Ela Borenstein

BDC Venture Capital (BDC Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1975. The firm is headquartered in Québec, Canada.

Alethia Biotherapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops therapeutic mAbs against highly-disease tissue specific novel clinically-relevant targets. The firm focuses on bone loss in acute disorders, invasive carcinomas and on cancer-associated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. The company was founded in 2002 by Mario Filion and Yves Cornellier and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TTI), is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative therapies for the treatment of immune-mediated disorders. The Company's therapeutic approaches are aimed at restoring balance to the immune system in conditions associated with aberrant or harmful immune responses, such as autoimmune disease, inflammatory disorders, and cancer. TTI's objective is to create a broad and innovative pipeline of proprietary biologic product opportunities, as part of its overall strategy of building and solidifying its reputation as a premier R & D company. The company's business model is to identify therapeutic candidates that have shown promise in animal models and to rapidly advance these into clinical testing. TTI is concentrating its efforts on preclinical and early clinical drug development, with the primary objective of demonstrating safety and proof-of-principle in man. The company has chosen to establish development partnerships for some of its projects at a preclinical stage, and anticipates advancing several others into clinical development on its own. TTI has five scientific programs at various stages of preclinical testing. Two of its programs focus on the immunoregulatory protein CD200 and its receptor, a third targets the activating Fc receptor Fc RIIa (CD32a) and the final two involve the use of a growth factor in the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis and the treatment of interstitial cystitis.

Allostera Pharma Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has developed an entirely new class of drugs, called Allosteramers™. Allosteramers™ have three main properties: 1) they are “allosteric”, meaning they do not bind to the same site as traditional drugs, potentially providing better safety, efficacy and an entirely new set of patentable intellectual properties, 2) they can have predictable and consistent drug properties, and 3) they are designed to be orally available. Using its Module X technology platform, Allostera has developed a pipeline of seven novel Allosteramers™ against different targets primarily focused on inflammation and autoimmunity including APG2305, a drug inhibiting the IL23 receptor, one of the most important targets in the autoimmune disease field. APG2305 has demonstrated oral activity in animal models of autoimmune diseases.

Cytochroma, Inc. is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company. It develops and markets prescription products for the prevention of vitamin D insufficiency. The firm specializes in pharmaceutical products to treat and prevent secondary hyperparathyroidism associated with chronic kidney disease. The company was founded by Martin J. Petkovich in 1996 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.