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Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Mesirow Financial Investment Management, Inc. (MFIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1986 and their sole shareholder is Mesirow Financial Services, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., a Chicago-based financial services firm that was founded in 1937. MFIM provides advisory services to individuals, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit-sharing plans, non-qualified plans, state or municipal government entities, and charitable organizations.

Part of Regions Financial Corp., AmSouth Autocorp. The company is based in Berwyn, PA. is a company that specializes in asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and structured finance.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Southern Research Institute is a scientific research organization. It focuses on research in drug discovery, drug development, energy and environment, and engineering. The firm serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, defense, aerospace, environmental, and energy industries The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Patient Square Capital is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded by Jim Momtazee and Maria Walker. Patient Square Capital is headquartered in Menlo Park.

Apollo Therapeutics Group Ltd. is an investment holding British company. The private company is based in Cambridge, UK. The company was founded in 2021. The CEO is Richard Mason.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Linden Manager LLC (Linden Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Anthony B Davis and Brain C Miller. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Apollo Therapeutics LLP is a British biopharmaceutical company that focuses on translating medical research into medicines. The company is based in Stevenage, UK. The company has a portfolio-model built around a centralized management team of experts in pharmaceutical R&D, manufacturing, commercial strategy, fundraising, and business development. The company's assets are housed in separate wholly-owned subsidiary companies, which incorporate best practices from big pharma and venture capital. The company has a scalable R&D platform for the discovery and development of new medicines, enabled by access to five of the world's leading universities and research institutes. The company was founded in 2015, and the CEO is Richard Mason.

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island operates as non-profit organization. It provides health care services for women and newborns. The company was founded on 2009 and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

The Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation, Inc. supports, connects and educates patients, caregivers and health professionals on bone marrow failure diseases worldwide. Its programs and services include personalized support from patient educators , free educational materials, online academy, patient and family conferences, print and electronic newsletters, clinical trials information and peer support network. The company was founded in the year 1983 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

HBK Sorce Advisory LLC (HBKS), do-business-as HBKS Wealth Advisors, is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 2001 by Greg Sorce and Chris Sorce. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of HBK Sorce Financial LLC, ultimately held by Hill, Barth & King Financial Holdings LLC. HBKS provides investment management services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other business entities.

Elbert Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. is a healthcare company based in Elberton, GA. The private company provides inpatient rehabilitation, swing bed, infusion therapy, convenient care, and wound care center services to the community. The company's focus is on delivering quality healthcare services that are convenient and personal, all while being close to home. The company was founded in 1995 and Tyler Taylor has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Innovation Depot Inc (Innovation Depot) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987. The firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Diglife /VC/ (Digilife) is a venture capital firm founded by Bobba Venkatadri. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DigiLife Angel Fund US LLC invests in healthcare technology companies located in the United States. The fund provides financing for early stage capital requirements.

Atlas RFID Holdings, Inc. develops business software solutions. It offers Jovix, which is a material control application purpose-built for the capital asset market and it combines web-based server software with mobile and auto-identification technologies to extend access to information to decision makers in the field, enabling digitization and automation of paper-based data collection processes. The company was founded by Robert L. Fuqua Jr. in 2007 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Morningstar Investment Management LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN). Morningstar Investment Management offers various investment advisory services that focus on their core capabilities in asset allocation, investment selection, and portfolio construction to financial or other institutions.

American Urological Association Education & Research, Inc. operates a urologic association. It offers urological clinical care through education, research and the formulation of health care policy. The company was founded on February 22, 1902 and is headquartered in Linthicum, MD.

The Welch Group LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded by Stewart H. Welch III in 1984. The firm provides investment management services to individuals, business entities, pension and profit-sharing plans and trusts.

Essential Medical, Inc. designs, develops, and markets medical and surgical devices. It specializes in vascular closure devices that seals the opening created from cardiac catheterizations in leg arteries. The company was founded by Gary S. Roubin and Greg A. Walters in 2010 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Lipid Sciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company that is engaged in research and development of products and processes intended to treat major medical indications such as cardiovascular disease and viral infections in which lipids or fat components, play a key role. The company is focused on applications of technologies in two main areas: cardiovascular disease, using the HDL Therapy platform and viral infections, using the Viral Immunotherapy platform. HDL Therapy focuses on developing treatments for the reversal of atherosclerosis, which is the leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and peripheral vascular disease. It was formerly known as NZ Corp. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.