Kathy LaPorte

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. provides medical devices and procedures for the minimally invasive treatment of venous reflux disease, an underlying cause of varicose veins. Venous reflux disease results in symptoms such as leg pain, swelling, fatigue, skin ulcers, and painful varicose veins. The company was founded on January 31, 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops biopharmaceutical products. The firm's products are used for pain, side effects of chemotherapy treatments, sleeplessness, and migraine headaches. Its drug delivery technology enhances absorption rates of active drug agents reduces absorption times. The company was founded in January, 2002 by Nikhilesh Singh and is headquartered in Pt. Richmond, CA.

Aesthetic Sciences Corp. provides aesthetic medicine and incontinence products. It develops dermal fillers based on polymer technologies for use in the aesthetic market. The company was founded by Edward Schmitt & Gary Petersmeyer in December 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nodality, Inc. develops bioinformatics tools to enhance drug development process. Its technology profiles signaling networks in single cells by multiparametric phospho-flow cytometry. The company was founded by Michael C. Needels, Omar D. Perez, Garry P. Nolan and Rodney Weldon Turner in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Precipio Diagnostics LLC operates as a cancer diagnostics reference laboratory. It offers its customers community oncologists and hospitals access to academic institutions and has combined academic-level excellence with the sales and marketing expertise, the proper operational processes and the necessary service level standards required to deliver proper support. The company was founded by Ilan Danieli in 2011 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Sprout Group (Sprout) is venture capital subsidiary of Credit Suisse Private Equity LLC founded in 1969. The firm headquartered in New York.

Progen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops biopharmaceuticals products. It is engaged in developing improved drug delivery based on their transporter molecules. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Asset Management Co. is a venture capital firm. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in East Palo Alto, CA.

Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. develops and commercializes novel pharmaceutical and diagnostic products. Its enables physicians to provide individualized patient care. It applies the principles of personalized medicine to the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and applies it to oncology. The firms markets and promotes pharmaceutical products and complementary proprietary diagnostic testing services. The company was founded by Jonathan Braun, Stephan R. Targan, Michael J. Walsh, and Scott L. Glenn in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

eHealthInsurance Serivces, Inc. provides online health insurance plan services. It provides buying and using health insurance information through toll free number, online chat, email, fax, customer care team. The firm’s customers include individuals, families and small businesses. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

New Leaf Venture Partners LLC (New Leaf Ventures) is an independent Venture Capital firm founded by Jeani Delagardelle, Philippe Chambon, Vijay Lathi, Ron Hunt, James Niedel, and Kathy LaPorte. The firm is headquartered in New York. It spun out from Sprout Group.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC provides a variety of capital raising, market making, advisory and brokerage services for governments, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and corporate clients and affiliates. It is also a primary dealer in U.S. government securities and an underwriter, placement agent, and dealer for money market instruments, commercial paper, mortgage and other assetbacked securities, as well as a range of debt, equity and other convertible securities of corporations and other issuers. The company was founded on January 3, 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pearl Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases. It offers respiratory product development, high quality therapies for COPD, Asthma and treatment and prevention of chronic respiratory diseases and asthma. The company was founded in 2006 by Sarvajna Dwivedi and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary products that address important therapeutic needs in the field of neuroscience. Its product pipeline is TO-2070, a novel, rapidly absorbed treatment for acute migraine incorporating dihydroergotamine as the active drug. The company was founded on January 30, 2009 and is headquartered in Point Richmond, CA.

HealthTech Capital Co. invests in the healthcare sectors. It invests in capital efficient companies that use new scalable business model to improve the healthcare delivery from the hospital to the home. The company was founded by Anne DeGheest in 2010 and is headquartered in Los Altos Hills, CA.

Elysium Therapeutics, Inc. develops pain relievers. The company was founded by Alex Gregory Sturmer and Thomas E. Jenkins in 2013 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.

Q32 Bio Operations, Inc. develops immunomodulatory therapies with protein based molecules using a platform. The company was founded by Shelia Violette and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

D2G Oncology, Inc. develops relating drugs to genotypes to transform precision cancer therapeutics. The company was founded by Ian Winters and Jonathan MacQuitty in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Phoenix Biotech Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company. It was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on June 8, 2021 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.