Ben Lamm

Pluck Corp. offers integrated community platform for retailers, brands and publishers. It gives these organizations everything they need to build unique social experiences. The firm enables users to rate, review products, services and provides forums, a discussion application for open-ended conversation and interaction, as well as provides Q&A configuration, unread post tracking, managed subscription notifications, integrated polls, and other services. The company was founded in 2003 by Andrew Busey and David E. Panos and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Intelligent Bio-Systems is developing a next generation DNA sequencing system that can simultaneously increase the speed and reduce the cost of producing sequence data by a factor of 100 to 1,000. It uses a proprietary chemistry, high-density chip and fluorescent instrument system to accurately decode the sequence of DNA fragments. The technology has the potential to dramatically change the way research is performed and healthcare is delivered.

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.

Genia Technologies, Inc. develops DNA sequencing platforms. Its nanopore-based platform allows for single molecule, electrical real-time analysis without the need for complicated optics, labels, and amplification, or fluidics. The firm's sequencing platform enables the use of molecular diagnostics in everyday clinical care. The company was founded by Roger Chen, Stefan Roever, Pratima Rao, and Randy Davis in March 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

LS Dissolution, Inc. engages in the production of petroleum replacement products and industrial chemicals. It offers chemical and fuel products. The company was founded by George M. Church, Christopher Somerville, Noubar B. Afeyan and Jay D. Keasling in 2005 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

AVP Management Services, Inc. (AVP Management Services) is a private equity/venture capital firm firm founded in 1979 by Joseph Charles Aragona, Ken Paul DeAngelis and Jeff C. Garvey. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Challenge Online Games, Inc. engaged in developing and creating online and short form games. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Warp Drive Bio, Inc. focused on proprietary genomic technology to discover drugs of natural origin. The firm deployed proprietary platforms Genome Mining and Small Molecule Assisted Receptor Targeting (SMART) to discover and develop novel molecules addressing new pharmacologic mechanisms. The company was founded by Gregory L. Verdine, George McDonald Church, and James A. Wells in 2012 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Umbel Corp. operates as a customer data platform. It engages in the provision of online audience data sources. The firm helps publishers and content providers demonstrate the value of their audience by unlocking insights from social media and data. The company was founded by Higinio O. Maycotte, Meredith Miles Maycotte, Travis Turner and Nick Goggans in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Cielo Mgt LLC (Cielo) is a private equity firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

ClearBlade, Inc. operates service platform to describe and manage mobile applications. The firm specializes in IoT Runtime, enterprise, Internet of things and development, MQTT messaging, mainframe, Serverless, IIoT, Containerized, Integrations and ESB. The company was founded by Eric Simone and Aaron Allsbrook in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Align Capital LLC (Align Capital) is a Private Equity and venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Lisa Harris and Peter Schweinfurth. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Hangzhou Qihan Biotech Co., Ltd. is a biotech company that applies genome-editing technology to develop novel cell therapies and organs for transplantation. The company is based in Hangzhou, China. The Chinese company's mission is to create immunologically privileged allogeneic cells and xenogeneic organs for use as therapies to treat cancer, organ failure, and other complex medical conditions. Qihan Biotech has raised two rounds of financing and is advancing its cell therapy programs into IND enabling investigations. It was founded in 2017 by Luhan Yang and George McDonald Church, with Luhan Yang serving as the CEO since then.

Petri is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Andy Beck, Daphne Koller, Emily Leproust, Chris Voigt, Reshma Shetty, Alec Nielsen, Bernhard van Lengerich,Stan Lapidus, Pam Silver, JP Mangeolle and George Church. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Fitbiomics, Inc. operates as a microbiome biotechnology company. The firm utilizes next-generation sequencing to understand what makes elite athletes unique. The company was founded by Jonathan Scheiman, George Church, Alex Evans, Aleksandar Kostic, Carolina Barsa, Vasco Bridges and Treasure Neal and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Worlds Enterprises, Inc. provides wedding services. The company is based in Dallas, TX.

64-X, Inc. engages in the design and development of cells with enhanced properties for advanced bio-manufacturing and therapeutics applications. The firm also provides research and development services. The company was founded by George Church, Alexis Rovner, Pam Silver, and Jeff Way in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Align Co-Invest U-MVP-A-2 LP. operates as a pooled investment fund. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

JURA Bio, Inc. is an American company founded in 2017 that has developed an end-to-end generative machine learning and synthetic biology platform for the discovery and development of genetic medicines. The private company is based in an undisclosed location. The company's focus is on developing drugs built around the tcr-epitope-hla synapse, and they are developing a map from any antigen-hla pair to any t cell receptor. This map would broadly advance the development of therapeutics for oncology and autoimmune disease.

Catalio Capital Management LP (Catalio Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Boutique Venture Partners LLC (Boutique Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by S. Thaddeus Connelly and Rami El Assal. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Part of Bain & Co., Inc., Umbrage Studios LLC is a company that designs, develops, and delivers enterprise software. The company is based in Houston, TX. The company was founded by Kentaro Kawamori and Will Womble. Will Womble has been the CEO of the company since 2019. Umbrage Studios was acquired by Bain & Co., Inc. on February 01, 2023.

Supply Drop Online, Inc. functions as an alternative investment manager. The company is based in Austin, TX. The company was founded by Andrew Busey, April Bland Downing.

Good Start Genetics, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics firm. It offers pre-pregnancy diagnostic test services to screen a panel of genetic disorders. The firm also provides clinical laboratory and genetic counseling support services. The company was founded by Eric Boutin, Paris Wallace, and Gregory J. Porreca in December 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

GC Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA. GC Therapeutics uses synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with efficiency, speed, and scalability. The company has validated cells for many applications and have developed supercells™ by tailoring cells for specific diseases. The company's goal is to bring this breakthrough approach to patients. The company was founded in 2019 by Parastoo Khoshakhlagh, Alex Ng, Cory Smith, and George McDonald Church, with Parastoo Khoshakhlagh as the CEO since 2019.

Aero X Ventures (Aero X Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Michael B. Baughan, Kyle Mounts and Basil Yap in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Form Bio, Inc. is a company that provides a platform called formsightai simulate, which allows cell and gene therapy developers to predict manufacturing output of a construct before spending money on bioreactor runs. The company is based in Austin, TX. The platform also enables data management, workflows, visualization, and collaboration to get computational work done faster. Kent Wakeford and Andrew Busey have been the CEOs since 2022. The company was founded in 2022 by Andrew Busey, Kent Wakeford, and Ben Lamm.