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20/20 GeneSystems, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland (outside of Washington, D.C.), is a revenue stage diagnostics company that uses machine learning algorithms to greatly improve the accuracy of laboratory tests for the early detection of cancer and other diseases.  In the most recent calendar year our revenues grew to over $2 million aided by several COVID-19 tests that we are successfully commercializing. 

 

Our multi-cancer early detection blood test (www.OneTest.Ai) measures tumor antigens and uses a machine learning algorithm powered by outcome data from over 230,000 individuals tested in real-world screening settings.  OneTest is a highly accessible and affordable pre-test that can be followed up with more expensive and specific circulating tumor DNA tests such as those being developed by Grail and Thrive Earlier Detection.  (Those companies were recently acquired for $8 billion and $2 billion respectively.)      

 

20/20’s institutional investors include Ping An, one of the largest digital health and insurance companies in China, and several well-regarded American funds.   We are working to an initial public offering in 2021 and are now lining up IPO “crossover” investors.

Able Cerebral, LLC (ACL) :
ACL is a bio-pharmaceutical and medical device company with patented (US & China) technologies and products.
We have achieved our first goal via BrainGlucoseTM by providing timed release of brain energy as circadian therapy to eliminate nightmares, night sweating, hallucinations, which have been saving lives and dignity of many early and mid-stage Alzheimer’s patients; and to help diabetics to avoid nocturnal hypoglycemia for better sleep and protection from seizures, coma or even death.
More excitingly, through communications with FDA and experts in biopharmaceutical fields, we are initiating for phase III clinical study inquiry for our delayed and sustained release of energy product as breakthrough new drug status for Alzheimer’s disease.
We are also looking for investment or partnership to advance our game changing technology product, a noninvasive medical device, AddMemTM, which will be also the world’s first ever product for memory consolidation and recovery.
ACL is also a licensed manufacturer for medical food in Pennsylvania.
Our product can be marketed in China through registration with Chinese FDA as “special medical formulated food”, or apply as a new drug.

Achelios Therapeutics, Inc., based in RTP Carolina, is a privately held specialty biopharmaceutical company whose core competency is the reformulation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) molecules that have historically been used to treat pain and inflammation by topical application.
Our proprietary formulation allows for fast and enhanced delivery of active agents across human skin into subdermal tissues.
Achelios is currently developing:
OTC 1% diclofenac topical formulation for the treatment of pain and inflammation. Our product shows improved efficacy, better compliance, photoprotection, and dossing schedule vs. Voltaren® ANDA to be submitted in 4Q 2021.
The next product in development is a superior 3% diclofenac formulation being developed for the prescription market for acute and chronic pain. These product has demonstrated greater efficacy, safety and photostability vs. other topical gels available globally. Our product has also shown efficacy as an opioid-spearing agent in the treatment of pain.

ACON Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ACON Pharma) is a specialty pharmaceutical company and focuses on siRNA and mRNA nanoparticle delivery, 505(b)(2) NDA, and complex ANDA drug product development with its captive drug delivery system and technology platforms. Acon Pharma is a privately held corporation located in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. As a dynamic pharmaceutical company in a vibrant life science research region, Acon Pharma leverages the expertise and experience of highly skilled, multi-disciplinary workforce to accelerate the product development of complex drug delivery systems. The Company’s key managers were primarily educated in US with advanced degrees and trained in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, and have possessed deep professional knowledge, technical know-how, and extensive experiences in pharmaceutical product development.

We are currently raising 5 million dollar fund to support IND-enabling studies for our patented liposomal siRNA for treatment of pulmonary fibrosis and long-acting microsphere for treatment of schizophrenia. We are also developing delayed release nanoemulsion for osteoporosis, and sustained release gel for fungal infection.

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the world of healthcare one sector at a time.

We consolidate CROs and medical labs.

The United Nations called for the One Heath approach to combating pandemic threats at the 3 vectors of transmission: animals to people, people to people, and environment to people -- and vice versa.

Aequor is the only company with products that control antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) pathogens at all 3 vectors of transmission.

Twenty-five of our small molecules remove biofilm in minutes, prevent biofilm formation for days, kill AMR and multi-drug-resistant (MDR) pathogens alone and in combination with existing biocides at sub-MIC levels -- reducing the need for harmful, toxic biocides. These 25 are EPA approved and available in ton quantities. They are used in our proprietary products for environmental sanitation: surface cleaners, water treatments and industrial process enhancers (boost algae and yeast biomass by up to 40% for use in biofuels and bio-based co-products (food, feed, nutraceuticals, chemicals, plastics, materials, etc.).

