Sameer A. Sabir

Massachusetts Financial Services Co., do-business-as MFS Investment Management (MFS), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1924 and is a subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (US) Financial Services Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Sun Life Financial, Inc. (TSE, NYSE: SLF) in Canada. The firm provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a range of institutional clients and pooled investment vehicles. MFS is a responsible investor and signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

BioTrove, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets systems, consisting of laboratory instruments and related consumables, for genomic analysis, high-throughput screening and molecular diagnostics. The company was founded by Tanya S. Kanigan and Colin J. H. Brenan in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Allegro Diagnostics Corp. develops and commercializes molecular diagnostics system. It focuses on lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases using proprietary gene expression technology originating within the Pulmonary Center at the Boston University School of Medicine. The company was founded by Jerome S. Brody and Avrum Spira on April 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA.

Augmenix, Inc. develops hydrogel technology to improve outcomes in radiation oncology and surgery. Its products include TraceIT Tissue Marker and SpaceOAR System, which is an absorbable hydrogel spacer that reduces radiation injury to the rectal wall in men undergoing prostate radiotherapy. The company was founded by Amarpreet S. Sawhney in 2008 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Lantos Technologies, Inc. develops intra-aural 3D ear scanning systems for the custom earpiece market. Its technology enables audiologists to eliminate the uncomfortable, messy, and error-prone technique that used to generate impressions of the ear canal. The firm provides 3D scanner that measures ear canal shape and tissue compliance to produce a map of the ear canal. It also offers noise protection devices for military and industrial markets, and consumer audio earphones. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Kaleidoscope Medical LLC develops and commercializes medical instruments. The private company is based in PARADISE VALLEY, AZ. The company was founded in 2013 by Brian J. deGuzman.

Saphena Medical, Inc. engages in the innovation and design of medical products. It offer Venapax an endoscopic vessel harvesting technology provides endoscopic vein harvesting solutions. The company was founded by Michael J. Glennon on March 6, 2014 and is headquartered in West Bridgewater, MA.

Cruzar Medsystems, Inc. manufactures houdini peripheral chronic total occlusion devices. The company is headquartered in Braintree, MA.

Lucas Associates, Inc. offers recruitment services. It also provides services like military hiring conferences and contract staffing. The company was founded by Richard M. Bruno and Arthur M. Lucas in 1970 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

The Pratt & Whitney Co., Inc. designs, manufactures, and services aircraft engines and auxiliary power units. It offers commercial engine, military engine, and auxiliary power units. The company was founded by Frederick Rentschler in 1925 and is headquartered in East Hartford, CT.

Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops methods for modifying recombinantly produced enzymes. It develops a series of novel protein engineering technologies that have been shown in pre-clinical studies to greatly enhance the targeting and uptake of replacement enzymes. Novazyme's technologies also have application for developing advanced monoclonal antibodies and gene therapies. The company is located in Oklahoma City, OK.

Mi3 Venture Partners Management LLC (MI3 Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by William D. McPhee. The firm is headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Catalyst Health Ventures (Catalyst Health Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Darshana Zaveri and Joshua S Phillips. The firm is Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Golden Seeds LLC (Golden Seeds) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Stephanie Hanbury-Brown. The firm is headquartered in New York city with an additional offices in Arizona, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, New York and Silicon Valley.

Castel is a leading provider of customer interaction management systems for the contact center. Its full suite of solutions includes Castel Connects®, Intelligent Message Delivery™, C4™, its performance dashboard, and Digital Voice Recording. Castel Connects®, Castel's award-winning and patented customer interaction management system, consists of a set of software solutions for outbound dialing, inbound call distribution, and inbound/outbound call blending. It designed Castel Connects to work with most existing server and switching environments, and to integrate with your existing customer contact applications to fully integrate business-critical functions, such as collections, telemarketing, and customer service. Businesses across the country are currently using Castel Connects for a variety of dynamic customer contact applications, including: Collecting delinquent accounts Payment reminders Scheduling appointments Follow-up service calls Prospecting for new customers Precision marketing programs Market research Database cleansing New market development Customer surveys Its envision is a business environment where every individual responsible for working with customers, vendors or partners can utilize the powerful productivity and management capabilities of customer interaction management systems.

