Craig Johnson

Heartport, Inc. develops systems and procedures for heart surgery. The company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. Heartport was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Harvest Capital Strategies LLC (Harvest) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and formerly known as JMP Asset Management LLC. They are wholly owned by JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Harvest provides discretionary investment advisory services to a number of private investment funds that operate as private investment funds.

FlowMedica, Inc. develops intravascular systems and medical devices. The company's products include Benephit CV, PVSolo, PVMini, and XT Infusion systems. It also develops novel, proprietary, and minimally invasive intravascular systems for implementing Targeted Renal Therapy. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

TRIA Beauty, Inc. provides light based therapeutic beauty devices. It offers TRIA Laser Hair Removal System for laser removal of hair and TRIA Skin Perfecting Blue Light for mild to moderate inflammatory acne with a proprietary cleanser and serum for overall complexion improvement. The company was founded in 2003 by Tobin C. Island, Robert E. Grove, Jonathon T. Pearson and Mark V. Weckwerth and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

ProMed, Inc. develops products for OB/GYN, orthopedic and aesthetic applications. The company was founded on May 10, 2007 and is headquartered in Temecula, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Part of Cognex Corp., Acumen, Inc. is an American company that develops machine vision systems. The company is based in OR. Acumen was acquired by Cognex Corp. from ATS Corp. on July 27, 1995 for $14 million.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

De Novo Ventures LLC (De Novo ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Frederick Dotzler, Richard Ferrari and David Mauney. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Asset Management Co. is a venture capital firm. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in East Palo Alto, CA.

Brean Capital is an independent investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1973 and provides equity research, corporate finance and advisory investment banking, equity institutional sales and trading, and asset management to institutional investors and corporate clients. Their fixed income business provides sales, trading, research and banking services on a wide range of mortgage and asset-backed, US Treasury and government agency securities, structured products, corporate bonds, and municipal debt. The fixed income sales team employs a highly analytical approach to bond selection, trade execution, and overall bond portfolio management. Under the guidance of fixed income strategists, the fixed income team uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses to create custom investment portfolios and develop targeted, executable bond trading strategies to complement their clients? balance sheets.

Empirical Spine, Inc. develops minimally invasive, flexion-restricting stabilization devices for the spine. It offers LimiFlex Spinal Stabilization System which is a novel implant that provides segmental stability to the lumbar spine while still allowing motion and also used in conjunction with a surgical decompression for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis. The company was founded by Louis Fielding, John Colin Cahill, Ian Bennett and Todd F. Alamin in 2006 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Thrive Agrobiotics, Inc. engages in research and development by utilizing gut cell therapy platform. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AD Skincare, Inc. provides skincare health services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CRS Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology products. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Genten Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. It delivers a monotherapy through an antigen-specific induction of immune tolerance for gluten to address unmet medical need. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Koch Disruptive Technologies LLC (Koch Disruptive Technologies) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.