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Fluke Corp. manufactures and distributes electronic test tools and software. The firm's products include test tools, accessories, battery analyzers, bench instruments, clamp meters, data acquisition, digital millimeters, earth ground, electrical testers, fluke calibration, and fluke connect. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Everett, WA.

Maverick Capital Ltd. (Maverick) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cohasset Ltd. The firm was founded by Lee Ainslie III in 1993. Maverick provides advisory services to hedge funds, funds of funds, funds making venture capital investments, a private equity fund and related co-investment vehicle, other pooled investment vehicles, and institutional investors.

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

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.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Galapagos Biotech Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company which provides discovery technologies and services. Its technologies include Chemogenomics and Silico. The company was founded by Kenneth Leslie Powell and Janet Maureen Thornton in July 8, 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Aldevron LLC engages in the provision of biotechnology services. It offers plasmid DNA, antibodies, and proteins. The company was founded by Michael Chambers and John Ballantyne in 1998 and is headquartered in Fargo, ND.

Agendia NV discovers and develops products for clinical management of cancer. It operates as a commercial-stage molecular diagnostic company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of products to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The company was founded by Rene Bernards and Laura van't Veer in 2003 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Los Alamos National Laboratory operates as a multidisciplinary institution. It offers services in science, engineering, earth science, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and space science. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Los Alamos, NM.

Part of Expedia Group, Inc., Hotels.com LP is an online platform that provides hotel room booking services for travelers. The company is based in Dallas, TX. Hotels.com was founded by Matias de Tezanos, Michelle Diener, Robert Diener.

Leupold & Stevens, Inc. designs and assembles optical instruments. Its products include riflescopes, spotting scopes, binoculars, rangefinders, trail cameras, and mounting systems for firearms, and accessories, including RCX camera kits, mounting tools, boresighters, knives, digital camera adapters, and tripods. The firm offers its services for hunting and shooting, tactical, observation, and golf applications. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Oregon Health & Science University Foundation exists to secure private philanthropic support for Oregon Health & Science University. The organization also invests and manages gifts from different donors. The OHSU Foundation also administers a separate grant-making program, the Medical Research Foundation awards, supporting biomedical research in Oregon by new investigators. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Gilde Healthcare Holding BV founded in 1999 by Pieter van der Meer and Edwin William de Graaf. Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is headquartered in Utrecht with additional office in Cambridge.

Acacia Pharma Ltd. develops supportive care product opportunities for post-surgical and cancer patients. It specializes in the discovery and development of cancer supportive care product opportunities based on established drugs. The firm’s product pipeline addresses supportive care indications, such as post-operative and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, xerostomia and cachexia. The company was founded by Andrew Muncey, Julian Clive Gilbert and Robert William Gristwood in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

GV Management Co LLC (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2009 by Bill Maris. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, Boston, New York and London.

Matrix Sensors, Inc. provides technologies for life science bio-molecule and gas sensing measurements. It offers chemical sensing for next generation mobile devices, wireless sensor networks, appliances, and wearable devices for home, health and fitness. The company was founded by Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Calvin F. Quate and James Gimzewski in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Expedia Affiliate Network provides online travel services.

DNA Script engages in the provision of research and development in biotechnology. It manufactures synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid using enzymatic technology. The company was founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel and Xavier Godron in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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.

Jackson Square Partners LLC (Jackson Square) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2014 through the joint venture between Delaware Investments and its San Francisco–based Focus Growth team. Jackson Square provides investment advisory services to separately managed accounts and pooled investment vehicles. Their institutional client base includes, but is not limited to, high net worth individuals, corporate and public pension plans, endowments, and foundations.

Gandeeva Therapeutics, Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in drug discovery using a unique approach to develop precision medicines. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada and was founded by Sriram Subramaniam, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's focus is on understanding the language by which proteins communicate in vivo, which is fundamental to deciphering biology. The company's discovery process involves identifying the optimal protein-protein interactions and altering protein structures to develop drugs that can treat various diseases.