Terry O’Neal

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Mesa Verde Ventures LLC (Mesa Verde Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

RetroSense Therapeutics LLC provides biotechnology services. It offers gene therapies to restore vision in patients suffering from blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa and advanced dry age-related macular degeneration. The company was founded by Sean Ainsworth in 2009 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Thesan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides novel therapeutics for disorders of the skin. The company focuses on the discovery and development of new chemical entities that provide improved treatment options to patients. Thesan Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2011 by Edward P. Monaghan and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Avalyn Pharma, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops improved therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other severe respiratory diseases. The company was founded by Richard Glenn Vincent and Mark W. Surber in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Kalyra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures small molecule drugs. The company was founded by Brian T. Dorsey, Cam L. Garner and Kevin Bunker and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Immusoft Corp. provides disease curing services through immune cells. The firm offers ISP, gene delivery technology and lymphopoiesis culture system. The company was founded by Matthew Scholz in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

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.

Cianna Medical, Inc. manufactures and marketing equipment for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in women. The firm’s products include SAVI, a breast brachytherapy applicator used for the delivery of radiation after lumpectomy surgery; and SAVI SCOUT, a surgical guidance system that uses real-time audible and visual indicators to give surgeons a precise way to target tissue during lumpectomy and excisional biopsy procedures. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Neurelis, Inc. operates as a specialty pharmaceutical company. It is organized to license, develop and commercialize product candidates for the treatment of central nervous system disorders with a focus on the acute treatment of epilepsy and anxiety episodes. The company was founded by Craig C. Chambliss and David F. Hale in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

selectION, Inc. provides a technology platform to develop peptide blockers for ion channels. The company was founded by Andreas Klostermann and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Compendia Bioscience, Inc. provides information solutions for oncology drug discovery. The company was founded by Daniel D. Rhodes and Arul Chinnaiyan in February 2006 and is headquartered in Canton, MI.

Novo Ventures (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Novo A/S and their ultimate parent is Novo Nordisk Fonden.

Inspirna, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics. It provides drugs for melanoma, colorectal and triple-negative breast cancers. The firm identifies novel cancer targets using a microRNA based target discovery platform that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. The company was founded by Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail Tavazoie, Shahram Seyedin-Noor and Saeed Tavazoie in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Beijing Shuanghu Investment Management Co. Ltd. (Wu Capital), is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded in 2013. It is headquartered in Beijing, China and has offices in Hong Kong and San Francisco, USA.

Gemini Therapeutics Sub, Inc. engages in the development of treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and linked ocular disorders. Its multimodal pipeline includes monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and gene therapies. The company was founded by James McLaughlin, Johanna Seddon, Paul Barlow and Andrew Herbert in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Oncternal Oncology, Inc. is a clinical-stage oncology company, which engages in the development of novel therapies for both rare and common cancers. The company was founded by Lauren Otsuki and Cam L. Garner and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Actus Digital provides web-based media monitoring, content repurposing and verification for broadcasters, cable and satellite providers, IPTV, media and monitoring agencies, governments and content producers. Its products include Actus View, Actus Clip Factory, Actus rating analyzer, Actus Adwatch and Actus Mosaic. The company is headquartered in Uccle, Belgium.

4BIO Ventures Management Ltd (4bio Capital Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Andrey Kozlov. The firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Redpin Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnological platform which enables targeted regulation of neuronal activity in brain to achieve treatment and control of CNS circuit and other disorders. The company was founded by Elma S. Hawkins, Jeffrey Friedman, Scott Sternson Michael Kaplitt, Sarah Stanley and Jonathan Dordick in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OcuSub, Inc. engages biotechnology services. It specializes in eye disorder treatment. The company was founded by Mina Patel Sooch, Alan R. Meyer, and William H. Pitlick in 2018 and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI.

Araris Biotech AG engages in the development and research of an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) linker technology. It focuses on the production of ADCs. Its linker platform enables the attachment of payload to off the shelf antibodies without the need of antibody engineering. The company was founded by Philipp Spycher, Isabella Attinger-Toller, and Dragan Grabulovski and is headquartered in Z?rich, Switzerland.

Inipharm, Inc. provides health care services. The company was founded by Brian Farmer and Mike Gallatin in 2018 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Code Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a next-generation gene therapy company based in Greater Philadelphia. The American company is focused on developing targeted non-viral gene therapies to treat serious and life-threatening genetic diseases. The company uses a novel multivalent synthetic DNA delivery platform called 3DNA, which overcomes many of the challenges associated with viral-based gene therapies. Code Biotherapeutics is advancing an internal pipeline focused on select rare disease programs and establishing partnerships to take forward programs in both rare and prevalent diseases. Code Biotherapeutics is supported by top-tier investors that believe in their work to drive discovery programs forward as they aim to deliver on the promise of their proprietary synthetic DNA-based, non-viral genetic medicines delivery platform. The company was founded by Brian P. McVeigh, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Hornet Therapeutics Ltd. provides immune cell metabolism and cell therapy for cancer treatment. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2019.

Nuvig Therapeutics, Inc. is a company that is focused on developing innovative therapies for patients with chronic autoimmune diseases. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company's goal is to induce natural mechanisms that restore immune homeostasis and rebalance immune function following inflammation. Nuvig Therapeutics was founded by Greg Coffey, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Sheldon L. Koenig, Pamela B. Conley, Joanne M. Quan. Julie Anne Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2023.