Pavilion Medical Innovations LLC manufactures medical devices. It develops variety of devices that are applicable in diverse healthcare markets, such as interventional cardiology and interventional radiology. The company was founded by Michael J. Glennon and Lishan Aklog and is headquartered in Norwell, MA.

BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Inc. provides medical laboratory services. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.

Rhapsody Biologics, Inc. develops a personalized peptide vaccine platform. It predicts and optimizes peptide vaccines for use at an individual and population level. Its platform technology encompasses a discovery system to identify immunogenic fragments of disease causing agents that will stimulate an immune response. The company was founded by Richard Paul Kivel and Ren Ee Chee in October 2009 and is headquartered in Norwell, MA.

Biomass Engineering Ltd. engages in the designing, production and installation of biomass renewable energy systems. It helps to utilize the power of biomass technology in producing carbon neutral and modular distributed renewable energy. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Newton-le-Willows, the United Kingdom.

Zettics, Inc. provides big data analytics solutions. The company was founded on September 7, 2011 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Excelestar Ventures LLC (Excelestar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Part of Medline Industries LP (Illinois), SevenOaks Biosystems LLC is a company that develops medical devices. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Richard Rox Anderson, Sameer A. Sabir. SevenOaks Biosystems was acquired by Medline Industries LP (Illinois) on November 30, 2016.

Pillar Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical cancer diagnostics company. The firm engages in the creation of precision NGS panels and software solutions. It offers solid tumor panels, blood cancer panels, inherited disease panels, and custom panels. The company was founded by Gang Song and Zhaohui Wang in 2014 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Instylla, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. Its focus is to leverage hydrogel technology to create differentiated liquid embolics for interventional radiology with a specific initial focus on interventional oncology and peripheral hemostasis. The company was founded by Amarpreet Sawhney and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Affyimmune Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of engineered immune cells to fight cancer disease. The company was founded by Gang Song on August 16, 2016 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Conformal Medical, Inc. operates as a medical company that develops devices to prevent stroke in patient with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by Aaron V. Kaplan and Andy H. Levine in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH.

Deciduous Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the biotechnology business. It develops novel therapies to activate the endogenous immune system to treat age related diseases. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Epitel, Inc. is a digital health company based in Salt Lake City, UT. Epitel, Inc. revolutionizes how brain health is monitored by combining wearable EEG technology with data analytics and machine-learning capabilities. The company designs and develop wireless solutions that provide long-term monitoring for people living with epilepsy. The company's proprietary cloud-based wearable sensor system, along with other innovative AI technologies, empowers better treatment decisions by making EEG readily deployable and accessible. Epitel's flagship product, Remi, is an unobtrusive wearable seizure detection system that records long-term EEG, providing peace of mind and better understanding for individuals managing their seizures. The company was founded by Mark Lehmkuhle and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Adona Medical, Inc. engages in the provision of innovating interventional approaches for heart failure. The company was founded by Brian Fahey and Amr Salahieh and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

EQRx International, Inc. engages in healthcare services. The firm specializes in remaking medicine services. The company was founded by Peter Bach and Sandra Horning on January 12, 2020 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

OnCusp Therapeutics is a biotechnology company based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in China. OnCusp Therapeutics specializes in developing preclinical assets to clinical proof of concept and then partnering out for commercialization in the field of oncology therapeutics. The company is committed to accelerating the advancement of oncology assets by leveraging its deep translational and clinical development expertise. OnCusp Therapeutics is backed by prominent investors including Sequoia Capital, Biotrack Capital, Oriza Seed Capital, and AIHC Capital. The company was founded in 2021 by Andy Fu, Bing Yuan, and Eric Slosberg, with Bing Yuan serving as the CEO since then.

IDRx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in an undisclosed location. The American company is dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision therapies. IDRx aims to address the limitations of today's precision cancer medicines with highly potent and selective targeted therapies to stop key tumor escape mechanisms and prolong response to therapy. The company's pipeline programs include small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and idrx-73, designed to inhibit key genetic drivers and drug-resistant mutations of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). IDRx was founded in 2021 by Alexis A. Borisy, Nicholas B. Lydon, Ben Auspitz, George D. Demetri, and Robert M. Forrester. Ben Auspitz has been the CEO since incorporation.