Our new drug candidates are in pre-clinical Hit-to-Leas stage. They kill the latest clinical strains sent to Aequor by the NIH and CDC. The NIH awarded Aequor free pre-IND trials to develop up to 4 of them and the DOD offered the same to develop 5 of them. They are derived from a new genus and several new species of marine microbes that produce “green,” non-toxic chemicals that target Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and fungi.

Our products uniquely kill bacteria and fungi at all stages of growth -- including biofilm. Biofilm is the first resistance response of microorganisms to protect themselves against environmental stresses and is associated with most infections and diseases. Removal of biofilm by surface scraping, UV, heat, biocides and antibiotics, etc. signal to the underlying microorganisms when and how fast to build a thicker biofilm shield.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) associate biofilm with 90% of hospital-acquired infections, such as those caused by contamination on indwelling medical devices, ventilators, and water and air systems. The CDC recently reported that 20% of U.S. COVID deaths were due to these secondary infections. Additional life-threatening infections are increasingly traced to biofilm in air and water systems in institutional and commercial buildings and homes. For example, Legionnaire’s Disease, which claimed 17 lives, was traced to biofilm in a hotel’s air conditioners that became aerosolized and inhaled. It is no coincidence that every pathogen on the CDC and WHO lists of urgent threats, pandemic threats, and bioterrorist threats is a biofilm-former. Every drug-resistant “Superbug” strain is a biofilm-former and is considered incurable. Additionally, several microbial species are captures in the same biofilm, increasing the incidence of horizontal gene transfer (Li et al., 2001; Angles et al., 1993; Dunny et al., 1995) and spawning the emergence of new antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) strains.

There are few remedies for biofilm. Physical removal (sterilization, scraping, UV) works for a short-term (e.g., biofilm was recorded on a titanium plate within 30 seconds of sterilization). Biocides (antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials, and antibiotics) are designed to kill free-floating (planktonic), actively growing microorganisms, and the dose of needed to disrupt a biofilm is approximately 1000x the concentrations that are effective against planktonic bacteria (Raffa et al., 2003), which is a dose that is lethal to humans. The overuse of biocides and antibiotics has contributed to the emergence of the AMR Superbugs – and left a cumulative and persistent environmental footprint. Natural antimicrobials, such as silver and other metals, are expensive and eventually trigger the formation of thicker biofilm, resulting in the loss of efficacy over time.

If you combat biofilm at all vectors of transmission, you control AMR pandemic threats.

AlephBot is developing a new paradigm in healthcare, the procedure monitor.
The solution helps medical teams maximize treatment efficiency during and after medical procedures (e.g., resuscitation, labor, general anesthesia). It provides the team members with valuable real-time information that is adaptive to their actions and to the procedure’s stage, even if they are under pressure or can’t recall procedure steps by heart. AlephBot also automatically documents the medical procedure, which serves for both medical education and medico-legal purposes.

** AlephBot uniqueness **
We capture the human perspective of a procedure by analyzing the relevant info from the on-going structural medical conversation. We add this layer to the data collected from other sources.
Therefore, we gain higher accuracy of the analyzed medical situation, which enables us to identify the procedure stage and provide meaningful info, in real-time.

** Status **
AlephBot is developing its core technology. The company, pre-seed funded, was selected to the DRIVE accelerator at the Technion (Israel institute of Technology), and received grants from the Israel Innovation Authority.
AlephBot cooperates with big and small hospitals from day one. This serves our intention to increase treatment efficiency both in mega-hospitals in big cities and in smaller ones in the periphery and rural areas.

AlephBot is active in its target markets (Germany, France, Italy and the US) and won several national and international (France, Germany, Denmark) events and competitions. The company is still not active in China - an opportunity!

** Next steps **
We are currently looking for seed investment to finalize our core technology development and bring the product to clinical trial stage in two years. Sales are planned in three years, post regulation clearance.

Allegro 3D is an emerging 3D printing and bioprinting company located in San Diego, a world hub for biotechnology. At the convergence of advanced additive manufacturing, stem cell biology and biomaterials, Allegro 3D’s expertise in bioprinting and biomaterials enables high-throughput manufacturing of advanced biomedical devices, cell matrices and precision human tissues for cell culture, drug screening, therapeutics and regenerative medicine.

Using the world’s most advanced bioprinting technologies developed at the University of California San Diego, Allegro 3D is poised to provide customers with transformational biofabrication solutions that will revolutionize healthcare innovations related to regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and biomedical research.

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has nearly $16.5B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $1.4B Bio funds, the $865M Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.

a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.

We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.