Robert Hadfield

Flex Pharma, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It operates through the Consumer Operations and Drug Development segments. The Consumer Operations segment includes HOTSHOT product and consumer operations. The Drug Development segment engages in the development of innovative and proprietary drug products to treat muscle cramps and spasms associated with severe neurological conditions. The company was founded by Rod MacKinnon, Bruce Bean, Christoph Westphal, Rich Aldrich, Michelle Dipp, and Jennifer M. Cermak in February 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Amazon Robotics LLC develops robotic solutions for automating distribution centers. It develops corporate and academic partnerships to support innovation throughout the robotics ecosystem. The company was founded by Michael C. Mountz in 2003 and is headquartered in North Reading, MA.

Colorescience Corp. manufactures and sells mineral based makeup products. It offers bronzer, blusher, concealer, powder, eye shadow, eye-liner, lip-gloss, and lip liner, blush blenders, eye blenders, shaper brushes, eyelash curlers, and application sponges. The company was founded by Diane Richardson Ranger in 2000 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Longwood Fund LP invests in companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the fields healthcare companies. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.

Cooley LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offers strategic litigation and business transaction services and is a representative of private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Its practices include commercial litigation; patent counseling and prosecution; employment and labor; asset recovery; and estate planning and personal representation. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kiva Systems, Inc. is a private company based in San Ramon, CA. The company provides business support services.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Detwiler and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.