Charlie Petty

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to help people lead healthy and productive lives. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's mission is to create a world where everyone has equal opportunities. The company is guided by the belief that every life has equal value. The foundation is currently working on 'the big catch-up' project, which aims to increase vaccination levels among children to pre-pandemic levels and strengthen primary healthcare services for essential immunization in the future. The company was founded by Melinda French Gates and William H. Gates, and the CEO is Mark Suzman.

Global Health Investment Fund seeks investment opportunities in global health technologies. The fund invests in new drugs & vaccines, emerging diagnostic tools, child-friendly formulations of existing products, expanding manufacturing capacity and other applications. It provides financing in the form of mezzanine for later-stage capital requirements.

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops broad-spectrum antifungal agents for the treatment of life-threatening fungal infections. The firm's compound APX001, shows broad-spectrum activity in animal models of invasive fungal infection by common species of Candida and Aspergillus. It develops oral and injectable anti-infective drugs, including protease inhibitors and antibiotics. The company was founded by André Marquis, Mitchell W. Mutz and Gerry Crabtree in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

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.

Frontier Nutrition, Inc. develops and manufactures fortified packaged food. Its recipes are localized for traditional diets, taste, and nutrition. The company was founded by Eddie Bearnot and Tanveer Ali on August 18, 2016 and is headquartered in DE.

Univercells SA designs single-use cost-efficient bioprocess solutions to open the next chapter in bio manufacturing. The company was founded by Jose Castillo, Guillaume De Viron and Hugues Bultot in 2013 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Evermay Wealth Management LLC is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2008 by Will Pitt, Damon White and Biljana McKinley. Evermay provides investment supervisory services on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to individuals, high net worth individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and trusts and estates.

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.

LHGP Asset Management LLP (Private Equity) (LHGP Asset Management) is a private equity arm of Lion's Head Global Partners LLP founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Westminster, United Kingdom.

IanTech, Inc. develops ophthalmic devices for cataract surgery. Its products include miLoop, miPhaco, miMissions, and miResources. The company was founded by Luke Clauson and Sean Ianchulev and is headquartered in Reno, NV.

Themis Bioscience GmbH operates as a biotechnology company, which engages in the development of prophylactic vaccinations from preclinical to early clinical phase. The firm focuses on the prevention of tropical infectious diseases. Its proprietary Themaxyn technology platform, in-licensed from Paris-based Institute Pasteur, forms the basis of all of the company's vaccine candidates. The company was founded by Erich Tauber in 2009 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

InDevR, Inc. develops and delivers analytical tools for detection and characterization of biological molecules and microorganisms. The firm offers on the ampliPHOX Colorimetric Detection platform and Custom Arrays to enable its customers a low risk means to explore the high utility of focused microarrays. The company was founded by Kathy L. Rowlen, Laura Kuck and John W. Birks in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Truvian Sciences, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers automated benchtop system which produces lab-accurate results for a full suite of tests from a small sample of blood. Its product features include compact and fully automated, dry reagent technology, and fast accurate results. The company was founded by Dena Marrinucci, Mark Bowles and Kim Puloma Kamdar in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

X-Vax Technology, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EcoR1 Capital LLC (EcoR1) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Oleg Nodelman in 2012. EcoR1 serves as the general partner of and investment adviser to investment funds and provides investment advice to separate account clients.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP (GSAMLP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GSAM Holdings LLC, and their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). Founded in 1988, GSAMLP provides investment solutions to a range of individual and institutional investors worldwide.

HarbourVest Partners LLC (HarbourVest Partners) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 1982 by David Brooks Zug. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices around the world.

Corixa Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops and manufactures oncology and immunology products. The firm offers vaccines, immunotherapeutic, monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics, adjuvant and antigen delivery systems, toxin-conjugated, and antigen-specific diagnostic products. The company was founded by Steven H. Gillis and Mark McDade in 1994 and is headquartered in Hamilton, MT.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Acrobatiq, Inc. provides platform for online learning and consulting services. The firm offers Smart Author, adaptive learning, learning analytics, learning optimization, and professional services. The company was founded by Alison M. Pendergast, Eric Frank, and William L. Guttman in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Kymab Ltd. discovers and develops human monoclonal antibody drugs. It is using mouse embryonic stem cell technology to develop its Kymouse platform that focuses on encompassing the diversity of the B lymphocyte component of the human immune system, and has the potential for expansion of diversity beyond the normal human immune response. Kymab was founded by Allan Bradley in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Excision BioTherapeutics, Inc. develops gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life-threatening disease caused by viral infections. The firm focuses on Human Immunodeficiency Virus -1 therapeutics, JC Virus and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Hepatitis B virus therapeutics, and CRISPR vaccinations?. The company was founded by David Rowe, Kamel Khalili, Thomas Malcolm, and Rob Simmons in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Resurge International operates surgical care facilities for poor children and adults.

Antiva Biosciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, topical therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded by Karl Y. Hostetler in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

54Gene, Inc. is an American health technology company that focuses on advancing the field of genomics to improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes for diverse populations. 54Gene is a research, services, and development company located in Nigeria and the United States. The company generates genetic insights from research cohorts in diverse populations to improve the development, availability, and efficacy of therapeutics and diagnostics. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to improve our understanding of the world's most genetically diverse population. Ron Chiarello has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

ChromaCode, Inc. develops software and manufactures laboratory instruments. It uses digital signal processing to improve clinical molecular analysis. The company was founded by Aditya Rajagopal, Alexander G. Dickinson, Axel Scherer, and Gregory J. Gosch in 2012 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.