Fred Meyer

eXIthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures stroke prevention and antithrombosis drugs. Its drugs are based on the pathophysiological role of Factor XI in the initiation of intravascular thrombi without causing undue bleeding. The firm’s drug candidates are small, orally active, and highly selective Factor XI inhibitors. The company was founded by Neil J. Hayward and Frans L. Stassen in 2012 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

Artisan Pharma, Inc. provides critical-care and hospital-based therapeutics to patients. The firm focuses on the clinical development of drugs in the field of critical care therapeutics throughout the world. The company was founded by Kazuhisa Tsuruta in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Schooner Capital LLC (Schooner Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971 by Vin Ryan. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Apeiron Partners LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Jeffrey D. Wager.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Intelligent Medical Devices, Inc. engages in the designs development and manufacture of platform-agnostic, regulatory-cleared molecular diagnostic tests. The company was founded by Alice A. Jacobs Nesselrodt in 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.