Michael Baran

Pfizer Ventures Investments LLC (Pfizer Ventures Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Imcheck Therapeutics SAS operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops immunotherapeutic anti-cancer strategies for research. The company was founded by Olive Daniel in 2015 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a company based in Schlieren, Switzerland that pioneers HLA-based therapeutics to create transformational medicines for cancer and inflammation. The Swiss company has identified specific HLA molecules that activate the immune system and is utilizing these molecules as the backbone of novel therapies capable of stimulating both the innate and adaptive immune systems of cancer patients to eliminate tumor cells. ImmunOs' lead program is a multi-functional fusion protein that blocks specific LILRB and KIR receptors and activates anti-tumor responses. The company is also using HLA molecules to develop novel therapies to treat inflammatory diseases. ImmunOs is supported by leading international investors, including Samsara BioCapital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gimv, Pfizer Ventures, Biomed Partners, Schroder Adveq, Mission BioCapital, GL Capital, Peak6, Fiscus, and Redalpine. The company was founded by Osiris Marroquin Belaunzaran and Christoph Renner, and the CEO is Sean R. Smith.

Magnolia Neurosciences Corp. operates as a drug discovery and development company. The firm focuses on the creation of a novel class of neuroprotective medicines. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Mediar Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics to halt, reverse and fibrosis. The company was founded by Paul Yaworsky in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Trex Bio, Inc. manufactures immunotherapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Entrepreneurship Lab NYC is an entrepreneurship education and networking program that was founded in 2012. The program focuses on first-time founders with prior entrepreneurship education and is centered around bio and health tech. The goal of the program is to provide these founders with the basic skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavors.

Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops targeted in vivo RNA technologies to multiply therapeutic possibilities for patients. Capstan Therapeutics is based in San Diego, CA. The company's platform technology, tLNPs, delivers payloads capable of reprogramming specific cell types in vivo, including gene editing tools. The company aims to generate transformative therapies for autoimmune disorders, oncology, fibrosis, and monogenic blood disorders. The company was founded in 2022 by Haig Aghajanian, and the CEO is Laura K. Shawver.

BlueLight Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel systems to analyze real-time protein function for research and clinical applications. The firm offers technology for detecting conformational change in proteins and other biological molecules. Its technology is based on a phenomenon called second-harmonic generation (SHG), can monitor structural changes at any site within a protein, in real time and since protein function is determined by its structure, and changes in structure cause changes in function, characterizing these changes will provide significant insights into how the body functions and respond to treatments. The company was founded by Joshua S. Salafsky and Greg S. Yap in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.