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SV Health Investors LLP (SV Health Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Peter McPartland. The firm is headquartered in London.

FORMA Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops medicines for cancer and other genetically driven diseases. Its drug discovery engine deploys screening and structure-based approaches across broad families of targets involved in tumor metabolism, epigenetics, protein homeostasis, and protein-protein interactions. The company was founded by Steven Tregay, Nikolai Kley, Stuart L. Schreiber, Todd R. Golub, Michael Foley and Alexis Borisy in 2008 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Tal Medical, Inc. operates as a clinical stage medical device company. It develops novel, non contact, neuromodulatory devices for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders. The firm focuses on the development of LFMS for the treatment of major depressive disorder and bipolar depression. The company was founded by Daphne Zohar, Steven Marc Paul, Andrew Miller, Eric Elenko and Nessan Bermingham in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

IMRSV, Inc. provided a platform for audience measurement. The company was founded in 2009 by Jill Miller, Jason Sosa and Akshay Chavan and was headquartered in New York, NY.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Fair Isaac Corp., Vertex Partners is a consulting firm based in Boston, MA. The company provides consulting services in various fields such as strategy/IT and recruiting. Vertex Partners combines the knowledge of many companies to create new ventures and supports initiatives related to innovation and new business creation. Luce, a recruitment firm, is a subsidiary of Vertex Partners. Accuchain, a company that modernizes HR recruitment software, is also a part of Vertex Partners. The company was founded by Paul J. Bascobert. Vertex Partners was acquired by Braun Consulting, Inc. on May 11, 1999.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Part of Merck & Co., Inc., Merck Research Laboratories Massachusetts LLC is a pharmaceutical company that provides free medicines and adult vaccines to qualified patients through their Merck Patient Assistance Program. The company is based in Boston, MA and is a part of Merck & Co., Inc. and its affiliates. The company also offers information about insurance coverage and financial assistance options for eligible patients. The company conducts clinical trials and provides medical information covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine through their Merck Manuals. Additionally, they report on their commitment to operating responsibly to benefit society through their corporate responsibility program, which includes their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report. Merck for Mothers is an initiative to create a world where no woman has to die giving life.

Follica, Inc. develops therapies for hair follicle disorders. The firm provides an out-patient therapy coupled with an at-home system for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia (hair loss) and medical device development fields to develop and commercialize its product platform. The company was founded by Rox R. Anderson, George Cotsarelis, Vera Price, Daphne Zohar, David Steinberg, and Bernat Olle in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative provides drug research and development services. It specializes in analyzing the causes of and in developing medicine and treatments for neglected diseases. It specializes in the study of neglected tropical diseases, such as sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis), Leishmaniasis, Chagas, malaria, pediatric HIV, and filarial diseases. It develops a research and development portfolio that includes projects from discovery through to post-registration phases. Its focus areas encompass regional disease-specific platform development, technology transfer, and public responsibility and awareness advocacies. The organization was founded in July 2003 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Detwiler and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. develops therapeutic mobile video games. It also develops platform technology that test and enhance the cognitive abilities through a video game. The company was founded by Adam Gazzaley, Daphne Zohar, Daphne Bavelier, and Eddie Martucci in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Entrega, Inc. develops oral drug delivery technologies. The firm’s platform enables novel applications in a variety of fields, such as disease management and tracking in the burgeoning mobile health arena. Its proprietary technology seeks to solve the oral delivery problem with an engineering solution that protects the payload and delivers biological molecules, drug substances and nanoparticles. The company was founded by Samir Mitragotri in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Knode, Inc. develops and delivers web-based life science solutions for accessing experts and their content. It offers solutions for project team formation, post-merger integration, collaborations, business development, and decision-making applications. The firm provides services to pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and researchers. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Wave Life Sciences Ltd., Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc. is a company that provides nucleic acid therapeutics. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded in 2012 by Gregory L. Verdine, Takeshi Wada. The CEO is Paul B. Bolno.

Part of PureTech Health Plc, Commense, Inc. provides biotechnical research services. The company is based in Boston, MA. Edward J. Stewart has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Medeor Therapeutics, Inc. engages in medical industry. It provides services which are dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of transformative and personalized cellular therapeutics. The company was founded by Samuel Strober, Edgar Engleman, Robert Lowsky, and Chih Ping in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Freenome Holdings, Inc. engages in the development of multiomics platform for early cancer detection. It develops simple and accurate blood tests for early cancer detection and integrating the actionable insights into health systems to operationalize a machine learning feedback loop between care and science. The company was founded by Charles Roberts, Riley Ennis, and Gabriel Otte and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

ARS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops epinephrine nasal sprays for treatment of severe allergic reactions to food, medication, and insect bites. The company was founded by Richard E. Lowenthal, Sarina Tanimoto and Robert Bell and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

RA Capital Management LP (Private Equity) (RA Capital) is a private equity & venture capital subsidiary of RA Capital Management LP founded by Peter Kolchinsky in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Be Biopharma, Inc. develops engineered B cells as a new category of cellular medicines. The company was founded by David Steinberg, Aleks Radovic-Moreno and Lea Hachigian and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture.

Endlyz Therapeutics, Inc. is an American company that operates in the biotechnology industry.

Carbon Biosciences, Inc. is a biotech company that is based in Boston, MA. The company is focused on expanding the therapeutic potential of gene therapy through its proprietary platform which leverages novel parvoviruses that have been pressure tested by nature to target specific tissues and carry a larger cargo with minimal neutralizing immunity and the potential to re-dose. The company is working to expand the gene therapy toolbox for the treatment of the world's most devastating and difficult to treat diseases. Carbon was founded by Longwood Fund and gene therapy pioneers, John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., and Robert M. Kotin, Ph.D.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.