Professional Services and Consulting

Human resources services

Foothold America is a people operations company exclusively serving international companies expanding to and scaling in the US, offering full company life cycle hiring models including EOR (employer of record) for businesses without a US entity and PEO+ Cross-Border Support for companies with US subsidiaries. Foothold America provides subsidiary set-up, support, recruitment, and comprehensive HR support. The company operates in all US states and provides compliant payroll, benefits, and management services.

Public / Non-Profit Organizations / Medical Facilities

Research facility

Foresight Research is a UK-based health research initiative that collects and curates retinal imaging and related health data to support research into eye and systemic diseases. The organization collaborates with healthcare providers, researchers, and industry partners to develop large-scale datasets that enable the discovery of biomarkers and advance the early detection, prevention, and treatment of ocular and broader health conditions through ethical data access and research.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Bioinformatics, CRO (Contract Research Organization), Genomics

Forge Genetics is a provider of gene-editing technologies. The company offers cutting-edge strain modification services and sub-licensing opportunities for the proprietary Forge editing technology. Forge Genetics also provides bioinformatics services to generate usable outputs that are intuitive and understandable. One of the company's products includes transposon sequencing data used to find the essential gene set of a given species.

Biotechnology - Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Small molecules

Diseases of the nervous system / neurology, Diseases of the eye / ophthalmology, Respiratory / pulmonology

Foventa Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative, non-invasive ophthalmic therapies for retinal vascular diseases. Its primary focus is non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), where it aims to enable earlier treatment and prevent disease progression before irreversible vision loss occurs.

Professional Services and Consulting

Financial services, Information provider

Frazier & Deeter (FD) is an accounting and advisory firm that offers tax, audit, risk advisory, digital and business transformation services. The firm focuses on investing in relationships and supporting evolving needs as businesses grow. The company helps organizations across the healthcare and life sciences spectrum uncover new areas of opportunity, support business growth and ensure compliance.

Professional Services and Consulting

Communication & PR/IR, Financial services

FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm. In the UK Life Sciences sector, FTI Consulting have specialist teams in both taxation and communications, alongside experts in healthcare economics, data analytics and healthcare-related fraud investigations who can offer in-depth knowledge of the financial, operational and regulatory hurdles that confront pharmaceutical companies and develop appropriate strategic options for clients to pursue.

Taxation: FTI Consulting offer a fully integrated tax service for Life Sciences companies, covering compliance, advice on incentives, partnering, structuring and transaction support. They work with world-leading tax consultancies and law firms to provide solutions to clients at a cross-jurisdictional level.

Communications: FTI Consulting has built a comprehensive global strategic communications offering, and works with companies and their boards to protect or defend their reputations and ensure the right message reaches the desired audience, whether that is the company’s employees, investors, partners, peers, healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders or policy-makers.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Analytical services, Cell culture, CMO (Contract Manufacturing Organization), Fill & finish

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies or FDB is a biopharmaceutical CDMO which provides full-service drug substance & drug product development and manufacturing support from pre-clinical through commercialization for biologics and advanced therapies (such as viral vaccines and gene therapies). The company has six development and GMP manufacturing sites located across the US (Boston-MA, Raleigh-NC,  College Station-Texas & Thousand Oaks-CA) and Europe (UK and Denmark). Collectively, they are licensed for the commercial manufacturing of about 20 biologics, have supported well over 500 unique development/manufacturing programs, and have over 30 years of experience in the CDMO space with a strong regulatory history.

Professional Services and Consulting

Property management/Real estate

Future Space offers a range of office space, shared and dedicated laboratories, workshops and coworking facilities designed specifically for high-tech, science based entrepreneurs and innovators.

Professional Services and Consulting

Financial services, Legal services, Management consulting

The Life Sciences team at Gallagher provides global commercial insurance, risk management, claims & employee benefit solutions for companies in the life science and medical technology sectors. Gallagher is an insurance advisor to over 500 clients ranging from start-ups to multi-national companies. Throughout their insurance life cycle, the company provides solutions for varying exposures, which may be associated with clinical trials, fundraising, product launches, supply chain or contractual matters, acquisitions and IPO’s. Of particular importance in the current market are Directors & Officers (D&O) insurance, Cyber Liability Insurance, Clinical Trials & ESG solutions.

Professional Services and Consulting

Legal services

Gardner Leader LLP is the law firm which offer a broad range of legal services to the business start ups. The company provides services in the areas of life sciences, real estate, corporate, charities etc.

