James Pursley

Scios Inc. developed, manufactured, and commercialized pharmaceuticals for conditions such as cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 1981 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Verinata Health, Inc. focuses on maternal and fetal health. It develop and offer non-invasive tests for early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. The firm's products include 'verifi' prenatal test, a non-invasive test that detects three primary aneuploidies for trisomies 21, 18 and 13 from a single maternal blood draw as early as 10 weeks and 'Monosomy X', a test for Turner syndrome. The company was founded by Michael D. Grisham and Richard P. Rava in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Analyte Health, Inc. provides medical services and information about specific health conditions online. It offers access to healthcare via the phone and the web to a national team of doctors and partner diagnostic labs. The company was founded by Michelle Sobel, John Kawa and Daniel Malven in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Lifescan, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of blood glucose monitoring products. Its portfolio includes personal blood glucose meters, testing strips, lancets, point of care testing systems and integrated digital solutions. The company was founded by Gary H. Stroy in 1981 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

MDV Management Co. LLC (MDV Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Y Combinator LLC (Y Combinator) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Bird Rock Bio, Inc. develops protein therapeutics. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibodies with upsized potential that represent to antibody therapeutics. The company was founded by Richard J. Ulevitch, Phyllis Ellen Whiteley and Katherine S. Bowdish in 2007 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

The Personalized Medicine Coalition promotes the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine concepts, services, and products. The private company is based in Washington and was founded by Patrick F. Terry.

Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVF) is the venture capital arm of Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, itself a subsidiary of C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG. The firm was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany. It also has two US offices located in Fremont, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Atreo Medical, Inc. manufactures first aid resuscitation tools. The private company is based in Burlington, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Corey Centen.

Georgian Partners Growth (Georgian Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Justin LaFayette, Simon Chong and John Berton. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Initialized Capital Management LLC (Initialized Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Layer, Inc. operates open communications layer platform for mobile messaging. Its platform enables users to add message, voice, and video to any mobile or web application. The firm serves the retail, finance, and airlines industries. The company was founded by Tomaz Stolfa and Ronald Palmeri in March 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Balance Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics to address conditions of intellectual disability. Its pharmacological approach, based on technology licensed from Stanford University, hypothesizes that restoring the proper balance between inhibition and excitation at the neuronal synapse by antagonizing excessive inhibitory circuits could result in the appropriate plasticity for memory and learning to occur in many conditions of intellectual disability. The company was founded by Lyndon Lien, Craig Garner and Daniel Wetmore in 2009 and is headquartered in San Bruno, CA.

Playground Global (Playground Global) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Marblar Ltd. operates as a healthcare product development company. It develops devices for patients that allow them to track and manage a very prevalent chronic disease. The firm is focused on understanding the medical conditions and patient needs in question, engineering, and intuitive and user-centric design. The company was founded by Daniel Perez, Mehmet Fidanboylu and Gabriel Mecklenburg in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Wildcat Venture Partners LLC (Wildcat Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Bill Ericson, Bryan D. Stolle, Bruce Cleveland and Katherine Barr. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Salus Labs, Inc. provides technical recruiting applications. The company was founded by Harjeet Taggar, Ammon Bartram and Guillaume Luccisano and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mezmo, Inc. is a log management company, which automates and personalizes email marketing for eCommerce. Its solution, PushMarket, analyzes consumer behavior on email, website and purchase history. The company was founded by Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Trusona, Inc. provides platform for cyber security. Its solutions include solutions trusona cloud identity suite, trusona essential, trusona executive, trusona elite, consumer IAM, multi-factor authentication and wordpress plugin. The company was founded by Ori Eisen in 2015 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Cerebri AI, Inc. develops software products for decision making. It offers Cerebri Decisions platform that leverages the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company was founded by Ryan Lund, Jean Belanger, Thejas Prasad and Jay Williams in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Standard Cognition Corp. engages in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) platform. It focuses on building and providing AI-powered computer vision checkout platform for retailers. The company was founded by Jordan Fisher, Michael Suswal, David Valdman, John Novak, Brandon Ogle, Dan Fischetti, and T. J. Lutz in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pelago operates as a subset of digital health. It specializes in health discipline and treatment option that utilizes digital and often online health technologies to treat a medical or psychological condition. The company was founded by Yusuf Sherwani, Sarim Siddiqui and Maroof Ahmed in 2016 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Alydia Health, Inc. operates as medical device company which provides solution to postpartum hemorrhage. The company was founded by Nathan Bair and Jessie Becke on May 8, 2018 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Databook Labs, Inc. operates as customer intelligence platform to improve enterprise sales performance. It specializes in intent dashboard, real-time insights and sales decks. The company was founded by Anand Shah and Alex Barrett in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Trunk Technologies, Inc. brings industry-leading best practices to every repo, from a one person hobby project to a thousands-strong engineering organization. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. Eli Schleifer, David Apirian has been the CEOs since 2020. The company was founded in 2020 by Eli Schleifer, Chris Clearwater, Matt Matheson, David Apirian.

Coactive Systems, Inc. is a software technology company that specializes in building productivity tools and processes for various industries, including life sciences, legal, manufacturing, and consulting. The company is based in San Jose, CA and was founded by Will Gaviria Rojas and Cody Coleman, with Cody Coleman serving as the CEO since incorporation. The company's proprietary no-code development platform enables citizen developers and business users to quickly build applications that streamline operational efficiency and automate manual or repetitive processes.

Tigereye Labs, Inc. develops sales software. The American company was founded by Ralph Lee Gootee and Tracy Young, with Tracy Young serving as CEO since incorporation.

TigaTx, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing first-in-class, engineered IGA as neutrophil engagers to fight cancer. The company is based in Boston, MA. TigaTx is backed by excellent investors and has an accomplished scientific advisory board. It was founded by Jeanette Leusen and the CEO is Anne Altmeyer.