Jon Edwards

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

ViaCyte, Inc. develops a stem cell-derived islet replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes. Its development portfolio includes VC-01 product candidate, a cell replacement therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides drug discovery and clinical development services. It develops and discovers products focusing on first-in-class, disease-modifying, small molecule therapeutics to treat diseases of protein misfolding. The company was founded by Jeffery W. Kelly and Susan L. Lindquist in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Halo Neuro, Inc. develops neuroscience based technology. It offers its products under the categories of fitness, sports, gaming, health, biotech, wearables and other consumer technology. The company was founded by Brett Wingeier, Amol R. Sarva, Lee M. von Kraus and Daniel S. Chao in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Roche Palo Alto LLC discovers and develops medicines. Its medicines are used for the treatment of central nervous system, inflammation, metabolism, oncology, and virology diseases. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ightLine Partners LLC (SightLine Partners) is an independent venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1992 by Buzz Benson and Maureen Harder. The firm is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Cianna Medical, Inc. manufactures and marketing equipment for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in women. The firm’s products include SAVI, a breast brachytherapy applicator used for the delivery of radiation after lumpectomy surgery; and SAVI SCOUT, a surgical guidance system that uses real-time audible and visual indicators to give surgeons a precise way to target tissue during lumpectomy and excisional biopsy procedures. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Automate Scientific, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes biomedical equipment. The private company is based in Berkeley, CA. The company was founded by Heath Lukatch.

FLAP LLC provides licensing and royalty services for medicines. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Panmira Pharmaceuticals LLC provides drug development programs. It develops pharmaceutical products for inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in September 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Novo Ventures (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Novo A/S and their ultimate parent is Novo Nordisk Fonden.

Viewpoint Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It prevents and treats cataracts and presbyopia, and protein misfolding. The company was founded by Leah Makley in July of 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lagunita Biosciences LLC (Lagunita Biosciences) is a venture Capital firm founded in 2015 by Mark S. Blumenkranz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Red Tree Venture Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Heath Lukatch. The firm is headquartered in portola, California.

Ceribell, Inc. engages in the development of diagnosis medical devices. The firm focuses on making electroencephalography (EEG) for diagnosis and treatment of patients at risk for seizures. Its products include Ceribell EEG headband, Ceribell EEG recorder, and spot-checks with brain stethoscope. The company was founded by Jane Chao, Josef Parvizi and Chris Chafe in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Acrigen Biosciences, Inc. operates as a early-stage life science gene editing company. The company was founded by Joseph Bondy-Denomy in 2019 and is headquartered in Kensington, CA.

Combangio, Inc. operates as an investment holding company. The company was headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

xCella Biosciences, Inc. engages in the development of protein therapeutics for cancer treatment. Its pipeline is XC-201, a tumor targeting agent. The company was founded by Bob Chen and K. Dane Wittrup and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

OmniAb Operations, Inc. operates as a drug discovery company. It provides pharmaceutical industry partners access to antibody repertoires and screening technologies to enable discovery of next-generation therapeutics. Its OmniAb platform includes the Biological Intelligence of its transgenic animals, including OmniRat, OmniChicken and OmniMouse, that have been genetically modified to generate antibodies with human sequences to facilitate development of human therapeutic candidates. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.