John Younger

Fluent BioSciences, Inc. is a privately funded biotechnology company based in Watertown, MA. The company's mission is to revolutionize single-cell biology through accessible, affordable, and scalable solutions for every researcher. Fluent Biosciences aims to accelerate the understanding of biology and disease through its breakthrough pre-templated instant partitions (PipSeq™) technology, which facilitates near-instantaneous self-assembly of individual cells or molecules into millions of uniform partitions without the need for complex instrumentation or expensive consumables. The company was founded in 2018 by Adam Abate, Sepehr Kiani, and Bill Hyun, and Sepehr Kiani has been the CEO since 2018.

Essen Instruments, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of cell and bead based screening solutions. It offers phenotypic drug discovery, antibody discovery and in vitro toxicity testing. The firm’s proprietary technologies, instrumentation, assays and software products address the pervasive need to provide turnkey solutions that increase productivity in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science research. The company’s products are used in biologics discovery, small molecules, in vitro tox and cellular research antibody applications. The company was founded by R. Terry Dunlay, Larry A. Sklar, and Bruce S. Edwards in 2006 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Accuri Cytometers, Inc. develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers. It operates as a life sciences company which develops and markets high performance cell analysis systems designed to bring the power of flow cytometry into life science and biomedical laboratories. The firm offers C6 Flow Cytometer, a bench-top cell and bead analysis system used in various applications, such as immunophenotyping, bacteria analysis, cell cycle analysis, proliferation assays, apoptosis, DNA analysis, target multiplexing, gene expression, lineage analysis, viability, absolute cell counts, intracellular cytokines, membrane potential, yeast and algae analysis, and phagocytosis. The company was founded by Jennifer A. Baird and Collin A. Rich in 2004 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Life Magnetics, Inc. was provided testing bacterial infections devices for antibiotics. The company was founded by Brandon H. McNaughton in 2009 and was headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Arboretum Ventures LLC (Arboretum Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Jan L. Garfinkle and Tim B. Petersen. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Blueprint Genetics Oy engages in the provision of genetic diagnostics and clinical interpretation of hereditary diseases. It offer dignistic tests for cardiology; dermatology; endocrinology; immunology; metabolic disorder; nephrology; and pulmonology. The company was founded by Tommi Pietari Lehtonen, Juha Koskenvuo, Tero-Pekka Alastalo, and Samuel Myllykangas in 2008 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Bioinflexion Point Partners LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Belmont, CA. The company was founded by Gary Zweiger.

Cota Capital Management LLC (Cota Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Babak Poushanchi and Bobby Yazdani. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Applied Biosystems, Inc. is a company that provides integrated systems for sequencing, flow cytometry, and various types of PCR. The company is based in Foster City, CA. The company's products cover the entire process from sample preparation to data analysis. The company was founded by Chris Yoo, Marvin H. Caruthers, Michael W. Hunkapiller, and Leroy E. Hood. Applied Biosystems was acquired by Invitrogen Corp. from Applera Corp. on November 21, 2008 for $6,417.85 million.

Voxel51, Inc provides solutions for the problems in computer vision. Its products include Platform, which is used to transform video, deploy at scale, fexilibity and security to the computer; and Scoop, which enables to make sense of video datasets quickly and effectively. The company was founded in 2016 by Jason Corso and Brian Moore and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Swift Biosciences, Inc. develops molecular biology reagents. It offers Next Generation Sequencing sample preparation for Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms. The firm?s products include Accel-NGS and Amplicon Panels and myT Primer. The company was founded by David C. Olson and Vladimir L. Makarov in February 2010 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

BrightSpec, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures laboratory instrumentation equipment. The firm engages in the commercialization of products and technologies for the analysis of pharmaceutical and high value chemical compounds that affect human health and well-being. It provides K-Band BrightSpec Discovery, W-Band BrightSpec Discovery, BrightSpec One, and BrightSpec Chiral Broadband. The company was founded by Robert Lloyd, Matt Muckle, Dave McDaniel, and Justin Neill in 2012 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Flosonics Medical develops and operates medical software platform for the management of critically ill patients. The company was founded by Joe Eibl, Jon-Emile Kenny, Andrew Eibl, and Sachit Harish and is headquartered in Sudbury, Canada.

