Joe Ma

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

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.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Versant Venture Management LLC (Versant Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Brian Atwood, Samuel Colella, Bill Link and Ross Jaffe. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Basel and Vancouver.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Grishin Robotics Inc. (Grishin Robotics) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Dmitry Grishin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Fifty Years Industries LLC (Fifty Years Industries) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Ela Madej and Seth Bannon. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research is a charitable organization that partners with scientists worldwide to accelerate research for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The Mark Foundation is based in New York, NY and was founded by Alexander Mark Knaster. The foundation has awarded over $200 million in grants to more than 100 academic institutions across 13 countries since 2017. The non-profit company's research programs focus on early career support, team science collaboration, new technology innovation, and therapeutics discovery. The foundation also invests in early-stage cancer diagnostics and therapeutics companies.

Oerth Bio LLC is an agricultural biotech company that develops sustainable, environmentally-designed crop and farm solutions to reduce the environmental impact of agrochemical solutions and nourish a growing population with eco-friendly, healthy foods. The company is based in Durham, NC. The company was formed as a joint venture between Arvinas and Bayer, supported by over $55 million in committed funding and operational support from Bayer, and technology and intellectual property from Arvinas. Oerth Bio is reimagining crop protection through a comprehensive, therapeutic approach to crop health using Protac® technology, a targeted biotech solution known for its potential in addressing human disease. The CEO of the company is John W. Dombrosky.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Vicinitas Therapeutics is located in the US. Vicinitas Therapeutics is an American US-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing next-generation disease therapies using targeted protein stabilizers called Deubiquituinase Targeting Chimeras (DUBtacs). The company's mission is to solve critical problems in human health by developing disease therapies against an entire class of previously inaccessible disease-causing proteins.

Resynergi, Inc. engages in plastic recycling services. The company is based in Rohnert Park, CA. The company was founded in 2015 by Brian Bauer, Jason Tanne. Brian Bauer has been the CEO since 2015.

Frontier Medicines Corp. develops medicines that redefine the course of debilitating diseases. The company was founded by Chris Varma, Daniel K. Nomura and Roberto Zoncu in 2018 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

LG Technology Ventures LLC (LG Technology Ventures) is the venture capital subsidiary of LG Corp, founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Logos Global Management LP (Logos) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Arsani William and Graham Walmsley in 2019. They are owned and controlled by Logos Global Management GP LLC. Logos provides discretionary investment management services to privately offered pooled investment vehicles.

Blue Bear Ventures (BBV) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Patrick Scaglia. The firm is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Ambi Robotics, Inc. is a robotic automation company. It provides dependable AI-powered solutions for flexible pick and pack in distribution and fulfilment. The company was founded by Jeffrey Brian Mahler, Ken Goldberg and Stephen McKinley and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Bow Capital Management LLC (Bow capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Vivek Y Ranadivé. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Part of ALX Oncology Holdings, Inc., ALX Oncology, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company which develops therapies for cancers. The company is based in Burlingame, CA. The CEO of the company is Jaume Pons.

Jecure Therapeutics, Inc. provides therapeutic services for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. The company was founded by Ariel Feldstein in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.