Brandon H. McNaughton

HandyLab, Inc. develops and manufactures novel clinical diagnostic testing products. It serves medical, industrial and bio-defense markets. The company was founded by Kalyan Handique and Sundaresh Brahmasandra in 2000 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MI.

Accuri Cytometers, Inc. develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers. It operates as a life sciences company which develops and markets high performance cell analysis systems designed to bring the power of flow cytometry into life science and biomedical laboratories. The firm offers C6 Flow Cytometer, a bench-top cell and bead analysis system used in various applications, such as immunophenotyping, bacteria analysis, cell cycle analysis, proliferation assays, apoptosis, DNA analysis, target multiplexing, gene expression, lineage analysis, viability, absolute cell counts, intracellular cytokines, membrane potential, yeast and algae analysis, and phagocytosis. The company was founded by Jennifer A. Baird and Collin A. Rich in 2004 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Part of Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., Capricor, Inc. is a company that provides cardiac stem cell therapeutics biotechnology services. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company was founded by Linda Marbán. Linda Marbán has been the CEO since incorporation. Capricor was acquired by Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. on November 21, 2013.

Tangent Medical Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes IV therapy products. It offers NovaCath, a peripheral intravenous catheter system that integrates catheter stabilization, tubing management, closed system blood control, and passive needle encapsulation on IV start. The company was founded by Adrienne Harris, Elyse Kemmerer, Merrell Sami, and Steven White in 2009 and is headquartered in Columbus, MI.

NeuMoDx Molecular, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics company. The firm engages in the provision of hospital and clinical reference laboratory testing services. It offers solution for in vitro molecular diagnostic (MDx) testing. The company was founded by Jeffery Williams in 2012 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Immusoft Corp. provides disease curing services through immune cells. The firm offers ISP, gene delivery technology and lymphopoiesis culture system. The company was founded by Matthew Scholz in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Venture Investors LLC (Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Arbor Bancorp, Inc. engages in operation of a bank holding firm. The company was founded on January 16, 1996 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Essen Instruments, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of cell and bead based screening solutions. It offers phenotypic drug discovery, antibody discovery and in vitro toxicity testing. The firm’s proprietary technologies, instrumentation, assays and software products address the pervasive need to provide turnkey solutions that increase productivity in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science research. The company’s products are used in biologics discovery, small molecules, in vitro tox and cellular research antibody applications. The company was founded by R. Terry Dunlay, Larry A. Sklar, and Bruce S. Edwards in 2006 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Bank of Ann Arbor provides commercial banking services. It offers checking, savings, online and mobile banking, health savings accounts, personal loans, home loans, private banking, deposit, lending, cash management, and interest rate. The company was founded on January 16, 1996 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Applied Biosystems, Inc. is a company that provides integrated systems for sequencing, flow cytometry, and various types of PCR. The company is based in Foster City, CA. The company's products cover the entire process from sample preparation to data analysis. The company was founded by Chris Yoo, Marvin H. Caruthers, Michael W. Hunkapiller, and Leroy E. Hood. Applied Biosystems was acquired by Invitrogen Corp. from Applera Corp. on November 21, 2008 for $6,417.85 million.

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

Cytobank, Inc. provides cloud­-based storage and analytics platform for single cell technologies. The company was founded by Jonathan Irish, Peter Krutzik, David Craford and Nikesh Kotecha and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

BrightSpec, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures laboratory instrumentation equipment. The firm engages in the commercialization of products and technologies for the analysis of pharmaceutical and high value chemical compounds that affect human health and well-being. It provides K-Band BrightSpec Discovery, W-Band BrightSpec Discovery, BrightSpec One, and BrightSpec Chiral Broadband. The company was founded by Robert Lloyd, Matt Muckle, Dave McDaniel, and Justin Neill in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Cota Capital Management LLC (Cota Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Babak Poushanchi and Bobby Yazdani. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Blueprint Genetics Oy engages in the provision of genetic diagnostics and clinical interpretation of hereditary diseases. It offer dignistic tests for cardiology; dermatology; endocrinology; immunology; metabolic disorder; nephrology; and pulmonology. The company was founded by Tommi Pietari Lehtonen, Juha Koskenvuo, Tero-Pekka Alastalo, and Samuel Myllykangas in 2008 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Strata Oncology, Inc. manufactures oncology drugs. It provides comprehensive testing, portfolio of treatments, peace of mind. The company was founded by Daniel D. Rhodes, Scott Tomlin and Keith T. Flaherty in 2015 and is headquartered Ann Arbor, MI.

