M. Michael Sundos

Liggett Group LLC manufactures cigarettes. Its brands such as Pyramid, Liggett Select, Eve and Grand Prix. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Mebane, NC.

Athenix Corp. develops agricultural herbicide tolerance and insect control chemicals. It provides genes, proteins, processes, traits, and transgenic organisms for multiple sectors including seed, agricultural chemical, specialty chemical, industrial enzymes, and energy. The company was founded by Duck Nicholas Barbara, Carozzi Nadine and Koziel Michael Gene in 2001 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

NP Photonics, Inc. develops and manufactures fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and transport fibers. Its proprietary fiber technology is used across a broad family of products, including narrow linewidth, low phase-noise fiber lasers designed for operation in industrial environments. The firm's products include micron fiber lasers, multi-channel fiber laser systems, fiber amplifiers, laser lockers and mid-IR transport fibers. The company was founded by Bernard Kippelen, Honkanen Seppo Kaleva, Nasser Peyghambarian and Shibin Jiang in 1998 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Scoperta, Inc. integrates metal and amorphous alloys. It offers amorphous alloys, Vecalloy, conventional and nanostructure metals in terms of corrosion, wear resistance, hardness and scratch resistance. The firm products serve the industrial applications including offshore, marine, cutting tools, military, mining, power generation enhancing product life and performance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Enviance, Inc. engages in the provision of environmental enterprise resource planning software. It offers cloud-based environmental; and health and safety software leveraging cloud computing technology to deliver its platform online in real-time. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Goldenhersh in 1999 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Part of Corteva, Inc., Agrigenetics, Inc. is a company that specializes in agricultural research. The company is based in San Diego, CA.

Muze, Inc. provides solutions to businesses that enable search, discovery, sharing, and purchasing of entertainment products. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

ASM NEXX, Inc. manufactures and develops processing equipment for wafer level packaging applications. The company was founded by Richard S. Post on August 7, 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Myelos Corp. develops novel therapeutic molecules. The company's products are used to treat diseases of peripheral and central nervous systems including pain neuropathies, demyelization disorders, and degenerative central nervous system diseases. The company was established in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

No Fear Retail Stores, Inc. retails sports and casual apparel and accessories. The company was founded by Mark Simo, Brian Simo and Marty Moates in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc. designs, develops & manufactures stents and stent delivery systems. It provides research and development of innovative devices for the treatment of complicated lesions. The company was founded in 1997 and is located in Pleasanton, CA

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

XIFIN, Inc. engages as a healthcare information technology company. Its products and services include revenue cycle management, laboratory information systems, precision medicine informatics, and digital pathology consultation. The company was founded by L?le White, Donald Lavigne, Michael Coats, and Jeffrey Yates in 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Finistere Ventures LLC (Finistere Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Spencer Maughan and Arama Kukutai in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute conducts and translates biological research programs. The firm offers tumor initiation and maintenance, cancer metabolism and signaling network, tumor microenvironment and cancer immunology, degenerative disease, development/aging/regeneration, immunity and pathogenesis, human genetic, cardiovascular metabolism, integrative metabolism, metabolism genomic control, bioinformatics and structural biology programs. The company was founded by William Fishman and Lillian Fishman in 1976 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Novo Nordisk, Inc. operates diabetes care company. It offers biopharmaceuticals, chronic weight management, human growth hormone therapy and hemophilla management services. The firm also provides rare bleeding disorders, growth hormone related disorders, and women's health. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plainsboro, NJ.

IdenTrust, Inc. provides digital identity authentication services. Its products include PLOT, Hub, identity network, trust prime, trust sign, trust link, trust infrastructure, trust gate, and MITM. The company was founded in April 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ZeaKal, Inc. engages in the operations as a plant science company, which develops and commercializes synthetic biological traits. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Kapyon Ventures LLC (Kapyon Ventures) is an accelerator/incubator firm founded in 2010 by Han Chen and Jerry D. Caulder. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Anzu Partners LLC (Anzu Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by David Michael and David Seldin. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

AgGenetics, Inc. engages in gene discovery and editing to develop a suite of products to improve livestock health and productivity. The company is headquartered in Nashville, TN.