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Burril LLC (Burrill) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1994 by G. Steven. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DCVC Management Co LLC (DCVC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Zachary Bogue and Matthew Ocko. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) is a venture capital subsidiary of Monsanto Co founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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

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.

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.

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research provides research and technology services. Its services include biomedical, genomics, and genetics for students. The company was founded by Edwin C. Whitehead in 1982 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.

Annual Reviews is an American company that publishes journals.

Crown Bioscience, Inc. provides biomedical outsourcing solutions. It provides syngeneic and xenograft tumor models and custom model development and drug testing. The firm produces antibodies for therapeutic, diagnostic and theranostic applications. It also offers preclinical and drug development for anti-cancers therapeutics. The company was founded by Dr. Yiyou Chen, Dr. Yue Alexander Wu, Dr. William Pan and Dr. Faming Zhang in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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.

AlphaSimplex Group LLC (AlphaSimplex) is a SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1999 and became an investment affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTS) in 2023. AlphaSimplex provides discretionary and non-discretionary services to investment companies, private funds, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and other business entities.

Avestria Ventures Management LLC (Avestria Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Linda M. Greub and Corinne H. Nevinny. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vitesse Biologics LLC develops antibody and protein-based therapeutics in the areas of immunology, hematology and oncology. The company was founded in June 2015 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Spitfire Pharma, Inc. provides drug development and research services. The firm’s products include SP-1373, a potent GLP-1/Glucagon receptor co-agonist for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. The company was founded by John J. Nestor, Jr. and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Affini-T Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Watertown, MA. Affini-t is focused on developing potentially curative therapies for solid tumor cancers by unlocking the power of T cells and targeting core oncogenic drivers. The company's differentiated cell therapy platform harnesses state-of-the-art engineering and synthetic biology capabilities to optimize T cell functions and rewrite the rules of the solid tumor microenvironment, enabling the potential for sustained clinical outcomes in patients. The company is targeting Kras and other oncogenic and viral driver mutations to open a new and differentiated target space, thereby minimizing the risk of cancer. The company was founded by Jak Knowles and Arjun Goyal, with Jak Knowles serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Frazier Management LLC (Frazier Healthcare Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of Frazier & Co Inc. founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Bain Capital Private Equity LP (Bain Capital Private Equity) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Bain Capital LP founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Silvercar, Inc. operates as a rental car industry. The firm offers the entire experience through a mobile app. The company was founded by Russell Lemmer, Todd Belveal and William Diffenderffer in March 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TEC Edmonton operates as a business incubator. The firm's area of expertise include business development, funding and finance, technology management, and entrepreneur development. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Edmonton, CA.

Understory, Inc. provides weather data. It offers weather technology and revolutionary hail monitoring networks. The firm offers weather data to insurance, agriculture and utility companies. The company was founded by Alexander Kubicek, Bryan Dow and Alexander Jacobs in 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

9905553 Canada, Inc. operates as a digital market place that allows buyers and sellers to list, negotiate, and finalize grain deals. The company was founded by Brennan Turner and Alain Goubau and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Pairwise Plants LLC operates as a agriculture company. The company was founded by Feng Zhang, David Liu and J. Keith Joung and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

GenEdit, Inc. develops gene therapies and gene editing-based therapeutics. Its proprietary nanoparticles applies for the development of CRISPR-based therapeutics and gene therapy products for a range of genetic diseases. The company was founded by Kunwoo Lee, Niren Murthy, and Hyo Min Park in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Plexium, Inc. provides drug development methodology services. It specializes in immunomodulation as a therapeutic approach for CNS and oncology. The company was founded by Brian Paegel on July 12, 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Sabanto, Inc. is a company based in an undisclosed location with a mission to accelerate autonomy in agricultural machinery. The American company aims to solve the problems of labor scarcity in rural areas and the increasing capital expenses of modern ag machinery. Sabanto specializes in low-cost retrofits to existing agricultural machines, regardless of make or model, and the development of supporting software to maximize the utility of autonomous technology, increasing producer ROI. The company is creating simple, open, and cost-effective technologies that enable the future of agriculture. Sabanto's aftermarket autonomy system can increase productivity by making tractors autonomous.

Creyon Bio, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage drug development company based in San Diego, CA. The company is focused on developing precision oligonucleotide-based medicines (OBMs) such as ASOs, siRNAs, guide RNAs, RNA editing guides, mRNAs, and aptamers. Creyon Bio uses a data-first approach to generate powerful datasets and develop machine learning models to uncover the engineering principles that make precision OBMs possible for patient populations of all sizes. The CEO of the company is Christopher E Hart.

Stemson Therapeutics, LLC is a pre-clinical stage cell therapy company that aims to cure hair loss by using induced pluripotent stem cells to regenerate the critical cells required to grow hair. The company is based in La Jolla, CA, and is passionate about delivering a scientifically based, clinically tested cure for hair loss to the millions of hair loss sufferers who seek help for their hair loss condition. Stemson's breakthrough innovation uses a novel cell engineering process to produce the cell types required to regenerate hair follicles. The company was founded in 2018 by Geoff Hamilton and a team of world-class scientists, advisors, and collaborators.

Mycoworks, Inc. engages in producing leather from mycelium materials. The company was founded by Sophia Wang, Philip Ross and Eddie Pavlu and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Verdant Robotics, Inc. engages in the provision of autonomous farming services. It transforms profits by digitally mapping the entire farm across time and space. The company was founded by Gabe Sibley and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.