David Jacques

Medarex, Inc. provides commercial physical and biological research services. The company's UltiMAb, a human antibody development system creates and develops antibodies products for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Takara Bio USA, Inc. helps to accelerate the discovery process by providing pioneering tools that enable researchers to ask new questions and investigate ever more complex systems than was previously possible. With more than 5,000 literature citations, its innovative products and services continue to facilitate advancement in areas such as genomics, cancer research, apoptosis, cytogenetics, developmental genetics, cellular physiology, pharmocogenetics, and neurobiology.

KAI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops biopharmaceutical drugs. It is a multiple, novel clinical-stage programs in the areas of cardiovascular, renal, and pain. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets soft tissue equipment. The firm's main focus is assisting physicians in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The company was founded by Ben Heavrin, Bruce Lynskey, Jerome R. Edwards, and Evan Austill, Jr. in 2005 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Singulex, Inc. provides biotechnological research and development services. It also provides instrumentation and immunoassays with the requisite sensitivity and specificity to enable biomarker discovery and validation for drug safety and efficacy. The company was founded by Robert S. Puskas in November 1997 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

TearScience, Inc. diagnoses and treats meibomian gland dysfunction. It offers Lipiflow, Lipiscan, and Lipiview. The company was founded by Donald R. Korb and Timothy R. Willis in 2005 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Everest Biomedical Instruments Co. manufactures biomedical instruments. The company's products include network and protocol analyzers, fiber optic test sources, and radar and sonar systems. It was founded by Elvir Causevic and Eldar Causevic in 1996 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Transcend Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It develops medical devices for the treatment of glaucoma, the cause of adult irreversible blindness. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA.

Aptalis Pharma, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets pharmaceutical products for cystic fibrosis and gastroenterology. The company's products include Zenpep, Canasa, Carafate, Pylera, Lacteal, Panzytrat, Delursan, Rectiv and Salofalk.. It provides therapies for unmet medical needs including cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders. The company formulates and clinically develops enhanced pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products for itself and others using its proprietary pharmaceutical technology. Aptalis Pharma was founded 1982 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Rocket Lawyer, Inc. provides online legal services. Its products include easy legal documents, easy incorporation service, find a lawyer, and the web law office. The company was founded by Charley Moore in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Elira, Inc. develops a system to suppress appetite and assist diet adherence. The company was founded by John Faul in 2015 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Oakwood Medical Investors (Oakwood Medical Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Raul Perez. The firm is headquartered in Louis, Missouri.

Aerogen Ltd. develops and manufactures aerosol products. It offers Aerogen Solo, Aerogen Ultra, Aerogen Pro, Pro-X controller and USB controller. The company was founded by John S. Power in 1997 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Pear Therapeutics (US), Inc. develops and provides a platform that combines pharmaceutical preparations with scientifically validated software applications. It offers eFormulation, pharmaceutical-software combination products. The firm combines digital therapies with supplements, medical foods and pharmaceuticals to create more effective treatment solutions. The company was founded in 2013 by Corey M. McCann, Stephen Kennedy Smith and William Greene and is headquartered in Boston. MA.

Availity LLC provides health care services. The firm's health information network encompasses administrative and clinical services, supports both real-time and batch transactions via the web and electronic data interchange. It offers products for medical groups, hospitals, health systems, health plans, developers and vendors. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Prolog Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Brian Clevinger, Greg Johnson and Ilya Nykin. The firm is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

CallFire, Inc. provides intuitive voice and text connectivity products. It is a cloud telephony company that provides enterprise-level telecommunication services on a pay-as-you-go basis for clients. The firm?s customers include small business owners, nonprofits, political groups, insurance agents and marketers. The company was founded by Komnieve Singh, TJ Thinakaran, Vijesh Mehta, Punit Shah and Dinesh Ravishanker in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Two Rivers Associates LLC (Two Rivers Associates) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by John McCarthy and Joe Adorjan. The firm is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

EraGen Biosciences, Inc. is a venture-backed biotechnology company. It designs, develops, manufactures and markets molecular diagnostic testing products and software for the research and clinical testing markets. The firm in-market and pipeline products, based on its novel, patented MultiCode platform chemistry, are the next generation of nucleic acid-based testing for the early detection and monitoring of cancer, genetic and infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Madison WI.

PixelEXX Systems, Inc. manufactures semiconductor nanoarrays for molecular diagnostics and microscopy. The company was founded by Stuart Solin, Samuel A. Wickline, Kirk Wallace and Michael Hughes in 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

OptiScan Biomedical Corp. develops and provides continuous monitoring systems for hospital intensive care units. The company offers OptiScanner 5000, a bedside blood monitoring platform that provides plasma-based, automated monitoring of patients’ glucose levels without the need for calibration, as well as uses a disposable cartridge containing the fluid pathway for sampling, storing, processing, and analyzing blood. The company was founded by James R. Braig and Daniel S. Goldberger in 1994 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Patricia Industries AB (Patricia Industries) is a private equity subsidiary of Investor AB founded in 1972. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Lederle Laboratories is a company that provides testing services. The company is based in Pearl River, NY.

Aptalis Holdings Inc. operates as a holding company that develops, manufactures, licenses, markets and distributes therapies for unmet medical needs. It includes cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders through its subsidiaries. It also formulates and clinically develops enhanced pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical products for itself and others using its proprietary technology platforms including bioavailability enhancement of poorly soluble drugs, custom release profiles, taste-masking and orally disintegration tablet formulations. The company was founded on January 10, 2008 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.