Maud Lazare

Kernel Management Partners Ltd. (Kernel Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Niall Olden. The firm is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

Biosensia Ltd. develops multiplexing point of care in vitro diagnostics platform. It offers RapiPlex, a point-of-care diagnosis system based on a set of proprietary technologies capable of producing quantitative and qualitative laboratory quality test results. The company was founded by Gareth Redmond and Gabriel Crean in 2009 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

PrecisionBiotics Group Ltd. operates as a healthcare company. It focuses on isolation, characterization, clinical evaluation, and formulation of unique bacterial strain and actives for inflammatory and infectious conditions. The company was founded by Barry Kiely in 1999 and is headquartered In Cork, Ireland.

Xention Pharma Ltd. develops and researches drugs. The firm develops novel therapies for the treatment of atrial fibrillation; modulators of IKur and IKACh for atrial fibrillation. The company was founded by John W. Word and is headquartered in Newmarket, the United kingdom.

PQ Bypass, Inc. develops novel procedure for the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases. It offers an approach for achieving a bypass of the femoral artery that is designed to match the performance and safety of an invasive surgery for long segment occlusions. The company was founded by Richard Heuser and James D. Joye in 2009 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Atlantic Therapeutics Ltd. is a medical device developer of non-invasive pelvic floor strengthening and nerve stimulation products. The firm offers INNOVO products. The company is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Covagen AG engages in the research in as well as development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products and technologies. The company was founded by Julian Bertschinger and Dragan Grabulovski in 2007 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Apica Cardiovascular Ltd. designs and develops innovative medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its product includes innovative transapical access and closure system that is designed to simplify and standardize the technique used to open and close the apex of a beating hear. The company was founded by Ajit P. Yoganathan, Jorge H. Jimenez, Vinod H. Thourani and James L. Greene in November 2009 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Stokes Bio Ltd. develops microfluidics technologies for gene expression measurement and target detection. It detects soft and solid tumors, and toxicology. The company was founded by Mark Davies, Tara Dalton and Edward M. Walsh in 2005 and is headquartered in Limerick, Ireland.

O'mahony Holding Srl is a Belgian company that provides purchase, sale, and rental of real estate services. The private company was founded in 2005 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Prexton Therapeutics SA operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops novel therapeutic compounds as a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders. The company was founded by Francois Conquet in 2012 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a immunology drug development company. It focuses on novel therapeutics and specializes in the prevention and treatment of solid organ transplantation, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune, inflammatory and Alzheimer’s diseases. The firm developed OPN-305, an antibody to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which is now at the clinical testing phase. The company was founded by Luke O'Neill, Kingston Mills and Dermot Kelleher in 2004 and is headquartered Dublin, Ireland.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Pulmocide Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical services. It develops inhaled medicines for viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract. The company was founded by William Garth Rapeport, John Murray, Kazuhiro Ito, and Peter Strong on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

AviadoBio Ltd. is a gene therapy company based in London, UK. AviadoBio's technology is based on pioneering research from King's College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute. The British company's mission is to develop and deliver transformative gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company is developing AVB-101 for patients with FTD-GRN. AviadoBio's investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Monograph Capital, Advent Life Sciences, EQT Lifesciences, Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), F-Prime Capital, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and LifeArc. The company was founded by Youn Bok Lee, Do Young Lee, Chris E. Shaw, and Lisa Deschamps has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Endotronix, Inc. develops wireless heart sensor technology. The firm has introduced the Cordella Heart Failure System, a comprehensive solution for heart failure management. The company was founded by Anthony I. Nunez and Harry D. Rowland in June 2007 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Sapreme Technologies BV operates as a biotech company that develops a platform technology to enable cytosolic delivery of macromolecule therapeutics. The company was founded by Ruben Postel in 2016 and is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The Francis Crick Institute Ltd. operates as a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the scientific mechanisms of living things. The firms works helps to understand why disease develops and to find new ways to treat, diagnose, and prevent illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Exevir Bio BV is engaged in biotechnology services. The company is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

