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Aravis AG (Aravis) is an independent venture capital firm, founded in 2001 by Jean-Philippe Tripet and headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland.

AstraZeneca UK Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. Its products are used to treat cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and gastrointestinal infections. The company was founded on November 26, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Calliditas Therapeutics Suisse SA engages in the development of NOX therapies. Its platform enables the identification of orally available small-molecules that selectively inhibit specific NOX enzymes, which amplify multiple disease processes such as fibrosis, inflammation, pain processing, cancer development, and neurodegeneration. The company was founded Chihiro Yabe, Robert A. Clark, David Lambeth, and Karl-Heinz Krause in 2006 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Quadia SA (Quadia) is an independent investment firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Switzerland.

Aravis Venture II LP invests in biotechnological start-ups with growth potential.

DyCare is a Spanish company that specializes in digital rehabilitation. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain. The company creates ultra-personalized exercises and monitor patients in a simple and effective way. The company's technology allows patients to perform therapeutic exercises using only their mobile phone or tablet camera, assisted by artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Silvia Raga and Ricardo Jauregui, who have been the CEOs since incorporation.

Evolva SA is a Swiss-headquartered, international pharmaceutical biotech company focused on the discovery and development of drugs based on its distinctive and proprietary genetic chemistry platform. The company was founded in Switzerland in 2004 based on US/Danish technology. Evolva is headquartered in Allschwil/Basel with operations in Denmark, India and the USA. The Company has raised CHF 38.2 million of equity to date and employs 75 persons of whom 30 are based in Allschwil. The firm's strategy and business approach is based on five pillars that offer a sustainable development path for creating a successful company, which include Building a balanced portfolio. Evolva focuses on orally available small molecules in the belief that they are more convenient for patients and more cost-effective both from manufacture and administration points of view for the society, focus on differentiated pharmaceutical products with major benefits. Focusing on cardiovascular/renal and infectious diseases. Together they cause more than 50% of all deaths worldwide. Most of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies are active in both sectors, and all are active in one of the two sectors - hence widening Evolva's opportunities to partner. Building technology platform as the source of this differentiation. Evolva finds different structures with different properties from those found by the 99% of the industry that focuses on synthetic chemistry or proteins. Openness to unusual markets. The biotech business model has changed. As well as the established markets new opportunities arise in emerging countries such as India and China, and in adjacent sectors such as treatments against potential bio-terrorist and bio-warfare agents and the production of pharmaceutical and industrial chemical intermediates. Cost-effective implementation. Evolva places different functions around the globe according to where local conditions best suit. This approach both reduces Evolva's cost base and increases access to revenues, partners and talent. Evolva sees revenues and partners as important because they provide additional flexibility, resources and talent. Also, they provide important opportunities to better understand, and better meet, the needs of current and future customers.

Viopas Venture Consulting GmbH (Viopas Venture Consulting) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Simon Jules Nebel. The firm is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Bird Rock Bio, Inc. develops protein therapeutics. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibodies with upsized potential that represent to antibody therapeutics. The company was founded by Richard J. Ulevitch, Phyllis Ellen Whiteley and Katherine S. Bowdish in 2007 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

SynAffix BV develops next-generation antibody-drug conjugates for targeted cancer and other diseases. The application of the firm?s proprietary GlycoConnect technology, comprising precision modification of a protein's native glycosylation site, allows the fast and simple construction of antibody-drug conjugates that are both stable and homogeneous. The company was founded by Floris van Delft and Sander van Berkel in 2010 and is headquartered in Oss, the Netherlands.

RocketVax AG develops vaccines. The company is based in Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss company was founded in 2020 by Vladimir Cmiljanovic. Vladimir Cmiljanovic has been the CEO since 2020.