Yaron Shimon

OrbiMed Israel Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in life science companies located in Israel. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics. It provides financing for seed, early, later and growth stage capital requirements.

GSK Equity Investment Ltd (GSK Equity) is a venture capital firm a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline Plc founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Reedwood City, California.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Longbow Capital Partners LP (Longbow) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Thomas Fitzgerald III and Douglas Snyder in 2003. Longbow provides investment advice to high net worth individuals.

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.

Novartis Venture Funds (NVF) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and an additional office in Cambridge, MA. The firm was founded in 1996. NVF is a subsidiary of Novartis AG (VX: NOVN) and was created following the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz.

Takeda Ventures Inc (Takeda Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Takeda America Holdings Inc founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity (OrbiMed Advisors Private Equity) is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary of Orbimed Advisors LLC founded in 1993 by Samuel D. Isaly. The firm is headquartered in New York and it has additional offices in San Francisco, Mumbai, Shanghai, Herzliya, Hong Kong and London.

Otic Pharma Ltd. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products for ear indications. Its products include FoamOtic Externa, FoamOtic Sinus, Foam-O-Vet, and FoamOtic Media. The company was founded by Gad Riesenfeld, Rodrigo A. Yelin and Eran Eilat in March 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Founded in 1996, Novartis Venture Funds (USA) is a venture capital firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Novartis Venture Funds and their ultimate parent is Novartis AG, a Switzerland-based company that engages in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products. Novartis Venture Funds manages the Bermuda domiciled biotechnology venture fund, Novartis BioVentures Ltd

Akamis Bio Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company which develops novel therapeutics that addresses cancer and other clinically unmet diseases. Its products include Enadenotucirev, Espindolol and AbEnAd. The firm also develops treatments based upon the research phase vaccine platform PolySTAR, which combines recombinant viral vectors with polymers to shield them from the immune system, and the research phase adjuvant and immunotherapeutic platform PolyMAP, which combines polymers with synthetic adjuvants to significantly enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. The company was founded by Andrew Justin Stewart Coats and Stefan D. Anker on November 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Progenitor Labs Ltd. develops drugs to regenerate specific tissues of the human body in response to injury, disease, and ageing. Its products include ProScreen and CombiCult. The company was founded by Yen Choo on February 12, 2010 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Pulmocide Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical services. It develops inhaled medicines for viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract. The company was founded by William Garth Rapeport, John Murray, Kazuhiro Ito, and Peter Strong on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Puridify Ltd. develops bioprocessing technologies. It develops a platform purification technology that will improve processing opportunities and reduce costs. The company was founded by Oliver Hardick, Iwan Thomas Roberts and Thomas Edward Haywood in 2013 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Adicet Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the development of cell immunotherapies. It engages in the design and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other disease indications with a focus on novel universal immune cell therapies. The company was founded by Aya Jakobovits in 2014 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Janpix Holdings, Inc. engages in provision of research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by Patrick T. Gunning and Cortes Pierre and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BiomX Ltd. engages in the development of customized phage therapies designed to target and destroy harmful bacteria in chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectalcancer, as well as bacteria that affect the appearance of the skin. The company was founded by Eran Elinav, Timothy K. Lu, and Rotem Sorek on March 3, 2015 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

ImmPACT-Bio Ltd. develops therapies to treat cancer. Its chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy addresses the need to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous tissues. The company was founded by Gideon Gross in April 2017 and is headquartered in Nes Ziona, Israel.

Mirobio Ltd. operates as a biologics company focusing on autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The firm develops antibody modulators of immune cell receptors, an approach that has potential across a range of diseases, with an initial focus on auto-immune disease. The company was founded by Richard Cornall and Simon Davis on October 8, 2018 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

ADARx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as RNA base-editing company. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SR One Capital Management LP (SR One) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Redwood, California.

Vasomune Therapeutics, Inc. operates as an early stage biopharmaceutical company. It develops medicines to harness the body’s ability to defend against illness by modifying cellular response to disease. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Diego, CA. Capstan Therapeutics aims to multiply the therapeutic possibilities for patients by developing targeted in vivo RNA technologies. The company's platform technology, TLNPs, is designed to deliver payloads and gene editing tools to reprogram specific cell types in vivo. This technology has the potential to generate transformative therapies for various disease areas, including autoimmune disorders, oncology, fibrosis, and monogenic blood disorders. Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2022 by Haig Aghajanian. Laura K. Shawver has been the CEO of the company since 2022.