Wendy Nicholson

Forbion Capital Partners Management Holding BV (Forbion) is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm which was founded by Bart Bergstein. Headquartered in Naarden, the firm specializes in late-stage and early-stage clinical development programs to optimize the commercial potential of their investee company's technologies.

Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammation. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs based upon chromatin biology and novel cell accumulation approaches. The firm uses chromatin biology, drug accumulation approaches to discover and develop cancer, inflammation treatments and small molecule drugs. The company was founded by David Allis, Alan Hornsby Davidson, Alan Hastings Drummond, Anthony Kouzarides and Paul Workman in September 2001 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Ploughshare Innovations Ltd. provides technology development and transfer services for the United Kingdom ministry of defense. The firm offers technologies to the life science, defence, cyber, biometrics, detection, diagnostics and electronics industries. The company was founded on March 22, 2002 and is headquartered in Stockbridge, the United Kingdom.

Ipsen Bioinnovation Ltd. Engages in the research and development of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Ventus Medical Ltd. develops novel inhalation and NRT smoking cessation technologies. The company is based in Liverpool, UK. The British company was founded in 2014 by David Lawson, Mark Dignum.

Pheno Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company. The firm develops remyelinating therapies for the unmet need for a neuroprotective therapy for multiple sclerosis. The company was founded on October 31, 2018 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Rappta Therapeutics Oy operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops anti-cancer drugs activating protein phosphatase 2A. The company was founded by Goutham Narla and Mikko Lauri Sampsa Mannerkoski on March 20, 2019 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Alpha Anomeric SAS Develops genetic medicines for severe neuromuscular diseases. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Aleta Biotherapeutics, Inc. engages in the immuno-oncology service that focuses on transforming cellular therapeutics. It allows broad spectrum of cancer indication to be targeted including currently intractable solid tumors. The company was founded by Paul Rennert and Roy Lobb and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Tridek-One Therapeutics SAS is a French private biotechnology company founded in 2018. The company is based in Paris, France. Tridek-One's scientific founders at INSERM conducted groundbreaking research on the role of CD31 in the modulation of the immune response, which forms the basis of the company's work. The company was founded in 2019 by Giuseppina Caligiuri, Antonino Nicoletti, and the CEO is Laurence de Schoulepnikoff.

FoRx Therapeutics AG operates as a biotechnology company developing a new generation of cancer drugs focusing on novel deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) Replication Stress pathways activated in cancer. The firm also provides research and development services. The company was founded by Thanos Halazonetis and Sotirios K. Sotiriou in 2019 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Anaveon AG engages in the development of immune therapies against cancer. Its compounds promote effector T-cell functions to enhance a patient?s immune system to respond to tumors. The company was founded on December 11, 2017 by Onur Boyman and Andreas Katopodis and is headquartered in Bottmingen, Switzerland.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

Draupnir Bio ApS engages in the manufacture and distribution of biotechnological and pharmaceutical products. It also provides medical research services. The company was founded on April 4, 2017 and is headquartered in Risskov, Denmark.

Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Gilde Healthcare Holding BV founded in 1999 by Pieter van der Meer and Edwin William de Graaf. Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is headquartered in Utrecht with additional office in Cambridge.

Arrakis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops rna-targeted small molecule medicines focused on neurologic, cancer, and rare genetic diseases. The company was founded by Russell C. Petter, Alan E. Walts, Jennifer C. Petter and Raj Bhikhu Parekh in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Achilles Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm develops personalized vaccines and adoptive T cell therapies to treat metastatic cancer. It uses DNA sequencing data from each patient, together with a proprietary bioinformatics platform, to identify clonal neoantigens specific to that patient and enable the development of personalised cell therapies. The company was founded by Karl Peggs, Mark Lowdell, Charles Swanton and Sergio Quezada in May 2016 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Advanced Water Recovery, Water Street Solutions, Inc. provides industrial water and wastewater treatment systems and services. The company is based in Peoria, IL. Water Street Solutions was acquired by Advanced Water Recovery on February 01, 2014.

Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Performance Electronics Ltd. designs and manufactures embedded electronic control systems. The private company is based in Cincinnati, OH.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Novartis Venture Fund provides early stage venture capital to companies in Europe, North America and Asia. The fund's focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms, therefore it focuses on such sectors as Biotechnology and Biopharma. The fund makes seed and early stage investments ranging up to USD 30 million per company over its life. The fund makes follow-on and co-investments.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd. is pharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and marketing late-stage oncology, oncology supportive care and critical care products. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Celldex Research Corp. engages in provision of biological research and development. The company is headquartered in Phillipsburg, NJ.

Thiakis Ltd. develops hormone-based treatments for obesity and other metabolic diseases. It focuses to commercialize an effective anti-obesity treatment based on a peptide hormone called oxyntomodulin. The company was founded in 2004 by Steve Bloom and John Burt and is headquartered in Sandwich, the United Kingdom.

Avila Therapeutics, Inc. researches and develops covalent drugs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Summit, NJ.

NeRRe Therapeutics Ltd. provides clinical and pre clinical drugs for treatment of neuronal hypersensitivity. It develops neurokinin receptor antagonists acquired from GlaxoSmithKline. The company was founded by Emiliangelo Ratti and Mike Trower in 2012 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.