John J. DiBello

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. The firm discovers and develops immuno-oncology drugs, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of cancer diseases. It specializes in clinical development, and glyco-immune checkpoint inhibitors. The company was founded by Jim Broderick, Carolyn Bertozzi and Paul Crocker in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development of pharmaceuticals. It offers inhibitors for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company was founded by Stelios T. Tzannis in 2012 and is headquartered in Novato, CA.

HAYA Therapeutics SA is a Swiss precision medicines company that focuses on developing programmable therapeutics targeting regulatory RNAs derived from the dark genome to reprogram pathological cell states for a broad range of diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. The company's discovery engine identifies novel targets and drug candidates with the potential for greater efficacy and safety than existing treatments. HAYA's lead therapeutic candidate is HTX-001, an antisense oligonucleotide targeting WISPER that is a heart-specific lncRNA known to be a fundamental regulator of pathological cardiac fibrosis in the context of heart failure. The company is headquartered at the Life Sciences Park Biopôle in Lausanne, CH, with laboratory facilities at JLABS @ San Diego. The company was founded by Samir Ounzain and Daniel Blessing, and Samir Ounzain has been the CEO since incorporation.

Cleara Biotech BV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It specializes in identification and specific elimination of subtypes of senescent cells with targeting age related diseases and counteracting therapy resistance in late stage cancer. The company was founded by Peter de Keizer, Marco Demaria, Tobias Madl and is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Apollo Ventures Holding GmbH (Apollo Health Ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Nils Regge and Alexandra Bause. The firm is headquartered in Hamburg.

Gladius Pharmaceuticals Corp. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Samsara Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical platform company. It engages in the development and commercialization of first-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of unmet medical needs and age-related diseases. The company was founded by Sebastian Aguiar in 2018 and is headquartered in Lewes, DE.

ZappRx, Inc. develops prescription and prior authorization platform services. It provides healthcare providers, specialty pharmacies, biopharmacies, and security standards solutions. The company was founded by Zoe Barry in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Action Potential Venture Capital (Action Potential Venture) is a venture capital subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Biohealth Innovation, Inc. sources and evaluates market-relevant bioheath intellectual properties, connects the IP with funding, and assists businesses in marketing and growth. It is a regional innovation intermediary that accelerates and facilitates technology transfer and commercialization of market-relevant research in federal labs, universities, and biohealth companies in the Region. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

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.

Anchor Therapeutics, Inc. designs and develops peptide modulators of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The firm engages in developing and licensing pepducin technology as a research tool for drug development; and pepducin drug candidates and novel molecules that are intended for targeting GPCR to allosterically modulate GPCR signaling. Its pepducin lipopeptides are designed to allosterically modulate internal cell signaling via specific interactions with intracellular GPCR domains. The company also focuses on developing its pepducin technology for creating new treatment options for regenerative medicine, diabetes, inflammation, and cancer. Anchor Therapeutics was founded by Thomas J. McMurry and Athan Kuliopulos in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

ClearCube Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures centralized and virtualized desktop virtualization solutions. Its devices are used by intelligence agencies, military command centers, and high security agencies to consolidate access to multiple classified and unclassified networks in one desktop device. The firm provides installation, integration, training and certification services. The company was founded by Michael Frost, Barry Thornton and Heller Andrew in 1997 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for digital media and communication markets. It provides end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort under its SlimPort brand, including signal conditioners and mobile display controllers such as timing controller solutions. The firm enables mobile devices to display movies, games, and applications on internal system screens, computer monitors, and televisions. The company was founded by Kewei Yang, Ted Rado, and Shuran Wei in March 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides pharmaceutical discovery, development and manufacturing services. Its product Captisol is a polyanionic beta-cyclodextrin derivative with a sodium sulfonate salt separated from the lipophilic cavity by a butyl ether spacer group, or sulfobutylether (SBE). The firm engages in technology with substantial characterization, safety documentation and regulatory review. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Stonesoft Oy is engaged in the provision of integrated network security solutions. The firm offers security and protection of digital assets against cyber threats to private and public sector organizations. Its products include standalone firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and virtual private network solutions. The company was founded by Ilka Hiidenheimo in 1990 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Pfizer Ventures Investments LLC (Pfizer Ventures Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in New York.

TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures drugs. It integrates pharmaceutical sciences, materials science and high throughput experimentation by enabling novel technology. The company was founded by Nicholas Galakatos in 1999 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Passport Capital LLC (Passport) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2000 by John H. Burbank III. Passport serves as the investment manager to privately offered pooled investment vehicles.

Vendep Capital Oy (Vendep) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Hannu Kytölä. The firm is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.