George D. Maynard

IVAX LLC discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets generic pharmaceuticals, respiratory drugs, and cancer treatments. It offers drugs for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, brain cancer, asthma, and epilepsy. The company was founded by Phillip Frost and Jane H. Hsiao in 1985 and is headquartered in Weston, FL.

Respironics, Inc. manufactures sleep solutions, home respiratory therapy products, and respiratory drugs. Its products include pressure relief, supplemental oxygen, ventilators, oximetry devices, nebulizers and compressors, asthma management, spacers and holding chambers, and peak flow meters. The company was founded by Gerald E. McGinnis in 1976 and is headquarters in Murrysville, PA.

Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an integrated dermatology pharmaceutical company, which develops and markets Levulan Photodynamic Therapy technology platform for the prevention and treatment of dermatological skin conditions. Its products include levulan kerastick, BLU-U and clindareach. The company was founded by D. Geoffrey Shulman on February 21, 1991 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

CuraGen Corp. develops protein, antibody and small molecule pharmaceutical products. The firm focuses on the development of CR011-vcMMAE, a Phase II clinical trial drug for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and breast cancer. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

Summit Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a holding company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of antibiotic medicines. The company seeks to expand its product candidate portfolio through the development of new mechanism and precision antibiotics. Summit Therapeutics was founded by Stephen Graham Davies and Kay Dame Davies in January 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

PNT Data Corp. provides information logistics for healthcare management. It offers services for healthcare management, enabling health plans, providers, health systems and vendors to securely manage and optimize the flow of healthcare information. The firm provides a fully developed, deployed and managed cloud communications platform with flexible and adaptive toolkits that provide solutions that enable healthcare entities to connect and communicate information securely, reliably and to collaborate across the spectrum of health information. It also supports health system, revenue cycle, billing services and clearinghouse vendors. The company was founded by George Allen DeGraw in 2002 and is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT.

Retail Optimization, Inc. provides merchandising optimization software solutions. Its software platform enables proprietary optimization technology based on calculating the incremental marginal contribution of each individual SKU integrating POS data, rest-of-market data, loyalty data, corporate strategies, shopper insights, and consumer demand. The company was founded by Vaughn D. Roller in 2006 and is headquartered in Gloucester, MA.

CyVek, Inc. engages in the development of a novel, platform technology for measuring analytes in biological samples. It is a biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of healthcare by empowering researchers and clinicians with a disruptive technology for performing multi-analyte immunoassays. The firm is a versatile platform that can be quickly and easily configured for diverse applications such as rapid diagnostic tests, multi-sample multi-analyte tests, or routine ELISA-like tests, for use in both research and clinical settings. The company offers an breadth of applications, from life science research to drug discovery, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and point-of-care testing. CyVek was founded by Per J. Hellsund, Rajiv Pandey and Marty Andrew Putnam in 2010 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

ZetrOZ, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It specializes in non-invasive medical devices to accelerate tissue healing and relieve pain for chronic musculoskeletal conditions. The firm's products include sam Global Health, sam Sport and UltrOZ Elite. It also develops wearable bioelectronic devices for the delivery of sustained acoustic medicine. The company was founded in January 2009 by JoAnne L. Guarino, Leonard Bryant Guffey and George Kenneth Lewis, Jr. and is headquartered in Trumbull, CT.

Natural Polymer Devices, Inc. manufactures surgical and medical instruments. The company was founded by Cato T. Laurencin on June 17, 2011 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

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.

454 Life Sciences Corp. engages in the provision of medical testing services to determine the nucleotide sequence of whole genomes. The company was founded by Jonathan M. Rothberg in 2000 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

Spring Mountain Capital LP /Private Equity/ (Spring Mountain Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Spring Mountain Capital LP founded in 2001 by John Laundon Steffens. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Green House (PLSG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Museum of Chinese in America operates to promote Chinese American history. It curates and displays its collections, presents exhibits and multimedia productions, and offers education programs and curriculum used in schools. The company was founded by Jack Tchen and Charlie Lai in 1980 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

NovaTract Surgical, Inc. manufactures and develops laparoscopic medical devices. It offers NovaTract, a laparoscopic retractor that addresses the need to increase visibility (by using fewer instruments), improves tissue manipulations, provides angle of retraction modifications and reduces the number of ports and incisions. The firm also offers its intra-abdominal retraction system for use in general, colorectal, gynecology, urology, urogynecology, bariatric, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery applications. The company was founded by Eleanor L. Tandler in April 2010 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA.

Thetis Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biopharmaceutical company. It improves the lives of patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases. The company’s proprietary HEALER™ technology platform enables the pharmaceutical development of bioactive lipids, including resolving and other fatty acids, that actively regulate inflammation resolution and tissue repair. Its technologies are pro-resolving lipids and intellectual property. The company was founded by Frank C. Sciavolino, Banavara L. Mylari and Gary Mathias in 2011 and is headquartered in Southport, CT.

SmartPay Solutions LLC develops cloud-based software solution for a Pay-As-You-Go-Workers compensation plans. It is designed for insurance carriers, independent agents, and payroll providers. The company was founded by Gary Cardella and is headquartered in Southington, CT.

Venture For America, Inc. operates as a fellowship program that places recent graduates at startups in cities with emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems, forging a community of entrepreneurs committed to building companies. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Intus Biosciences LLC provides the first rapid and cost-effective method for looking at the micro-biome at sufficient resolution to use as a diagnostic test. The company was founded by Mark Driscoll and Thomas Jarvie in 2015 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

My Gene Counsel LLC operates as a digital health company that develops digital tools and information for genetic test results. The digital information is created and updated by certified genetic counselors, physicians and consumer advocates. It serves laboratories, patients, and health professionals. The company was founded by Ellen Matloff and David Cohen and is headquartered in North Haven, CT.

Enko Chem, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded by Jacqueline Heard and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Spring Mountain Capital LP operates as a investment management firm. It specializes in asset and portfolio management, financial planning, private equity, research, strategies, bonds, hedge funds, consulting, and advisory solutions. The company was founded by John Laundon Steffen in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY .

ProteoWise, Inc. engages in the development of biotech technology solutions. It offers a proteomic technology that enables researchers to move beyond western blot and into high-throughput proteomics. The company was founded by Stephen M. Strittmatter and Mikhail Kostylev in 2018 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Atlasxomics, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Allyx Therapeutics is an American clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2019 by a group of experienced biopharma industry executives, venture capitalists, and scientific experts. The company is based in an undisclosed location and aims to deliver a novel approach to preserve and protect synapses for people living with neurodegenerative diseases. Its lead compound, alx-001, is a first-in-class oral therapy with a unique mechanism of action at mglur5 currently in clinical development in Alzheimer's disease. The company is developing an oral drug that demonstrates reversal of learning and memory deficits due to Alzheimer's disease. The company was founded by Timothy Siegert, Stephen M. Bloch, Paul R. Fonteyne, and Stephen M. Bloch has been the CEO since incorporation.

Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (Virginia Innovation Partnership) is a private equity/venture capital non-profit operating division of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.