Brian Berning

Maravai Life Sciences, Inc. provides investment services. It focuses on acquiring companies and products in the diagnostics and life sciences industry. The company was founded by Carl W. Hull and Eric Tardiff in March 18, 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Antylia Scientific provides laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, equipment, and supplies. The firm's services include calibration services, custom-blend chemicals, custom cut-to-lenght tubing, custom single-use bioprocess assemblies, custom temperature probes, on-site calibration services and special and custom orders. The company was founded by Jerry Cole and John Parmer in January 1955 and is headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL.

GTCR LLC (GTCR) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charlie Thomas. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Regatta Medical Holdings LLC operates as a private equity firm that focuses on acquiring companies and assets in the products and services areas of the medical device industry. The company was founded in April 2017 and is headquartered in Bannockburn, IL.

Devicor Medical Products, Inc. engages in acquiring medical device companies and products. Its products include mommotome revolve, elite, tissue markers, neoprene, specimen radiograph, mammo test and stereo solutions. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

BioCoat, Inc. develops and licenses biomaterial coatings for medical devices. Its services include coatings development, verification testing, coatings development process, process validation, and manufacturing process support. The company was founded by Ellington Beavers in 1991 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

CBR Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of newborn stem cell company. Its clinical application of cord blood and cord tissue stem cells by partnering with institutions to establish FDA-regulated clinical trials for conditions that have no cure today. The company was founded by Thomas E. Moore, Jesse O. Kramer, Wendy K. Grant, Paul R. Billings and Stephen M. Grant in 1992 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

XIFIN, Inc. engages as a healthcare information technology company. Its products and services include revenue cycle management, laboratory information systems, precision medicine informatics, and digital pathology consultation. The company was founded by L?le White, Donald Lavigne, Michael Coats, and Jeffrey Yates in 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Transaction Data Systems, Inc. develops software solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. It products include prescription processing, lifeline, refill RX, central site, nursing home, accounts receivable, IV's, and nursing home consulting. The company was founded in January 1977 and is headquartered in Earth City, MO.

Crealta Pharmaceuticals LLC operates as a specialty pharmaceutical company. The firm pursuing the acquisition of specialty pharmaceutical products with a focus on select therapeutic areas. The company was founded in August 2013 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL.

Canyon Holdings (Cayman) LP operates as a pooled investment fund. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cedar Gate Partners LLC engages in the provision of analytical software solutions in the healthcare industry. It offers value based healthcare, prescriptive analytics, and enterprise management solutions. The company was founded by David B. Snow Jr. in 2014 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

TerSera Therapeutics LLC develops pharmaceutical products. Its therapeutic areas include allergy or immunology, CNS disorders, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, oncology, orphan diseases, rheumatology, transplant-related therapies, urology, and women's health. The company was founded by Edward J. Fiorentino in 2016 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL.

Ceba-Tech Specialty Solutions, Inc. engages in acquiring companies and assets in the specialty chemicals, materials and ingredients industries. The company was founded on January 26, 2017 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Actient Pharmaceuticals LLC develops and markets pharmaceutical therapeutic products. The company was founded in March 2009 and is headquartered in Malvern, VA.

GE Healthcare, Inc. manufactures and distributes diagnostic imaging agents and radiopharmaceuticals for imaging modalities that are used in medical imaging procedures. It offers dyes that are used in magnetic-resonance-imaging procedures. The firm also manufactures medical diagnostic equipment including CT image machines. It develops healthcare technological solutions for medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Illinois Venture Capital Association engages in providing services such as education, networking, industry events, roundtable discussions and government lobbying. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute conducts and translates biological research programs. The firm offers tumor initiation and maintenance, cancer metabolism and signaling network, tumor microenvironment and cancer immunology, degenerative disease, development/aging/regeneration, immunity and pathogenesis, human genetic, cardiovascular metabolism, integrative metabolism, metabolism genomic control, bioinformatics and structural biology programs. The company was founded by William Fishman and Lillian Fishman in 1976 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Alta Partners Management Co. LP (Alta Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Jean Deleage, Guy Paul Nohra, Marino Polestra and Garrett P. Gruener. The firm is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.

GeneraMedix, Inc. develops, distributes and sells generic pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Liberty Corner, NJ.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Sotera Health LLC offers sterilization services. It offers medical device sterilization, pharmaceutical sterilization, food and commercial products safety, packaging materials, laboratory testing, and consulting services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Broadview Heights, OH.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Part of General Electric Co., GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc. provides software and technologies to hospitals and health care systems. The company is based in Hermosa Beach, CA.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

BIOCOM provides scientific and technological services. The firm focuses that positively influence the growth of the life science industry, including capital formation, public policy, workforce development and scientific discovery and development. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

Allasso Industries, Inc. produces fibers and nonwovens for specialty markets. Its fibers and fabrics are produced with polypropylene, polyethylene, polybutylene terephthalate, polyamides, polylactic acid, and polyester. They are applied in air and water filtration, wipes and absorbent products, hygiene and incontinence, membranes and separators and reinforced composites. The company was founded by Walter J. chappas Jr. and Gusten R. Brainerd and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

PetroBeam, Inc. develops electron beam processing techniques to upgrade petroleum feedstocks. It provides technology development services. It also offers services in upgrading of heavy oil & bitumen for transport and for cracking feedstock in the refining process. The company was founded in 2005 and is located in Raleigh, NC.

Epic Sciences, Inc. develops novel diagnostics to the treatment and management of cancer. It develops sensitive diagnostic tests to molecularly characterize circulating tumor cells in the blood. The firm also offers fluid-phase biopsy that identifies rare cell of interest in the blood; and provides cancer management through earlier diagnosis, staging and therapeutic selections. The company was founded by David M. Nelson in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Edico Genome Corp. develops bioinformatics processor chip that helps in DNA analysis. It serves agribusiness, architects & engineers, construction insurance, cyber liability, environmental insurance, garage insurance, healthcare professional, lawyers professional and real estate insurance. The company was founded in 2013 by Robert Mcmillen, Michael Ruehle and Pieter Van Rooyen and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. engages in a biotechnology company.. It delivers attractive solution for production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources, eliminating the need for petroleum feedstocks. The company was founded by Andrey J. Zarur, Marta Ortega-Valle, and James R. Swartz and is headquartered in Medford, MA.

Part of Dentsply Sirona, Inc., Dentsply Sirona France SAS provides endodontic treatments and restorations. The company is based in Versailles, France.

Corza Medical Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative surgical technologies with a team of over 2,500 employees supporting clinicians, distributor-partners, and medical device companies worldwide. The company is based in Westwood, MA and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and United States. The company provides healthcare professionals a platform of surgical technologies with many industry-leading brands, including Quill® barbed sutures, Sharpoint® Plus and Look™ surgical sutures, ® reusable and Blink™ single-use ophthalmic instruments, Barron corneal transplant devices, Sharpoint® microsurgical knives, and the Tachosil® fibrin sealant patch. The company was founded by Gregory T. Lucier, and Thomas B. Testa has been the CEO of the company since 2023.