Katie Czerepak

LARK Technologies, Inc. provided compelling solutions for better sleep. It also offered weight loss services. The company was founded by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Agrible, Inc. provides predictive analytics tools for farmers and growers. Its software provides field-level forecasts and data on yield predictions, nutrient availability, fieldwork timing, spraying conditions, hail events, potential pest problems, and weather. The company was founded by Bill Northcott, Christopher M. Harbourt, Eric Snodgrass, and Paul S. Miller in 2007 and is headquartered in Champaign, IL.

Bombas LLC manufactures and wholesales socks. The firm offers ankle, calf, knee high, grippers, and casual. The company was founded by Randy Goldberg and David Heath and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Lippert Components, Inc. supplies engineered components for original electronic manufacturing in the recreation and transportation product markets. It offers steel chassis and related components; axles and suspension solutions; slide-out mechanisms and solutions; thermoformed bath, kitchen, and other products; vinyl, aluminum, and frameless windows; manual, electric, and hydraulic stabilizer and leveling systems; entry, luggage, patio, and ramp doors; furniture and mattresses; electric and manual entry steps; awnings and awning accessories; towing products; truck accessories; electronic components; and other accessories. The company was founded by Lawrence Lippert in 1956 and is headquartered in Elkhart, IN.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, 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.

Eli Lilly & Co. Ltd. provides pharmaceutical health care solutions. It provide products for cardiovascular, dermatology, diabetes, endocrine, musculoskeletal, neuroscience, oncology and urology. The company was incorporated on April 9, 1963 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, the United Kingdom.

QIAGEN GmbH provides products for preanalytical sample preparation and molecular diagnostics solutions. It develops and markets consumable products and automated solutions to molecular diagnostics laboratories, academic researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and applied testing customers for purposes such as forensics, animal or food testing and pharmaceutical process control. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Hilden, Germany.

Brandt Consolidated, Inc. engages in the manufacture of agricultural specialty products. Its products include aquatics; adjuvants; pest and disease control; plant growth regulator, and soil amendments. The company was founded by Glen Brandt and Evelyn Brandt Thomas in 1953 and is headquartered in Springfield, IL.

Museum of Science operates as a museum. The company was founded in 1830 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Wayfair LLC engages in the selling of furniture, lighting, and cookware products through online. Its products include furniture, décor, lighting, kitchen, bed and bath, outdoor, home improvement, and baby and kids products. The firm offers products under the Wayfair.com, Joss & Main, AllModern, DwellStudio, and Birch Lane brands. The company was founded by Steve Connie and Niraj Shah in 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Proctor Hospital provides healthcare services. It offers digital imaging technology to its surgical Services and mammography departments. The company is headquartered in Peoria, IL.

Waterborne Environmental, Inc. provides risk assessment consulting services that offers solutions to environmental problems. It offers crop protection, water and wastewater assessment, field studies and data collection, environmental modeling, toxicology support, geospatial analysis and data science, and literature review and scientific writing. The company was founded by Patrick W. Holden and W. Martin Williams in 1993 and is headquartered in Leesburg, VA.

Champaign County Economic Partnership is a non-profit organization which engages in the provision of economic development services. The firm offers assistance for business startup, expansion, relocation, patent consideration, workforce development issue, incentive consideration, and access to professional resources or parts supplier and any other internal or external business operation. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Champaign, IL.

Part of Eli Lilly & Co., Eli Lilly Benelux SA is a pharmaceutical company based in Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian company focuses on research and development to discover and offer innovative medicines that improve the quality of life for people worldwide. Lilly has established policies, standards, and protective measures for the entire research and development process to ensure that the patient remains the top priority. The CEO of the company is Frederic Clais.

The Methodist Medical Center of Illinois is a private company based in Peoria, IL.

Qiagen SRL is engaged in providing assay technologies. The company is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Boom Technology, Inc. manufactures supersonic passenger flight and aircraft for business travel. The company was founded by Blake Scholl, Joe Wilding, and Joshua Krall in September 2014 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Alto Pharmacy LLC is a software application which allows users to order medicine online and get it delivered at home. It specializes in pharmacy, adherence, fertility, and HIV. The company was founded by Vladimir Blumen, Mattieu Gamache-Asselin, and Jamie Karraker in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Finless Foods, Inc. produces marine animal food products for human consumptions. The firm uses cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products. The company was founded by Mike selden and Mike selden in 2017 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

DermBiont, Inc. operates as an early stage biopharmaceutical company that engages in discovery and development of live bacterial products for the treatment of skin diseases. It develops skin microbiome therapeutics platform to treat and prevent skin diseases. The company was founded by Karl R. Beutner, Robert M. Brucker and Nichola Eliovits in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Tarjimly LLC develops and offers a software application which provides language translation services. The company was founded by Aziz Alghunaim and Atif Javed and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Mamo Pay engages in development of a payment platform. The company was founded by Asim Janjua and Mohammad El Saadi and is headquartered in United Arab Emirates.

Moderna SpA is an Italian company that provides information, products, and services through their e-modern.com website. The private company is based in Salerno, Italy. The company has a product catalog, a cash area, and a delivery director. The CEO of the company is Stéphane Bancel.

Generate Biomedicines, Inc. is a drug generation company that has developed a machine learning-powered multimodality generative biology platform capable of generating new drugs on demand across a wide range of biologic modalities. Generate Biomedicines is based in Somerville, MA. The platform seamlessly integrates computational and wet lab capabilities, improving the speed at which targets and therapeutics are identified and validated, the specificity of target engagement by generated proteins, and the cost of identifying and developing clinical candidates. The company's platform represents a potentially fundamental shift in what's possible in the field of therapeutic development, addressing key challenges of drug discovery and drastically expanding the available search space for novel biomedicines. The company was founded in 2018 by Poorya Hosseini, Molly Gibson, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Avak Kahvejian, Gevorg Grigoryan. Michael T. Nally has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Visible Hands PBC (Visible Hands) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Daniel Acheampong and Justin Kang. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Part of Elis SA, Moderna Holding BV is an investment holding Dutch company. The company is based in Hardenberg, the Netherlands. Moderna Holding was acquired by Elis SA on March 01, 2024.

Windfall Bio, Inc. has developed a solution to capture and transform methane emissions into organic fertilizer. Windfall Bio was founded in 2022 and is based in Menlo Park, CA. This nature-based solution utilizes methane-eating microbes to convert methane from any source into valuable outputs. The company's solution helps reduce the carbon footprint of methane emitters in various industries, including agriculture, oil and gas, and waste management. It also allows farmers to improve profitability and environmental impact. The company is venture-backed by top-tier firms and is focused on naturally transforming methane into organic soil nutrients. Joshua Silverman has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Serra Ventures LLC (Serra Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Tim Hoerr. The firm is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.