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Medtronic ATS Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the treatment of structural heart disease. The company was founded on November 09, 2000 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

BVF, Inc. manages engages in investment business and manages biotech focused hedge funds. The firm manages Biotechnology Value Fund LP and Biotechnology Value Fund II LP. The company was founded by Mark Nathan Lampert on September 14, 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BVF Partners LP (BVF) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1993 and is a subsidiary of BVF, Inc. BVF provides discretionary advisory services to private investment vehicles which includes commingled limited partnerships (the BVF Funds) and a limited liability entity organized for a single investor (Single Investor Fund) as well as to separately managed accounts.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

TriVascular, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It provides devices and procedures for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and endovascular grafts. The company was founded by Michael V. Chobotov, Robert G. Whirley, and Joseph W. Humphrey in 1998 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Benvenue Medical, Inc. engages int the provision and development of invasive systems for spine repair. It offers Kiva an implant solution for vertebral augmentation and a departure from balloon kyphoplasty, Blazer-C a vertebral augmentation system that utilizes a unique cannulated curved wire offering mechanical channel creation, and Luna a interbody implant that is delivered through a minimally-invasive cannula to the disc space and expands in-situ. The company was founded by Laurent B. Schaller in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

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.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

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.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. provides treatment to cancer patients and also researches new cancer diagnostics, treatments, and preventions. The firm's patients receive treatment through its cancer centers operated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The company was founded by Sidney Farber in 1947 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bain Capital LP engages in provision of investment consulting services. It specializes in private equity, credit, public equity, venture, real estate, double impact, life sciences, and partnership strategies. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

MedAvail, Inc. operates as a technology-enabled pharmacy organization. The firm offers turnkey in-clinic pharmacy services through its proprietary robotic dispensing platform, the MedAvail MedCenter, and home delivery operations, to Medicare clinics. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Third Rock Ventures LLC (Third Rock Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Mark Levin, Robert Tepper, Kevin Starr and Nick Leschly. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Saga Diagnostics AB operates as a personalized cancer medicine and disease monitoring company. The firm's services include Gene Mutation analysis, circulating tumor DNA and Chromosome analysis. The company was founded by Lao Saal and Anthony George in 2016 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Gurnet Point Capital LLC (Gurnet Point Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Fereydoun Firouz. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Glympse Bio, Inc. develops modular nanoparticle sensors to create diagnostics for diseases. It uses engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. The company was founded in 2015 by Sangeeta Bhatia and Gabe A. Kwong and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Business Intelligence Advisors, Inc. provides independent investment research and advisory services. It offers learning and development, behavioral intelligence research, expert advisory and investment intelligence services. The company was founded by Cheryl A. Cook, Philip R. Houston and Wilbur M. Swan in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Comera Life Sciences Holdings, Inc., Comera Life Sciences, Inc. is a company that has developed a technology platform to transform the formulation of biotherapeutics for the benefit of patients. The company is based in Woburn, MA. Reform Biologics, a subsidiary of Comera Life Sciences, offers formulation development collaborations and product-specific licenses for a broad spectrum of protein-based therapeutics. The company's patented technology can extend product life-cycles, enable alternative dosing, and improve manufacturing efficiency for biopharmaceutical partners. Reform Biologics creates gentler therapies for fragile patients, including pediatric patients, by using their proprietary technology to transform intravenous drugs into subcutaneous injections, to reduce adverse reactions, and to improve drug stability. The company's goal is to enhance comfort, convenience, safety, and compliance so that patients living with debilitating diseases can experience a better life while treating their medical conditions. The company was founded by David S. Soane, Zachariah Jonasson, and Jeffrey S Hackman has been the CEO of the company since 2021. Comera Life Sciences was acquired by OTR Acquisition Corp. on May 20, 2022 for $156.08 million.

Agendia NV discovers and develops products for clinical management of cancer. It operates as a commercial-stage molecular diagnostic company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of products to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The company was founded by Rene Bernards and Laura van't Veer in 2003 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center operates as cancer treatment center. The company was founded by John Warren in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

Palestra Capital Management LLC (Palestra) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 by Jeremy Schiffman and Andrew Immerman, who are equal owners of the firm. Their ownership is held through Palestra Management, LP, a Delaware limited partnership. Palestra provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to private funds that are pooled investment vehicles intended for high-net-worth, financially sophisticated individual investors and institutional investors.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (Invt Mgmt) (RJA-IM) is the investment management division of Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA), a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1974 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF). RJA-IM offers planning and/or investment consulting services to a broad range of current and prospective clients.