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Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

BioQ Pharma, Inc. engages in the design and development of a drug delivery systems to administer infusible drugs. It offers Ropivacaine ReadyfusOR and Invenious for manufacturers. The company was founded by Joshua Wilker Kriesel in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PNT Data Corp. provides information logistics for healthcare management. It offers services for healthcare management, enabling health plans, providers, health systems and vendors to securely manage and optimize the flow of healthcare information. The firm provides a fully developed, deployed and managed cloud communications platform with flexible and adaptive toolkits that provide solutions that enable healthcare entities to connect and communicate information securely, reliably and to collaborate across the spectrum of health information. It also supports health system, revenue cycle, billing services and clearinghouse vendors. The company was founded by George Allen DeGraw in 2002 and is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT.

Vestaron Corp. develops and markets bioinsecticides derived from naturally occurring peptides. It offers the following brands: Spear-T for the treatment of thrips, Spear-P controls Colorado Potato beetle, and Spear-C protects crops from lepidopteran pests. The company was founded by Glenn F. King in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

AgriMetis LLC operates a biotech company, which engages in the development of crop protection agents. It also offers natural products derived compounds to protect crops from weeds, fungal diseases, and insect pests. Its AgriMetis technology platform employs multidisciplinary and integrated scientific approach that allows access to areas of chemical space and production routes that are inaccessible to others. The company was founded by Philip Goelet, Simon Aspland and Brian Green in March 2014 and is headquartered in Lutherville, MD.

The University of Melbourne, founded in 1853, is a world-renowned institution located in Parkville, Australia. The university is a leader in education, teaching, and research, offering a wide range of coursework and research programs.

Rabo Private Equity (RPE) is the private equity arm of the Rabobank Group and is headquartered in Utrecht. RPE originated in 1972 following the merger of two separate Dutch cooperative banks, the Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank in Utrecht and the Cooperatieve Centrale Boerenleenbank in Eindhoven. The firm was formally established in 1998. RPE is based in Utrecht and operates through two separate entities, Rabo Participaties and Rabo Capital.

Arysta LifeScience Corp. operates as a crop protection and life science company. It develops, markets, and distributes chemical solutions for agro-science and life science sectors. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation provides scientific and industrial research services. It plays a role in collaboration within the Australian national innovation system and as an advisor to government, industry and the community. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Canberra, Australia.

Syngenta Corp. manufactures agricultural chemicals and distributes field, garden, and flower seeds. It produces herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and crop protection products for pest control and vegetation management. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

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.

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc. provides healthcare services. It offers services to public health through scientific discovery, translational research and dissemination of research results through public-private partnerships. The organization was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. provides research and development services. It offers agriculture, environmental and human research services. The company was founded by William Boyce Thompson in 1924 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

Nufarm Australia Ltd. manufactures and sells crop protection products. The firm's products include broadacre, horticulture, pasture, viticulture and seed treatments. Its services include top croopers, grader advantage, spray wise and farmers edge. The company is headquartered in Laverton North, Australia.

AgBiome LLC provides early stage research and discovery to the agriculture industry. It develops biological product that controls the predominant soil-borne diseases of greenhouse and major row crops. The firm applies genomics and screening technologies to identify plant-associated microbes that enhance plant health, pest resistance, and yield. The company was founded by Jeff Dangl, John N. Couch, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Scott J. Uknes, John Ryals, Eric R. Ward, and Mike Koziel in 2012 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Syngenta International AG manufactures, develops and distributes crop protection products and seeds. The company is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Anterra Capital BV (Anterra Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. engages in the development of microbe for different applications. Its organisms can be used for fuels, flavorings, fragrances, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Thomas F. Knight Jr., Austin Che, Reshma Shetty, Bartholomew Canton and Jason Kelly in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV develops novel immunotherapies to overcome cancers and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Carlo Heirman, Kris Thielemans and Sonja van Meirvenne in January 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Niel, Belgium.

MarketDial, Inc. develops a software testing program. It offers customized tests that allows retail professionals to answer questions about their businesses. The company was founded by John Stoddard and Morgan Davis in 2015 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Hi Fidelity Genetics, Inc. develops tools to measure and predict plant traits. The company was founded by Spencer Maughan and Philip Benfey on August 16, 2018 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Flywheel Exchange LLC develops cloud-based software which helps scientists and researchers to share data and algorithms. The firm also provides computer programming services. It offers life sciences, clinical research, imaging research and AI developer solutions. The company was founded by Brian Wandell, Troy D. Kopischke, Ryan Chamberlai and Gunnar Schaefer in 2012 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Telesense, Inc. operates as an industrial IoT technology company which specializes in temperature and humidity monitoring for the grain and food industries. Its solutions include grain storage; cold storage; and local transport and tracking. The company was founded by Naeem Zafar and Nick Garner in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Prime Coalition, Inc. is a public charity that was founded by Matthew McLean Nordan in 2014. The American company has steered over $300 million in partnership with 250+ catalytic investors. Prime Coalition's first impact-first pooled vehicle, Prime Impact Fund, is a 100% catalytic capital fund that made its 16th and final investment in 2021. The private company now has over 30 companies in its venture portfolio in total. Prime Coalition collaborates to build open source tools and convenes to organize investors to improve forward-looking emissions impact methodologies and reporting best practices for climate-driven investments. The company partners with philanthropists to invest catalytic capital in extraordinary companies and projects that combat climate change, have a high likelihood of achieving commercial success, and are otherwise unlikely to be sufficiently supported toward optimal greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential.

Unilever International Holdings NV operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Cerevel Therapeutics LLC operates as a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drug candidates to treat disorders of the central nervous system. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Q-SI Operations, Inc. develops protein sequencing technologies to decode molecules life. The company was founded by Jonathan Rothberg and is headquartered in Guilford, CT.

Vizgen, Inc. engages in business of biotechnology. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Zebiai Therapeutics, Inc. develops artificial intelligence to predict and optimize novel small molecule modulators for challenging drug targets. The company was founded by Richard Wagner and is headquartered in Chestnut Hill, MA.

Zyzzle Ltd. provides chemical-free insect control solutions for agricultural pests, mosquitoes, and other applications. The company is based in Surbiton, UK. The British company's technology solutions, including the sterile insect technique (SIT), are more effective than chemical insecticides and benign to the environment. The company's first solution, approved for sale in four US states, is for the control of spotted wing drosophila (SWD). The company's non-GM solutions aim to prevent pests from reaching the infestation level associated with spraying chemical insecticides. The company was founded in 2017 by Glen Slade, who has been the CEO since 2017.

Animol Discovery develops small molecule drugs for animals. The company was founded by Phil Austin in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., Cerevel Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops therapies. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded in 2018. N. Anthony Coles has been the CEO of the company since 2018.