Biotechnology - Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Molecular diagnostics

Genetic Signatures Ltd. is a molecular diagnostic company develops and sells syndromic, real-time PCR-based testing kits for infectious diseases under the EasyScreen™ brand, utilizing its proprietary 3base™ technology to simplify and improve the detection of a wide range of pathogens. The company's disposable kits are sold to hospitals and pathology labs to provide timely and accurate diagnoses for routine screening of diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Bioinformatics, Diagnostic instrumentation, Genomics

Infectious and parasitic diseases / infectiology / parasitology

GenomeKey is developing a next-generation in vitro diagnostic device , which will be able to detect and identify bacteria directly from patient blood, delivering a full antimicrobial resistance (AMR) profile in just hours.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Bioinformatics, Diagnostic instrumentation, Diagnostic services, Genomics

Infectious and parasitic diseases / infectiology / parasitology

GenomeKey (Genomic Labs Ltd.) is developing a rapid diagnostic for sepsis by combining novel bacterial DNA extraction techniques, next generation DNA sequencing and machine learning DNA interpretation. The company develops a new in vitro diagnostic device which reduce the time to identify the bacteria and how to treat it, from days to only a few hours. GenomeKey develops a proprietary machine learning algorithms to tackle the hardest most complex bacterial genomes and reveal the crucial clinical information that enables clinicians to treat sepsis patients effectively.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Analytical services, CRO (Contract Research Organization), Diagnostic instrumentation, Diagnostic services, Screening

Infectious and parasitic diseases / infectiology / parasitology

Gentronix is a biotechnology service company offering early screening, mechanistic follow-up, and regulatory genotoxicity assays for a range of industries including; pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agrochemicals, personal care, consumer products, flavors, fragrances and taste enhancers, and medical devices. The company provides contract services for genotoxicity using patented human cell GADD45a reporter GreenScreen HC® and BlueScreen HC™ assays and related assays including Micronucleus and Ames MPF™.

Professional Services and Consulting

Human resources services, Management consulting

George James Ltd. is a UK-based specialist company that provides recruitment, commercial training, coaching, and strategic consulting services for organizations operating in the life sciences, diagnostics, biotechnology, scientific instrumentation, and applied markets sectors.

Biotechnology - R&D Services

Analytical services, Cell culture, CRO (Contract Research Organization), Diagnostic services

Gifford Bioscience is a preclinical contract research organization (CRO) providing services in Receptor Pharmacology and Occupancy: radioligand binding assays, receptor affinity and occupancy studies; autoradiography; cellular uptake and release. The company's additional capabilities include assay design, cell culture, in-house production of membrane preparations and assays requiring human or animal tissue.

Biotechnology - Other

AgBio

Glaia provides a nanotechnology-based solutions for sustainable agriculture. The company's technology allows plants to harvest light more efficiently and facilitates the processes involved in biomass production resulting in increased crop yields. Glaia's product fragaria, is a one-of–a-kind biostimulant that unlocks the real potential of photosynthesis in strawberry plants. The products of the company are sugar-dots, new type of yield enhancers, enhance plants’ photosynthesis, the bottleneck in biomass production.

Biotechnology - Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Other, Vaccines

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs & immune disorders / hematology / immunology, Respiratory / pulmonology, Skin and subcutaneous tissue / dermatology

Glen Clova Scientific Limited is the therapeutic company which is focused on the production of new generation of active biologic drugs for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. The company has developed a novel virus-like particle (VLP) platform for their drug development. This platform reduces the frequency of dosing and significantly improves the pharmaco- economics. The company's products GCS001, GCS002, GCS003 are in their preclinical stage of development.

Biotechnology - Other

AgBio, Food

Globachem is a flexible and dynamic family-owned company, aims to help provide the growing global population with sufficient safe food and bio-based raw materials with the lowest possible ecological footprint. The company help growers keep their crops healthy and optimise their production by developing, registering, and internationally marketing a wide range of existing and innovative crop protection products.

Biotechnology - Other

Environmental, Industrial Biotechnology

Global Impact Ventures (GIVE) is at the forefront of pioneering next-generation clean energy solutions. The company's mission is to revolutionize the energy sector through Green Hydrogen Reactor, Green Ammonia Reactor, Zero Emission Ammonia Generator and other cutting edge technologies that can be adopted on a global scale.