Ryan Bethencourt

Venn Biosciences Corp. engages in developing an artificial intelligence-driven mass spectrometry discovery and validation platform. Its products include VENN Vista, a glycoproteomic analysis; OpenPIP software, a neural network for automated mass spectrometry peak integration; and cancer liquid biopsy. The company was founded by Lieza Denan, Aldo Carrascoso, Carlito B. Lebrilla, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi in June 2017 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Provectus Algae Pty Ltd. operates as a biotech company specialising in the optimisation of Algae to produce high-value compounds for a broad range of industries and applications. It offers natural and biosynthetic production services in antibiotics, vaccines, enzymes, cosmetics, hormones, terpenes, cannabinoids products.. The company was founded by Nusqe Spanton in 2018 and is headquartered in Noosaville, Australia.

Sustainable Food Ventures LLC (Sustainable Food Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Ryan Bethencourt and Mariliis Holm. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Jellatech, Inc. is a company based in Raleigh, NC that develops innovative technologies to produce high quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Jellatech's mission is to eliminate animals from the food system and create better ingredient products, starting with collagen and gelatin. Jellatech, Inc. was founded in 2020 by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs and scientists, including Stephanie Michelsen and Kylie Hesp. Stephanie Michelsen has been the CEO since incorporation.

Tiamat Sciences Corp. is a biotech company based in Durham, NC. Tiamat Sciences is focused on reinventing recombinant proteins to fuel the next generation of biotech companies across various fields such as cellular agriculture, regenerative medicine, and vaccine production. The company provides animal-free recombinant proteins at a fraction of their cost with a reduced carbon footprint, using a new recombinant proteins production platform that utilizes transient expression, vertical farming, and computational design. The company's animal-free proteins derived from plants are affordable, scalable, and flexible, and they aim to remove animals from science and shape a more sustainable future. The company was founded in 2019 by Clément Carlier and France-Emmanuelle Adil, with France-Emmanuelle Adil serving as the CEO since then.

Joyful Ventures Management Co. LLC (Joyful Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2023. The firm is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.