Stephan Wachtveitl

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gilde Investment Management BV is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1982. Gilde Investment Management BV is headquartered in Utrecht.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

Addenda Capital, Inc. is an investment management firm headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. The firm was founded in 1996 and is a subsidiary of Co-operators Financial Services Ltd., which is owned by The Co-Operators Group Ltd. Addenda Capital provides solutions to its institutional and private high net worth clients.

Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Definiens AG is a holding company, which engages in the development and market of biomedical imaging and data analysis software solutions. The firm specializes in the design and manufacture of imaging software suites for drug discovery, development, and diagnostics applications. It engages in the custom image analysis projects for the biopharmaceutical industry, spanning drug discovery, translational research, and clinical research. It offers image analysis processing, integration and deployment, planning, and consulting services. The company was founded by Gerd Binnig in 1994 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Gilde Healthcare Holding BV is an investment holding Dutch company. The private company is based in Utrecht, NL. and has subsidiaries in Australia, Netherlands, United States and Germany. The CEOs of the company are Edwin William de Graaf, Marc Olivier Perret.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consultancy services. It serves businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and non-profit organizations. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation BV develops medical devices. The company was founded by Sjaak Deckers in 2011 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Lumeon Ltd. operates as a digital health company. It offers cloud-based management platform for outpatient care providers including doctors, ophthalmologists, and physiotherapists. The firm?s platform offers pre-operative and discharge readiness, chronic disease, post-acute care, lifestyle coaching, and imaging optimization solutions. The company was founded by Robbie M. Hughes on August 4, 2005 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of LSP Advisory Group BV, EQT Life Sciences is a healthcare investment firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. EQT Life Sciences has been connecting investors to inventors in the healthcare sector for over 30 years. The Dutch company has invested in close to two hundred private companies, raising billions of additional capital directed at supporting their R & D. EQT Life Sciences believes in fostering life and constant innovation in healthcare to achieve that goal. The company was founded in 1998, and Mark A. Wegter has been the CEO since then. Recently, EQT Life Sciences was acquired by EQT AB, one of the largest private equity firms in Europe, and among the top-ten private equity firms globally.

Anterra Capital BV (Anterra Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Foundry Innovation & Research 1 Ltd. develops novel therapeutic devices. It has evolved into one of the leading clusters for medical devices globally. The company was headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Big Health Ltd. provides digital sleep improvement program to overcome sleep related disorders. It develops and provides web and mobile applications that offers cognitive behavioral therapy for insomniacs. The company was founded by Colin Espie and Peter Hames in 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Oxford Science Enterprises PLC (Oxford Science Enterprises) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Alivio Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies to treat inflammatory disorders through targeted disease immunomodulation. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer, Jeffrey Karp, John LaMattima, Brian Leuthner, Bennett Shapiro, Eric Elenko, Joep Muijrers, and Stephen Muniz and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Kanalservice Holding AG engages in the acquisition and management of participating interests in firms. It also acquires and manages patents, trademarks, and real estate properties. The company was founded on November 21, 2016 and is headquartered in Henggart, Switzerland.

ADCendo ApS is a Danish company that is focused on developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to treat underserved cancers. The company is based in Humlebaek, Denmark. The company completed a series A extension financing round in 2023, which brought its funds to 82 million EUR to advance into clinical development. The investors in the company include Novo Holdings, Ysios Capital, Pontifax Venture Capital, RA Capital Management, HealthCap, and Gilde Healthcare. The company was founded in 2017 by Christoffer Nielsen, Henrik Stage. Michael Pehl has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Amphista Therapeutics Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Biocity Glasgow, UK. The British company is focused on creating first-in-class therapeutics that selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins using targeted protein degradation (TPD). The company's pipeline of novel small molecules is focused on challenging diseases, including cancer. Amphista is a spin-out of Professor Alessio Ciulli's labs at the University of Dundee and is funded by leading life science investors, including Advent Life Sciences, the European Investment Fund, the Scottish Investment Bank, and Biomotiv. The CEO of the company is Nicola Thompson.

Draupnir Bio ApS engages in the manufacture and distribution of biotechnological and pharmaceutical products. It also provides medical research services. The company was founded on April 4, 2017 and is headquartered in Risskov, Denmark.

Lumicks BV is a Dutch life science tools company that develops equipment for dynamic single-molecule and cell avidity analysis. The company is based in Amsterdam, NL, and has subsidiaries in the Netherlands and the United States. The company's tools allow researchers to analyze complex biological processes in real-time by applying and measuring forces around biological interactions. Lumicks' C-Trap® optical tweezers and fluorescence & label-free microscopy, and Z-Movi® cell avidity analyzer are used to measure and select immune cells based on their real-time interactions with target cells. Lumicks was founded in 2014 by Olivier Heyning and Andrea Candelli, with Olivier Heyning serving as the CEO since then.

Blue Hat Holding BV provides management services. The private company is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Noema Pharma AG is a biotechnology company, which engages in the development of orphan neurological disorder therapies. It focuses on understanding and meeting patient needs using novel therapies. The company was founded by Luigi Costa and George Garibaldi and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.