Geoff Wurzel

Xius Holding Corp. develops products and services that enable wireless operators to realize the potential of their networks. Its access management, billing, payment and network solutions help operators deploy and manage innovative voice and data services for subscribers. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in North Chelmsford, MA.

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in developing innovative therapies that target the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer. The company was founded by Frank McCormick in February 1992 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

GLT Liquidating Trust provides internet infrastructure services and eBusiness network platforms to enterprises and service providers. It combines its tier 1 network with Internet services including dedicated, remote and broadband access, web hosting & Internet security to develop a platform for creating scalable and repeatable managed eBusiness solutions. The company is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Gen-Probe, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets rapid, accurate and molecular diagnostic products and services that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases, screen donated human blood, and ensure transplant compatibility. It also develops and manufactures the PROCLEIX assays, which are used to detect human immunodeficiency virus, the hepatitis C virus, the hepatitis B virus, and the West Nile virus in donated human blood. The firm's clinical diagnostics products include APTIMA family of assays, which are used to detect the common STDs chlamydia and gonorrhea. Gen-Probe was founded by Thomas H. Adams and David E. Kohne in 1983 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Oculeve, Inc. develops devices for dry eye disease treatment. The company was founded by D. Michael Ackermann, Brandon M. Felkins, Garrett Cale Smith and Victor Wayne McCray in 2011 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

UCSF Medical Center owns and operates hospitals. It operates hospitals in San Francisco as well as satellite facilities. It provides health care facilities to children, organ transplants, cardiac care, fertility treatments, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It also provides outpatient care and some programs in areas as women's health, aging, cancer, and pain management. UCSF Medical Center is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Pacific Community Ventures LLC (PCV) is a private equity firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Silicon Valley Leadership Group operates as an advocacy organization to influence public policy relating to the valley. The non-profit company is based in San Jose, CA.

The World Economic Forum USA, Inc. operates an organization for economic reforms. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

Silicon Valley Bank provides commercial banking services. It offers banking services to the hardware and infrastructure, software and internet, life science and healthcare, energy and resource innovation, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Mission Bay Capital Management Inc (Mission Bay Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of The Protectoseal Co., Electronic System Design, Inc. is a company that specializes in electronics technology for the water industry. The company is based in Palatine, IL. The company provides water process control boards for reverse osmosis water purification systems and water vending machines. Electronic System Design was acquired by The Protectoseal Co. on December 18, 2012.

Newsela, Inc. publishes news articles online. Its common core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight to student's reading strengths and weaknesses. The company was founded by Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zephyr Health, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions for health companies. Zephyr health helps life sciences companies organize and visualize global health data to connect their therapies to people in need. It offers medical affairs, marketing, sales and technology solutions. The company was founded by William King in May 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Verana Health, Inc. engages in the development of software solutions for remote patient monitoring and data analytics. It focuses on bridging the gap between healthcare providers and patients with mobile tests. The company was founded by Mark S. Blumenkranz and Daniel V. Palanker in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Enjoy Technology LLC operates a personal commerce platform. It offers mobile store, customer experience, personal commerce, technology, and retail sales. The company was founded by Ronald B. Johnson in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Waycross Ventures LLC (Waycross Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Octave Bioscience, Inc. operates as an early-stage diagnostics company which provides healthcare services. It focuses on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was founded by William A. Hagstrom in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

GRAIL LLC is a healthcare company. It engages in the development of a technology for early detection of cancer. The company was founded by Jeffrey T. Huber, William H. Rastetter, and Mostafa Ronaghi on September 11, 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Cell Design Labs, Inc. develops disruptive cell-based therapies for cancer and other devastating diseases. The company was founded by Brian G. Atwood and Fred E. Cohen in 2016 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Epiodyne, Inc. engages in biotechnology services. The company was founded by Brian Shoichet, Brian Kobilka, Peter Gmeiner, Bryan L. Roth, Gregory Scherrer, and Aashish Manglik in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Medical Technology Venture Partners (MedTech Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Radu Cautis and Thomas Heinrich Glanzmann in 2017. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Arsenal Biosciences, Inc. discovers, develops, and commercializes curative immune cell therapies. It offers cell therapy, cloud computing, computational biology, genome engineering, machine learning, software engineering, and synthetic immunology. The company was founded by Ken E. Drazan, Bradley E. Bernstein, W. Nicholas Haining, Theo Roth, Kole T. Roybal, and E. John Wherry and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.