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Vaximm AG provides active immunotherapies for patients suffering from cancer. It develops and provides vaccines for patients suffering from cancer. The firmalso provides research, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in September 2008 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Adjuvant Capital LP (Adjuvant Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Glenn Rockman, Kabeer Aziz and Charlie Petty. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Okairos AG develops preventive and therapeutic vaccines against human chronic infectious diseases. Its products include genetic vaccines, adenovirus vector platform, and proprietary cell line. The company was founded by Riccardo Cortese, Alfredo Nicosia, and Antonella Folgori in 2007 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

ONWARD Inc develops medical devices. It also provides stimulation system to rehabilitate individuals with spinal cord injury. The company was founded by Jocelyn Bloch, Sjaak Deckers, Grégoire Courtine, and Vincent Delattre in December 2014 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

VarmX BV is a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) founded in 2016 by Professor Pieter Reitsma, a world-leading expert in hemostasis and thrombosis. VarmX is based in Leiden, NL. The Dutch company's lead compound, VMX-C001, is a modified recombinant blood factor X developed for the treatment of severe spontaneous bleeding and for the prevention of bleeding during urgent surgery in patients taking oral factor Xa inhibitors (FXa DOACs) as anticoagulation therapy. The company is supported by a strong syndicate of investors. Jan K. Öhrström has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Forendo Pharma Oy provides novel pharmaceutical treatments for endometriosis and low testosterone levels. Its product fispemifene is the first selective estrogen receptor modulator designed only for men, which helps for the treatment of symptoms of low testosterone, in phase II clinical studies in men with secondary hypogonadism; fispemifene has normalized the low testosterone levels. Its 17HSD1-inhibitor focuses on endometriosis, is a potent and selective lead compounds demonstrated in vivo proof of efficacy in disease model of endometriosis. The company was founded by Risto Arvo Sakari Lammintausta in 2013 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Univercells SA designs single-use cost-efficient bioprocess solutions to open the next chapter in bio manufacturing. The company was founded by Jose Castillo, Guillaume De Viron and Hugues Bultot in 2013 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

NMD Pharma ApS engages with the research and preparation of small molecules targeting an undisclosed ion. It offers medical treatment of neuromuscular diseases for patients with chronic muscle wasting diseases such as myasthenia gravis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The company was founded by Ole B?kgaard Nielsen, Thomas Holm Pedersen, and Claus Elsborg Olesen on May 7, 2015 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

Global Health Investment Fund seeks investment opportunities in global health technologies. The fund invests in new drugs & vaccines, emerging diagnostic tools, child-friendly formulations of existing products, expanding manufacturing capacity and other applications. It provides financing in the form of mezzanine for later-stage capital requirements.

AYOXXA Biosystems GmbH operates as a biotechnology firm. Its lunaris technology is the optimal analysis platform for the pre-clinical and clinical development work. The firm offers In-situ encoded bead array, a multiplexed protein analysis platform that allows users to measure proteins and biomolecular analytes. The company was founded by Dieter Trau and Andreas Schmidt in 2010 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Hookipa Biotech AG develops new generation prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. The firm’s Vaxwave technology is a novel immunotherapy platform using a replication-defective viral vector for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Lukas Flatz, Andreas Bergthaler, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Daniel Pinschewer in July 2011 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals AG develops drugs for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. It develops drugs for the treatment of anti-MAG neuropathy disease and multifocal motor neuropathy disease. The firm also develops antibody-catch, a platform technology that enables the development of drugs for highly specific interception of autoimmune disease antibodies and focuses on autoimmune diseases of the peripheral nervous system that involve autoantibodies against carbohydrate epitopes. The company was founded by Andreas J. Steck, Beat Ernst, Pascal Hänggi and Ruben Herrendorffin in 2014 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Eye Tech Care SA develops medical devices for non-invasive eye disease treatment. It offers an ultrasound device which offers a non-invasive treatment that utilizes the ultrasound circular cyclo-coagulation procedure that reduces the intraocular pressure in refractory glaucoma. The firm serves the ophthalmology market in France and Europe. The company was founded by Fabrice Romano, Laurent Farcy and Philippe Chapuis in 2008 and is headquartered in Rillieux-la-Pape, France.

INKEF Capital BV is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2010 by Frank R Landsberger. INKEF Capital BV is headquartered in Amsterdam.

Novo Seeds (Novo Seeds) is a venture capital operating division of Novo Nordisk Fonden. The firm was established in 2007, and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

LHGP Asset Management LLP (Private Equity) (LHGP Asset Management) is a private equity arm of Lion's Head Global Partners LLP founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Westminster, United Kingdom.

