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Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. develops tissue-based diagnostic solutions. It designs and delivers medical diagnostic systems and slide-based cancer tests. Its products include absolute Eosinophil count (AEC) detection kit intended for laboratory use to identify targets by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue or frozen tissue on a BenchMark and BenchMark XT instrument and DISCOVERY XT research instrument that brings automation, reproducibility, and productivity to IHC and in situ hybridization (ISH) slide preparation and processing. The company was founded by Thomas M. Grogan in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Steinberg Asset Management LLC (SAM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. It was founded by Michael A. Steinberg in 1982 as Steinberg Priest & Sloane Capital Management LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of Steinberg Asset Management Co., Inc., which is owned by the Steinberg 2001 Family Trust. SAM manages separate accounts in primarily all-cap value equity portfolios for institutions, pensions, endowments, foundations, and high net worth individuals. It also manages certain client accounts in small-cap, and small-to-mid-cap strategies.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is a scientific community that has been in existence since 1939. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization aims to inspire and transform collective scientific knowledge into innovative solutions for the benefit of all people around the world. The science of food encompasses food science, food technologies, and their applications across the food industry. IFT envisions a world where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are universally valued as essential to advancing the science of food. The organization has member resource groups that provide supportive spaces for communities who have traditionally been underrepresented and under-supported. Christie A. Tarantino has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

MycoTechnology, Inc. is a food technology company, which engages in the development and delivering of fermentation process using gourmet fungi to transform agricultural products to improve taste, value, and health. Its products include ClearTaste and PureTaste. The company was founded by Alan D. Hahn, Pete Lubar, Jim Langan, and Brooks J. Kelly in 2013 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital arm of Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Bay City Capital LLC (Bay City Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Fred Craves, John Diekman, and Thomas Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in California, United States.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. The private company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United States. ASM's membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 39,000 members today, with more than one third located outside. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators.

SoundHound, Inc. develops search and sound recognition technologies. The company was founded by Majid S. Emami, James M. Hom, Keyvan Mohajer and Michal Grabowski in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Altamar Private Equity SGIIC SA (Altamar Private Equity) is a private equity arm of Altamar Capital Partners SL founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Spain with additional offices in New York and Santiago de Chile.

Mission Bay Capital Management Inc (Mission Bay Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

vLex Networks SL engages in the provision of legal document search and retrieval services. It allows clients access to content such as contracts, agreements, and legislative bulletins, as well as textbooks, journals, editorials, and analyses from local and international publishers. It offers subscription packages for universities, legal professionals, corporate entities, and government offices. The company was founded by Lluis Faus and Angel Faus in 1998, and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

U.S. Poultry & Egg Association operates as a poultry and egg association. The non-profit company is based in Tucker, GA.

FoodLogiQ LLC develops solutions for global food chain issues. It offers audit, compliance, regulation, sustainability, tracebility, and supplier management solutions. The firm serves the food retail and grocery, consumer goods, food distributor and importers, and grower industries. The company was founded by Andy Kennedy and Thomas Finegan in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

PassBan was founded in March 2012. PassBan was born with the vision to transform smart devices into "companions customers' can trust." The company wants to replace traditional password & key fob (token) based security with flexible & modern multi-factor verification (voice/face/motion/location/token/password). The goal is to put the user in control of deciding which combinations of verifications they want to use. To achieve this goal PassBan created Passboard, a fresh ground-up mobile solution that focuses on natively protecting mobile apps and sites.Passboard allows users to protect themselves without having to change the mobile sites and apps they use everyday. The team is passionate about building multi-factor verification security with the user in mind. PassBan has completed its Series A financing thru private investors & friends of the company. Headquarter in SOMA, San Francisco, PassBan draws talent from around the world. At PassBan, engineers, designers and product specialists join to create next generation security for customers' mobile devices and applications. The company is always on the lookout for driven individuals passionate about revolutionizing mobile security.

Epiodyne, Inc. engages in biotechnology services. The company was founded by Brian Shoichet, Brian Kobilka, Peter Gmeiner, Bryan L. Roth, Gregory Scherrer, and Aashish Manglik in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tyson New Ventures LLC (Tyson New Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc. founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.

Nectria SL develops software solutions for optimizing fleet management. It combines a strong multidisciplinary skillset with extensive expertise in logistics, AI, software engineering and business management. The company was founded by Mikael Baron, Oriol Serra, David Vega Costa, Miguel Valls Figueras, Victor Tejedo Palmero, Guillem Ricarte and Javier Juncadella in 2012 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Believer Meats operates biotechnology company. It transforms global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells. The company was founded by Yaakov Nahmias in 2018 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Particle Health, Inc. operates as a health care platform. The company was founded by Troy Bannister and Dan Horbatt in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Delfi Diagnostics, Inc. engages in the development of blood test for detection and interception of cancer. It uses artificial intelligence and whole genome sequencing to detect patterns of DNA fragmentation in the blood of patients with cancer. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

PyrAmes, Inc. develops blood pressure monitoring equipment. The company was founded by Xina Quan and Zhenan Bao in 2016 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Findem, Inc. engages in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) driven people intelligence platform. Its product enables clients to track the talent attributes that matter to their business goals. The company was founded by Hariharan Kolam and Raghu Venkat and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Ophelia Health, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company was founded by Zack Gray and Mattan Griffel and is headquartered in New York, NY.

H1 Insights, Inc. operates as a platform for healthcare ecosystem. The company was founded by Ariel Katz and Ian Sax and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vital Labs, Inc. operates as a digital therapeutics platform. It offers medical image processing, data analytics, and consumer facing product development. The company was founded by Ian Eslick, Tuhin Sinha, and Doug Barry on May 2, 2014 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Soft Robotics, Inc. designs and builds soft robotic automation systems that can grasp and manipulate items of varying size, shape and weight with a single device. It also offers an ecosystem of robots, control systems, data and machine learning to enable the workplace of the future. The company was founded by Carmichael S. Roberts, Jr., Mitchell R. Zakin and George M. Whitesides in 2013 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.