Janke Dittmer

XcelleNet, Inc. develops database management software and solutions for distributed enterprises. It provides frontline management solution to keep information and applications secure & current. It also provides secure access and synchronize corporate data, web based content and email using smart phones, PDAs and laptops. It is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Forest Investments, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the investment and acquisition of businesses, securities and assets that has significant long-term value creation. It operates through the following segments: Durable Medical Equipment, Investment Management, Real Estate, and General Corporate. The company was founded on December 16, 1994 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

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.

LSV Capital Management LLC (Lightstone Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Relievant Medsystems, Inc. develops treatment and technologies for chronic back pain. Its Intracept System solution is a minimally invasive procedure that uses radiofrequency energy delivered into the vertebral body of the spine to ablate the basivertebral nerve. Relievant Medsystems was founded by James C. Peacock, Jeffrey Charles Lotz, and Rex Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

The Foundry LLC provides investment services to medical device companies. It includes the inventor partners of business development, product development and prototyping, market analysis and development, human resources and recruitment and intellectual property enterprise. The company was founded by Allan R Will and Henry A. Plain, Jr. in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Intrexon ActoBiotics NV manufactures biopharmaceutical products. It focuses on the development and commercialization of a new generation of biological drugs. The company represents a novel concept for oral administration of therapeutic proteins, and is designed to be safer and more effective than injectable biopharmaceuticals. Intrexon Actobioticswas founded by Mark Vaeck, Emil Pot and Bernard Coulie in June 2006 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

deVGen NV provides biotechnology services for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. It innovates in crop protection research and environment induced stress tolerance for its own crops and provides technology to corporate partners. The firm produces and sells its hybrid seeds in field crops such as rice, sunflower, sorghum and pearl millet in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The company was founded by Thierry Bogaert on September 10, 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Twelve, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the operation as an investment fund for a medical device incubator. It specializes on funding and developing medical device inventions. The company focuses on medical and biotech ventures. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Half Moon Medical, Inc. engages in the provision of health care services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Foundry Therapeutics 1, Inc. engages in the development of pharmaceutical products. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

FlandersBio vzw is a life sciences cluster organization based in Flanders, Belgium. FlandersBio creates value by organizing networking and training activities, supporting internationalization, providing services, and building expertise. The Belgian company was founded by Jean Marie Stassen.

Moximed, Inc. develops minimally invasive, joint sparing solutions for patients with knee osteoarthritis. Its Osteoarthritis treatment can minimize joint pain, restore normal activity levels, and slow down disease progression. The company was founded by Anton G. Clifford in 2006 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

LSP Management Group BV (LSP) is an independent European venture capital firm which was founded by Martijn Kleijwegt, Frits van der Have and Tom Schwarz in 1998. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the firm provides financing to early- to mid-stage life science companies.

Optum Venture Management LLC (Optum Ventures) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of InGensa Inc founded in 2017 by A.G. Breitenstein. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gilde Investment Management BV is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1982. Gilde Investment Management BV is headquartered in Utrecht.

Nuvaira, Inc. develops medical devices for treating lung diseases. It works on a novel catheter-based system that has the potential to improve lung function, exercise capacity and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The company was founded by Steven Dimmer and Martin L. Mayse in 2008 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Miramar Technologies, Inc. develops and provides medical devices for dermatologic medical conditions. It specializes in microwave energy positioned to be adopted for dermatologic conditions. The company was founded by Henry A. Plain Jr., Mark E. Deem and Steven Kim in 2006 and is headquartered in Half Moon Bay, CA.

Oxford Science Enterprises PLC (Oxford Science Enterprises) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Evalve, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets devices. It developed a proprietary system which enables percutaneous repair of cardiac valves. The firm's products reduces the risks, trauma, and costs associated with current open, arrested heart surgical options. The company was founded on June 9, 1999 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

icometrix NV provides software as a service for medical image analysis. It engages in the advanced quantitative image processing of human as well as animal data sets, including multi-modal and multi-subject image registration (PET/CT, PET/MR, and CT/MR), volumetric measurements, group analysis of diffusion weighted and tensor images, functional MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, atrophy measurement, automatic and semi-automatic tissue segmentation. The company was founded by Dirk Loeckx, Wim Van Hecke, Paul Suetens, Stefan Sunaert, Paul M. Parizel, Frederik Maes and Jan Sijbers in 2011 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Phone.com, Inc. provides communications services. It offers business phone systems and numbers, integrations and API solutions. The company was founded by Ari Rabban, Brian Scott and Michael Mann in 2007 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.

ScaleUp Capital Ltd. (ScaleUp Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Simon R. Philips. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation operates as a private, nonpartisan foundation that works in entrepreneurship and education to create uncommon solutions and connect people to the tools they need to shape their futures and be successful. It works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. It works with educators and researchers nationwide to create awareness of economic impact of entrepreneurship. The company was founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Addenda Capital, Inc. is an investment management firm headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. The firm was founded in 1996 and is a subsidiary of Co-operators Financial Services Ltd., which is owned by The Co-Operators Group Ltd. Addenda Capital provides solutions to its institutional and private high net worth clients.

Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie - Flanders Institute operates as a non-profit organization, provides research and development services. It specializes in translating basic scientific results into pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial applications. The company was founded on January 1, 1996 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Curetis GmbH operates as a molecular diagnostics company which focuses on the development and commercialization of products for diagnosing severe infectious diseases. The firm offers diagnostic solutions for hospitals and large-scale laboratories. Its products include Unyvero L4 Lysator, Unyvero C8 Cockpit, Unyvero A50 Analyzer, and Unyvero Application Cartridges. The company was founded by Andreas Boos, Johannes Bacher, Gerd Lüdke, and Anne Thews in August 2007 and is headquartered in Holzgerlingen, Germany.

Sequana Medical AG operates as a medical device company. It specializes in the production and design of implantable pump systems to manage fluid balance within the body. The firm offers the Alfapump system, its proprietary solution to manage and remove ascites, which can occur as a symptom of liver disease, cancer, or congestive heart failure and its focus areas encompass clinical research, product innovation, and technology development. The company was founded by Noel L. Johnson in 2000 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.