Mark S. Chee

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Nanosys, Inc. develops and manufactures inorganic nanostructures and other related products. It offers Ultra HD television. The company was founded by Paul A. Alivisatos, Stephen Empedocles, Peidong Yang, Robert M. Metcalfe, Jim Heath, Paul McEuen, Christoph H. Westphal, Moungi Bawendi, Lawrence A. Bock, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Chunming Niu, Karen Vergura, Hongkun Park, George Pontis and Charles M. Lieber in 2001 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc. operates as a medical device company for fracture treatment. It focuses on creating less invasive solutions for fractures in and around the joints. The firm offers distal radial and wrist fracture repair products. Its products include distal radius and proximal humerus. The company was founded by Michael P. Brenzel and Paul J. Hindrichs in 2009 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

Element Science, Inc. operates as a medical device and digital health company. It develops a wearable platform solution with proprietary technology in wearable patches, electrical design, machine learning algorithms and digital solutions. The company was founded by Uday N. Kumar in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Omniome, Inc. provides biotechnical research services. The firm's biosensors can be adopted for mobile diagnostics and health monitoring applications. The company was founded by Kandaswamy Vijayan in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Farapulse, Inc. engages in the development of medical devices. Its products are: Endo Farawave, a percutaneous catheter designed to create transmural and contiguous lesions on the endocardium of the left atrium to isolate the pulmonary veins and EPI Faraone, s designed to create a box lesion around all pulmonary veins from an epicardial placement of the catheter for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Steven Mickelsen in 2014 and is headquartered in Iowa City, IA.

Compass Therapeutics LLC operates as a healthcare industry focusing on biotechnology. It offers drug discovery, development, biologics, oncology and immuno-oncology. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson and Thomas J. Schuetz in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Aledade, Inc. provides technology physicians groups into accountable care organizations. It manages regulatory aspects of forming an accountable care organization and working with CMS, provides on-sight practice transformation and support for doctors, nurses, and practice staff; customized technology to optimize existing EHRs and patient claims data. The firm partners with independent, primary care physicians to provide everything doctors need to create and operate an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The company was founded by Matthew Kendall, Edwin Miller and Farzad Mostashari and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

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.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. provides, designs, manufactures, and markets electronic components. It offers microcontrollers, ASICs and ASSPs for automotive, multimedia, industrial, telecoms and networking applications. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Longitude Capital Management Co LLC (Longitude Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Juliet Trammenoms Bakker, Patrick Enright, David Hirsch and Marc-Henri Galletti. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

NeoChord, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers NeoChord, a disposable device that replaces damaged chordae through a small incision while the heart is beating. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in St. Louis Park, MN.

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.

InCarda Therapeutics, Inc. develops cardiovascular disease treatment through pulmonary delivery of established drugs. It also develops an inhaled therapy intended to treat paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Narasimhan Rangachari, John S. Patton, Gregory M. Marcus and Carlos A. Schuler in 2009 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Epic Sciences, Inc. develops novel diagnostics to the treatment and management of cancer. It develops sensitive diagnostic tests to molecularly characterize circulating tumor cells in the blood. The firm also offers fluid-phase biopsy that identifies rare cell of interest in the blood; and provides cancer management through earlier diagnosis, staging and therapeutic selections. The company was founded by David M. Nelson in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

BlueTalon, Inc. provides unmatched data entitlement solutions. It offers single-click data collaboration and data unification technology. The company was founded by Pratik Verma in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Blackthorn Therapeutics, Inc. manufactures and markets medicines for neuro developmental disorders. The company 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.

Deerfield Management Co. LP (Private Equity) (Deerfield) is a private equity subsidiary of Deerfield Management Co. LP founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in the New York.

bng0 LLC provides investment services. The firm invests in Editas Medicine and long-term horizon. The company was founded by Boris Nikolic and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Biomatics Capital Management Co LLC (Biomatics Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Boris Nikolic and Julie Sunderland. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

CathWorks Ltd. develops medical devices for the interventional cardiology market. Its technology is based on processing visual information and automatic multi-layered algorithms. The company was founded by Guy Lavi and Ifat Lavi in 2013 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

MTrap, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutic devices that interfere with the intense dialogue and crosstalk between the primary tumor and the microenvironment and represent a new disruptive approach to cancer treatment. The company was founded by Maybelle L. Jordan and is headquartered in Huntington, NY.

Aquatrove Biosciences, Inc. engages in the discovery, research and development in human reproductive health and fertility. It develops over-the-counter products to address issues relating to human fertility and conception. The company was founded by Vibha Gupta, Boris Nikolic and Vineet Gupta in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

eGenesis, Inc. operates research platform to deliver human transplantable cells, tissues, and organs grown in pigs. It uses gene editing technology such as CRISPR to directly address the key virology and immunology hurdles that have impeded xenotransplantation. The company was founded by George M. Church, Yang Luhan, Prashant Mali, Geoff Mackay and Guell Marc in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Medical Microinstruments SpA develops and manufactures surgical micro-instruments. The firm focuses on clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, and offers advanced microsurgical procedures, while reducing costs for patients, hospitals and for society at large. The company was founded by Giuseppe Prisco, Hannah Teichmann and Massimiliano Simi in 2015 and is headquartered in Calci, Italy.

Guide Therapeutics, Inc. develops biophotonic technology platform for the early detection of disease that leads to cancer. The company was founded by James Dahlman and Cory Sago and is headquartered in Tucker, GA.

Variant Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development of new generation of therapeutics. It focuses on traits of medical relevance and using genomics. The company was founded by Akhila Kosaraju, Kaja Wasik, and Stephane Castel in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Adela, Inc. is a company that is developing technology to accelerate the diagnosis and improve the management of cancer through blood tests for minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring and multi-cancer early detection (MCED). The company is based in Branford, CT. The company's genome-wide methylome enrichment platform captures extensive, biologically-relevant genomic information to maximize test performance and improve treatment decisions. Adela's approach to MRD testing is tissue agnostic, eliminating the burden of acquiring a tumor sample. The CEO of the company is Scott Bratman.

Pleno, Inc. is a company that specializes in multi-omic instrument platform technology for clinical testing and biomedical research. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded by Pieter van Rooyen, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's proprietary hypercoding™ technology uses signal processing techniques to provide targeted biological information with exceptional scale, precision, and performance.

Scale Biosciences, Inc. is an American single-cell sequencing solutions company that aims to unlock the potential of single-cell analysis at scale by eliminating barriers to discovery. The private company has R & D facilities in Menlo Park, CA and another location that is not specified. The company is located in the US. Scalebio is financed by leading life sciences tools investors Arch Venture Partners, BNG, and Tao Capital. The company's multidisciplinary team of scientists and technologists has combined expertise in next-generation sequencing, genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Discover how their single-cell sequencing technology enables scalable sample indexing, cell throughput, and multi-omics analysis.

Aurion Biotech, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotech company with offices in multiple locations. Aurion Biotech has initiated clinical trials in the US in 2023. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company's mission is to restore vision to millions of patients with life-changing regenerative therapies. Aurion Biotech has received the prestigious Prix Galien award for best start-up in biotech. The company's first candidate is an off-the-shelf, clinically validated cell therapy for corneal care, which has received regulatory approval. The company is privately held and backed by leading investors, including Deerfield, Alcon, Petrichor, Flying L Partners, Falcon Vision/KKR, and Visionary Ventures. Greg Kunst has been the CEO of the company since 2021.