Life Sciences / Healthcare

Gusto Global is the leading discovery and development platform focusing on restoring key functionalities of an ecologically healthy microbiome, providing biological and computational approaches to rationally design therapies that target innate immunity by controlling both local and systemic inflammation.

As world leaders in endophytic microbes and plant-host interactions, CAEB’s advanced discovery, optimization and validation Platform has developed products that exhibit a range of beneficial properties and strong efficacy for agricultural and environmental applications.

As a spin-out from Synthentic Genomics, Agradis provides a platform analyzing microbe-plant communities and screening for beneficial microorganisms used to develop additional biological products to improve agricultural productivity.

Pasteuria develops and commercializes biological products to control plant-parasitic nematodes, using the naturally occurring soil bacteria Pasteuria spp. A revolutionary in-vitro production process enables the development of cost-effective nematicides with a novel mode of action.

Genemed specializes in the development of antibodies, probes, detection systems, and ancillary reagents for immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization. In addition, Genemed offers regents for molecular testing. Its products are used for cancer testing in the clinical and life science research markets.

Zymed Laboratories, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes immunochemicals in South San Francisco, California. It develops, manufactures, and markets reagents and reagent systems for life science research, clinical research, and cancer diagnostics.

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PRA is a clinical Contract Research Organization that has worked on 100+ drugs marketed across several therapeutic areas and conducted the pivotal or supportive trials that led to FDA and/or international regulatory approval of 50+ drugs.

The company’s technology platform combines proprietary signal processing algorithms and NMR spectroscopic detection into a clinical analyzer to identify and quantify concentrations of lipoproteins and small molecule metabolites.

Covis provides patients with a portfolio of products that are affordable and therapeutically equivalent medications of select brands.

Lev is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic products for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

 Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing ophthalmic products.

Paradigm is a biotechnology company providing a platform focusing an integrated suite of technologies on the product development cycle, from target discovery to subsequent enhancement of the safety and efficacy profiles of development candidates in agriculture and human health.

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From offices in Durham, Portland and Seattle, Echo Health Ventures invests in, builds and grows tomorrow’s great health care companies. 

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Nearly one in three Americans rely on Blue Cross Blue Shield companies for access to safe, quality, and affordable healthcare.

RTI's Healthcare Trasformation efforts focus on a diverse set of areas, including health information technology, health care quality, patient engagement, and measurement of health care processes and outcomes.

FlexBen provides an administrative, planning and data management platform for consumer-driven tax-advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care. Products include flexible spending (FSA), health reimbursement (HRA), health savings (HSA).

SunLink currently holds investments in one community hospital, two nursing home facilities, a healthcare technology company, a specialty pharmacy company, and related assets.

PPD is a global contract research organization providing discovery, development and post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs. The company’s clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations.