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Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Cogenics Icoria, Inc. provides medical research services. The firm offers genomics and proteomics-related research instruments, consumables, data, including databases, software & other research-oriented products. Icoria offers gene expression analysis and other related services. Its tissue informatics software performs tissue analysis for toxicology studies of early-stage drug candidates and other purposes. The firm also provides biomarkers to develop diagnostics and therapies for liver injuries, metabolic conditions & cancer. The company is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Gauss Surgical, Inc. engages in mobile health operation which specializes in blood and hemoglobin loss monitoring during surgery. Its services include research and development, publications, clinical performance, feature extraction technology, rapid integration with surgical workflow, and inoperative mobile platform. The company was founded by Siddarth Satish in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

410 Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It develops LifeFlow for fluid resuscitation to help patients with life-threatening illnesses such as sepsis. The company was founded by Mark Donald Piehl and Luke Miller Roush in 2013 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Burril LLC (Burrill) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1994 by G. Steven. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Genentech Ventures (Genentech Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

NewBridge Pharmaceuticals FZ LLC engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products, therapeutics and medical devices. The company was founded by G. Garrett Vygantas in 2007 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Jump Capital LLC (Jump Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mike B. McMahon and Sach Chitnis. The firm is headquartered in Chicago.

Visibly, Inc. develops a platform to perform an online eye exam. It operates as a healthcare technology firm that offers the convenient and affordable way to get a prescription for glasses and contacts. The firm’s technology provides valid glasses and contact lens prescriptions online from the convenience of home. The company was founded by Aaron Dallek and Steven Lee in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MD Revolution, Inc. engages in the provision of a digital care management platform. Its product platform include care management features, clinical tools, patient engagement tools, and integration. The firm solutions also include Chronic Care Management; Remote Patient Monitoring; Behavioral Health Integration; Annual Wellness Visits; Transitional Care Management; Whole Person Care; Clinical Care Teams; And Care Program Design. The company was founded by Samir Damani in 2011 and is headquartered in Solana Beach, CA.

Pieces Technologies, Inc. develops healthcare software solutions. Its products include pieces IRIS and pieces decision support. The company was founded by Ruben Amarasingham in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Brightwater Medical, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers ConvertX Stent, a device that can be converted from a catheter to a nephroureteral stent without a second interventional procedure. The company was founded by Bob Smouse in January 2014 and is headquartered in Temecula, CA.

Level Ex, Inc. engages in the provision of medical video games for physicians. It offers Cardio Ex, Pulm Ex, Gastro Ex, and Airway Ex games. The company was founded by Sam Z. Glassenberg in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

HealthBridge Financial, Inc. provides health insurance services. It offers design, underwriting and servicing of credit solutions. The company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

PatientWisdom, Inc. develops and operates platform that collects, curates, segments and shares patient stories. The firm offers services to patients and families, healthcare providers, researchers and educators, and manufacturers and payers. The company was founded by Gregory Makoul and Eric Langshur in 2015 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Inflammatix, Inc. operates molecular diagnostics company which develops rapid tests that read the immune system. The firm specializes in molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, computational immunology, in-vitro diagnostics, personalized medicine and bioinformatics. The company was founded by Purvesh Khatri, Jonathan Romanowsky and Timothy Sweeney and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Corsair Pharma, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the development of novel prodrugs of treprostinil to treat patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension using a once-daily transdermal patch. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

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

Health Scholars, Inc. engages as a cloud-based, VR-ready training platform for the management, delivery, and analysis of clinical training. Its solutions include virtual reality training, and simulation management. The company was founded by Brian Gillett in 2017 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

KeifeRx LLC is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops novel and optimized tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for the treatment of neurodegenerative and immune diseases. KeifeRx is based in McLean, VA, and was founded in 2019 by Charbel Moussa and Fernando Pagan. The company's clinical pipeline is led by Nilotinib BE, an optimized, lower dose formulation of Nilotinib, which is currently in a multicenter phase 3 clinical trial for early Alzheimer's disease. KeifeRx's TKI portfolio includes an optimized oral dose of Bosutinib and Gutinib, which are undergoing clinical trials in Lewy body dementia and optimizing and IND enabling studies, respectively. The company's technologies are designed to treat neurodegenerative diseases and an array of inflammatory diseases where there are significant unmet clinical needs and limited therapeutic options. Chris Hoyt has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Riverine Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Garrett Vygantas. The firm is headquartered in Sausalito, California.