Laura Towart Bandak

Topspin Management LLC (Topspin Management) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Leigh Randall. The firm is headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.

SetPoint Medical Corp. operates as a biomedical technology company, which engages in the development of therapies for patients with inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn?s disease. The company was founded by Kevin J. Tracey, Shaw H. Warren, and James W. Broderick in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clarita, CA.

Mirimus, Inc. is a private company based in Brooklyn, NY that specializes in creating animal models for preclinical evaluation of new therapeutics. The company uses rnai and crispr technologies to develop these models and have established themselves as a leader in conducting high-volume, complex and highly effective pcr testing. Mirimus has developed SalivaClear, a COVID-19 testing platform that combines saliva-based sampling, pooled testing, and pcr diagnostics to improve the scalability, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and accuracy of COVID-19 testing. The company was founded in 2010 by Stephen Elledge, Prem Premsrirut, Lukas Dow, Christof Fellman, Greg Hannon, Scott W. Lowe, Johannes Zuber, and Prem Premsrirut has been the CEO since 2010.

ThermoLift, Inc. is a company that is based in Stony Brook, NY. The company is an affiliate of Stony Brook University's Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP) and is headquartered at the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC). ThermoLift's engineering, development, and testing center is located in Livonia, NY. The company's TC3 has been ranked #1 in the DOE report "Energy Savings Potential and RD&D Opportunities for Commercial Building HVAC Systems." The DOE provided funding, and performance testing was conducted by Oak Ridge National Labs. The TC3 has received an agency field label approval for installation in buildings. It was founded in 2012 by Peter Hofbauer and Paul Schwartz, and the CEO is David Parks.

Polar Capital LLP is an alternative investment manager headquartered in London, UK. The firm is a subsidiary of Polar Capital Partners Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Polar Capital Holdings, Plc (LON: POLR) in Great Britain. Founded in 2001, Polar Capital offers its services primarily to Polar Funds and managed accounts, all of which are pooled investment vehicles. Investors in Polar Funds include individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies (including mutual funds), pension and profit-sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles (such as hedge funds), high net-worth individuals, collateralized debt obligations (CDO’s), charitable organizations, trusts and estates, corporations and other business entities, and state or municipal government entities.

HarperCollins Publishers LLC publishes books and periodicals. It offers literature books, such as commercial fiction, business books, children's, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious and spiritual books. The company was founded by James Harper and John Harper in 1817 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Honeywell International, Inc., Ademco Distribution, Inc. is a company based in Morristown, NJ. The company specializes in making and providing aerospace products and services, control technologies, and automotive products.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (MSCI) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1986 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Investments (UK), ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSCI provides a range of brokerage services to corporations, governments and financial institutions.

Saint Barnabas Medical Center provides healthcare services. It offers balance program, blood management, breast health, cardiac services, child abuse treatment and services, digestive health center, emergency department, cancer center, maternity services, pharmacy, surgery, rehabilitation, and radiology department. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Livingston, NJ.

United States Fund for UNICEF provides child protection and development services. The firm supports children, through fundraising, advocacy and education. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

IDEO Ventures (IDEO Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of IDEO LP founded in 1991 by David M. Kelley, Bill Moggridge, Mike Nuttall. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Teach For America, Inc. provides teachers and educational services to communities. It operates as corps of recent college graduates and professionals of various academic majors and career interests. The company?s corps members commit to teach in urban and rural public schools. The firm also offers early childhood education, math and science, and teach for all initiatives to address needs in education. Teach For America was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The BioIndustry Association is a UK-based organization that represents the life sciences and biotech industry. The British company's mission is to facilitate and connect the ecosystem to help businesses start, grow, and deliver world-changing innovation. The non-profit company was founded by Cormac G. Kilty and Simon Geoffrey Best, and Steve Bates has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

GenDx, Inc. provides healthcare services. The private company is based in New York, NY.

News America Marketing, Inc. engages in the provision of marketing services. Its product categories include at-home, in-store, and digital. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

TitleVest Agency, Inc. provides title insurance, cooperative apartment lien searches and UCC filings. TitleVest offers a range of title insurance and related services from commercial transactions to residential purchase and mortgage refinances. The company was founded by William Baron in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RESOLVE is an enterprise automation and AIOps platform that helps IT teams achieve agile and autonomous operations. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The platform combines insights from artificial intelligence with powerful, cross-domain automation to handle a wide array of IT operations. RESOLVE is purpose-built to address challenges posed by increasing IT complexity, enabling organizations to maximize operational efficiency, optimize costs, reduce alarm noise, quickly troubleshoot and fix problems, and accelerate service delivery.

Codagenix, Inc. provides platform technology to construct viral vaccines against multiple targets. It focuses on SAVE platform technology that utilizes computer-based rational design of viral genomes for the design and construction of vaccines for a range of medically important human diseases. The company was founded by J. Robert Coleman, Eckard Wimmer, Charlie Petty and Steffen Mueller in 2009 and is headquartered in Farmingdale, NY.

DepYmed , Inc. is a cancer and rare disease therapeutic development company. The company is headquartered in Farmingdale, NY.

MedAnswers, Inc. operates a digital health care application that provides infertility patients with access to physicians, embryologists and genetic counsellors. The company was founded by Alice Crisci and Santiago Munne in 2016 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Ohana Biosciences, Inc. operates early stage biotechnology firm. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

Special Situations Life Sciences Innovation (Special Situations) is a venture capital firm. This firm is headquartered in New York.

Accelerate Long Island, Inc. engages in the collaboration of research institutions and business communities. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Melville, NY.

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.

Two Bear Capital Operations LLC (Two Bear Capital) is venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Mike Goguen. The firm is headquartered in Whitefish, Montana.