Jeffrey S. Sopko

Tafkak, Inc. provides genome sequencing and analysis solutions. It offers tools and solutions to researchers, drug developers and clinicians determine the genetic basis of human disease and drug response. The firm provides knomeCLINIC a software suite that helps medical researchers and clinicians interpret human genomes for biological relevance; kGAP a cloud-enabled genome informatics engine that automates the process of standardizing, distilling, annotating and comparing sequence data. It also offers knomeVARIANTS, a discovery-supportive interpretation tool, which helps researchers to find causal variants and genes. The company was founded by Jorge Conde and George M. Church in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. develops medical devices that focus on improving the accuracy of diagnostic blood culture tests. The company was founded by Gregory J. Bullington and Richard G. Patton and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

Dune Medical Devices Ltd. engages in the development of real-time cancer detection tools. Its products are MarginProbe and Smart Biopsy System. The company was founded by Dan Hashimshony in 2002 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Cardiva Medical, Inc. designs and develops vascular access management products. It offers VASCADE, an extravascular closure device designed to increase the comfort and safety of vascular closure for patients; and Catalyst, a device that supports the body's natural healing process by enhancing the vessel's inherent natural elastic recoil, tissue apposition and coagulation. The company was founded by Zia Yassinzadeh and Augustine Y. Lien in July 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Tryton Medical, Inc. manufactures and sells stent systems for the treatment of bifurcation lesions. Its tri-zone technology provides scaffolding within the side branch, radial strength in the transition zone and minimal coverage in the main vessel zone. The firm also provides side branch stent systems which are used to treat a range of bifurcated lesions. The company was founded by H. Richard Davis, Aaron V. Kaplan and Dan Cole in 2003 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Augmedics, Inc. provides surgery services. The company was founded in 2014 by Nissan Elimelech and Raphael Lotan and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

Evidity Capital LLC (Evidity Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Paul Enever and Alejandro Sanchez. The firm is headquartered in New York.