Jacqueline Heard

Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

BinOptics LLC designs, develops and manufactures monolithically integrated optoelectronic components. It products include edge and surface emitting fabry perot lasers, distributed feedback laser and lasers with monitoring photodiodes. The company was founded by Alex A. Behfar and Darius Forghani in November 2000 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

WellGen, Inc. develops products for inflammation-based diseases. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vestaron Corp. develops and markets bioinsecticides derived from naturally occurring peptides. It offers the following brands: Spear-T for the treatment of thrips, Spear-P controls Colorado Potato beetle, and Spear-C protects crops from lepidopteran pests. The company was founded by Glenn F. King in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Rheonix, Inc. operates microfluidic platform for the molecular diagnostics industry. It is committed to improving standards of care by making molecular diagnostics available to more people, in more places, more often. The firm's platform performs fully automated, complex molecular assays in an easy to use and economical format on the Rheonix CARD cartridge. The company was founded by Greg Galvin in 2007 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

AgriMetis LLC operates a biotech company, which engages in the development of crop protection agents. It also offers natural products derived compounds to protect crops from weeds, fungal diseases, and insect pests. Its AgriMetis technology platform employs multidisciplinary and integrated scientific approach that allows access to areas of chemical space and production routes that are inaccessible to others. The company was founded by Philip Goelet, Simon Aspland and Brian Green in March 2014 and is headquartered in Lutherville, MD.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Rabo Private Equity (RPE) is the private equity arm of the Rabobank Group and is headquartered in Utrecht. RPE originated in 1972 following the merger of two separate Dutch cooperative banks, the Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank in Utrecht and the Cooperatieve Centrale Boerenleenbank in Eindhoven. The firm was formally established in 1998. RPE is based in Utrecht and operates through two separate entities, Rabo Participaties and Rabo Capital.

Arysta LifeScience Corp. operates as a crop protection and life science company. It develops, markets, and distributes chemical solutions for agro-science and life science sectors. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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

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.

Syngenta Corp. manufactures agricultural chemicals and distributes field, garden, and flower seeds. It produces herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and crop protection products for pest control and vegetation management. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Part of Datinfor Informática Serviços e Estudos SA, El Portal de los Concesionarios SL provides internet portal services. The company is based in Madrid, Spain. El Portal de los Concesionarios was acquired by Datinfor Informática Serviços e Estudos SA on September 16, 2005 for $0.72 million.

AlpInvest Partners, Inc. (AlpInvest) is the New York City private equity subsidiary of Netherlands-based AlpInvest Partners BV, ultimately held by The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG). Established in 1999 as NIB Capital Private Equity, the firm became AlpInvest Partners in 2004. They were the first exclusive private equity manager for a public pension fund and invest worldwide across primary funds, secondaries, and direct investment (co-investment) channels, covering the entire private equity spectrum. In addition to the New York office, AlpInvest has offices in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and London. They are a socially responsible investor which works to promote sustainability and governance as an important factor in investment choices. They are a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investments and exclude direct investments in companies that are directly involved in the manufacturing or distribution of products that clearly violate Dutch and relevant international conventions. They also explore sustainability-themed investments.

Mezmeriz, Inc. engages in developing novel solutions for real-time, 3D mapping, geometry capture, remote sensing, and object tracking. Its applications include Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), geometry and surface capture, Self-Location and Mapping (SLAM) and fidelity geometry capture for 3D printing and replication. The company was founded by Shahyaan Desai and Bradley Treat on November 20, 2006 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

Monell Chemical Senses Center undertakes research on chemical senses. The firm draws focus from scientists to academia, industry and government to collectively on the chemical senses. The company was founded by Morley R. Kare in 1967 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

NovaSterilis, Inc. develops and commercializes supercritical carbon dioxide technology for use in sterilization of biomedical materials. It offers NOVA 2200, a SCCO2 sterilizer, which is used to sterilize various types of allograft and engineered tissues, including skin, ligament, tendon, and bone. The firm provides consumable supplies, such as gas permeable packaging, biological indicators, and NovaKill, a proprietary additive. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Lansing, NY.

Nufarm Australia Ltd. manufactures and sells crop protection products. The firm's products include broadacre, horticulture, pasture, viticulture and seed treatments. Its services include top croopers, grader advantage, spray wise and farmers edge. The company is headquartered in Laverton North, Australia.

Syngenta International AG manufactures, develops and distributes crop protection products and seeds. The company is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Anterra Capital BV (Anterra Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Incodema3d LLC engages in the direct metal 3D Printing. It specializes in photochemical machining, microcut, rapid prototype stamping, forming & bending, wire edm, cnc machining and additive manufacturing. The company was founded by Sean Whittaker in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of DiamiR Biosciences Corp., DiamiR LLC engages in the development and commercialization of technology based on the analysis of brain-enriched microRNA biomarkers in blood plasma. The company is based in Monmouth Junction, NJ. The company was founded by Kira S. Sheinerman. Alidad Mireskandari has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Zebiai Therapeutics, Inc. develops artificial intelligence to predict and optimize novel small molecule modulators for challenging drug targets. The company was founded by Richard Wagner and is headquartered in Chestnut Hill, MA.

Zyzzle Ltd. provides chemical-free insect control solutions for agricultural pests, mosquitoes, and other applications. The company is based in Surbiton, UK. The British company's technology solutions, including the sterile insect technique (SIT), are more effective than chemical insecticides and benign to the environment. The company's first solution, approved for sale in four US states, is for the control of spotted wing drosophila (SWD). The company's non-GM solutions aim to prevent pests from reaching the infestation level associated with spraying chemical insecticides. The company was founded in 2017 by Glen Slade, who has been the CEO since 2017.

Part of X-Chem, Inc. (Massachusetts), Glamorous AI Ltd. is a British company that is radically changing how drugs are designed and optimized using their proprietary artificial intelligence platform, RosalindAI. The company is based in London, UK. The company specializes in solving challenges inherent to sparse and noisy data sets that make the majority of disease-associated targets intractable by existing computational technologies. By building transformative AI solutions and integrating with biology and chemistry, they empower organizations to discover new drugs and deliver the right drug to the right patient. The CEO of the company is Noor Shaker. Glamorous AI was acquired by X-Chem, Inc. (Massachusetts) on October 28, 2021.