Patrick Aebischer

Logitech, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets cordless products for personal computers, gaming consoles, portable music players, and mobile phones. Its products include audio and video products, webcams, mice, trackballs, keyboards, speakers, headsets, interactive gaming devices, digital pens, and universal remote controls. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Part of Logitech International SA, Logitech SA is a Swiss company that offers a range of award-winning products, including video conferencing solutions for small to large meeting rooms. The company is based in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company's products have been recognized for their design excellence, originality, and innovation by organizations such as Red Dot, Good Design, IF, and IDA. Customers can use an online tool to configure their meeting rooms with the right video conferencing solution.

PolyPeptide Laboratories Holding (PPL) AB manufactures commercial therapeutic peptides. The firm offers polypeptide, custom peptide synthesis, peptide synthesis, and generic peptide. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Malmo, Sweden.

Part of Novartis AG, Novartis BioVenturesAG is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Novartis Venture Fund provides early stage venture capital to companies in Europe, North America and Asia. The fund's focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms, therefore it focuses on such sectors as Biotechnology and Biopharma. The fund makes seed and early stage investments ranging up to USD 30 million per company over its life. The fund makes follow-on and co-investments.

Arctos Medical AG engages in the acquisition, development, holding, registration, management, disposal, and exploitation of intellectual property rights and similar assets in the medical sector. These include patents, trademarks, licenses, industrial property rights, and inventions. The company was founded on June 6, 2012 and is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.

Vandria SA is a Swiss-based company that specializes in mitochondrial therapeutics. The company is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The company is developing mitophagy inducers that rejuvenate cells to treat age-related and chronic diseases. Its lead program, VNA-318, is a brain-penetrant, patent-protected, mitophagy inducer that has shown to improve memory and learning and to have strong disease-modifying effects in models of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Vandria is also developing mitophagy-inducing small molecules to address muscle, lung, and liver diseases, as well as a separate program that targets ferroptosis. The company was founded by Patrick Aebischer, Chris Rinsch, and Johan Auwerx in 2021 and has raised $20.60m in venture finance. Klaus Dugi has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois is a university hospital located in Lausanne, CH. The SwitzerlandUV is also a renowned center of medical education and research, collaborating with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It has 16 clinical and medico-technical departments and is known for its academic achievements in healthcare, research, and teaching. The vast campus in the lake region is home to these institutions. The CEO of the Swiss company is Nicolas Demartines.

NanoDimension Management (NanoDimension) Ltd is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Aymeric Sallin. The firm is headquartered in George Town.