Mark Mendel

3com Megahertz Corp. provides voice and data networking products and services. The company was founded by Robert M. Metcalfe, Howard S. Charney and John P. Marshall in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. manufactures chemicals and paint products. Its products include coatings, adhesives, starch, and synthetic polymer. The company was founded on December 7, 1926 and is headquartered in Slough, the United Kingdom.

Maxygen, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the potential further development of its MAXY-G34 product, a next-generation pegylated, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, G-CSF, for the treatment of chemotherapy induced neutropenia and acute radiation syndrome. G-CSF is a natural protein that functions by stimulating the body's bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. The company was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Virent, Inc. develops and commercializes biofuel technologies. It converts soluble biomass-derived sugars into products molecularly identical to those made with petroleum, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and chemicals used for plastics and fibers. The company was founded by Randy D. Cortright and James Dumesic in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Lex Machina, Inc. provides intellectual property litigation data and predictive analytics. It offers its services to the companies, law firms, consultants and public interest users. The firm brings data to the legal realm and helps companies anticipate, manage and win patent and other IP law suits. The company was founded by Mark Lemley, Joshua Walker and George Gregory in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Artio Medical, Inc. develops novel, endovascular medical devices for the treatment of peripheral and neurovascular diseases. Its products include Solus Gold, Solus Flex, Anuera, and Endura. The company was founded by William P. Whitaker and F. Nicholas Franano in 2013 and is headquartered in Fairway, KS.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

The General Hospital Corp. provides healthcare services. It offers diagnostic and therapeutic are in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. The firm's care center provides cancer, digestive disorders, heart disease, transplantation and vascular medicine services. The company was founded in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

RiverVest Venture Management LLC (RiverVest Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Tom C. Melzer, Jay W. Schmelter, Mark J. Mendel and Andrew B. Craig III. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with additional offices in San Diego and Cleveland.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

Intellectual Ventures Management LLC (Intellectual Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Nathan Myhrvold, Edward Jung, Peter N Detkin and Greg Gorder. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington..

ValveXchange, Inc. develops two-part bioprosthetic heart valve. The company was founded by Ivan Vesely on January 22, 2008 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

Amunix, Inc. develops protein pharmaceuticals. It offers XTEN which is hydrophilic, unstructured, biodegradable polypeptides that impart a number of favorable properties upon the molecules to which they are attached. The company was founded by Volker Schellenberger and Willem Stemmer in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Green Millennium, Inc. manufactures and supplies self-cleaning coating, utilizing photocatyltic and titanium dioxide nano technologies. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Pomona, CA.

ORENCO Hydropower, Inc. develops small hydropower generation facilities at dams and waterways primarily in the United States. It offers hydro project design and engineering, power markets and project valuation, new business development, project licensing and permitting, and project and portfolio risk management services. The company was founded by Alexander Tseng and Martha Tseng in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sozo Ventures LLC (Sozo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Phillip Wickham and Koichiro Nakamura. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Calysta, Inc. provides sustainable industrial products for food and energy security. The firm develops new Biological Gas-to-Liquids and Biological Gas-to-Chemicals technologies using methane, the primary component of natural gas. It’s technology allows conversion of a plentiful energy resource into high value chemicals and transportation fuels. The company was founded in 2012 by Joshua Silverman and Alan Shaw and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

NovoEd, Inc. engages in the provision of online education services. It operates cloud-based learning platform that enables the creation, curation, and delivery of engaging learning experiences. It offers professional services and consulting; customer success offerings; and migrating in-person training online through webinar recording. The company was founded by Farnaz Ronaghi and Amin Saberi in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BioLumic Ltd. provides novel lighting solutions for large scale horticultural customers. It offers UV recipes and UV devices to apply UV treatments to a range of different crops. The firm focuses on developing treatments for transplant crop seedling, and quality regulation of indoor produced leafy vegetables and salad herbs. The company was founded by Jason Wargent in 2012 and is headquartered in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs operates as a venture capital firm. The firm invests in education, healthcare and technology sectors. The company is headquartered in Stanford, CA.

OurCrowd Digital Health LP operates as an investment fund with primary objective to generate favorable returns for its partners, principally through long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Full Harvest Technologies, Inc. operates as an online platform to connect farms to food and beverage companies to sell surplus and imperfect produce. The firm helps growers to get out of a harvest and food companies to save money by bringing farm excess to market. The company was founded by Christine Moseley in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MotorLeaf, Inc. provides hardware and software for growers. It offers Motorleaf hardware, a plug n' play solution that enables users to decide which part of grow operation user could control/monitor and automate; and Motorleaf Operating System, an accessible online or offline solution on wireless enabled device, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. The company was founded by Ramen Dutta, Ally Monk and Scott Dickson Dagondon in June 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Radicle Growth Management LLC (Radicle Growth) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Kirk Lewis Haney. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Burro engages in the manufacture and development of robots for the agricultural industry. It offers Burro, a robotic platform for work outdoors. The company was founded by Charlie Andersen, Deniz Ilhan, Terry Scott and Vibhor Sood in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Leaf International Corp. engages in technology industry. The company is headquartered in Claremont, CA.

Ensemble VC (Ensemble VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Collin R. West, Conrad Shang and Gopinath Sundaramurthy. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Windfall Bio, Inc. has developed a solution to capture and transform methane emissions into organic fertilizer. Windfall Bio was founded in 2022 and is based in Menlo Park, CA. This nature-based solution utilizes methane-eating microbes to convert methane from any source into valuable outputs. The company's solution helps reduce the carbon footprint of methane emitters in various industries, including agriculture, oil and gas, and waste management. It also allows farmers to improve profitability and environmental impact. The company is venture-backed by top-tier firms and is focused on naturally transforming methane into organic soil nutrients. Joshua Silverman has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Ulu Ventures LLC (Ulu Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Miriam Rivera and Dr. Clint Korver. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.