Peter DiLaura

Lifeforce Capital Management, LLC (Lifeforce Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by John Noonan. The firm is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

ShangPharma Innovation Inc. (ShangPharma Innovation) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Shangpharma Investment Group Ltd. founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The American company was founded by Nick Johnson, Cheng Zhang, and Marcel van der Brug, with Cheng Zhang serving as the CEO since incorporation. Character Biosciences is focused on developing therapies for ophthalmic and other progressive polygenic diseases. The company has developed a platform that integrates genomics with longitudinal clinical data to select drug targets and match therapies to the right patients. Currently, Character Biosciences is advancing two lead drug discovery programs through preclinical development for dry age-related macular degeneration.

Opal Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

SV Health Investors LLP (SV Health Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Peter McPartland. The firm is headquartered in London.

Second Genome, Inc. develops microbiome-based therapeutic products. It offers phyclochip community, 16S sequencing community analysis, whole metagenomic profiling, nucleic acid isolation, inferred function and custom informatics services. The company was founded in 2009 by Corey S. Goodman, Janet A. Warrington, Todd Z. DeSantis, John Hulls and Gary Andersen and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Ingenuity Systems, Inc. provides intuitive web-based applications for quickly analyzing and accurately interpreting the biological meaning of genomics data. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Ventro Corp. provides e-commerce solutions.