Mark Yandell

The Cypress Funds LLC (Cypress) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Robert A. Day in 1969. Cypress provides investment advice to investment funds.

Versa Networks, Inc. provides virtualized network functions and services. It develops NFV technology that will allow virtual network functions to run anywhere where compute resources are available on customer premises equipment, in a carrier data center or in the cloud. The company was founded by Kumar B. Mehta and Apurva Mehta in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. develops and produces molecular-based diagnostic tests and automated testing platforms. It specializes in oncology, virology, microbiology and blood screening tests areas. The firm's customers include researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals, laboratories and blood banks. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Fabric Genomics, Inc. operates as an analytical genome interpretation company. It develops scalable and fully integrated informatics systems specifically design to interpret human genome sequences for research and clinical applications. The company was founded by by Martin G. Reese, Edward S. Kiruluta, John Stuelpnagel, and Paul Billings and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art provides exhibitions, education, publications, collections, and related public programs. The company was founded by Grace McCann on January 18, 1935 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ARTIS Ventures Management LP (Artis Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Mike Harden and Stuart L.Peterson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rarecells USA, Inc. is a company dedicated to early cancer detection to save lives. The company is based in New York, NY. The company believes that accurate and early cancer detection has the potential to save millions of lives. Rarecells is developing a prostate cancer test and a multi-cancer test for early cancer diagnosis. The company is currently conducting three clinical studies to evaluate the performance of their dedicated iset-based assay. The company was founded in 2011 by Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, who has been the CEO since 2011.

Cohesity, Inc. provides data solution and services. It offers dataplatform, dataprotect and hyperconverged nodes. The firm?s services include data protection, cloud integration, file services, object storage, HP enterprise, pure storage integration, test/Dev, and analytics. The company was founded by Mohit Aron in June 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Locus Biosciences, Inc. develops CRISPR-engineered precision antibacterial products for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and microbiome-related disease. The firm offers CRISPR-engineered bacteriophage and CRISPR-Cas3 phage. The company was founded by Charles Gersbach, Dave Ousterout, Chase Beisel, Paul M. Garofolo, Nick Taylor, and Rodolphe Barrangou in 2015 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc. operates as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company. It connects payors and providers of workers’ compensation healthcare services in an open platform featuring market-driven, point-in-time pricing. The company was founded by Eric R. Hanson in 2016 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Centrillion Technology Holdings Ltd. provides genomics solutions. Its products and services can isolate, manipulate, visualize and analyze intact kilobase and megabase fragments of DNA. The company was founded by Wei Zhou in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Crediwatch Information Analytics Pvt Ltd. provides data regarding risk analysis to corporations. It specializes in contextual information and amplified intelligence, machine learning and business decision support. The company was founded by Meghna Suryakumar and Sandeep Anandampillai and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Alveo Technologies, Inc. operates a pre-clinical stage medical diagnostics company that creates infectious disease diagnostic devices. The company was founded by Ron Chiarello, Michael A. Aicher, Lawrence M. Blatt and Sumita Pennathur in 2014 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Excision BioTherapeutics, Inc. develops gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life-threatening disease caused by viral infections. The firm focuses on Human Immunodeficiency Virus -1 therapeutics, JC Virus and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Hepatitis B virus therapeutics, and CRISPR vaccinations?. The company was founded by David Rowe, Kamel Khalili, Thomas Malcolm, and Rob Simmons in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TAE Life Sciences LLC is a privately-held biotechnology company that is developing a new biologically-targeted radiation therapy based on boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The company is based in Foothill Ranch, CA. The company is committed to developing next-generation targeted boron drugs and a low-energy accelerator-based neutron source that can treat patients with the most aggressive and recurrent cancers. TAE Life Sciences' Alphabeam™ neutron system and targeted boron drugs are currently in development and have not been approved for sale. Robert W. Hill has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

NuProbe USA, Inc. engages in the development of ultra-sensitive and multiplexed platform with reagents for non-invasive nucleic acid profiling and diagnostics. The firm offers VarTrace EGFR Assay, VarTrace BFAR Assay, and VarTrace AML multi-gene panel. The company was founded by Peng Yin, David Yu Zhang, and Victor Chenyang Shi in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

MegaRobo Technologies Co., Ltd. develops TV internal visual inspection equipment for LED TV assembly production processes. The equipment can be widely used in mobile phones, car displays, and large-size TV panel production lines. The company is based in Beijing, China. The equipment detects various defects such as missing screws, misplaced adhesive tape, loose terminals, and incorrect positioning of magnetic rings and wires. It provides automatic detection and alarm, and can upload production information to MES systems for easy traceability. The Chinese company was founded in 2016 by Yu Qing Huang, Zhi Xin Qiao, Yan Zhang. Yu Qing Huang has been the CEO since 2016.

Seed Health, Inc. manufactures plant based supplements. It provides naturopathic clinic services to the health of women and families. The company was founded by Ara Katz and Raja Dhir and is headquartered in Venice, CA.

Aether Biomachines, Inc. operates reimagining biological manufacturing company that manufactures new molecules for pharmaceuticals, fragrances, flavors, cosmetics and agriculture. The company was founded by Pavle Jeremic, Chase Armer and Hannah Meyers and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Enklu, Inc. operates as an all-in-one platform to create, play and share mixed reality. The company was founded by Raymond Kallmeyer in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. engages in providing personalized healthcare by creating diagnostics and treatments tailored to individual genetic and disease profiles. The firm's solutions include NGS Oncology Assays, sample collection, nucleic acid extraction and library preparation. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Girl Scouts of Utah is a charity organization that focuses on providing education, events, and adventure activities for girls.

Ahara Biosciences, Inc. is a food scanner and discovery company that has developed an app called Fig. The company is based in New York, NY. The app helps people with food intolerances, dietary restrictions, or those who want to cut out certain ingredients find foods they can eat. Fig allows users to search for thousands of products that fit their needs from over 50 stores, scan any barcode to see if it's right for them, and quickly see how any ingredient matches their needs based on their selections.

First Bight Ventures (First Bight) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Veronica B Wu. The firm is headquartered in Houstan, Texas.

Rarecells Diagnostics SAS is a French company passionate about saving lives by detecting and eliminating cancer at its start. The company is based in Paris, France and was founded by Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company believes that accurate, early cancer detection has the potential to save millions of lives. Rarecells Diagnostics has developed the ISET blood filtration technology, which enables cell culture to generate xenograph of avatars. The company is currently conducting three clinical studies to evaluate the performance of their dedicated ISET-based assay to allow early detection of prostate cancer. The company is also developing a multi-cancer test for early cancer diagnosis and is working with researchers to propel care forward.

Practice Fusion, Inc. engages in the development of cloud-based electronic health record platform for doctors and patients. Its platform features include e-Prescribing, medical charting, scheduling, lab integrations, patient management, patient health record, and mobile EMR and support. The company was founded by Matthew C. Douglass, Jonathan Malek, Alan Wong, and Ryan Howard in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.