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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.

Liberty Group Ltd. provides financial services. It offers solutions to individual, family, and business. The company was founded by Donald Gordon in 1957 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Alliance Medical Ltd. is engaged in the provision of medical imaging services. It includes imaging modalities and managed imaging services. The company was founded by Robert Bernard Waley-Cohen on May 7, 1987 and is headquartered in Warwick, the United Kingdom.

Old Mutual Group Holdings (SA) Pty Ltd. provides life assurance, asset management, and banking services. It offers life, disability, and health insurance, retirement savings, and investment products to individuals and groups. The company is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.

Medu Capital Pty Ltd (Medu Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Nhlanganiso Mkwanazi and Ernest January in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Part of Anglo American Plc, Anglo American Corp. of South Africa Pty Ltd. mines minerals. The company is based in Pretoria, South Africa.

Part of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. is a South African company that provides accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services. The company is based in Sunninghill, South Africa.

The Institute of Directors provides informative events and professional development courses. The non-profit company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Parmesvari Natesan has been the CEO of the South African company since 2010.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland operates as a professional membership organization. The non-profit company is based in Edinburgh, UK. The British company was founded by Janice Margaret Brown and Sundeep Bahanda. The CEO is Bruce Cartwright.

Scanmed SA engages in the provision of healthcare services. It offers medical consultations, diagnostics, tests, medical transport, and home visits, rehabilitation as well as hospital treatment. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.

Universal Coatings (Pty) Ltd. manufactures decorative paints and related products. Its products include allcote, velvet sheen , super acrylic pva, semitex , waterproofing, urethane floor coating and galvanised primer grey paints. The company was founded by Tony Ferreira in 1982 and is headquartered in Randburg, South Africa.

IWC (Pty) Ltd. manufactures and distributes industrial water cooling equipment. It offers field erected cooling towers, package, low profile, slurry and solution cooling towers, cooling tower refurbishment, and bulk air coolers as well as heat exchangers and chillers. The firm also provides cooling tower spare parts including fans, motors, drives, couplings, piping and nozzles, drift eliminators, and louvers. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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.

Waco International Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of equipment rental and industrial services. It offers formwork, shoring and scaffolding, insulation, painting, and blasting; hydraulics and suspended access platforms; and portable sanitation products and hygiene services. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Germiston, South Africa.

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.

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.

Alliance Medical Group Ltd. engages in the provision of medical imaging services. It offers diagnostic and molecular imaging services. The company was founded on July 8, 2013 and is headquartered in Warwick, the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Value Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd. is an investment company based in Rosebank, South Africa. Value Capital Partners holds minority positions in listed companies and acts as an engaged shareholder to drive maximum returns for all stakeholders. The South African company's investment strategy is based on value investing, protection of capital, investing in undervalued businesses, attractive business models, partnership, and alignment of stakeholder interests. The private company was founded in 2016 by Anthony Charles Ball and Samuel Sithole, who has been the CEO since then. The company's concentrated portfolio includes strategic investments in strong businesses acquired at a significant discount to intrinsic value, in which they act as an engaged shareholder to unlock value for all stakeholders.

Old Mutual Finance (RF) Pty Ltd. provides personal loans and debt consolidation products. It also offers digital banking and insurance services. The company was founded by John Fairbairn in 1945 and is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.

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.

Part of Old AMGL Interests 2 Ltd, Alliance Diagnostic Services Ltd. is a British company that provides diagnostic imaging and patient services. The company is based in Warwick, UK. Founded in 2000.

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.

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.

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.

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.