James N. Hollenhorst

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Petri is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Andy Beck, Daphne Koller, Emily Leproust, Chris Voigt, Reshma Shetty, Alec Nielsen, Bernhard van Lengerich,Stan Lapidus, Pam Silver, JP Mangeolle and George Church. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Motif Food Works, Inc. provides plant based and healthy foods. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. engages in the development of microbe for different applications. Its organisms can be used for fuels, flavorings, fragrances, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Thomas F. Knight Jr., Austin Che, Reshma Shetty, Bartholomew Canton and Jason Kelly in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Intelligent Bio-Systems is developing a next generation DNA sequencing system that can simultaneously increase the speed and reduce the cost of producing sequence data by a factor of 100 to 1,000. It uses a proprietary chemistry, high-density chip and fluorescent instrument system to accurately decode the sequence of DNA fragments. The technology has the potential to dramatically change the way research is performed and healthcare is delivered.

Genia Technologies, Inc. develops DNA sequencing platforms. Its nanopore-based platform allows for single molecule, electrical real-time analysis without the need for complicated optics, labels, and amplification, or fluidics. The firm's sequencing platform enables the use of molecular diagnostics in everyday clinical care. The company was founded by Roger Chen, Stefan Roever, Pratima Rao, and Randy Davis in March 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California

Catalio Capital Management LP (Catalio Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

GC Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA. GC Therapeutics uses synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with efficiency, speed, and scalability. The company has validated cells for many applications and have developed supercells™ by tailoring cells for specific diseases. The company's goal is to bring this breakthrough approach to patients. The company was founded in 2019 by Parastoo Khoshakhlagh, Alex Ng, Cory Smith, and George McDonald Church, with Parastoo Khoshakhlagh as the CEO since 2019.

Colossal Biosciences, Inc. is a company that uses CRISPR technology to try to bring back extinct species. The company is based in Austin, TX. The company was founded by George McDonald Church and Ben Lamm, with Ben Lamm serving as CEO since its incorporation.

64-X, Inc. engages in the design and development of cells with enhanced properties for advanced bio-manufacturing and therapeutics applications. The firm also provides research and development services. The company was founded by George Church, Alexis Rovner, Pam Silver, and Jeff Way in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fitbiomics, Inc. operates as a microbiome biotechnology company. The firm utilizes next-generation sequencing to understand what makes elite athletes unique. The company was founded by Jonathan Scheiman, George Church, Alex Evans, Aleksandar Kostic, Carolina Barsa, Vasco Bridges and Treasure Neal and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Volta Labs, Inc. engages in building computational and automation tools to engineering biology. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Kern Systems, Inc. operates as an application to store data into deoxyribonucleic acid. Its applications allow data to restore, trace and track, and with big data storage capacity. The company was founded by Henry H. Lee and George M. Church and is headquartered in Brookline, MA.

Good Start Genetics, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics firm. It offers pre-pregnancy diagnostic test services to screen a panel of genetic disorders. The firm also provides clinical laboratory and genetic counseling support services. The company was founded by Eric Boutin, Paris Wallace, and Gregory J. Porreca in December 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

JURA Bio, Inc. is an American company founded in 2017 that has developed an end-to-end generative machine learning and synthetic biology platform for the discovery and development of genetic medicines. The private company is based in an undisclosed location. The company's focus is on developing drugs built around the tcr-epitope-hla synapse, and they are developing a map from any antigen-hla pair to any t cell receptor. This map would broadly advance the development of therapeutics for oncology and autoimmune disease.

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.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Octant, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded by Sri Kosuri and Ramsey Homsany and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

The Biobricks Foundation is a biotechnology organization that focuses on engineering biology to benefit all people and the planet. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company offers programs such as Bionet, OpenMTA, Free Genes, Biobrick Public Agreement, and SBX.0 Conferences. The foundation aims to make genes free and enable others to share their materials.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Boutique Venture Partners LLC (Boutique Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by S. Thaddeus Connelly and Rami El Assal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BioTrove, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets systems, consisting of laboratory instruments and related consumables, for genomic analysis, high-throughput screening and molecular diagnostics. The company was founded by Tanya S. Kanigan and Colin J. H. Brenan in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Inari Agriculture, Inc. engages biotechnology research and development. It specializes in plant breeding technology. The company was founded by David Berry, Ignacio Martinez, George Church, and Steve Jacobsen in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Hangzhou Qihan Biotech Co., Ltd. is a biotech company that applies genome-editing technology to develop novel cell therapies and organs for transplantation. The company is based in Hangzhou, China. The Chinese company's mission is to create immunologically privileged allogeneic cells and xenogeneic organs for use as therapies to treat cancer, organ failure, and other complex medical conditions. Qihan Biotech has raised two rounds of financing and is advancing its cell therapy programs into IND enabling investigations. It was founded in 2017 by Luhan Yang and George McDonald Church, with Luhan Yang serving as the CEO since then.

Synvitrobio, Inc. operates as a molecule and drug discovery firm. The company was founded by Zachary Sun, George Church, Richard Murray in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nebula Genomics, Inc. operates a platform that will use block chain technology to decentralize genome sequencing. The company was founded by Dennis Grishin, George McDonald Church and Kamal Obbad in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

PerkinElmer Life & Analytical Sciences, Inc. provides medical and biotechnology research instruments. The firm's services include drug discovery, genetic screening, environmental assessment, forensics, life science research, chemical analysis processes, scientific research, materials characterization, and clinical applications for the biopharmaceutical companies. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Sapir Venture Partners LLC (Sapir Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Aaron Zucker. The firm is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.