Konstantinos Charizanis

NextBio Corp. provides a scientific platform to aggregate and interpret quantities of genomic data for research and clinical applications. It offers products for pharmaceutical, bio-tech, academia, and medicine organizations. The company was founded by Saeid Akhtari and Ilya Kupershmidt in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Inspirna, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics. It provides drugs for melanoma, colorectal and triple-negative breast cancers. The firm identifies novel cancer targets using a microRNA based target discovery platform that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. The company was founded by Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail Tavazoie, Shahram Seyedin-Noor and Saeed Tavazoie in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Civilization Ventures LLC (Civilization Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Shahram Seyedin-Noor. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Locana, Inc. engages in the provision of ribonucleic acid targeting gene therapy. Its platform technology addresses a wide spectrum of human genetic diseases. It has advanced a powerful modular RNA targeting-effector approach to optimize and advance therapeutic candidates that is distinct from DNA-targeted approaches and nucleic acid-based RNA targeting. The company was founded by Gene Yeo and David Nelles in 2016 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Foresight Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held cancer diagnostics company based in Aurora, CO. The company has developed a liquid biopsy testing platform for the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) that is significantly more sensitive than existing tests, with a detection limit below 0.0001% or one part-per-million. This improved sensitivity provides actionable information to physicians and biopharmaceutical companies to enable more personalized treatment approaches for patients with a variety of cancers. The company's experts specialize in liquid biopsy and cancer genomics, developing an MRD assay centered on the detection of ctdna via phased variant sequencing. The company uses phased-seq® liquid biopsy technology for cancer relapse surveillance by monitoring cfdna/ctdna in the blood of lymphoma and lung cancer patients. The company was founded by Maximilian Diehn, Ash Alizadeh, Jake Chabon, and David Kurtz, with Jake Chabon serving as the CEO since incorporation.