5AM Venture Management LLC (5AM Ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2002 by Andrew J. Schwab, Carin M. Rollins and John D. Diekman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

EpiTherapeutics ApS is a holding company that develops cancer drugs based on research in the field of epigenetics. Its development programs are focused on enzymes involved in the regulation of transcription in cancer - current programs target histone demethylases and methyltransferases. The firm's regulation is commonly used for post-translational covalent modifications of histones and other chromatin-remodeling complexes, which determines whether a gene is accessible and hence, expressed or repressed. Its covalent modifications involved in epigenetic regulation include deoxyribonucleic acid methylation, histone acetylation, and histone methylation. The company was founded by Kristian Helin, Paul Andreas Compare Cloos, Jesper Aagaard Christensen, Karl Agger, and Klaus Hansen on September 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Greve, Denmark.

Metabomed Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It focuses in the field of cancer metabolism with a proprietary target identification platform based on computational biology and metabolomics. The company was founded by Eytan Ruppin, Tomer Shlomi and Eyal Gottlieb in 2013 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.

Good Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops "context-dependent" protein drugs that sense biomarkers and respond with a therapeutic activity. The company was founded by John Mulligan in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Amolyt Pharma SAS engages in development of biopharmaceutical drugs, proteins and peptides for the treatment of metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Thierry Abribat in 2014 and is headquartered in Ecully, France.

Lino Biotech AG provides foal molography technology. It is a novel label-free biosensor platform for direct imaging of biomolecular interactions in living cells. The company was founded by Mirko Stange, Volker Gatterdam, and Andreas Fruter and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Impulse Dynamics Ltd. (US) develops implantable device for the treatment of chronic heart failure. The company is headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. The firm’s novel antiviral drug candidates addresses the limitations of CHB therapies. The company was founded in 2009 by Osvaldo Flores, Ali Munawar and George D. Hartman and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a immunology drug development company. It focuses on novel therapeutics and specializes in the prevention and treatment of solid organ transplantation, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s diseases. The firm developed OPN-305, an antibody to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which is now at the clinical testing phase. The company was founded by Luke O'Neill, Kingston Mills and Dermot Kelleher in 2004 and is headquartered Dublin, Ireland.

Impulse Dynamics NV develops electrical therapies for the treatment of chronic heart failure. Its product Optimizer III is designed for the treatment of patients with moderate and severe heart failure. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles.

Physio-Assist SAS develops an expertise in bronchial mucus analysis and clearance. The company was founded by Adrien Mithalal on September 17, 2012 and is headquartered in Aix en Provence, France.

Turenne Capital Partenaires SA (Turenne Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Turenne Associés SA founded in 1999 by Aymard de Lasteyrie. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Minoryx Therapeutics SL engages in the development of drugs for the orphan genetic diseases of the central nervous system. The company was founded by Marc Martinell, Joan Aymami, Nigel Ten Fleming and Xavier Barril in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Bonum Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held American company that focuses on generating a new class of therapeutics based on a proven technology platform. Bonum Therapeutics is based in an undisclosed location and was founded in 2022 by the Good Therapeutics team. The company's technology utilizes principles of allosteric regulation to create highly active and less toxic medicines, which can be applied to a wide range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, autoimmunity, metabolic disorders, and pain management. The company's molecules combine a sensor component directed against a specific biological marker and a therapeutic component. The company is backed by a group of leading venture investors, including Codon Capital, Roche Venture Fund, RiverVest Venture Partners, 3x5 Partners, Digitalis Ventures, and Vivo Capital. The company was founded by John Mulligan, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Zikani Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical-stage company developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The company was founded by Lawrence G. Miller and Andrew G. Myers in 2014 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

M.A. Med Alliance SA is a company based in Nyon, Switzerland that specializes in developing innovative technology and commercializing advanced drug device combination products for the treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease. The Swiss company's flagship product is the Selution SLR™ DEB, which is a novel sirolimus-eluting balloon platform technology. The CEO of the company is Jeffrey Bryan Jump.

Roche Ventures is the venture investment division of the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG (SWX:ROG). The group is headquartered in Basel with operations and affiliates worldwide, and is a world leader in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. The firm was founded in 2002.

Sofimac Innovation SAS is an independent, early-stage venture capital firm which was created in 1998 by Eric Harlé and Didier Moret. Headquartered in Paris, France, Sofimac Innovation manages venture capital funds which provide equity financing for start-ups and early-stage companies in the Information and Communication Technologies (Software, SaaS, Multimedia and Telecom) sector.