Isto Biologics, Inc. provides bone regeneration and cell therapy related products. Its products include Magellan autologous platelet separator & bone-growth and cell-therapy products including InQu bone graft extender and substitute; Influx, a natural bone-graft material; and CellPoint, a concentrated bone marrow aspirate system. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Mission Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of tools for the study of cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. It develops research tools that allow high-throughput, single-cell nucleic acid characterization across a variety of research applications, including oncology and immunology. The company was founded by Charlie Silver, Adam Sciambi, Adam Abate, and Dennis Eastburn on June 29, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Flosonics Medical develops and operates medical software platform for the management of critically ill patients. The company was founded by Joe Eibl, Jon-Emile Kenny, Andrew Eibl, and Sachit Harish and is headquartered in Sudbury, Canada.

Bioinflexion Point Partners LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Belmont, CA. The company was founded by Gary Zweiger.

Gregor Diagnostics, Inc. develops and manufactures molecular diagnostics screening tests for prostate cancer. It provides proprietary system to maintain biomarker stability in the seminal fluid. The company was founded by Tobias Zutz in February 2016 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Dropworks, Inc. develops automated platform for performing biological assays. The company was founded by Chris Perkins and Andrew Larsen and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Genoa Ventures LLC (Genoa Ventures) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jenny Rooke. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jumpcode Genomics, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Slingshot Biosciences, Inc. is a life sciences company that develops synthetic cells for various applications in diagnostics and therapeutics. The company is based in Emeryville, CA. The company utilizes advances in distributed manufacturing, engineering, and polymer chemistry to provide an industry-first, off-the-shelf solution for cell-like reagents that are stable, low-cost, and targeted towards a range of indications and markets. Slingshot Biosciences focuses on developing cutting-edge tools for fluorescence imaging to revolutionize how scientists explore and understand the intricate mechanisms of life. The company is committed to empowering researchers with exceptional products that enable groundbreaking discoveries and shape the future of bioscience. The company was founded in 2012 by Jeffrey Kim, who has been the CEO since 2012.

CellFE, Inc. develops delivery platform to enable engineering of life-saving therapies. The company was founded by Anna Liu and Alla Zamarayeva in 2018 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Fluent BioSciences, Inc. is a privately funded biotechnology company based in Watertown, MA. The company's mission is to revolutionize single-cell biology through accessible, affordable, and scalable solutions for every researcher. Fluent Biosciences aims to accelerate the understanding of biology and disease through its breakthrough pre-templated instant partitions (PipSeq™) technology, which facilitates near-instantaneous self-assembly of individual cells or molecules into millions of uniform partitions without the need for complex instrumentation or expensive consumables. The company was founded in 2018 by Adam Abate, Sepehr Kiani, and Bill Hyun, and Sepehr Kiani has been the CEO since 2018.

Scribe Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded by Srinivasan Maithreyan, Zev Gartner, Adam Abate, Russell Cole. The CEO is Russell Cole.

Enumera Molecular, Inc. is a life science tools company based in Ann Arbor, MI. The company has developed a scalable biomolecule assessment platform that enables lower cost and rapid clinical liquid biopsy tests. The company was founded in 2022 by Matthew Cooper with the mission of transforming the field of clinical molecular testing to a simpler, more actionable tool for physicians to benefit patient care.

Arboretum Ventures LLC (Arboretum Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Jan L. Garfinkle and Tim B. Petersen. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Swift Biosciences, Inc. develops molecular biology reagents. It offers Next Generation Sequencing sample preparation for Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms. The firm?s products include Accel-NGS and Amplicon Panels and myT Primer. The company was founded by David C. Olson and Vladimir L. Makarov in February 2010 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.