Yaron Shimon

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops inhibitors of validated metalloenzymes. The firm's clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat both chronic and life threatening fungal infections. It also leverage our metalloenzyme expertise in other therapeutic areas including oncology and orphan diseases. The company was founded by Thomas V. O’Halloran and Holden H. Thorp on August 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

OrbiMed Israel Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in life science companies located in Israel. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics. It provides financing for seed, early, later and growth stage capital requirements.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Longbow Capital Partners LP (Longbow) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Thomas Fitzgerald III and Douglas Snyder in 2003. Longbow provides investment advice to high net worth individuals.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

Takeda Ventures Inc (Takeda Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Takeda America Holdings Inc founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity (OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity) is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary of Orbimed Advisors LLC founded in 1993 by Samuel D. Isaly. The firm is headquartered in New York and it has additional offices in San Francisco, Mumbai, Shanghai, Herzliya, Hong Kong and London.

Otic Pharma Ltd. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products for ear indications. Its products include FoamOtic Externa, FoamOtic Sinus, Foam-O-Vet, and FoamOtic Media. The company was founded by Gad Riesenfeld, Rodrigo A. Yelin and Eran Eilat in March 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Akamis Bio Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company which develops novel therapeutics that addresses cancer and other clinically unmet diseases. Its products include Enadenotucirev, Espindolol and AbEnAd. The firm also develops treatments based upon the research phase vaccine platform PolySTAR, which combines recombinant viral vectors with polymers to shield them from the immune system, and the research phase adjuvant and immunotherapeutic platform PolyMAP, which combines polymers with synthetic adjuvants to significantly enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. The company was founded by Andrew Justin Stewart Coats and Stefan D. Anker on November 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Progenitor Labs Ltd. develops drugs to regenerate specific tissues of the human body in response to injury, disease, and ageing. Its products include ProScreen and CombiCult. The company was founded by Yen Choo on February 12, 2010 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Pulmocide Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical services. It develops inhaled medicines for viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract. The company was founded by William Garth Rapeport, John Murray, Kazuhiro Ito, and Peter Strong on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Puridify Ltd. develops bioprocessing technologies. It develops a platform purification technology that will improve processing opportunities and reduce costs. The company was founded by Oliver Hardick, Iwan Thomas Roberts and Thomas Edward Haywood in 2013 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Adicet Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the development of cell immunotherapies. It engages in the design and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other disease indications with a focus on novel universal immune cell therapies. The company was founded by Aya Jakobovits in 2014 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Janpix Holdings, Inc. engages in provision of research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by Patrick T. Gunning and Cortes Pierre and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BiomX Ltd. engages in the development of customized phage therapies designed to target and destroy harmful bacteria in chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectalcancer, as well as bacteria that affect the appearance of the skin. The company was founded by Eran Elinav, Timothy K. Lu, and Rotem Sorek on March 3, 2015 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

ImmPACT-Bio Ltd. develops therapies to treat cancer. Its chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy addresses the need to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous tissues. The company was founded by Gideon Gross in April 2017 and is headquartered in Nes Ziona, Israel.

Redona Therapeutics, Inc.operates as a biotechnology company focused on the modulation of non- RNA (ncRNA) function to treat cancer and other human diseases. It uses small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease. The company was founded by George Daley, Richard Gregory, Frank Slack, and Piotr Sliz and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Mirobio Ltd. operates as a biologics company focusing on autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The firm develops antibody modulators of immune cell receptors, an approach that has potential across a range of diseases, with an initial focus on auto-immune disease. The company was founded by Richard Cornall and Simon Davis on October 8, 2018 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

ADARx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as RNA base-editing company. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Nautic & Art, Inc. manufactures professional inflatable boats made in military-grade hypalon. It specializes in search and rescue and special intervention like the army, fire department, police department, and coast guard. the company is headquartered in Windsor, Canada.

Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops targeted in vivo RNA technologies to multiply therapeutic possibilities for patients. Capstan Therapeutics is based in San Diego, CA. The company's platform technology, tLNPs, delivers payloads capable of reprogramming specific cell types in vivo, including gene editing tools. The company aims to generate transformative therapies for autoimmune disorders, oncology, fibrosis, and monogenic blood disorders. The company was founded in 2022 by Haig Aghajanian, and the CEO is Laura K. Shawver.