Clinc, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers finie, IVR, platform, and technology solutions. The company was founded by Jason Mars, Johann Hauswald, Michael Laurenzano, and Lingjia Tang in 2015 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Enumera Molecular, Inc. is a life science tools company based in Ann Arbor, MI. The company has developed a scalable biomolecule assessment platform that enables lower cost and rapid clinical liquid biopsy tests. The company was founded in 2022 by Matthew Cooper with the mission of transforming the field of clinical molecular testing to a simpler, more actionable tool for physicians to benefit patient care.

Jumpcode Genomics, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Dropworks, Inc. develops automated platform for performing biological assays. The company was founded by Chris Perkins and Andrew Larsen and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Genoa Ventures LLC (Genoa Ventures) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jenny Rooke. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Slingshot Biosciences, Inc. is a life sciences company that develops synthetic cells for various applications in diagnostics and therapeutics. The company is based in Emeryville, CA. The company utilizes advances in distributed manufacturing, engineering, and polymer chemistry to provide an industry-first, off-the-shelf solution for cell-like reagents that are stable, low-cost, and targeted towards a range of indications and markets. Slingshot Biosciences focuses on developing cutting-edge tools for fluorescence imaging to revolutionize how scientists explore and understand the intricate mechanisms of life. The company is committed to empowering researchers with exceptional products that enable groundbreaking discoveries and shape the future of bioscience. The company was founded in 2012 by Jeffrey Kim, who has been the CEO since 2012.

Scribe Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded by Srinivasan Maithreyan, Zev Gartner, Adam Abate, Russell Cole. The CEO is Russell Cole.

Mission Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of tools for the study of cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. It develops research tools that allow high-throughput, single-cell nucleic acid characterization across a variety of research applications, including oncology and immunology. The company was founded by Charlie Silver, Adam Sciambi, Adam Abate, and Dennis Eastburn on June 29, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mission Bay Capital Management Inc (Mission Bay Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CellFE, Inc. develops delivery platform to enable engineering of life-saving therapies. The company was founded by Anna Liu and Alla Zamarayeva in 2018 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Immusoft Corp. provides disease curing services through immune cells. The firm offers ISP, gene delivery technology and lymphopoiesis culture system. The company was founded by Matthew Scholz in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Cytobank, Inc. provides cloud­-based storage and analytics platform for single cell technologies. The company was founded by Jonathan Irish, Peter Krutzik, David Craford and Nikesh Kotecha and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Xosphere, Inc. develops cloud infrastructure software applications. Its product Xosphere Instance Orchestrator manages spot instances by providing the same level of reliability as on demand instances. The company was founded by Alan Hand and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA.

Michigan Venture Capital Association operates as a non-profit trade organization designed to bring together venture capital industry participants in the state of Michigan. The company was founded by 2002 by Terry Cross and David P. Weaver in 2002 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

observIQ, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise information technology monitoring integration solutions. It offers True Visibility Suite for VMware, BindPlane, BindPlane for New Relic, Bindplane for Microsoft, BindPlane for Google Cloud Monitoring, BindPlane for New Relic Logging, Plugins for VMware vRealize Orchestrator, content packs for VMware vRealize Log Insights, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Plugins. The company was founded by Nathan Owen and Carl Erickson in 2007 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

Quantum Dot Corp. develops and markets novel solutions for biomolecular detection. Its products and services employ quantum dot particles, tiny semiconductor crystals that emit light brightly in a range of sharp colors. The company was founded by Bala Manian in 1998 and is located in Hayward, CA.

Part of Baxter International, Inc., Epic Therapeutics, Inc. is a company that develops therapeutic products used as injections or inhalation. The company is based in Norwood, MA. Epic Therapeutics was acquired by Baxter Healthcare Corp. on November 11, 2002.

MedInnova Partners, Inc is a venture capital firm, founded in 2000. The firm headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Ares-Serono Group is a Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures and wholesales pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Geneva, Switzerland. and has subsidiaries in Ecuador.

GE Healthcare Ltd. provides transformational medical technologies and services which include icenter, AssetPlus, preventive maintenance, continuity, digital solutions and Unisys multi brand probe repair services. The firm offers magnetic resonance imaging, hemodynamic recording, EP recording, metabolic health and computed tomography. The company was founded on February 16, 1971 and is headquartered in Little Chalfont, the United Kingdom.