Chris Laird

RainDance Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of professional laboratory system. It develops and manufactures genomic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy applications for the research, early detection, treatment of cancer, and inherited and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Andrew Griffiths, Darren R. Link, and Jerome Bibette in 2004 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Sofinnova Investment Inc (Sofinnova Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by Jacques F. vallle & Joel F. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sectoral Asset Management, Inc. (Sectoral) is an investment management firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. The firm was founded in 2000 by Jérôme G. Pfund and Michael J. Sjöström. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sectoral Asset Management Holding Ltd. in Hong Kong. Sectoral manages public and private equity healthcare strategies for investors around the world. Their clients include sovereign wealth funds, private banks, and family offices. In addition, they have long-standing sub-advisory relationships with institutional investors in Europe and Asia.

INEA Corp. provides performance management software solutions for the financial services industry. Its software offers enterprise planning, forecasting, modeling, profitability analytics, and management and regulatory reporting on a single integrated platform. It also provides enterprise rollout, technical support, and training services. The company was founded by Andrew Beck in 1992 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals US Inc. is engaged in the development of cancer therapeutics. It offers mimetic and telomere capping programs, as well as screening, medicinal chemistry, and preclinical development services. The company was founded by Gordon C. Shore in 1998 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Resonant Medical Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes 3D ultrasound image-guided adaptive radiotherapy products. The company was founded by Fred Francis, Tony Falco and Luc Sirois and is headquartered in Montréal, CA.

LifeSciences British Columbia is a non-profit organization, which engages in supporting and representing the life science community through leadership, investment, advocacy, and promotion. It ensures that no life sciences sector is working in isolation and that all sectors come together in a comprehensive, complementary, and coordinated fashion. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

F2G Ltd. provides novel drugs for the treatment of life-threatening systemic fungal diseases. It primarily focuses on developing an F3 series of anti mould compound, which is an antifungal agent that acts through a mechanism different from marketed drugs. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

BIOTECanada serves as a national association for Canada's health, industrial and agricultural biotechnology sectors. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Rapidmind, Inc. provides software development platform that allows software vendors to deliver high performance on multi-core and stream processors. The company was founded by Michael D. McCool and Stefanus Du Toit in 2004 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.

Viigo, Inc. develops mobile application software solutions. It specializes in smartphone, blackberry, windows mobile, news, weather, sports and entertainment. The company was founded by Jay Steele and Tas Tsonis in 2004 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

AudienceView Ticketing Corp. engages in the provision and development of software and media solutions for ticket sales. It offers services through its platform, which under the brands of OvationTix, Vendini, TheaterMania, WhatsOnStage, LaughStub, ElectroStub, and TuneStub. The company was founded by Kevin Kimsa and Paul J. Atkinson in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops broad-spectrum antifungal agents for the treatment of life-threatening fungal infections. The firm's compound APX001, shows broad-spectrum activity in animal models of invasive fungal infection by common species of Candida and Aspergillus. It develops oral and injectable anti-infective drugs, including protease inhibitors and antibiotics. The company was founded by André Marquis, Mitchell W. Mutz and Gerry Crabtree in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Mantella Venture Partners (MVP) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Basecamp Labs operates as an early stage technology accelerator. The company was founded by Robin Axon and Duncan Hill in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

CrowdCare Corp. develops applications for mobiles. It specializes in technical support mobile application for smartphones and tablets. Its products wysdom, combines information that one’s device can send and use that to find answer to users’ questions. The company was founded by Ian Collins and Jeffery Brunet in 2012 and is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Canada.

eFFECTOR Therapeutics Operations, Inc. discovers and develops translation regulators. It offers small molecule therapeutics that control gene expression for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Its pipeline of translation regulators includes eFT508, eIF4E, and eIF4A. The company was founded by James R. Appleman, Kevin L. Eastwood, Siegfried Reich, Davide Ruggero, Kevan Shokat, and Stephen T. Worland in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Conavi Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures, sells, and supports technologies to help guide minimally invasive procedures. It provides imaging devices for use during procedures performed by electrophysiologists and interventional cardiologists. The company was founded by Brian Courtney and Amandeep Thind in 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Sectoral Asset Management Inc (Private Equity) (Sectoral Asset Management) is a private equity subsidiary of Sectoral Asset Management, Inc. founded in 2008 by Michael Sjöström. The firm is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

NorthSea Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company. It develops oral, structurally engineered fatty acid therapeutics. The company was founded by Hilde H. Steineger and David A. Fraser and is headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands.

Gyroscope Therapeutics Ltd. operates as an ophthalmology firm. It develops a cutting edge, genetically-defined therapies for the treatment of eye diseases linked to an unbalanced complement system. The company was founded on April 18, 2016 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Quanta Therapeutics, Inc. develops biotechnologies. The American company was founded in 2018 by Cameron Pitt, Frank McCormick. Perry D. Nisen has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Wisk Solutions, Inc. develops bar and restaurant management software. The firm specializes in restaurant inventory, recipe costing, inventory management, restaurant management software, bar management software and bar inventory software. The company was founded by Angelo Esposito and Ciprian Rarau in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Cronometer Software, Inc. is a Canadian company that provides a health and nutrition tracking app with a comprehensive nutrition database. The private company is based in Revelstoke, Canada, a small mountain town. The app is unique in that the nutritional data is curated from verified, lab-analyzed sources. The company aims to help users develop healthy habits and gain insight into their health and nutrition. With over 7.5 million users worldwide, Cronometer has transformed from a hobby into a thriving business. Cronometer was founded in 2005 by CEO Aaron Davidson, who has been leading the company since its inception.

T2C2 Capital provides investment services.

Train Fitness Inc. is a fitness platform that uses AI to analyze motion data from your watch to provide expertise-level analysis of your workout. The company is based in Huntsville, Canada. The Canadian company's social platform motivates fitness enthusiasts to push past their limits and hit the gym daily. Train Fitness automatically tracks exercises, sets, and reps using an Apple Watch.