Brian Gillett

Cogenics Icoria, Inc. provides medical research services. The firm offers genomics and proteomics-related research instruments, consumables, data, including databases, software & other research-oriented products. Icoria offers gene expression analysis and other related services. Its tissue informatics software performs tissue analysis for toxicology studies of early-stage drug candidates and other purposes. The firm also provides biomarkers to develop diagnostics and therapies for liver injuries, metabolic conditions & cancer. The company is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Virent, Inc. develops and commercializes biofuel technologies. It converts soluble biomass-derived sugars into products molecularly identical to those made with petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals used for plastics and fibers. The company was founded by Randy D. Cortright and James Dumesic in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Lucigen Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of biomedical research products and services. The firm offers products for array-based analysis; cloning kits and vectors; competent cells; enzymes; in vitro transcription; next gen sequencing (NGS); nucleic acid extraction and purification; PCR and amplification; protein expression; and transposon mutagenesis. It also provides NGS and custom competent cell services. The company was founded by David Mead and Thomas W. Schoenfeld in 1998 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Seastar Medical, Inc. manufactures and supplies medical devices. It offers medical device that cures inflammation-based diseases and conditions. The company was founded by James P. Sherblom in July 2007 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. designs and develops ultrasound imaging devices and components. It offers the SoftVue, a tomographic ultrasound imaging device that scans women's breasts for the presence of masses. The firm supplies it solutions and services to hospitals and imaging clinics. The company also collaborates with imaging equipment manufacturers and distributors with focus on the breast cancer screening market. The company was founded by Neb Duric and Peter J. Littrup in 2009 and is headquartered in Novi, MI.

Gauss Surgical, Inc. engages in mobile health operation which specializes in blood and hemoglobin loss monitoring during surgery. Its services include research and development, publications, clinical performance, feature extraction technology, rapid integration with surgical workflow, and inoperative mobile platform. The company was founded by Siddarth Satish in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

backstitch, Inc. develops and operates a platform for personalized employee communications. The company was founded by Jordan Warzecha and Stefanie Warzecha and is headquartered in Detroit, MI.

enosiX, Inc. provides software services. The firm offers a framework enabling .NET developers to create apps that access SAP back end systems with incomparable ease. Its flagship product, robust framework allows Microsoft .NET developers to create enterprise mobile applications using their existing development skills. The company was founded by Gerald Schlechter and Philippe Jardin in August 2014 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Venture Investors LLC (Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

TomoTherapy, Inc. manufactures and provides radiation treatment systems for advanced radiation therapy. It provides radiation treatment services for cancer patients with its TomoTherapy Hi·Art System, which changes the intensity of the radiation beam so that it adapts to the shape of the tumor. The firm's system focuses on killing cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. The company was founded by Thomas Rockwell Mackie and Paul J. Reckwerdt in 1997 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Whitehall Specialties, Inc. produces and markets cheese products. Its products include cheese blocks and loaves, imitation cheese natural blends, shredded and diced imitation, dried and grated and specialty cream cheese. The company was founded by Steve Fawcett in 1994 and is headquartered in Whitehall, WI.

Wisconsin Technology Council provides science and technology advisory services to the Governor and the Legislature. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Promethean Surgical Devices, Inc. develops pre-polymer technology platform into surgical adhesives and implantable devices to augment, replace or repair soft tissues for surgical procedures. The company was founded by Michael T. Milbocker, Dix Phillip Poppas and Jeffrey A. Wilson and is headquartered in East Hartford, CT.

Capital Midwest Fund (Capital Midwest Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in Mequon, Wisconsin.

Part of University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies operates surgical and physician hospitals. The company is based in Denver, CO.

OPS Solutions LLC develops and manufactures visual workflow systems. The company was founded in 2005 by Paul Ryznar and is headquartered in Novi, MI.

TAI Diagnostics, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It focuses on developing innovative diagnostic tests for monitoring the health of transplanted organs. The company was founded by Aoy Tomita-Mitchell and Michael E. Mitchell in 2015 and is headquartered in Wauwatosa, WI.

Pieces Technologies, Inc. develops healthcare software solutions. Its products include pieces IRIS and pieces decision support. The company was founded by Ruben Amarasingham in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Level Ex, Inc. engages in the provision of medical video games for physicians. It offers Cardio Ex, Pulm Ex, Gastro Ex, and Airway Ex games. The company was founded by Sam Z. Glassenberg in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Northern Lights Group, Inc. engages in the provision of data security, cyber threats, and vendor risk management services. It develops a software as a service vendor management platform that measures and monitors vendor risk and related cyber threats. The company was founded by Robert Aleksick, Anders Norremo, and Rich Skinner in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

HealthBridge Financial, Inc. provides health insurance services. It offers design, underwriting and servicing of credit solutions. The company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

Inflammatix, Inc. operates molecular diagnostics company which develops rapid tests that read the immune system. The firm specializes in molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, computational immunology, in-vitro diagnostics, personalized medicine and bioinformatics. The company was founded by Purvesh Khatri, Jonathan Romanowsky and Timothy Sweeney and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Corsair Pharma, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the development of novel prodrugs of treprostinil to treat patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension using a once-daily transdermal patch. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Elate, Inc. develops software platform for companies to reach business outcomes by unifying internal technologies and disparate data. It provides organizational alignment and increase operations visibility to companies looking to define and measure key initiatives. The company was founded by Abby Parker and Brooks Busch in April 2019 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

AIQ Global, Inc. develops artificial intelligence clinical decision support platform. The company was founded by Robert Jeraj, Dona Alberti, Guy Starbuck and Glenn Liu in 2015 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

TherOptix, Inc. develops and manufactures drug-eluting contact lens. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program For Entrepreneurs (SCAPE) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Gary Masner, John E. Wolgamott and Jim Mackay. The firm is headquartered in Durango, Colorado.

Rerouted Co. is an online marketplace that specializes in buying, selling, and donating second-hand outdoor gear for climbing adventures. Rerouted is based in Lakewood, WA and was founded by Chap Grubb, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company believes that all used gear deserves a good home and provides the expertise of a local gear shop with the convenience of the internet.

KeifeRx LLC is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops novel and optimized tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for the treatment of neurodegenerative and immune diseases. KeifeRx is based in McLean, VA, and was founded in 2019 by Charbel Moussa and Fernando Pagan. The company's clinical pipeline is led by Nilotinib BE, an optimized, lower dose formulation of Nilotinib, which is currently in a multicenter phase 3 clinical trial for early Alzheimer's disease. KeifeRx's TKI portfolio includes an optimized oral dose of Bosutinib and Gutinib, which are undergoing clinical trials in Lewy body dementia and optimizing and IND enabling studies, respectively. The company's technologies are designed to treat neurodegenerative diseases and an array of inflammatory diseases where there are significant unmet clinical needs and limited therapeutic options. Chris Hoyt has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Riverine Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Garrett Vygantas. The firm is headquartered in Sausalito, California.