Ronit Bendori

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Rainbow Medical Ltd. (Rainbow Medical) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Efi Cohen Arazi and Yossi Gross. The firm is headquartered in HaMerkaz, Israel with an additional offices in China and United States.

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. engages in the development, sale, and maintenance of commercial and military aircrafts, missiles, and military electronic products. It operates through the following segments: Aviation, Military Aircraft, Missiles and Space Systems, and Elta Systems Ltd. The Aviation segment engages in the maintenance, renovation, and improvement of aircraft and aircraft engines, and conversion of passenger aircraft into cargo and refueling aircraft, and in the development and manufacture of aviation assemblies for military and commercial aircraft. The Military Aircraft segment engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of unmanned aircraft. The Missiles and Space Systems segment engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of attack and defense missile systems, satellites, and space assemblies. The Elta Systems Ltd segment engages in the military electronics field. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Lod, Israel.

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SARcode Bioscience, Inc., develops biopharmaceutical products. Its program is a novel class of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) antagonists for the treatment T-cell mediated inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Thomas Gadek and John P. Burnier in 2006 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

Vascular Dynamics, Inc. provides blood pressure modulation devices. It develops and commercializes a passive, catheter-delivered implant for the treatment of hypertension. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Tibotec-Virco NV develops drugs and individualized disease management products. The firm also offers early stage research programs concentrating on the development of treatments for cancer, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases. The company also provides HIV drug resistance testing and other analytical services in the United States, Japan, Europe, Canada, and Australia. It has operations in Belgium, North Carolina, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It was founded in by Paul Stoffels in March, 2001 and is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.

Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. designs and develops therapeutic systems for retinal diseases. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Cumberland, RI.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

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.

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development LLC provides research and development support services. It offers drug discovery and drug development in a variety of therapeutic areas, including CNS, Internal Medicine and Oncology, to address unmet medical needs worldwide. The company is headquartered in Raritan, NJ.

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV engages in the development of medical solutions. It offers research and development services in the field of mental illness, neurological disorders, anesthesia, analgesia, gastrointestinal disorders, fungal infection, allergies and cancer. The firms products include Zytiga, Caelyx, Dacogen, Edurant, Fentanyl-Janssen, Intelence, Leustatin, , Pariet, and Reminyl. The company was founded in 1953 by Paul Janssen and is headquartered in Beerse, Belgium.

EarlySense Ltd. provides patient monitoring systems. It offers continuous patient monitoring for heart rate, respiratory rate and motion, to potentially allow the clinical team to manage early detection of patient deterioration, fall prevention and pressure ulcers prevention. The firm develops system specifically for medical surgical, general care patients who are usually monitored by nurses once every four to six hours. The company was founded by Avner Halperin, Daniel H. Lange, Guy Shinar and Yossi Gross in 2004 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.

BrainsGate Ltd. develops medical devices. The firm specializes in therapies for patients suffering from central nervous system diseases. Its platform technology involves electrical stimulation of the Spheno-Palatine Ganglion, a nervous center known to increase cerebral blood flow. The company was founded by Yossi Gross and David Yarnitsky in 2000 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Beta-O2 Technologies Ltd. develops implantable bio-artificial pancreas devices. It offers BAir, a bio-artificial pancreas that provides a viable environment for islets of Langerhans to thrive and provide the body with insulin on demand. The company was founded by Pnina Vardi, Konstantin Bloch, and Yossi Gross in 2004 and is headquartered in Rosh-Haayin, Israel.

Valtech Cardio Ltd. develops devices for mitral valve repair and replacement. It specializes in the development of devices for mitral and tricuspid valve repair and replacement. The firm also offers full in-house development, manufacturing and clinical research capabilities, and patent applications. The company was founded by Amir Gross and Yossi Gross in March 2005 and is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel.

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati provides charity services. Its activities include fund raising and allocation agency for Jewish communities in North America. The firm brings community together to care for Jews in Cincinnati. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

MTRE Advanced Technologies Ltd. develops and manufactures non-invasive solutions for body temperature management.. Its products include normothermia management-allon and hypothermia management-criticool. The company was founded by Benjamin Spenser and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.

Part of Virco Manufacturing Corp., Virco, Inc. is a company based in Torrance, CA.

Maxillent Ltd. develops and manufactures dental implants. Its products include iraise, isure, prosthetics, surgical instruments and bone graft materials. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Enopace Biomedical Ltd. develops medical devices to treat heart failure patients. The firm's technology consists of a minimally invasive, implantable neurostimulation device that increases cardiac efficiency by reducing left ventricular workload and improves the systolic/diastolic ratio. The company was by Yossi Gross and Amir Dagan in 2008 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation Ltd is a private equity subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Nano Retina Ltd. develops artificial retina designed to restore sight. It also develops an implantable bionic chip, designed to return sight to those blinded by retinal degenerative diseases. The company was founded by Yossi Gross and James R. Von Her, II in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum VZW, also known as Imec, is a Belgian business accelerator. The non-profit company is based in Leuven, BE and has subsidiaries in the United States, Taiwan, India, Netherlands, and Belgium. Imec.istart is their main program, which helps startups grow and succeed. The Belgian company was founded in 1984 and has been led by CEO Luc van den Hove since then.

Philips Healthcare engages in the manufacture of electromedical apparatus. It develops products that offer added value to the entire care cycle: from disease prevention to screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care at home or in hospital. It also deals with cardiology, oncology, and women's health. It focuses on serious health problems, which people are confronted, such as heart problems, lung and breast disease. The company is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Part of Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Research & Development LLC is a company that provides research and development medicines and solutions to other medical needs. The company is based in Raritan, NJ.

Discure Technologies manufactures medical equipment. The company is based in Herzliya, Israel. The Israeli company was founded by Yossi Gross. The CEO is Yuval Mandelbaum.