Justin LaPoten

Makara Strategic Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company, which engages in affecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on June 4, 2021, and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

The Offset Program Bureau engages in government relation services. It operates to derive economic and commercial value from the defense procurement program. It focuses on building capabilities in the manufacturing of end user products systems and all components of these end user products which include materials, technical services, electronics, infrastructure and transportation equipment, and oil and gas systems. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

Makara Capital Pte Ltd (Makara Capital) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2005 by Ali Ijaz Ahmad. The firm is headquartered in Singapore.

J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.