Dennis B. Farrar

UpStart Ventures LLC (UpStart Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elute, Inc. develops polymer controlled drug delivery devices designed to prevent and treat orthopedic and other surgical bone infections. The company was founded by David W. Grainger and Dennis B. Farrar in 2010 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Cognetix, Inc. discovered and developed drugs. Its products were used for the treatment of epilepsy, local anesthesia, heart disease, stroke, neuromuscular back pain, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury. The company was founded in 1996 by Dennis B. Farrar, Baldomero M. Olivera and J. Michael McIntosh and was headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT

Q Therapeutics, Inc. engages in developing adult stem cell therapies to treat debilitating disease of the central nervous system. Its product, Q-Cells will undergo first-in-human trials for ALS. The firm’s therapeutic strategy is intended to restore the normal activity of neurons by providing the support functions present in healthy central nervous system tissue. The company was founded by Dennis B. Farrar, Mahendra S. Rao, Mani Ramaswami, and Steven Goldman on March 28, 2002 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.