Iyad Houshan

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Monogram Biosciences, Inc. develops and commercializes diagnostic products for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and other viral illnesses, as well as cancer and other diseases. It offers HIV tests, including genotypic, phenotypic, tropism, and combined phenotype and genotype assays, suppression management and viral load testing, HCV assays and oncology tests. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1876 and offers a full suite of capital markets products and services, including proprietary equity research and a fixed-income trading desk. For institutional asset management clients, the firm provides liquidity, execution, high-quality idea-generating research, and access to corporate management teams. Their institutional coverage includes relationships with over asset management companies all over the world. To corporate clients, they bring access to investor capital, broad distribution capabilities and financial markets advisory. Ladenburg Thalmann is a leader in financing growing middle-market public companies across various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Yield-Oriented Securities (BDCs, REITs, MLPs), Energy, Power & Infrastructure, and Telecom, Media & Technology.

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.

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.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

American Society for Clinical Investigation engages as a medical honor society. It focuses on physician-scientists in research, clinical care, and medical education. The company was founded by Samuel J. Meltzer in 1908 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

The J. David Gladstone Institutes operates as an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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

Part of University of California, California Institute For Quantitative Biosciences is a biotech company that offers internships to UC students through its state-funded Qwest internship program. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2000. The program places students with Bakar Labs tenant companies for work experience, and four of its first cohort have already received full-time job offers from their hosts. The company conducts proof-of-concept experiments in a mouse model of ALS and offers mentoring programs to early-stage companies.

Triton Container Investments LLC engages in the provision of cargo container leasing services. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in NV.

Zuckerberg Education Management LLC (Zuckerberg Education) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative LLC (CZI) is a private foundation headquartered in Redwood City, California. The firm was founded was co-founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of their local communities. CZI is composed of four funding entities: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC (the main operational funding vehicle); the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation (a 501(c)(3) private foundation); the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy, (a 501(c)(4) organization). In addition to traditional grantmaking to support people and organizations working toward their missions in Science, Education, and within their communities, CZI makes venture investments in impact-focused companies, builds tools and products that they can scale and give away for free, and supports capacity building to achieve progress across their work.

Federation Bio, Inc. uses microbiome therapeutics to address medical needs. The company was founded by Racquel N. Bracken, Michael Fischbach and Dylan Dodd and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Boutique Venture Partners LLC (Boutique Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by S. Thaddeus Connelly and Rami El Assal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Heat Media, Inc. is a company that engages in a candid conversation with glossier chronicler Marisa Meltzer about the rise and reinvention of V.C. fashion-tech girlboss feminism. The company is based in Brooklyn, NY. The company also discuss the impact of internationally-produced scripted and unscripted series as a workaround for the grueling labor war in Hollywood. Sarah Personette has been the CEO of the company since 2024.

Kelonia Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that is pioneering a new wave of genetic medicines using its in vivo gene placement system (iGPS™). The company's simple and elegant cutting-edge in vivo gene delivery technology uses a few potent lentiviral vector-like particles to precisely and efficiently deliver in vivo genetic cargo to the desired target tissue, and only that tissue, every time. Initially focused on developing transformational in vivo CAR T therapies for hematologic cancers, Kelonia Therapeutics is building a pipeline of genetic medicines for a range of diseases, with the bold goal of making genetic medicines accessible to every patient in need, when and where they need them. The company was founded by Michael Fischbach, Michael Birnbaum.

Cortigent, Inc. engages in developing targeted neurostimulation systems to help patients recover critical body functions. The company was founded in November 2022 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

Startup:Education is a not-for-profit grantmaking organization, which provides educational services. It is a supporting organization of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and an affiliate of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The firm supports personalized learning that empowers teachers to work with students to create a customized learning path that meets the student's individual needs and interests, and students to master a broad range of skills. The company was founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan in September 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.