Martin Tolstrup, and Martin Thygesen on August 9, 2007 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

HealthCap Advisor AB provides investment advice. The private company is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Forendo Pharma Oy provides novel pharmaceutical treatments for endometriosis and low testosterone levels. Its product fispemifene is the first selective estrogen receptor modulator designed only for men, which helps for the treatment of symptoms of low testosterone, in phase II clinical studies in men with secondary hypogonadism; fispemifene has normalized the low testosterone levels. Its 17HSD1-inhibitor focuses on endometriosis, is a potent and selective lead compounds demonstrated in vivo proof of efficacy in disease model of endometriosis. The company was founded by Risto Arvo Sakari Lammintausta in 2013 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.

Avidicare AB operates as a medical device company. It specializes in the management of airborne bacteria and virus pollution at hospitals. The firm provides Opragon, a ventilation system for reduction of airborne bacterial contamination in various hospital environments primarily for infection sensitive surgery. The company offers Opragon for preparation rooms, operating theaters, and hybrid rooms; and air curtains and external air showers. Avidicare was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Part of Ventac Partners GmbH, Ventac Partners A/S provides life science consulting services. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The CEO of the Danish company is Mikael Ørum.

Biosyntia ApS provides services in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering fields. It offers biocatalysts for fermentation of fine chemicals. The company was founded by Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, and Hans Jasper Genee in 2012 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Memo Therapeutics AG develops recombinant immunoglobulins and human-derived monoclonal antibodies. Its products include human antibodies, human immune repertoire analysis, classic antibody discovery and pipeline. The company was founded by Christoph Esslinger on November 29, 2012 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

HepaRegeniX GmbH engages in the development of treatment for acute and chronic liver diseases. It focuses on Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 4, which unlocks the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes even in severely diseased livers. The company was founded in by Wolfgang Albrecht in 2017 and is headquartered in Tuebingen, Germany.

Hoa’s Tool Shop AB develops a mobile application for therapists treating depression. Its web and mobile applications contributes in human psychology interpretation. The company was founded by Kien Hoa Ly, Chacón Chacón Jordi, Andreas Amsenius, and John Markus Airaksinen on February 12, 2011 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hoba Therapeutics ApS engages in research and experimental development in biotechnology. The firm’s purpose is commercialization of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology services. The company was founded on November 28, 2016 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

AFYX Therapeutics AS engages in research and development of pharmaceutical drugs. It develops a platform designed to deliver a pharmaceutical drug uni-directional to a mucosal surface. The company was founded in May 2014 and is headquartered in Virum, Denmark.

Iampatient AB develops a mobile application that assists patients with chronic diseases in managing their medication. The private company is based in Lund, Sweden. The Swedish company was founded by Lars Olof Hedbys.

Elypta AB develops the first metabolism-based liquid biopsy platform enabling early detection and closer follow-up of cancer. The company was founded by Francesco Gatto and Jens Nielsen in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Aloop Therapeutics ApS manufactures pharmaceutical preparations. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The CEOs are Søren Sylvester Skjærbæk, Thomas Kirkegaard Jensen. The Danish company was founded in 2022.