Thomas Woiwode

Antipodean Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products and provides pre clinical services. Its product MitoQ, which blocks mitochondrial oxidative damage and prevents cell death. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Sentient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops products for outpatient interventional procedures. The firm develop products for outpatient interventional procedures. The company was headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Synosia Therapeutics develops and intends to commercialize innovative products for unmet medical needs in psychiatry and neurology. The firm is working to extend the reach of marketed and clinical-stage compounds, acquired through strategic partnerships with Novartis, Roche and Syngenta, into new indications with significant potential. Founded in December 2005 and headquartered in Switzerland, Synosia is managed by a highly experienced management team with some 200 years of drug development experience. The company is backed by $62 million in funding from high-quality investors and has a rich portfolio of compounds.

Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel and local therapies. It specializes in the treatment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions including osteoarthritis. It offers products under the Zilretta brand, an extended-release corticosteroid approved to manage osteoarthritis knee pain. The company was founded by Michael D. Clayman and Neil Bodick on November 5, 2007 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

TempestTx, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company which engages in advancing small molecule therapeutics that modulate anti-tumor pathways. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Versant Venture Management LLC, Euro Ventures 4, Inc. is a private equity fund. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Thomas F. Woiwode.

XenoPort, Inc. operated as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products included horizant and regnite. The company was founded by Ronald W. Barrett, William J. Dower and Mark A. Gallop on December 17, 1999 and was headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

Saegis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed drug therapeutics. Its phase II SGS742 clinical drug treated diseases such as mild cognitive impairment and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Its second SGS742 clinical trial provided coronary artery bypass surgery. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Half Moon Bay, CA.

Astellas Gene Therapies, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development and commercialization of gene therapy products for patients with serious and rare diseases caused by single gene defects. The company was founded by Matthew R. Patterson and Thomas J. Schuetz on November 13, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Inception Sciences, Inc. provides small molecule pharmaceutical incubator services. Its focus is on creating therapies with transformative potential to address diseases and disorders. The company creates new companies in partnership with pioneering academic researchers and major biopharmaceutical companies, which provide funding and a path to liquidity through pre-negotiated acquisitions. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Kanyos Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of immune tolerance technology solutions. It develops antigen-specific for treatment of type-1 diabetes and celiac disease. The company was founded by Jeffrey Hubbell, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz, and David A. Lowin in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

TherAchon SAS provides biotechnology services. It specializes in research and development for achondroplasia and its associated complications. The company was founded by Elvire Gouze in 2014 and is headquartered in Biot, France.

Inception IBD, Inc. provides therapeutics services. It creates new companies in partnership with pioneering academic researchers and major biopharmaceutical companies, which provide funding and a path to liquidity through pre-negotiated acquisitions. The company was founded by Eric Ogier-Denis, Yoram Bouhnik, Xavier Treton and Jacques Mizrahi in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Versant Venture Capital VI (Canada) LP operates as a pooled investment fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Jecure Therapeutics, Inc. provides therapeutic services for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. The company was founded by Ariel Feldstein in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

CODA Biotherapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of chemo genetic neuromodulation platform for the treatment of severe neurological disorders. The company was founded by Mitchell H. Finer, Allan Basbaum, Nicholas Boulis, Joseph Glorioso III and Kenneth P. Greenberg in 2014 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Therachon Holding GmbH engages in the acquisition, management, financing, and disposal of participating interests in firms. It also acquires, holds, and disposes intellectual property rights. The company was founded on December 22, 2015 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Bright Peak Therapeutics AG engages in the development of engineered cytokines for immuno-oncology indications. The company is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

VectivBio Holding AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of treatments for severe rare conditions with significant unmet medical need. It operates through Switzerland, Canada, and the United States geographical segment. The company was founded by Luca Santarelli on May 22, 2019 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Jengu Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

VectivBio AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The firm focuses on developing transformational therapeutics for patients living with serious and rare diseases. Its program apraglutide, is a next-generation GLP-2 analog for the treatment of short bowel syndrome (SBS). The company was founded by Luca Santarelli in 2019 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Part of Bright Peak Therapeutics AG, Bright Peak Therapeutics, Inc. develops immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Vijaya R. Pattabiraman, Jeffrey Bode. The CEO is Fredrik Wiklund.

Santa Ana Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in precision immunology for autoimmune diseases. The company is based in Alameda, CA. The CEO of the company is Peter Emtage.