Franco Merkling

HYT SA designs and manufactures watches. Its products include skull, H0-H4 watches. The firm engages in the development, marketing, purchasing, selling, promotion and distribution of watches, jewelry, and luxury items. The company was founded by Lucien Vouillamoz, Emmanuel Savioz, Ion Schiau and Patrick Berdoz in December 2010 and is headquartered in Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Precimed SA designs, develops and manufactures orthopaedic instruments. Its product range includes reamers, acetabular reamers, MPR systems, patella reamers, intra-medullary reamers, drills, screws, broaches, retractors, resurfacing instruments, implants and full-service sets. It also offers services such as custom design & manufacturing, metal injection molding and Build-A-Driver. The company has production facilities in the USA, France, Japan and the UK. Precimed was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Orvin, Switzerland.

Sensimed SA develops non-invasive soft contact lens-based solutions. It offers solutions to monitor fluctuations in intraocular pressure continuously. The company was founded by Matteo Leonardi and Sacha Cerboni in 2003 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Xigen SA develops intracellular peptide therapeutics for the treatment of stroke, myocardial infarction and cancer. It focuses on the acute or short-term treatment of major debilitating pathologies that underly unmet medical needs plaguing humanity. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Epalinges, Switzerland.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Aravis AG (Aravis) is an independent venture capital firm, founded in 2001 by Jean-Philippe Tripet and headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland.

TOLREMO therapeutics AG engages in discovering and developing therapies for treating cancer patients. The firm serves on academic research laboratories, flourishing life sciences spin-offs and cutting-edge technology platforms. The company was founded by Stefanie Flückiger-Mangual, Wilhelm Krek, Karl-Heinz Altmann, Isaac Kobrin, and Emmanuel Savioz in March 2017 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.