Gregory D. Williams

Sands Capital Management LLC (Sands Capital) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1992 by Frank Sands and is majority owned by Sands Capital Management LP. Sands Capital provides investment management services to both US and non-US clients who have different tax statuses, often depending on the jurisdiction.

Genoptix, Inc. provides specialized oncology diagnostics services. It offers a range of customizable clinical trial, custom assay development and companion diagnostics development services. The company was founded in 1999 by Tina S. Nova and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Modumetal, Inc. manufactures nanolaminated metals with applications across a range of industries including energy, aerospace, automotive, and construction. Its products include corrosion resistant, structural, thermal barrier, and custom alloys. The company was founded by Christina Ann Lomasney and John David Whitaker in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

GenapSys, Inc. develops DNA sequencing technologies and systems for applied genomic testing and medical sequencing. It also develops gene electronic nano-integrated ultra-sensitive platform device for chip-based DNA sequencing. The company was founded by Hesaam Esfandyarpour in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

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.

Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. develops and commercializes novel pharmaceutical and diagnostic products. Its enables physicians to provide individualized patient care. It applies the principles of personalized medicine to the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and applies it to oncology. The firms markets and promotes pharmaceutical products and complementary proprietary diagnostic testing services. The company was founded by Jonathan Braun, Stephan R. Targan, Michael J. Walsh, and Scott L. Glenn in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

NanoDimension Management (NanoDimension) Ltd is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Aymeric Sallin. The firm is headquartered in George Town.

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PerkinElmer focuses on improving the health and safety of people and the environment. The company is headquartered in Zaventem, Belgium.

Nexcelom Bioscience LLC operates as a cell counting solution company. It manufactures, designs, and develops devices and instruments for cell-cased assay used in cancer research and drug discovery. The firm offers Cellometer mini cell viability, Cellometer auto 1000 cell viability counter, Cellometer auto 2000 cell viability counter, cell-based assay kits, and Nexcelom ULA round bottom multi-well plates products. The company was founded by Jean Qiu in 2003 and is headquartered in Lawrence, MA.

Pulse Therapeutics, Inc. provides medical devices to destroy blood clots. Its devices help in treating the stroke, heart disease and other conditions. Its products include MED System which helps in dissolve blood clots. The company was founded by Francis M. Creighton and Rogers Ritter in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Mo.

Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. provides drug discovery services. It develops tetravalent, T-cell redirecting bispecific antibodies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. The firm’s’ lead drug candidate is AMV-564, a CD33/CD3-targeting treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which Amphivena is currently preparing to advance into clinical development. The company was founded by Jeanmarie Guenot in December 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Visby Medical, Inc. operates as a healthcare technology company. It develops diagnostic products for professionals and consumers. The company was founded by Gregory Loney and Adam de la Zerda in 2008 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Founders Fund LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA.

S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd. develops medical devices for diagnosing blood diseases. Its product, the Parasight platform, is the automated microscopy device for Malaria diagnosis. The company was founded by Joseph Joel Pollak in 2011 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ultivue, Inc. engages in provision of biotechnology services. It offers super-resolution imaging, single-molecule and diagnostics services. Its product Multiplex IHC Reagent Kits, a performance marker multiplexing detection and analysis.The company was founded by Peng Yin, David Walt and Ralf Jumgmann in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Gyros Protein Technologies AB engages in the utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays. It provides sample preparation, synthesis and bioanalytical tools for biotherapeutics discovery, development and bioprocessing. The company was founded in March 2016 and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.

Canopy Biosciences LLC engages in the provision of products and services for gene editing, gene expression analysis and regulation, and bioprocessing. It offers crispr complete kits, mirna crispr knockout kits, clia certified services, compbio, mirna mimics, and cho complete. The company was founded by David Adam Smoller, Edward J. Weinstein and Crystal Winkeler in 2016 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Hawthorne Effect, Inc. provides medical diagnostic tools. It specializes in clinical trials, patient engagement, mobile healthcare, home health, patient experience, clinical research, gig economy, and health tech. The company was founded by Jodi Akin in 2014 and is headquartered in Alamo, CA.

Starlight Ventures Management LLC (Starlight Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Patricia Halfen Wexler and Matias Mosse. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Serotiny, Inc. is an ecological adaptation exhibited by some seed plants. The company was founded in Justin Farlow and Colin Farlow and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Northpond Ventures LLC (Northpond Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Sharon Kedar and Michael Pinchas Rubin. The firm is headquartered in Maryland.

Jumpcode Genomics, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

PsiQuantum Corp. engages in the provision of photonic approach to manufacture an universal quantum computer in a complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor silicon fab. The company was founded in June 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Vizgen, Inc. engages in business of biotechnology. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BOA Biomedical, Inc. is a Miraki innovation company that focuses on infectious disease. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company's mission is to provide innovative tools to fight the world's most deadly infectious diseases and their outcomes, including sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance, pandemic infections, pathogenic outbreaks, and the threat of bioterrorism. BOA Biomedical has an exclusive license to technology from the Wyss Institute. The company's platform manages infectious disease throughout the patient journey from diagnosis to tracking to treatment. The company was founded by Christopher J. P. Velis.

Unravel Biosciences is a rapid prototyping therapeutics company that uses AI biological network analysis and existing drugs to discover and clinically derisk entirely novel therapeutics and biomarkers for complex diseases. Unravel Biosciences is based in Boston, MA and was founded by Richard Novak, Frederic Vigneault, Michael Levin, and Donald Ingber. The company leverages its proprietary Bionav™ platform to combine target and drug discovery, preclinical screening, and patient stratification. Richard Novak has been the CEO since incorporation.

Airna, Inc. is an American company that focuses on the discovery and development of RNA editing therapeutics. Airna was founded by Thorsten Stafforst, Jin Billy Li, Tobias Merkle, Paul Vogel. The CEO is Kris Elverum.

Partillion Bioscience Corp. is an American company that specializes in providing a functional single-cell biology reagent platform. The company's nanovial technology allows for single-cell secretion analysis and other research capabilities. The company was founded by Joseph Michael de Rutte and Dino Di Carlo, with Joseph Michael de Rutte serving as CEO since incorporation.