AstriVax NV, founded in 2022 by Hanne Callewaert, is a privately held Belgian company based in Leuven. AstriVax NV is located in the Biohub in Leuven and has secured a seed round of €30 million to continue building the vaccine technology. The Belgian company aims to address challenges in vaccinology with its innovative plug-and-play vaccine platform. AstriVax develops novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines that are easy to produce, have reduced cold chain requirements, and offer broad and long-lasting protection against various infectious diseases. Supported by well-known investors, AstriVax is committed to addressing real-world challenges in vaccinology. The company's mission is to fast forward the clinical development of game-changing vaccines, creating thermostable and durable vaccines that provide polyfunctional protection. AstriVax's portfolio includes indications such as yellow fever and rabies.

Part of maxingvest AG, S-Biomedic NV is a Belgian company that develops skin microbiome manipulation technology which allows to transplant beneficial bacteria on the skin. The company is based in Beerse, Belgium. The company was founded in 2014 by Bernhard Päetzold, Veronika Oudova, Marc Guëll. Veronika Oudova has been the CEO since 2014. S-Biomedic was acquired by Beiersdorf AG on December 16, 2022.

Aelix Therapeutics SL researches and develops therapies for HIV. It develops therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapies to treat HIV infection. The firm is a spin-off of HIVACAT, the Catalan project for the development of effective vaccines against HIV. The company was founded by Christian Brander, Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell and Jordi Naval is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

TRex Bio Ltd. is a British company that provides biotechnology research and development services. The private company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 2018 by Houman Ashrafian.

Calypso Biotech BV operates as immunotherapy biotech company. It develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune pathologies with large unmet medical needs. The company was founded by Alain Vicari and Yolande Chvatchko in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation JJDC Inc (Johnson & Johnson Innovation JJDC) is a venture capital subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson founded in 1973. The firm is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Asceneuron SA operates as a biotechnology company. It develops therapeutics for orphan tauopathis and Alzheimer?s disease. The firm specializes in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Dirk Beher, Frank Murdoch Armstrong and Christoph Wiessner in October 2012 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Inivata Ltd. develops new clinical applications for ctDNA analysis. It is a clinical cancer genomics company harnessing the potential of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) analysis to improve cancer testing and treatment. The firm is focused on developing clinical applications of ctDNA through collaborations with clinical oncologists at prominent academic institutions, leading community treatment centres and innovative biopharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by James Brenton, Tim Forshew, Rosenfeld Nitzan and Davina Gale on July 23, 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

TopiVert Ltd. develops topical treatments for inflammatory diseases of the eye and gut. Its application is used in the treatment of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis and other inflammatory diseases of the lungs. The company was founded by Eric Charles Meldrum in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Veryan Medical Ltd. develops and commercializes novel vascular stent technology. The firm's products are designed to clinical performance and bio-mechanical performance of stented vessels. The company was founded by Colin G. Caro, Charles Richard Taylor and Paul Burke Gilson in 2003 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

iTeos Therapeutics SA engages in the discovery of immunomodulators for cancer therapy. It operates as a biotechnology company which focuses on targeting metabolism of the tumor microenvironment through development of small-molecule immunomodulators for cancer treatment. The firm develops small molecules designed to target the tumor microenvironment by inhibiting cancer-induced immune suppression. Targeting such resistance mechanisms will enhance the clinical efficacy of both standards of care treatments as well as the newer immunomodulatory therapies based on the blockade of immune checkpoints. The company was founded in 2011 by Michel Detheux and Benoit Van den Eynde and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

Tissium SA engages in the development and commercialization of biodegradable sealants and adhesives for invasive surgery. It offers biomimetic wound closure solutions. The company was founded by Bernard J. Gilly, Robert S. Langer, Christophe Bancel, Jeff Karp, Jacques Marescaux, Maria Pereira, and Patrick Houvet in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.