Victor Stone

Axcelead Drug Discovery Partners, Inc. is a Japanese company founded in 2017 that provides services for the quality evaluation of new modality regenerative medical cells, effectiveness and safety evaluation of target cells, and bridging data. The company is based in Fujisawa, JP. and has subsidiaries in the United States. It is used by more than 100 facilities such as clients pharmaceutical companies, venture companies, and academia. Axcelead offers non-clinical development strategic planning and problem resolution services to its clients.

IgniteEye Corp. engages in the provision of cloud services for recruitment activities. Its cloud products include SONAR, Compass, Sniping and CREATIVE. The company was founded by Takashi Yoshida in May 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Adaptate Biotherapeutics Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded on August 21, 2019 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Takeda Ventures Inc (Takeda Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Takeda America Holdings Inc founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Code Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a next-generation gene therapy company based in Greater Philadelphia. The American company is focused on developing targeted non-viral gene therapies to treat serious and life-threatening genetic diseases. The company uses a novel multivalent synthetic DNA delivery platform called 3DNA, which overcomes many of the challenges associated with viral-based gene therapies. Code Biotherapeutics is advancing an internal pipeline focused on select rare disease programs and establishing partnerships to take forward programs in both rare and prevalent diseases. Code Biotherapeutics is supported by top-tier investors that believe in their work to drive discovery programs forward as they aim to deliver on the promise of their proprietary synthetic DNA-based, non-viral genetic medicines delivery platform. The company was founded by Brian P. McVeigh, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., ARTham Therapeutics, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company based in Yokohama, Japan. The Japanese company's mission is to deliver "medicines that matter" to improve patient health and contribute to enhanced quality of life through the development of innovative disease-modifying medicines. The company was founded by Sham Nikam, Naoto Uemura, and has been led by CEO Hiroshi Nagabukuro since 2018. ARTham Therapeutics was acquired by Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. on December 13, 2021 for $111.95 million.

Whiz Partners, Inc. (Whiz Partners) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It became a separate entity from its former brand, CSK Venture Capital Co., Ltd. The firm was founded by Toshio Ando, Atsushi Matsumura, and Junichi Kajimoto in 2010.