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Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Sands Capital Management LLC (Sands Capital) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1992 by Frank Sands and is majority owned by Sands Capital Management LP. Sands Capital provides investment management services to both US and non-US clients who have different tax statuses, often depending on the jurisdiction.

Invesco Advisers, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a subsidiary of Invesco Group Services, Inc., ultimately held by Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ). The firm was founded in 1986 and previously known as Invesco Institutional NA, Inc. until April 2010 when Invesco Ltd. consolidated the businesses of their US investment advisors (Invesco AIM Advisors, Inc., Invesco AIM Capital Management, Inc., Invesco AIM Private Asset Management, Inc. and Invesco Global Asset Management NA, Inc.) under the name Invesco Advisers, Inc. They provide discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, institutional and high net-worth clients through separate accounts, wrap fee programs and US registered investment companies and other Commingled Funds.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Fifty Years Industries LLC (Fifty Years Industries) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Ela Madej and Seth Bannon. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Prosus Ventures (Prosus) is a venture capital subsidiary of Naspers Ltd founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.

RETV Management LLC (RET Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by John Helm. The firm is headquartered in Park City, Utah.

Berkeley Skydeck is a venture capital arm of University of California, Berkeley founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

TurboTenant, Inc. provides landlord software for landlords and property managers. It offers tenant screening, tenant online application, free online tenant credit report, and free online rent payments. The company was founded by Sarnen Steinbarth in 2015 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.

Frontier Medicines Corp. develops medicines that redefine the course of debilitating diseases. The company was founded by Chris Varma, Daniel K. Nomura and Roberto Zoncu in 2018 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of ALX Oncology Holdings, Inc., ALX Oncology, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company which develops therapies for cancers. The company is based in Burlingame, CA. The CEO of the company is Jaume Pons.

Jecure Therapeutics, Inc. provides therapeutic services for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. The company was founded by Ariel Feldstein in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Logos Capital Fund LLP functions as pooled investment fund. The company is headquartered in Rehoboth, DE.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Vicinitas Therapeutics is located in the US. Vicinitas Therapeutics is an American US-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing next-generation disease therapies using targeted protein stabilizers called Deubiquituinase Targeting Chimeras (DUBtacs). The company's mission is to solve critical problems in human health by developing disease therapies against an entire class of previously inaccessible disease-causing proteins.

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research is a charitable organization that partners with scientists worldwide to accelerate research for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The Mark Foundation is based in New York, NY and was founded by Alexander Mark Knaster. The foundation has awarded over $200 million in grants to more than 100 academic institutions across 13 countries since 2017. The non-profit company's research programs focus on early career support, team science collaboration, new technology innovation, and therapeutics discovery. The foundation also invests in early-stage cancer diagnostics and therapeutics companies.

Oerth Bio LLC is an agricultural biotech company that develops sustainable, environmentally-designed crop and farm solutions to reduce the environmental impact of agrochemical solutions and nourish a growing population with eco-friendly, healthy foods. The company is based in Durham, NC. The company was formed as a joint venture between Arvinas and Bayer, supported by over $55 million in committed funding and operational support from Bayer, and technology and intellectual property from Arvinas. Oerth Bio is reimagining crop protection through a comprehensive, therapeutic approach to crop health using Protac® technology, a targeted biotech solution known for its potential in addressing human disease. The CEO of the company is John W. Dombrosky.

Apertor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Alameda, CA.