John F. Smith

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.

PerSeptive Biosystems developed and manufactured an integrated system for the purification, analysis, and synthesis of bio-molecules, reducing the time and cost of drug discoveries. BVP’s Chris Gabrieli invested in the company’s second round in December 1989. PerSeptive was purchased by Perkin Elmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) in 1998, it is a part of Applied Biosystems (NYSE: ABI), a subsidiary of Applera, Perkin Elmer’s former biotechnology division

DataCore Software Corp. develops storage networking software solutions. Its SANsymphony-V is DataCore?s flagship storage virtualization solution maximizes information technology infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware. The company?s storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. DataCore Software was founded by Ziya A. Aral, George S. Teixeira, Roni J. Putra, Timothy J. Logan, Bettye Grant and John Bocskor on February 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.