Michelle Knudsen

Fred Alger Management LLC (FAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1964, the firm is wholly-owned by Alger Group Holdings LLC, which is wholly-owned by Alger Associates, Inc. FAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors through separate accounts, US and foreign registered and privately offered funds, as well as through third-party sponsored funds and bank sponsored collective investment trusts; and to retail investors through wrap programs and US and foreign registered funds.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

American Century Investment Management, Inc. (ACIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded by James E. Stowers, Jr. in 1958 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Century Cos., Inc. ACIM provides portfolio management services to financial advisors, individual investors and institutional clients.

Alloy Ventures, Inc. is an independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1984 by Craig C. Taylor, John F. Shoch and Tony Di Bona. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

Audax Private Equity (Audax Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of 101 Huntington Holdings LLC founded in 1999 by Geoff S. Rehnert and Marc B. Wolpow. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and additional office in San Francisco, California.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cisco Capital is an investment banking firm located in San Jose, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

GEN3 Partners, Inc. provides world-class product, process and packaging innovation services. It is a technical innovation solutions provider that focuses on product, process, and packaging innovation for many of the largest and most respected industrial, consumer goods, and medical device companies in the world. The firm specializes in technical innovation consulting, training, product portfolio diagnosis, benchmarking, roadmap development and IP strategy. The company was founded by Michael Treacy, Simon S. Litvin and James K. Sims in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Endeavor Global, Inc. is an Venture Capital firm founded in 1997 by Linda Rottenberg, Casares wenceslao and Peter B.Kellner. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cambridge Associates LLC is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1973 by James Bailey and Henry Lewis. Cambridge Associates provides investment management and advisory services to colleges and universities, foundations and other non-profit institutions. They also act as an investment adviser to private clients, family offices, corporations, healthcare institutions, insurance groups, pension plans and ERISA pools and public and government-related groups.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

SynGen, Inc. designs and manufactures innovative devices designed for separation and isolation of therapeutic cells. It offers products that improve the recovery, purity and viability of stem and other clinically important cells from umbilical cord blood, peripheral blood, bone marrow, and cell culture. The firms products include SynGenX-1000 System, CryoPRO-2 Bag Sets, SynGenX-LAB System, and tube welding workstation. The company was founded by Philip H. Coelho, Gabriel G. Alvarado, and George J. Barry in 1999 and is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, CA

500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Omada Health, Inc. engages in the provision of digital health services. It offers online diabetes and obesity prevention programs, health coaching, and integration of web, mobile, and smart devices. The company was founded by Andrew DiMichele, Adrian James, and Sean Duffy in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stripe, Inc. is a technology company, which builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. The firm offers services that enable platforms and merchants to run businesses, and to safely conduct online payment transactions. Its products include payments, billing, connect, payouts, atlas, radar, issuing, terminal, corporate card, capital, SaaS platforms, marketplaces pricing, and global guides. The company was founded by John Collison and Patrick Collison in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Designer Fund LLC (Designer) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Ben Blumenrose and Enrique Allen. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AlphaimpactRX, Inc. provides research-based insights, analytics and solutions to biopharmaceutical, consumer health and medical device companies. Its products include brandimpact, brandimpactglobal, brandimpactdx, brandimpactatu, provoice, and provoiceglobal. The firm offers custom research and consulting analytics services. The company is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

Gradescope, Inc. develops software that enables instructors to grade paper-based assignments and exams online and to provide feedback. It offers Gradescope, an application that helps instructors save time on grading. The company was founded by Sergey Karayev, Pieter Abbeel, Ibrahim Awwal, and Arjun Singh in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Comet Labs LLC (Comet labs) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Labgenius Ltd. discovers novel and optimized biological molecules using artificial intelligence, automation and synthetic DNA. It specializes in synthetic biology, DNA libraries, protein engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company was founded by James Field in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Primer Technologies, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software which provides digging, compiling and summarizing data. The company was founded by Sean William Joseph Gourley and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Quaestor Technologies, Inc. operates as a software development company. The company was founded by John Melas-Kyriazi, Deny Khoung, and Kevin Hsu in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Creyon Bio, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage drug development company based in San Diego, CA. The company is focused on developing precision oligonucleotide-based medicines (OBMs) such as ASOs, siRNAs, guide RNAs, RNA editing guides, mRNAs, and aptamers. Creyon Bio uses a data-first approach to generate powerful datasets and develop machine learning models to uncover the engineering principles that make precision OBMs possible for patient populations of all sizes. The CEO of the company is Christopher E Hart.

Gusto Activiteitencooperatie West-Vlaanderen CVBA provides professional coaching services to the job seekers who want to start their own business. It offers services in which they can test the feasibility of their business in the market through a detailed business plan. The company is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium.

Anagenex, Inc. is a company that uses high quality, large-scale data generation and AI to discover the next generation of small molecule medicines. Anagenex is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's platform leverages AI to design and synthesize hundreds of millions of target-specific compounds for testing in two weeks. The company's pipeline is focused on synthetic lethal oncology. The company was founded by Nicolas Tilmans and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Weigend Associates LLC provides big data services. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA.