James V. Buzzitta

Part of Avancen MOD Corp., Avancen, Inc. manufactures industrial rubber goods, rubberized fabrics, and miscellaneous rubber specialties. The company is based in Palm Coast, FL.

Nortis, Inc. engages in the provision of drug development and discovery process. It operates retail chain of drug stores. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

Boston Heart Diagnostics Corp. provides cardiovascular disease clinical services. It specializes in diagnostic testing, personalized treatment recommendations and personalized wellness programs. The company was founded by Bela F. Asztalos and Ernst J. Schaefer in 2007 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

PharmaJet, Inc. operates as a medical device company which develops needle-free injection technology. Its products include Tropis needle-free injector device, and flu and polio application. The company was founded by Heather Callender-Potters and Kathleen Callender in 2005 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.

TOMA Biosciences, Inc. develops and provides DNA-based cancer testing technology. The company was founded by Hanlee Ji, Lincoln Nadauld, James M. Ford, and Calvin J. Kuo in 2011 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Paladin Capital Group (Paladin Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Penn Ave Investments LLC founded by Mark Maloney and Michael Steed in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London and Luxembourg.

Kroll LLC provides global advisory services. It offers valuation advisory; governance, risk, investigation, and disputes; kroll cyber risk, corporates finance, and compliance and regulatory consulting. The company was founded by William Duff and George Phelps in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Daum GmbH & Co. KG is a German company that specializes in textile finishing services such as embroidery, laser branding, and transfer printing. The private company was founded in 2002 and is based in Trautskirchen, Germany. The company offers full-service solutions and fast project processing with a focus on high-quality results.

Silicom Ventures LLC (Silicom Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Gadi Behar. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Lincoln International LLC provides investment banking services. It specializes in strategic advisory services including sell-side mergers and acquisitions, buy-side mergers and acquisitions, debt advisory, growth equity, special situations, valuations and opinions and pensions advisory services. The firm offers capital raising, mergers and acquisitions support, and other corporate finance services. It provides their clients with industry knowledge and access to a comprehensive range of buyers, sellers, and investors. The company was founded in 1996 by Lawrence J. Lawson and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Magna Powertrain, Inc. supplies automotive parts. It develops technologies and produce products for auto manufacturers that drive its vehicles. Its products include drivetrain components and systems, AWD / 4WD components and systems, transmissions and transmission components, engines and engine components, and axle and chassis modules. The company was founded in 2005 and is located in Troy, MI.

California Heart Center Foundation provides cardiac care services. The non-profit company is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Omniox, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops medicines for hypoxic diseases. Its technology overcomes fundamental biochemical shortcomings of hemoglobin-based and per fluorocarbon oxygen delivery approaches. The company was founded in 2006 by Stephen P. L. Cary, Michael A. Marletta, Jonathan Winger and Elizabeth Marshall Boon and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Jina Ventures Inc (Jina Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Ronak Shah. The firm is headquartered in New York City.

Progen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops pharmaceuticals to treat cancer. The company is headquartered in Cary, NC.

Assurance Health Services, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Retail Merchant Services Ltd. provides retail payment services. It accepts payments from credit and debit card payment machines and online payments over the phone. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.

Teneo Groupe SAS (Teneo) is the France-based private equity division of Teneo Holdings LLC in the US. The firm was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Scionzier, France.

Aravive Biologics, Inc. develops novel targeted therapeutics in oncology. The company was founded by Amato Giaccia and Albert Koong and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Lakewood & Co is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in the year of 2005 by Gregory J. Corona. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Matternet, Inc. develops drones for its delivery vans. It offers Matternet M2, a drone logistics system that features automatic payload and battery exchange, intelligent routing and monitoring, precision landing, and intuitive command and control. The company was founded by Andreas Raptopoulos, Darlene Damn, Dimitar Pachov, and Paola Santana in 2011 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Redeam, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic ticketing platform. It enables attractions to accept paper vouchers and mobile tickets from any reseller, and it also enables resellers of attraction tickets to offer mobile electronic ticketing to travelers on mobile devices. The company was founded by Kevin McLaughlin, Alex Kremer, Leith Stevens, and Nathan Probst in 2015 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health (Wavemaker 360) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2018 by John G. Nackel. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

NaNotics LLC develops nanomedical platform for treating major human and animal diseases. It provides NaNots a new nano-medical platform consisting of in vivo “extractors” that deplete from blood specific molecular signals or signal inhibitors that drive or enable disease progression. The company was founded by Lou Hawthorne and John Dodgson and is headquartered in Mill Valley, CA.

Cellsonics, Inc. engages in development of a next generation single cell isolation. The company is headquartered in Newark, DE.

Immunai, Inc. engages in decoding of immune system to improve health. It offers an immune profiling platform, which is used to advance research and development in checkpoint blockade, cancer cell therapy, and cancer vaccines. The company was founded by Noam Solomon, Luis Voloch, Danny Wells, Ansuman Satpathy and Dan R. Littman in December 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Enable Medicine, Inc. is a company that aims to make biology more searchable. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company has generated and indexed over a petabyte of data and are studying over 20 diseases across 75 scientific studies. The company works with researchers at institutions worldwide to develop scientific and clinical insights to better understand complex biology. The company's goal is to index and map biology to guide therapeutics discovery and development. The company was founded by Aaron Mayer. The CEO is Sunil Bodapati.

Edifice Health, Inc. is a digital health spin-out company that offers a novel metric of inflammatory health, which is augmented with personalized health interventions to improve and extend healthspan. The company is based in San Mateo, CA. The company has solid underpinnings in immunological science and AI-powered technology. Edifice Health aims to tackle chronic diseases worldwide with a consumer and market-centric orientation. The company was founded by Mark M. Davis and David Furman.

Vertical Venture Partners LLC (Vertical Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Dave Schwab. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.