Ilan Zipkin

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops inhibitors of validated metalloenzymes. The firm's clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat both chronic and life threatening fungal infections. It also leverage our metalloenzyme expertise in other therapeutic areas including oncology and orphan diseases. The company was founded by Thomas V. O’Halloran and Holden H. Thorp on August 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

BioMotiv LLC operates as a research institution in the field of therapeutics. It focuses in disease areas and classes of therapeutics such as small molecules, antibodies, proteins, and nucleotides. The company was founded on September 10, 2012 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

ArmaGen, Inc. engages in operation of a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing revolutionary therapies for severe neurological disorders. Its products include AGT-110-Brain-penetrating biologic tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFI) for Alzheimer's disease, AGT-115-Brain-penetrating erythropoietin (EPO) for stroke, AGT-160-Brain penetrating anti-amyloid antibody (AAA) for Alzheimer's disease and AGT-181-Brain-penetrating iduronidase (IDUA) for Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Type I (Hurler's syndrome). The company was founded by William M. Pardridge and Ruben J. Boado in 2003 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

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.

Novo Nordisk, Inc. operates diabetes care company. It offers biopharmaceuticals, chronic weight management, human growth hormone therapy and hemophilla management services. The firm also provides rare bleeding disorders, growth hormone related disorders, and women's health. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plainsboro, NJ.

Founded in 1996, Novartis Venture Funds (USA) is a venture capital firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Novartis Venture Funds and their ultimate parent is Novartis AG, a Switzerland-based company that engages in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products. Novartis Venture Funds manages the Bermuda domiciled biotechnology venture fund, Novartis BioVentures Ltd

Hookipa Biotech AG develops new generation prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. The firm’s Vaxwave technology is a novel immunotherapy platform using a replication-defective viral vector for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Lukas Flatz, Andreas Bergthaler, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Daniel Pinschewer in July 2011 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Adicet Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the development of cell immunotherapies. It engages in the design and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other disease indications with a focus on novel universal immune cell therapies. The company was founded by Aya Jakobovits in 2014 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

FutuRx Ltd (FutuRx ) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Ness Ziona.

Fore Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops tumor specific driver mutations. It offers fully automated live-cell screening from NGS data. The company was founded by Haim Gil-Ad and Yoram Altschuler in 2011 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

BiomX Ltd. engages in the development of customized phage therapies designed to target and destroy harmful bacteria in chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectalcancer, as well as bacteria that affect the appearance of the skin. The company was founded by Eran Elinav, Timothy K. Lu, and Rotem Sorek on March 3, 2015 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

ImmPACT-Bio Ltd. develops therapies to treat cancer. Its chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy addresses the need to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous tissues. The company was founded by Gideon Gross in April 2017 and is headquartered in Nes Ziona, Israel.

DJS Antibodies Ltd. designs and discovers novel therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against G-protein-coupled receptors. The firm conducts discovery against three targets in the fields of oncology, fibrosis and vascular disease. The company was founded by David Colin Conway Llewellyn and Joseph James Illingworth and is headquartered in Bicester, the United Kingdom.

Scioto Biosciences, Inc. operates as a preclinical stage company. It develops therapies to transform the delivery of microbiome therapeutics. The firm?s platform enhances probiotics that are used for diabetes, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal health and alternatives to in-feed antibiotics. The company was founded by Joseph P. Trebley, Jim Schulz, Goodman Steve, Lauren O. Bakaletz, Michael Bailey and Gail E. Besner in May 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Imidomics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that focuses on discovering and developing new medicines for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). The company is based in an undisclosed location. Imidomics has access to the IMID-biobank, which includes real-world data from clinical records and biological samples from over 17,000 IMID patients and control subjects across six indications. The company utilizes a proprietary digital bioinformatics portal called the Imidomics Precision Discovery Platform to generate novel insights into disease mechanisms and identify potential new drug targets. The company was founded in Barcelona in 2015 by Dr. Sara Marsal and Dr. Richard M. Myers. The CEO of the company is Fred Bernard Craves.

Redona Therapeutics, Inc.operates as a biotechnology company focused on the modulation of non- RNA (ncRNA) function to treat cancer and other human diseases. It uses small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease. The company was founded by George Daley, Richard Gregory, Frank Slack, and Piotr Sliz and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Aditum Bio Fund 1 LP specializes in acquiring and developing pharmaceutical assets. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Trialspark, Inc(Trialspark) is a Private Equity firm founded in 2013 by Benjamine Liu, Kit Dobyns, and Linhao Zhang. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

HatchBox Bioconsulting LLC provides life science advisory services.

Nautic & Art, Inc. manufactures professional inflatable boats made in military-grade hypalon. It specializes in search and rescue and special intervention like the army, fire department, police department, and coast guard. the company is headquartered in Windsor, Canada.

Alsa Management Services Ltd (ALSA Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Geneception, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Arjuna Therapeutics is a Spanish biotechnology company that specializes in developing a new class of small molecules called therapeutic molecular clusters (TMCs) for the treatment of cancer. Arjuna Therapeutics is based in A Coruña, Spain. TMCs are biomarker-driven and selectively kill cancer cells that exhibit high levels of ROS. The company believes that their approach to treating life-threatening diseases without effective treatment options will accelerate FDA approval. The company was founded by Fernando Dominguez and Arturo López Quintela, and the CEO is Ross Breckenridge.

Part of Eli Lilly & Co., Versanis Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Lloyd Klickstein. Mark E. Pruzanski has been the CEO of the company since 2021. Versanis Bio was acquired by Eli Lilly & Co. on August 14, 2023 for $1,925 million.

Teres Bio, Inc. operates as a clinical stage life sciences company. It translates discoveries in inflammatory pathways into novel, topical therapies for atopic dermatitis and plaque psoriasis skin diseases. The company is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

BioNeex, Inc. is an American company located in Syracuse, NY, that operates as a drug development platform. It was founded by Smbat Rafayelyan and Tigran Rafayelyan. Smbat Rafayelyan has been the CEO since 2018. The company says this about itself: BioNeex is the first R&D open exchange platform in the biopharma industry, facilitating licensing and co-development partnerships for preclinical and clinical-stage drug candidates between biotech, biopharma companies and research institutions. Data posted on the drug candidate marketplace is listed by biotech, biopharma companies, and research institutions, enabling potential licensing and co-development partners as well as investors to contact them directly with one click.

Vantage Biosciences Ltd. develops drugs for diabetic eye disease. The British company was founded by Andre Badalyan, Katie Sunnucks, Graeme R. Martin, Alek Safarian.