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Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc., OEC Medical Systems, Inc. is a company that develops, sells, and services X-ray and fluoroscopic imaging systems. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT. The company was founded in 1942 by Al S. Waxman. OEC Medical Systems was acquired by GE Medical Systems, Inc. on November 29, 1999 for $444.47 million.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

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.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Its medical products include xyrem, erwinaze, vyxeos, and kidrolas. The company was founded by Bruce C. Cozadd in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Emergent Product Development Seattle discovers and develops biopharmaceutical products. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel medicines to treat inflammatory diseases and cancer. The company was founded by Peter A. Thompson, Jeffrey A. Ledbetter and Kendall M. Mohler in March 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Tibion Corp. designs and develops medical devices. It develops innovative equipment that helps individuals recover physical function lost due to disease, trauma or aging. The company was founded was founded by Kern Bhugra and Robert Horst in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

ZipLine Medical, Inc. engages in the development of non-invasive surgical skin closure devices. It offers Zip Surgical,m PreLoc Wound Care, and Zipstitch Consumer platforms. The company was founded by Amir Belson in 2009 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Bullet Biotechnology, Inc. develops active immunotherapies to stimulate a person’s own immune system to overcome diseases. Its technology educates the immune system to targeting specific cells that are causing disease. The firm's pipeline includes therapeutic vaccines for cancer, multi-specific antibody capsid products, therapeutic vaccines for autoimmune diseases, and other vaccines. The company was founded by Diego Fonstad, James R. Swartz, Willie Quinn and Thomas Theriault in September 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Part of Sonablate Corp., Focus Surgery, Inc. develops products using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of cancer and soft tissue diseases. The company is based in Indianapolis, IN. The company was founded by Narendra T. Sanghvi. Focus Surgery was acquired by Sonablate Corp. on July 02, 2008.

Presidio Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1989 by Thomas R. Baruch. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sand Hill Angels Inc (Sand Hill Angels) is an angel investment firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS (Cathay Capital PE) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Mingpo Cai and Edouard Moinet. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

AssureRx Health, Inc. operates as a personalized medicine company that develops genetic tests. It specializes in pharmacogenomics, a study of the genetic factors that influence an individual’s response to drug treatments, as well as evidence-based medicine and clinical pharmacology. The firm offers GeneSight, a genetic test that helps healthcare providers to take a personalized approach for prescribing medicine for patients; GeneSight Psychotropic, a test that analyzes genes that affects a patient’s response to antidepressant and antipsychotic medications; and GeneSight Analgesic, a test that analyzes how genes affect the way the body respond to medicines prescribed to treat acute or chronic pain. The company was founded by Donald R. Wright Jr. in 2006 and is headquartered in Mason, OH.

Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC develops pharmaceutical drugs. It identifies drug candidates, target markets and designing and managing outsourced clinical trials. The firm seeks to acquire promising drug candidates, generally within a year of their entering human clinical trials or after initial human clinical data have been generated. The company was founded by David Collier, Ed Schnipper, Jim Larrick and Andy Perlman in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

GigaGen, Inc. engages in the provision of single cell droplet technology to clinical researchers and physicians. The firm's patent-pending technology combines microfluidics, next-generation sequencing, and bioinformatics to digitize genetic data from cells circulating in blood. Its technology can be applied in immunology, infectious disease monitoring, noninvasive prenatal diagnostics, and noninvasive cancer detection. The company was founded by David S. Johnson and Everett Meyer in 2010 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Recludix Pharma, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops platform approaches to discover potent and selective inhibitors of challenging protein targets. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Brian Hodous, Nicholas B. Lydon, Patrick P. Zarrinkar, Daniel K. Treiber. Nancy C. Whiting has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Diego, CA. Capstan Therapeutics aims to multiply the therapeutic possibilities for patients by developing targeted in vivo RNA technologies. The company's platform technology, TLNPs, is designed to deliver payloads and gene editing tools to reprogram specific cell types in vivo. This technology has the potential to generate transformative therapies for various disease areas, including autoimmune disorders, oncology, fibrosis, and monogenic blood disorders. Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2022 by Haig Aghajanian. Laura K. Shawver has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Leal Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel therapeutics for patients with major disorders of the central nervous systems.

Avenzo Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that operates in the field of therapeutics. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Mohammad Hirmand and the CEO is Athena M. Countouriotis.