Julie Sunderland

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Compass Therapeutics LLC operates as a healthcare industry focusing on biotechnology. It offers drug discovery, development, biologics, oncology and immuno-oncology. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson and Thomas J. Schuetz in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Aledade, Inc. provides technology physicians groups into accountable care organizations. It manages regulatory aspects of forming an accountable care organization and working with CMS, provides on-sight practice transformation and support for doctors, nurses, and practice staff; customized technology to optimize existing EHRs and patient claims data. The firm partners with independent, primary care physicians to provide everything doctors need to create and operate an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The company was founded by Matthew Kendall, Edwin Miller and Farzad Mostashari and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Blackthorn Therapeutics, Inc. manufactures and markets medicines for neuro developmental disorders. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Verana Health, Inc. engages in the development of software solutions for remote patient monitoring and data analytics. It focuses on bridging the gap between healthcare providers and patients with mobile tests. The company was founded by Mark S. Blumenkranz and Daniel V. Palanker in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Biomatics Capital Management Co LLC (Biomatics Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Boris Nikolic and Julie Sunderland. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

eGenesis, Inc. operates research platform to deliver human transplantable cells, tissues, and organs grown in pigs. It uses gene editing technology such as CRISPR to directly address the key virology and immunology hurdles that have impeded xenotransplantation. The company was founded by George M. Church, Yang Luhan, Prashant Mali, Geoff Mackay and Guell Marc in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.